Nicolaus Friedrich Harbel

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Nicolaus Friedrich Harbel

Nicolaus Friedrich Härbel ( Russian: Николай Фёдорович Гербель ; † 1724 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Swiss Baroque architect .

Life

Härbel came to Saint Petersburg from Basel in August 1719 with his wife, daughters Katharina (* 1710) and Christina (* 1714) and son Rudolf (* 1716) in order to find a well-paid job in the new capital. He was immediately employed in the City Affairs Office. In addition, after the death of the architect Georg Johann Mattarnovi in November 1719, he became chief architect in the main police office, so that he was practically the first urban architect in Saint Petersburg. Immediately he was commissioned with the implementation of the road plan drawn up by Mattarnovi in ​​1715 for the Admiralty Island with the alignment of the streets towards the Admiralty Tower . He completed the construction of the first launched by Mattarnovi Neva - shipyard on the Fontanka over the summer garden from (not preserved). He also completed the Pantaleon Church for shipyard workers, which was replaced by a stone church from 1735–1739 by Ivan Kusmitsch Korobow . 1720 he built on the Fontanka, the Kalinkin-workhouse for a tapestry - Manufacture .

The construction activity increased so much that in 1721 Härbel asked Peter I for an assistant and other employees, without whom the tasks could not be carried out. Härbel was based on the style of Nicodemus Tessin the Younger . Haebel's assistants included Johann Friedrich Blank , Johann Jakob Schumacher , Gaetano Chiaveri and Harmen van Bol'es . In 1723 Härbel built the comedy house on the Moika . Mattarnovi's Winter Palace for Peter I, begun in 1719, was completed in 1723 (and later replaced by larger ones), as was the Cruys House begun by Mattarnovi on the site of what would later become the Small Hermitage , the Kunstkammer (1724) and the second St. Isaac's Church . He built the IM Golowin Palace (not preserved), the stable yard on the Moika (1720–1723, rebuilt 1817–1823 by Vasily Petrowitsch Stassow ) and the two-story exhibition hall Lyudskije Palaty (1719–1724) with state rooms with tiles and pictures Holland .

In May 1724, Härbel fell seriously ill, so that Gaetano Chiaveri took over his projects. Harbel was buried in the cemetery for those of different faiths at Samson Cathedral in Saint Petersburg. Harbel became a main character in two novels by Nestor Wassiljewitsch Kukolnik .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Гербель, Родион (Рудольф) Николаевич . In: Русский биографический словарь . tape 4 , 1914, pp. 493-494 ( Wikisource [accessed November 25, 2017]).
  2. ↑ a b c Igor Emmanuilowitsch Grabar : Гербель, Николай Федорович, (собственно Nicolaus Friedrich Härbel) . In: Русский биографический словарь . tape 4 , 1914, pp. 492-493 ( Wikisource [accessed November 25, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Морозова А. А .: Н. Ф. Гербель. Городской архитектор Санкт-Петербурга . Стройиздат, Saint Petersburg 2004, ISBN 5-87897-106-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Harbel, Nicolaus Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гербель, Николай Фёдорович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Baroque architect
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century or 18th century
DATE OF DEATH 1724
Place of death St. Petersburg