The Johann Albrecht style is named after Duke Johann Albrecht I Mecklenburg special form of Renaissance architecture, which was (re) discovered in the course of historicism in the 19th century or further developed as a new tradition and as a regional neo-renaissance building style Bloom experienced.

History
In the course of the reconsideration of “patriotic antiquities” in the first half of the 19th century, Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch described the reign of Johann Albrecht I as the heyday of Mecklenburg history. Johann Albrecht ruled in the district of Mecklenburg-Güstrow from 1547 to 1556 and in the district of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1556 to 1576; In 1549 he enforced the Reformation for the state of Mecklenburg at the Diet. As a prototype of his cultivated architectural style, the Fürstenhof in Wismar, Schloss Gadebusch and the Renaissance parts of Schwerin Castle are considered. Characteristics of the style, which was oriented to palazzi in Italy, were arched windows and semicircular gable endings, strong portals and the rich use of terracottas as window frames, friezes and medallions. Most of the terracotta came from the workshop of Statius von Düren.

Like the Renaissance style in the 16th century, so also the inclusion of the Johann Albrecht style in the 19th century initially a princely architectural style dar. After the reconstruction and reconstruction of Schwerin Castle, where the terracotta restored and were completed and the obotrystone was rebuilt in this neo-renaissance style, created in Mecklenburg in the second half of the 19th century, a whole series of state and private buildings in the Johann Albrecht style with elaborate terracotta tiles. The so-called civil buildings were mainly, partly preserved today, built in the Hanseatic cities; Their accumulation in Schwerin is probably attributed to the Grand Ducal Kunstziegelei, which was founded in 1845 under the direction of Georg Adolph Demmler in front of the Wismartor Kläterberg on the south west bank of the Schwerin brick inner lake for the production of new terracotta at Schwerin Castle.

In the meantime it has been proven that the 16th century terracottas were originally colored, which was unknown in the 19th century. The terracotta of 19th-century buildings was and still is a natural color and remained a distinctive style feature of the Johann-Albrecht style, although the contrast of red terracotta to pale plaster or yellow brick is unhistorical.

Buildings

building	place	Construction year	Architect, builder	coordinates	image
Parts of Schwerin Castle , u. a. New Long House, Episcopal House, Obotree Staircase	Schwerin	1857	Hermann Willebrand	53 ° 37 ’27 “N, 11 ° 25′ 8” O
Main building of the University of Rostock	Rostock	1866-1870	Hermann Willebrand	54 ° 5 ’17 “N, 12 ° 8′ 0” O
Gymnasium Fridericianum August-Bebel-Str. 11	Schwerin	1868-1870	Hermann Willebrand	53 ° 37 ‘57.5 ” N , 11 ° 24′ 52.4″ O
Residential house August-Bebel-Straße 7	Schwerin	1870		53 ° 37 ’55 “N, 11 ° 24′ 52” E
Fürstenhof Wismar	Wismar	restored 1877-1878	Carl Luckow	53 ° 53 ’27 “N, 11 ° 27′ 41” E
Double house Youth Square 5/7, former Strempelplatz	Schwerin	1880-1882	Client Reindeer Radloff	53 ° 37 ‘16.2 ” N , 11 ° 24′ 30.1″ O
Castle Basedow	Basedow	1891-1895	Albrecht Haupt	53 ° 41 ’52 “N, 12 ° 40′ 56” E
Administration building of the Kuetemeyer-Schencke-Steineckeschen Foundation (from 1942 registry office), August-Bebel-Straße 29	Schwerin	1893-1894	Gustav Hamann , Hofmaurermeister Ludwig Clewe	53 ° 38 ‘7 “N, 11 ° 24’ 52” E
Residential building Knaudtstr. 26	Schwerin	1895-1896	Owner Otto Schnell, court mason Ludwig Clewe	53 ° 38 ’13 “N, 11 ° 25′ 11” E
Residential building Bäckerstraße 22	Schwerin	1896	Builders’ company Brüder Reinhold, Hofmaurermeister Ludwig Clewe	53 ° 37 ’53 “N, 11 ° 24′ 7” E
Artillery Officer Casino , St John Stelling Street 19	Schwerin	1898-1900	Oscar Wutsdorff	53 ° 37 ‘2 “N, 11 ° 24’ 47” E
New artillery barracks, today Landesbibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Johannes-Stelling-Straße 29	Schwerin	1897-1899	Oscar Wutsdorff	53 ° 36 ’58 “N, 11 ° 24′ 54” E
Wiligrad Castle	Wiligrad	1896-1898	Albrecht Haupt	53 ° 44 ’21 “N, 11 ° 26′ 6” E
House of Gustav Hamann, Mozartstraße 14	Schwerin	1902	Gustav Hamann, Hofmaurermeister Ludwig Clewe	53 ° 37 ’54 “N, 11 ° 24′ 8” E
Schloss Gadebusch , restoration	Gadebusch	1903-1904	Gustav Hamann	53 ° 42 ‘2 “N, 11 ° 7’ 9” E

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