Peter Hamman (Worms)

Johann Peter Hamman (* 1624 ; † before September 26, 1692 ) was a carpenter, draftsman and cartographer . He became famous for his visual documentation of the destruction of the city of Worms in the Palatinate War of Succession in 1689.

Personal

Peter Hamman was a Lutheran denomination . Before 1657 he married Anna Margaretha in Worms. They had two children:

• The son, Johann Friedrich, was born around 1655. From the 1690s until his death, he worked as an assistant to his father on his drawings. After his death he became a grenadier - lieutenant in the Palatinate military.
• The daughter, Maria Catharina, was born in 1658. On May 3, 1681 she married the Roman Catholic guild member, master carpenter Johann Stephan Weidner († December 18, 1713). Maria Catharina died on March 4, 1727 in Worms.

Peter Hamman was a relatively wealthy man until the city was destroyed in 1689. He owned at least three houses in town.

After the disaster, Peter Hamman fled first to Freinsheim , then to Frankfurt am Main.

Professional

From 1663 Peter Hamman is referred to as the “master carpenter”. He is a member of the guild of carpenters in the imperial city of Worms . At the same time he is also a “master builder”, an honorary position of the Worms city administration, with the tasks of the public building, appraisal activities and the building supervision were connected.

After the disaster of 1689, Peter Hamman drew plans for the city of Worms in the spring of 1690, both before and after the destruction. The council of the city of Worms, who also fled to Frankfurt, gave him 18 guilders . The drawings were to be used by the council to obtain compensation from France for the destruction of the city.

Artistic work

Bishop's court in Worms as it was before 1689, drawing by Peter Hamman

Peter Hamman left behind a number of drawings , plans and views: general views of Worms, buildings and scenes from the city. Most of the works are now in the Worms City Archives (15 sheets) and the British Library (11 sheets) in London . The oldest surviving drawing by him is a plan of Gernsheim from 1675.

The Worms papers were unknown for almost 150 years and were privately owned. The mayor of Worms, Peter Joseph Valckenberg , was only able to buy it at an auction in 1836 . In the following year Friedrich Wilhelm Schoen created a portfolio with the printing of some of the sheets. Another year later, after the death of his father , Wilhelm Valckenberg sold the drawings to the city of Worms.

The London papers date from the first half of 1692 and are a joint effort by Peter and his son Johann Friedrich Hamman. How they got into the British Library is unclear.

literature

• Fritz Reuter: Peter and Johann Friedrich Hamman. Hand drawings by Worms before and after the destruction of the city in 1689 in the “War of the Palatinate Succession”. Besseler, Worms 1989. ISBN 3-925518-05-3

Remarks

1. ↑ Peter Hamman was not born in Worms, but immigrated (see: Reuter: Hamman , p. 32).
2. ↑ Your birth name is not known. Reuter suspects that she could have been a carpenter or carpenter's widow (Reuter: Hamman , p. 32f).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 32.
2. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , pp. 18, 33, 49 (note 87).
3. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 32.
4. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 32f.
5. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 33f.
6. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 34.
7. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , pp. 33, 48 (note 68, 78).
8. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , pp. 33, 48 (note 77).
9. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 33.
10. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 33.
11. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 32.
12. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 33.
13. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 32.
14. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 36.
15. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , pp. 33, 36.
16. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 36.
17. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 42.
18. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 42f: Sig-natur: MS Add. 15709 .
19. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 33.
20. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 36.
21. ↑ Reuter: Hamman , p. 42.