Paul you Ry

Paul du Ry (* 1640 in Paris , † 1714 in Kassel ) was a French-born builder and engineer of the Baroque era in Kassel.

biography

As a Huguenot religious refugee, Paul du Ry was appointed as an engineer by Landgrave Karl in Kassel, the residential town of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , in 1685 . Before that, Paul du Ry was a Dutch chief engineer and since 1675 fortress builder in Maastricht ( Netherlands ). In Hessen-Kassel he was mainly responsible for the "French building trade", that is for the newly founded Huguenot colonies. Most of the drafts came from the court building department or from local carpenters, so that his tasks are primarily to be found in construction management and technical execution. In addition, he appears in 1689 under the direction of the court builder Wessel as an engineer in the cascade construction on Weißenstein (today Wilhelmshöhe ); In general, his experience in hydraulic engineering in the Netherlands was probably a major reason for his appointment to Kassel.

His son Charles du Ry (1692–1757), like his grandson Simon Louis du Ry , was a master builder in Kassel.

Paul du Ry was a son of the Parisian court architect Mathurin du Ry, whose father Charles du Ry also worked as a court architect in Paris in the first half of the 17th century. This Charles du Ry, Paul du Ry's grandfather, was a student and relative of Salomon de Brosse , the founder of the so-called "Huguenot style" in France.

The original surname was spelled differently in France. Not as you Ry, but you Ry. Mathurin Du Ry was born in Verneuil-en-Halatte in 1602. A few years ago a street was named after him, Rue Mathurin Du Ry. The descendants in the Netherlands still write Du Ry today. In the UK, the last name was just spelled Dury.

Important works

• From 1685 onwards, the Baroque city expansion of Kassel Oberneustadt was created by Paul du Ry as a city expansion for the settlement of Huguenot immigrants; the given plans for three-axle type houses are modified by him. The center of Oberneustadt is the Karlskirche, built between 1689 and 1706 under his construction management .

• Construction management (among other things) in the Huguenot start-ups Carlsdorf , Mariendorf , Schöneberg (Hofgeismar) in Reinhardswald .

The attribution of all courtly buildings between 1685 and 1714 to Paul du Ry goes back to the Hessian councilor Casparson shortly before 1800 and to Otto Gerland, a descendant of the du Ry family in the late 19th century. In the meantime, the engineer Conradi has been proven for the urban planning of Karlshafen , and the court architect Johann Conrad Giesler for the orangery in Haydau and the castle and orangery in Wabern . Giesler's authorship is also obvious for the Orangery Palace in Kassel. Since Paul du Ry is also not listed in the "Hofbaustaat" in the contemporary files and he only appears as the "French master builder" (analogous to the "French chancellery" for immigrant affairs), his importance for Hessian baroque architecture must be reassessed .

literature

• Johann Wilhelm Christian Gustav Casparson : The master builder family Du Ry zu Kassel. In memory of the last person in this family. In: Hessian Memorabilia. ed. by KW Justi and JM Hartmann, Part II. Pp. 255-287.
• Otto Gerland: Paul, Charles and Simon Louis du Ry. A family of artists from the Baroque period, Stuttgart 1895.
• Hans Philippi: Landgrave Karl of Hessen-Kassel. A German Prince of the Baroque Era (Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse, Volume 34), Marburg 1976.
• Hans Reuther :  You Ry, Jean Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 202 f. ( Digitized version ).