Michael Ludwig Anton Rohrer

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Bühl-Stollhofen lines around 1705

Michael Ludwig Anton Rohrer (* around 1650 in Tissau , Bohemia , † 1715 in Rastatt ) was a well master and builder in Bohemia, later in Rastatt.

Life

Rohrer comes from the Rohrermühle on the Tepla near Tissau. He first learned the trades of a master miller and master carpenter. Later he worked in the service of the Margraves of Baden-Baden in their residences Schlackenwerth and Theusing . The "old Rohrer" created the menagerie in the Schlackenwerth palace gardens .

With the relocation of the residence to Rastatt, Rohrer followed in Baden. Around 1700 he was commissioned to plan and build the Stollhofener Linien , a line of fortifications in Baden against enemy troops penetrating from the west. The Bühl-Stollhofener lines began in the Oberbühlertal , led via Roßbühl (Bühler Stein) and Klotzberg to Schänzel, then around Bühl in the south and ended on the Rhine at Söllingen opposite Fort-Louis .

Michael Ludwig Anton Rohrer is the father of the two well-known architects Johann Peter Ernst Rohrer and his brother Johann Michael Ludwig Rohrer , the successful court architects of Margravine Franziska Sibylla Augusta . Both brothers were born in Tissau in Bohemia and followed Franziska Sibylla Augusta to Rastatt.