Jean-Baptiste Schacre (1808–1876) was a French architect.
Life
Born in
Delle in 1808, Jean-Baptiste Schacre began his career in 1826 as a
draftsman
A drafter (also draughtsman / draughtswoman in British and Commonwealth English, draftsman / draftswoman or drafting technician in American and Canadian English) is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawings or plans for ...
in the
Ponts et Chaussées services. During that period he drew many sketches and watercolours depicting
Alsatian landscapes and monuments.
Becoming Chief draftsman on the Strasbourg-Basel railway, he settled in
Mulhouse
Mulhouse (; Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning '' mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region, eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. It is the largest city in Haut-Rhin and second largest in Alsace a ...
in 1838, where he opened his own architectural office in 1841.
From 1844 until his death, Schacre was "architecte voyer" (city architect and road surveyor) of Mulhouse. As such he erected some significant buildings in the city, such as the synagogue (1846-1849), the Catholic Church of Saint-Steffen (
Gothic revival
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
, 1855-1860) and the Calvinist temple of Saint-Steffen (
Gothic revival
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
, 1859-1869).
In the 1860s he designed many churches through the Department of
Haut-Rhin
Haut-Rhin (, ; Alsatian: ''Owerelsàss'' or '; german: Oberelsass, ) is a department in the Grand Est region of France, bordering both Germany and Switzerland. It is named after the river Rhine. Its name means '' Upper Rhine''. Haut-Rhin is t ...
, most of them in
Romanesque revival
Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to ...
style. He died in
Mulhouse
Mulhouse (; Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning '' mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region, eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. It is the largest city in Haut-Rhin and second largest in Alsace a ...
.
Main works
Drawings
*Views of alsatian romantic landscapes and medieval monuments (ruined castles, Gothic and Romanesque churches).
*Views of
Sélestat
Sélestat (; Alsatian: ''Schlettstàdt''; German: ''Schlettstadt'') is a commune in the Grand Est region of France. An administrative division (sous-préfecture) of the Bas-Rhin department, the town lies on the Ill river, from the Rhine and t ...
for Jacques Rothmuller's lithographic album, ''Vues pittoresques des châteaux, monuments et sites remarquables de l'Alsace'', Hahn et Vix, Colmar, 1839.
Architecture
Mulhouse
*Goose fountain (1845) (destroyed)
*Synagogue (1847-1849)
*Synagogue, Dornach (c. 1851)
*Saint-Steffen catholic church (1855-1860)
*
Saint-Steffen Calvinist temple (1859-1869)
*Schools, professional high school and nursery schools (1850s-1870s)
Other places
*
Gueberschwihr
Gueberschwihr (; gsw, Gawerschwihr; german: Geberschweier) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
File:Gueberschwihr 042.JPG, Town hall
File:Gueberschwihr 007.JPG, Church
See also
*Communes of the ...
: church (1870-1877, reconstruction around the
romanesque tower)
*
Jettingen, Haut-Rhin : church (1874-1877)
*
Masevaux : chapel (1870-1875)
*
Pfastatt
Pfastatt (; gsw, Pfàscht ) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It forms part of the Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération, the inter-communal local government body for the Mulhouse conurbation.
Population
...
: church (1867)
*
Riedisheim
Riedisheim (; ; Alsatian: http://elsasser.free.fr/ElsNamme/ecrantot.html - with diacritic added) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department, Alsace, region of Grand Est, northeastern France. It forms part of the Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération, th ...
: town hall and school (1843-1848)
*
Steinbrunn-le-Haut : town hall and school (1859-1862)
*
Zillisheim : church
*
Delle : church (1858-1861, reconstruction)
Gallery
Image:St Stephen's Church Mulhouse FRA 001.JPG, Mulhouse : Saint-Steffen Calvinist temple (1859-1869)
Image:Zillisheim, Eglise Saint-Laurent.jpg, Zillisheim : church
File:Église St-Pantaléon de Gueberschwihr - façade.JPG, Gueberschwihr : church (the bell tower on the left is the former crossing tower of a destroyed romanesque church)
References
*Danielle Bohly-Meister, « Un architecte autodidacte : Jean-Baptiste Schacre (1808-1876) - Son œuvre religieuse », ''Annuaire de la Société d'Histoire du Sundgau'', 1992, pp. 23–42.
*Jules Joachim, « Jean-Baptiste Schacre, architecte (1808 - 1876) », ''Bulletin du Musée historique de Mulhouse'', 1953, pp. 170 – 190.
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1808 births
1876 deaths
People from Delle
Gothic Revival architects
French ecclesiastical architects
19th-century French architects