Tobias Henry Reetz

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Tobias Henry Reetz (often just T. Henry Reetz , * 1680 in France , † March 3, 1765 in Hanover ) was a German architect of French origin.

Life

So far nothing is known about the exact origin and education of Tobias Henry Reetz. However, he was mentioned in 1706 as an engineer and architect in the Brandenburg army under Jean de Bodt . Reetz probably had contact with Eosander von Göthe during this time and was involved in the expansion of the Berlin court buildings. But between 1701 and 1713 Reetz had already made two study trips to France and Italy .

Tobias Henry Reetz was appointed to Hanover as an additional court architect in 1725 because Johann Christian Böhm did not fully meet the expectations of the state rulers. Reetz was mainly responsible for maintenance and supervision, but also provided his own designs . Around 1725 he made an inventory plan of the ducal gardens.

After the first drafts for buildings in the Great Garden in Herrenhausen , after the great fire in Clausthal in 1725 , Reetz drafted the plans for the (re) construction of all important secular buildings in the city in the western Harz , partly together with the master builder Christian Georg Vick .

In addition, Reetz designed the magnificent coffins for King George I of Great Britain in 1728 and for his brother Ernst August the Younger in 1733 .

In 1731 Reetz was responsible for the fortification of the banks of the Leine at the Hanover archives , but in the same year he also accepted private assignments: from 1731 to 1738 he laid out the gardens around the wall of Gut Gesmold for the rule of Hammerstein . In between, he designed the manor house at Gut Heinsen for Christian Ulrich von Hardenberg in 1732 .

When Reetz retired due to illness in 1736, Johann Paul Heumann succeeded him.

Other works

In Herrenhausen:

  • 1725: Design for a new south wall of the orangery ;
  • Reetz is credited with the new facade decoration for Herrenhausen Palace , which was created around 1725, and the design for a new palace.

Secular buildings in Clausthal:

  • 1725 to 1726, together with Christian Georg Vick : Mint building ;
  • from 1727: Construction of the Mining Authority;
  • 1728 to 1730: construction of the tithe house ;
  • 1733: Construction of the town hall .

estate

Tobias Henry Reetz donated his extensive drawing estate to what was then the “Royal Artillery Library” (later “Defense Area Library”), now in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library.

literature

  • Eduard Schuster : Art and artists in the principalities of Calenberg and Lüneburg in the period from 1636 to 1727. Hahn, Hannover 1905, p. 204.
  • Stefan Amt : The Hanoverian court architect Reetz, an architect without a first name? In: Festschrift for Günther Kokkelink (= writings of the Institute for the History of Architecture and Art of the Technical University of Hanover. Vol. 12). Institute for the History of Architecture and Art, Hanover 1998, ISBN 3-931585-09-3 , pp. 109–120.
  • Bernd Adam : Henry Reetz. From architect in Berlin during the Schlueter era to court architect in Hanover. In: Franziska Windt (Ed.): Prussia 1701. A European history. Vol. 2: Essays , ed. from the German Historical Museum and the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86102-115-3 , pp. 289-296.
  • Bernd Adam: New finds for the baroque expansion of the palace complex in Hanover-Herrenhausen. P. 82–92, In: Low German contributions to art history. Vol. 40, 2001, pp. 59-97.
  • Marieanne von König: Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover. with photos by Wolfgang Volz, contributions by Bernd Adam and others. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0053-9 , passim ; partly online via Google books
  • Helmut Knocke : Reetz, T. Henry . 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. 294. ( online via Google books)
  • Helmut Knocke: Reetz, Tobias Henry. 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 , p. 517.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Helmut Knocke : Reetz, T. Henry . In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen (eds.): Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. From the beginning to the present . Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 294.
  2. Received in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library under number 25397 R, Bl. 3 r according to the brochure from vorrink wagner architects gmbh (content and design): The water art. Renovation of the water art in Herrenhausen. ed. from the state capital Hanover, Herrenhausen Gardens, February 2012; The Wasserkunkst ( Memento from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) as a PDF document
  3. Thomas Fuchs: Library and Military. Military book collections in Hanover from the 18th to the 20th century. with a catalog of the manuscripts of the former Defense Area Library II in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library. (= Journal for Libraries and Bibliography. Special Volume 93). ISBN 978-3-465-03580-0 .