Otto Minkert

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Otto Minkert , also Otto Minckert , (born November 12, 1845 in Weimar ; † April 22, 1900 there ; full name: Johannes Friedrich Otto Minkert ) was a German architect who lived and worked mainly in Weimar. He carried the title of court architect .

His most important buildings include the Villa Haar and the Goethe and Schiller Archives , built between 1893 and 1896 , in a sense the representative “treasure chest” or “chest of drawers” ​​of the Grand Duchy. The model for the archive was the early classical Petit Trianon in the park of Versailles . In the role of site manager , Minkert was also involved in the structural implementation of the designs by Weimar's senior building director Carl Heinrich Ferdinand Streichhan . In Weimar, for example, this was the case with the cemetery chapel, which Streichhan had designed in 1877 and which the master mason Otto Saalborn took over in 1878/1879. Streichhan engaged Minkert from 1876 to 1880 in the construction of the Thuringian Higher Regional Court in Jena . According to Kerstin Vogel, Minkert worked as a freelancer and, in addition to those already mentioned, was involved in the following important buildings in Weimar: Schlachthof (1886/1887), insurance company “Union” (Abraham-Lincoln-Straße 4, 1893). He also designed several residential buildings. His work at the Goethe and Schiller Archive was always under the supervision of Grand Duchess Sophie , especially since the project was paid for from the Grand Duchess' private box, and so was himself. Minkert essentially adhered to the stylistic guidelines of classicism and style in his buildings. of historicism in general and thus to that of its client. The Goethe and Schiller Archive is considered to be the last public building in Weimar to belong to this style period.

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  1. ↑ In 1893 at the latest he had to have been appointed court architect, as an annual report of the Goethe Society Weimar from 1896 states that court architect Minckert was entrusted with the construction of the Goethe and Schiller Archives from 1893 to 1896. Goethe Yearbook 18 (1897); Annual report, p. 7.
  2. ↑ https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/einrichtungen/goethe-und-schiller-archiv/besichtigung/
  3. ^ Annette Seemann : Weimar. A cultural story. Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63030-9 , p. 236.
  4. ↑ Kerstin Vogel: Carl Heinrich Ferdinand Streichhan. Architect and senior building director in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach 1848 to 1884. Dissertation, Bauhaus University Weimar, Weimar 2009, volume 1, p. 194.
  5. ^ Vogel, p. 198, note 1.
  6. ↑ Karin Ellermann: Weimar the privilege to secure ... From the history of the Goethe and Schiller Archives from 1885 to 1945. Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-843-0 , p. 49.
  7. ↑ https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/goethe-und-schiller-archiv/besichtigung/
  8. ↑ https://architekten-thueringen.de/aft/projekte/p/goethe__und_schiller_archiv_weim-2759.html
  9. ↑ https://www.lvz.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Goethe-Schiller-Archiv-wird-saniert
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SURNAME Minkert, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Minkert, Johannes Friedrich Otto (full name); Minckert, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1900
Place of death Weimar