Nikolaus Krakamp
Nikolaus Krakamp (baptized February 23, 1699 in Cologne ; † April 28, 1778 there ) was a German master builder and stonemason .
Life
Family origin
The Krakamp families, whose sons chose the stonemason profession for generations, originally lived in the Neuss area . The male family offspring initially received their education in what was then the Netherlands . The family who later settled in Cologne continued their craft tradition there . Some of these descendants became well-known and successful stonemasons and builders in Cologne in the 17th and 18th centuries .
Education, marriage and offspring
Nikolaus Krakamp also stayed in this tradition. He learned his training probably from his father Johann Adolf (1664-1730), son of Niklas vom Thurnmarkt, and was trained as a master stonemason.
Nikolaus Krakamp entered into two marriages. In his first marriage he was married to Helena Coenen, for whom a daughter is listed, who was probably brought into the marriage. His second marriage was in October 1729 with Gertrud Gewers, with whom he had nine children. Of all of them, seven survived their father. More details relate to the daughter Maria Elisabeth from the first marriage, who was referred to as the “professa” of the Weißfrauenkloster, from the second marriage to the (born, thus marital) sons Christian, who worked as vicar at St. Ursula , Leonhard, master in the guild the red tanner , Heinrich († 1815) as his father's successor in office as cathedral builder and rent master (receptor) of the city, and Peter, who was probably the master builder "Krahelkamp", who made a design for Bonn's town hall before 1737 , but who did not come to fruition.
Work as a Cologne builder
He was first mentioned as a master builder in 1722/23 in connection with the renovation of St. Stephen's Church, a church at the intersection of Hohe Straße / Stephanstraße and Sternengasse , for the restoration of which he was assigned the production of construction drawings. The construction costs and Krakamp's fee was donated by the cathedral vicar (after Vogts canon) Johann Bertram von Sibertz and his brother Edmond, imperial secretary at the court of Vienna . Krakamp's early works probably also include houses on Cologne's Neumarkt , which he built in 1728 for Count Franz Carl von Nesselrode, President of the Bergisches Hofkammer (including the Nesselroder Hof , Neumarkt 2; the design and floor plan have been preserved).
Krakamp was already employing four journeymen in 1733, but had preferred external workers, possibly Dutch. In 1737 Krakamp directed work on the Hachtbau (demolished in 1893), the prison at the Hachttor and the Unter Taschenmacher street, for which he received 150 Reichsaler . 1743 he was working (the later men on lock for the chief hunter of Weichs Rösberg ), the city palais it at the suburban Over castle located Weberstraße built. Krakamp was responsible for the work on the “Marvorenhaus” on the Eigelstein (1744) and led the work on the expansion of the Filzengrabenpforte in the same year. In 1748 he was the master builder who restored the monastery of the White Women on the Cologne brooks , which was closed in 1802, and built the two-storey house "Zum Roten Löwen" in the Sternengasse.
Krakamp's larger work included the construction management of the Grooteschen family church St. Gregorius im Elend , which was rebuilt in the Baroque style in Cologne's Severinsviertel after the Second World War . Around 1776 Krakamp took over new buildings at Cologne schools, the Montanum high schools and (together with Jakob H. Bourscheid) Laurentianum .
Krakamp, who for the years 1767–1770 was also listed as cathedral builder and rent master of the city, was also active outside of Cologne. In 1764 he built a new parish church in the village of Müddersheim in the Düren district for the family of Baron Geyr, for whom he had built a representative house on Cologne's Breite Straße as early as 1754 .
Retirement as a wealthy citizen
Krakamp was an extremely sought-after master builder during his professional life, whose clients were wealthy citizens, monasteries and monasteries, members of the nobility and the rent chamber on behalf of the city council. In addition to his well-known works, a large number of other buildings from this time refer only to a master builder Krakamp, but without giving a first name, which can therefore not be clearly assigned.
Krakamp's skill and diligence was reflected in the wealth it had achieved. As early as 1742 he bought two houses (No. 5 and 7) in Fleischmengergasse . In 1754 Krakamp was able to acquire another property, the house "Rosenbaum" on the corner of Sternengasse and Hohe Straße. He had already bought his first house from Franz Kaspar von Franken-Siersdorf in 1727 at Fleischmengergasse 1 on the corner of Lungengasse, where he died in 1778 at the age of 80. As church master of his parish church, he was honored by being buried inside the church, under the hall of St. Apostles .
literature
- Hans Vogts, the Cologne house up to the beginning of the 19th century. Cologne 1966. (Extended new edition of the work from 1914)
- Ludwig Arentz, H. Neu and Hans Vogts : Paul Clemen (ed.): The art monuments of the city of Cologne , Volume II, extension volume: The former churches, monasteries, hospitals and school buildings of the city of Cologne. Verlag L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1937. Reprint 1980. ISBN 3-590-32107-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Hans Vogts, The Cologne house up to the beginning of the 19th century. , Volume II, p. 229 ff
- ↑ , The Cologne residential building up to the beginning of the 19th century , Volume I, p. 555
- ↑ Ludwig Arentz, H. Neu and Hans Vogts in: Paul Clemen (Ed.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt Köln , p. 386 f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krakamp, Nicholas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German stonemason and master builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized February 23, 1699 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 1778 |
| Place of death | Cologne |