Joachim Daniel von Jauch

Joachim Daniel von Jauch (22 March 1688 – 3 May 1754) was a German-born architect who supervised the baroque development of Warsaw in Poland.

Early life and work

Joachim Daniel von Jauch was born into the

armies. He was elevated to Electoral Saxon Lieutenant (1705), Electoral Saxon Captain in the engineer corps (1714), Royal Polish captain in the Royal Polish artillery regiment (1717) and Royal Polish Major and Electoral Saxon Major (both 1720). Meanwhile, he was also a civilian engineer and baroque architect for the Kings. He was appointed inspector for the street lighting of the City of Dresden in 1705 and authorized representative for Poland of the king in architectural matters (1715). In 1720 von Jauch married Eva Maria Münnich, said to be the daughter of , his predecessor as superintendent of the Saxon building authority.

Architectural career

Joachim Daniel von Jauch was appointed superintendent of the Saxonian building authority in Poland (1721) and the following year bought land in the Solec quarter which was autonomous, and not subject to the City of Warsaw, where he then erected the Palais Jauch. He was commissioned to renovate several castle halls at the Royal Castle, Warsaw (1722–23). Between 1724-1730 he modified the Ujazdow Palace and erected the alley of the Ujazdow Palace in Warsaw. He was responsible for the 1726 rebuilding of the 'Blue Palace' at the Saxon Garden and the design of the hall of the Polish parliament in the Sapieha Palace. In 1727 he prepared a draft for the church of the Boni Fratelli at Warsaw and in 1729 began work to build the Casimirs Barracks in Warsaw. von Jauch was ennobled (1730) after which in 1731 he added a large festival room to his palais at Solec where he received the King.

Kazimierzowski Palace to a rococo design with co-architect Johann Sigmund Deybel [de] (1737–39), the 1738 erection of postal buildings (Postpalais) at Dąbrowa and Boguszyce in Poland, on the royal road between Dresden and Warsaw,^[1] and in 1745 construction of the portal of the Saxon Palace

.

In his parallel military career, he rose to Electoral Saxonian Lieutenant-Colonel (1725), Royal Polish Lieutenant-Colonel (1729) and Royal Polish Colonel (1736).

Joachim Daniel von Jauch died in Warsaw on 3 May 1754. Between 1754 and 1759 the Brühl Palace, Warsaw was rebuilt to designs by von Jauch and Johann Friedrich Knöbel [de].

References

1. ^ Oehlke, Andreas (1997). "Die Königliche Reiseroute der Wettiner von Dresden nach Warschau oder zur Geschichte der Post zur Zeit der sächsisch-polnischen Union". Dresdner Hefte (in German). 15: 55–63.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Joachim Daniel von Jauch.

• Wiederaufbau des sächsischen Palais in Warschau
• Polnisches Biographisches Jahrbuch (Polski Slownik Biograficzny) - Sippschaftstafel, d.h. Übersicht über die in das Polnische Biographische Jahrbuch in eigenen Artikeln aufgenommenen Nachkommen und Verwandten von Joachim Daniel v. Jauch
• Nachkommen von Jauchs Tochter Constance (Polish)
• Nachkommen von Jauchs Tochter Constance (Nachfahrentafel)^{[permanent dead link]}