Melchior consolation

Melchior Trost (* around 1500; † February 9, 1559 in Dresden ) was a German stonemason, bridge master and master builder who worked in the Electorate of Saxony , especially in Dresden.

Trost built the first Neustädter Rathaus in Altendresden in 1527/1528 . In 1545 he was appointed fortress builder. After the sea gate was walled up, Trost converted the tower into a prison. From 1551 he built the palace chapel in the Dresden residential palace based on the model of the Torgau palace chapel in the style of the Italian High Renaissance .

In 1550, Trost was appointed bridge builder. From 1553 to 1555 he built the so-called Schöne Tor , the bridge gate of the Dresden Elbe Bridge . From 1559 he was involved in the planning and construction of the Dresden armory , later the Albertinum .

Drawing of a section from a bastion or bastionary system

Trost converted the Dresden fortifications into a modern defense system based on the Italian-Dutch model based on plans by Caspar Voigt von Wierandt . Construction of the Dresden fortifications in the area of today's Museum fortress Dresden began in 1546. At that time, under the guidance of the two site managers von Wierandt and Trost, Dresden was one of the first German cities to have a fortress in the bastion system . In the course of this construction work, the brick gate, which is still in the museum today, was erected around 1550, and then the small bastion around 1553, which is still visible today as a small protrusion of the outer wall of the Brühl Terrace.

Outside of Dresden, Trost was involved in the building of castles in Pirna-Sonnenstein and Torgau .

Trost died in 1559 and was buried in a Schwibbogen grave in the Frauenkirchhof , the cemetery of the old Frauenkirche . His tomb with three standing caryatids was created by Hans Walther ; it is now in the Dresden City Museum .

literature

Stadtlexikon Dresden A – Z , Verlag der Kunst Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9

Individual evidence

^ Johann Christian Hasche: Magazine of Saxon History: on the year. Vol. 1, Hasche, 1784, p. 74
↑ Johann Gottfried Michaelis : Dreßdnische Inscriptiones and Epitaphia, . On which monuments of those who rest in God / are buried here in and outside the church to our dear women, and await a joyous resurrection to find / those who have died to perpetual Andes / those who are living but a mirror and willing followers, with all diligence searched together / and presented for public printing / together with a historical preface by the intended church. Self-published by the author, Dresden 1714, p. 98 f . ( Digital copy from SLUB Dresden; online in the Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Consolation, Melchior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German builder
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1500
DATE OF DEATH	February 9, 1559
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Johann Christian Hasche: Magazine of Saxon History: on the year. Vol. 1, Hasche, 1784, p. 74

[Michaelis-2] Johann Gottfried Michaelis : Dreßdnische Inscriptiones and Epitaphia, . On which monuments of those who rest in God / are buried here in and outside the church to our dear women, and await a joyous resurrection to find / those who have died to perpetual Andes / those who are living but a mirror and willing followers, with all diligence searched together / and presented for public printing / together with a historical preface by the intended church. Self-published by the author, Dresden 1714, p. 98 f . ( Digital copy from SLUB Dresden; online in the Google book search).