Wolf Christoph Zorn from Plobsheim

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Wolf (gang) Christoph Zorn von Plobsheim (born December 1, 1655 in Montbéliard ; † August 9, 1721 in Gotha ) was a German Baroque architect and Major General and Commander of Gotha.

Life

City church "Zur Gotteshilfe" in Waltershausen

He came from the Alsatian knightly nobility, the family of those of Zorn , more precisely their line of wealth at Plobsheim . His father was Nikolaus Zorn von Plobsheim (d. 1705), since 1691 chief court master Duchess Christines von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg. After training as an officer, von Plobsheim was employed as a lieutenant and junker at the Gotha court in 1684. In 1686 he was promoted to chamberlain . As lieutenant colonel and governor of Friedrichswerth he accompanied the Hereditary Prince Friedrich (later Duke Friedrich II. ) And his brother Johann Wilhelm von in 1692/93Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg on her educational trips to Holland and England . In 1694 he went on a study trip to Italy. In 1697 von Plobsheim was appointed city commander of Gothas, and the following year promoted to colonel sergeant. In 1699 he was given the office of castle captain and commander of Friedenstein Castle . In addition, he was also the commander of the artillery.

In 1703 he was promoted to colonel and appointed building director and head of the ducal building department. In this capacity he was responsible for all buildings in the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg in the following years . Between 1708 and 1711, Duke Friedrich II of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg commissioned the Friedrichsthal Summer Palace in Gotha, one of Plobsheim's most important buildings. In 1712 he was promoted to major general and appointed senior building director of the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg. In 1719 von Plobsheim supplied the designs for the town church "Zur Gotteshilfe" in Waltershausen , which is considered to be the "most important solution of the Protestant central building in front of the Dresden Frauenkirche ". Due to illness, von Plobsheim was increasingly unable to supervise the work on the church himself, which is why the execution was taken over by his successor as senior construction director Friedrich Wilhelm von Wurmb under the supervision of Johann Erhard Straßburger .

Plobsheim died childless in the residential city of Gotha, his grave on the former cemetery I, also known as Alter Gottesacker (cleared in 1904, today the old town baths and the Arnoldischule are in its place ) is no longer preserved.

Buildings

Friedrichsthal Castle in Gotha

Von Plobsheim designed and worked on u. a. the following buildings:

  • Lusthaus in the eastern wall garden of Friedenstein Castle in Gotha (around 1710; no longer preserved today)
  • Orphanage with collegiate and orphanage church "Zum Heiligen Geist" in Erfurter Straße in Gotha (1710–1712)
  • Friedrichsthal Palace in Gotha with baroque garden (1708–1711)
  • Grotto house at Friedrichsthal Palace (1713–1717; demolished after 1855)
  • Hospital "Mariae Magdalenae" in Gotha (1716–1719)
  • City church "Zur Gotteshilfe" in Waltershausen (1719–1723)
  • Tenneberg Castle in Waltershausen (design of the ballroom in the west wing and the chapel in the south wing, 1720)
  • "Guild Hall" at the main market in Gotha (renovation 1721)

Others

Relatives of the Plobsheims were members of the Fruitful Society as authors :

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zorn von Plobsheim, Wolf Christoph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 558 .
  2. ↑ Anger . In: Jakob Christoph Iselin (Ed.): Newly increased historical and geographical general lexicon ... 3rd edition. tape 6 : Ru-Z . Johannes Christ, Basel 1744, p. 1195 ( books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Wrath of Plobsheim, Wolf Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wrath of Plobsheim, Wolfgang Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Baroque architect, Saxon-Gotha major general and commandant of Gotha
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1655
PLACE OF BIRTH Montbeliard
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1721
Place of death Gotha