Oluf van Steenwinckel (died 1659) was a
Danish building master and engineer, probably the son of
Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger
Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger (24 June 1587 – 6 August 1639) was a Flemish- Danish architect who specialised in the Dutch Renaissance style, typical of prestigious Danish buildings from the first half of the 17th century. Along with hi ...
.
Biography
In the 1640s he worked at Nykøbing Castle among other places and from 1651 to 52 he was Copenhagen's first City Surveyor (Danish: Stadskonduktør), involved in the
cedestral registration and parcelling of
Frederick III's ''
New Copenhagen
New Copenhagen (Danish language, Danish: Ny København) or St. Ann's Town (Danish language, Danish: Sankt Annæ By) was a 17th-century expansion of fortified Copenhagen, Denmark.
The original plan for the area, from 1649, was later abandoned. It ...
.'' In June 1659, during the
Northern Wars
"Northern Wars" is a term used for a series of wars fought in northern Europe, northern and northeastern Europe from the 16th to the 18th century, primarily between the territorial rivals of the Swedish Empire, Tsardom of Russia, Poland–Lithuani ...
, he participated in a failed attempt to recapture
Kronborg Castle
Kronborg is a castle and historical stronghold in the town of Helsingør, Denmark. Immortalised as Elsinore in William Shakespeare's play ''Hamlet'', Kronborg is one of the most important Renaissance castles in Northern Europe. It was inscribed ...
and was
executed
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by the Swedish.
Legacy
A monument to Steenwinckel, Hans Lassen, Lorenz Tuxen and
Henrik Gerner
Henrik Gerner (1742–1787) was a Danish naval officer who specialised in shipbuilding and naval architecture. His interests as an entrepreneurial engineer led to unsinkable gun platforms, horse-driven dredging machines, and desalination equipme ...
was later erected in the
Jægersåris Memorial Park.
See also
*
Hans van Steenwinckel
References
1659 deaths
Surveyors
Executed Danish people
17th-century executions by Sweden
Year of birth unknown
Kronborg
17th-century Danish engineers
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