JUSSOW, Heinrich Christoph

(b. 1754 Kassel, d. 1825 Kassel)

German architect. From 1771 to 1778 he studied law in Göttingen and Marburg. He continued his studies in Kassel where he learnt mathematics and Drawing, against the will of his parents. From 1781 he was a teacher at the Kassel Kunstakademie. After this activity he spent several years abroad.

In 1785 he became a garden architect under Landgrave Wilhelm IX of Hessen-Kassel (1743-1821). In the Wilhelmshöhe Bergpark (Mountain Park), he planned and built numerous buildings and other structures, among them a temple of Apollo, an aqueduct, a fountain, the castle of Löwenburg.

Exterior view

Schloss Wilhelmsh�he was built for Landgrave Frederick II of Hessen-Kassel. In 1786, Heinrich Christoph Jussow presented an ideal project, but the commission was given to Simon Louis du Ry (1726-1799). Finally the long series of variegated and innovative designs was reduced to a conventional scheme as a three-wing complex and constructed by Jussow on English lines.

The photo shows one of the side wings.

View the ground plan of Schloss Wilhelmsh�he, Kassel.

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General view

Reviving the epoch of superstition, magic, ghosts and wandering knights was the intention of Landgrave Wilhelm IX of Hessen-Kassel when he commissioned Heinrich Christoph Jussow to construct the L�wenburg in the garden of the Kassel Schloss in 1791. Despite being built as an artificial ruin, and thus continuing an early-18th-century tradition of erecting “ruined” relics of ancient Roman architecture, L�wenburg offers in its interior the usual comforts of a princely country house.

The photo shows the artificial ruin and castle of L�wenburg.

View the ground plan of Castle of L�wenburg, Kassel.

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The aqueduct

In the Wilhelmsh�he Bergpark (Mountain Park), Jussow planned and built numerous buildings and other structures, among them an aqueduct, shown in the photo.

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