Pierre La Croix

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Pierre La Croix (also: Pierre de la Croix ; * around 1660 in Paris ; † January 21, 1729 in Hanover ) was a French fountain and fountain master and hydraulic engineer .

Life

After the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Ernst August , together with his wife Sophie von der Pfalz , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and others, the Duchy was elevated to the provisional Electorate of Hanover and under Sophie the Great Garden to the residence in front of the royal seat of Hanover and to "[ ...] Center of European Culture [...] ”, the Fontainer Pierre La Croix, who worked in Paris, was recruited for the Herrenhausen Gardens at the beginning of 1700 . The main task he was given was to complete the Great Fountain in Herrenhausen , which had already begun in 1697 . In addition, further fountains were to be created in the southern part of the Great Garden. Finally, in 1720, La Croix succeeded in putting the Great Fountain into operation, which at the time was 36 meters high.

Pierre La Croix's successor as electoral Fontänier was his son Georg Ludwig La Croix († January 23, 1773 in Hanover), whose date of birth, although a godson of Elector Georg Ludwig , has not yet been determined (as of May 2015).

In the third generation , Pierre La Croix's grandson Jean Joseph La Croix later took over the duties of Fontainier in Herrenhausen.

Fragment of the Catholic cemetery of St. John the Old St. Nicholas Cemetery offset monumental tomb for the grandson Jean Joseph La Croix

Pierre La Croix was buried in the Catholic cemetery St. Johannis on Hildesheimer Straße . His statue was probably reused for his grandson and - after the cemetery in the southern part of the city had been leveled in favor of the Hanover City Library, which was built until 1929 - it was moved as a preserved fragment to the Old St. Nikolai Cemetery between the Nikolaikapelle and Nicolaistraße .

literature

  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biografie , Vol. 3: Hanover under the Kurhut 1646-1815 , Hanover: Sponholtz, 1916, p. 505
  • Helmut Zimmermann : Family history around Herrenhausen's fountains. In: Hanover portraits. Life pictures from seven centuries , Hanover: Harenberg, 19 ??, p. 50ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Waldemar R. Röhrbein : LA Croix, Pierre. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 220; online through google books
  2. ^ A b Eva Benz-Rababah : Large garden. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 230-235; here: p. 235; online through google books
  3. ↑ a b Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  4. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Ernst August, Elector of Hanover. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 163
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Sophie, Electress of Hanover. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 569f.
  6. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Large garden. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , pp. 138–144; here: p. 144
  7. ^ Arnold Nöldeke : St. Johannis Cemetery. In: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover Vol. 1, H. 2, Teil 1, Hannover, Selbstverlag der Provinzialverwaltung, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932 (Neudruck Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 ), p. 257
  8. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Family history around Herrenhausen's fountains. In: Hanover portraits. Life pictures from seven centuries , Hanover: Harenberg, 1983, p. 50ff.
personal data
SURNAME Croix, Pierre La
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Croix, Pierre de la
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French fountain master and hydraulic engineer in Hanover-Herrenhausen
DATE OF BIRTH around 1660
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1729
Place of death Hanover