Samuel Locke

Samuel Gotthelf Locke (born August 20, 1710 in Eisenberg , † October 4, 1793 in Dresden ) was a German builder of the late Dresden Baroque .

Life

Locke's house: Kyau house , 300-year-old Kyaulinde on the left

Samuel Locke was born as the son of the pipe master Christoph Locke. After he was trained as a master mason, he first worked at Longuelune , then as a draftsman with Johann Christoph Knöffel . From 1734 to 1745 more than 40 sheets were created.

In 1739 he acquired the citizenship of Dresden and took up a permanent position as construction manager for Land and Border Commissioner Adam Friedrich Zürner . As master mason of the Catholic Court Church in Dresden, he worked from 1746 to 1750 as the successor to stonemason and master mason Johann Tobias Lehmann (1739–1746).

From 1742 he helped Carl Friedrich Pöppelmann in his work as Excise Building Director, from 1751 he was a conductor in the construction department. He then supported Johann Christoph Knöffel in his work as Excise Construction Director. In 1752 he worked under Oberlandbaumeister Julius Heinrich Schwarze as General Excise Building Director.

In 1783 Locke published the work "On the connection and arrangement of the columns", which also made him active in the field of architectural theory.

Locke became known through various designs for numerous Dresden houses. Johann Christian Hasche lists 25 buildings that he attributes to Locke. According to Stefan Hertzig , Samuel Locke is said to have built the Blue Star (1748) before the Seven Years' War . In the period after the Seven Years' War, the Börner House , the Klepperbein House and the Chiappon House (all in 1761) were built according to Locke's designs . Then the Zittelsche Haus (1784/1765) and the Hôtel de Pologne (1766/1767). His son Samuel Gottlieb built the Nauzsche Haus in 1768, then the Weigelsche Haus, Neumarkt and the Caesarsche Haus, Schlössergasse 25.

One of the many buildings no longer preserved in Dresden was the Old Reformed Church , which had to give way to the new Dresden City Hall. The Kyau-Haus , a vineyard house not far from the Augustusweg in Radebeul , which he used and converted as a residential house from 1754 , was retained. The town hall buildings - the town hall in Wilsdruff and the Radeberg town hall - were only built with the participation of Samuel Locke or were later fundamentally changed. His final resting place is in the Inner Neustädter Friedhof in Dresden.

Works (selection)

Town hall in Radeberg , built according to plans by Samuel Locke (before the renovation in 1822)

buildings

Choren Castle

Golden Sun (Neustädter Markt 5) , Dresden
Moritzstrasse 6 , Dresden
Elsterwerda Castle , collaboration 1730–1737
Grochwitz Castle in Herzberg (Elster) , draft 1736
Houses Moritzstrasse 10 and 14, Dresden, around 1740
Thielemannsches Haus , Grosse Meißner Gasse 13, Dresden
Koehler's House , Frauenstrasse 14, Dresden, 1749
Kyau House in Radebeul-Oberlößnitz , renovation in 1754
Choren Castle , new building in 1755
Moritzstrasse 19, Dresden, after 1760
Marienkirche Werdau , reconstruction 1756–64
Town center and church Ruhland / Oberlausitz , reconstruction 1768–74
Marienkirche Grossenhain , tower design 1773
Prausitz Church , new building 1775/76
Caesar's House , 1781
Radeberg Town Hall

Fonts

The connection and arrangement of the columns. 1783, published by Johann Samuel Gerlach in Dresden (including the collection of German architecture books on 18th century civil architecture from the Bauhaus University Weimar and the art library of the Berlin State Museums - Prussian cultural heritage).

literature

Siegfried Asche: Locke, Samuel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 5 f. ( Digitized version ).
Stefan Hertzig: Samuel Locke. In: ders .: The late Baroque town house in Dresden 1738–1790 . Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , pp. 234-242 .
Collective of authors: Lexicon Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen . Research group Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen (Ed.), Transpress Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin 1989, p. 267. ISBN 3-344-00264-3

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Johann Christian Hasche : An attempt at a Dresden art history. In: Johann Christian Hasche: Magazin der Sächsische Geschichte , 1, Dresden 1784, p. 340f: “Samuel Locke became Accisbaudirecktor after the death of the Oberlandbaumeister Knöffels in 1752 and listed a lot of buildings here, of which I only want to indicate by name, in the new town , the Pegeholdsche , Petersillsche , (on the main street), two Nauzische just there, Delingsche , Violsche , Exnersche (on Clostergasse), the blue star on the great Meißnis, G. Schaafsche's house on the Marckte [...] it used to be that Commandant's house: in Alt-Dreßden : Das kerstenschen (large Schießgasse), Seiffertsche , Chiapponische , Klepperbeinsche , Künzelmannsche (large Frauengasse), Hôtel de Pologne , Edelmannsche , Fritschische , Webersche (Mor. Str.), Vollprechtsche , Eyringesche , Kermessersche , die Reformed Church, Triersche (Pirn. G.), Zittelsche , Börnersche and others more ”.

^ Stefan Hertzig: Samuel Locke. In: ders .: The late Baroque town house in Dresden 1738–1790 . Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , pp. 234-242.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Christoph Knoeffel	Electoral Saxon General Excise Building Director 1752 - 1793	not known

personal data
SURNAME	Locke, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Locke, Samuel Gotthelf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German builder
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1710
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eisenberg
DATE OF DEATH	October 4, 1793
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Johann Christian Hasche : An attempt at a Dresden art history. In: Johann Christian Hasche: Magazin der Sächsische Geschichte , 1, Dresden 1784, p. 340f: “Samuel Locke became Accisbaudirecktor after the death of the Oberlandbaumeister Knöffels in 1752 and listed a lot of buildings here, of which I only want to indicate by name, in the new town , the Pegeholdsche , Petersillsche , (on the main street), two Nauzische just there, Delingsche , Violsche , Exnersche (on Clostergasse), the blue star on the great Meißnis, G. Schaafsche's house on the Marckte [...] it used to be that Commandant's house: in Alt-Dreßden : Das kerstenschen (large Schießgasse), Seiffertsche , Chiapponische , Klepperbeinsche , Künzelmannsche (large Frauengasse), Hôtel de Pologne , Edelmannsche , Fritschische , Webersche (Mor. Str.), Vollprechtsche , Eyringesche , Kermessersche , die Reformed Church, Triersche (Pirn. G.), Zittelsche , Börnersche and others more ”.

[2] Stefan Hertzig: Samuel Locke. In: ders .: The late Baroque town house in Dresden 1738–1790 . Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , pp. 234-242.