Jean-Baptiste Schacre

Jean-Baptiste Schacre (Delle, 1808 - Mulhouse, 1876), Architect and draftsman French.

Biography

Born with Delle (then common of Haut-Rhin) in 1808, Jean-Baptiste Schacre showed as of the college a real talent of draftsman. His/her father, owner of a tannery, having gone bankrupt in 1826, it was constrained to stop his studies to earn his living. It is for this purpose that it obtained, thanks to the support of an influential relative, a post of draftsman in the service of the Bridge-and-Roadways. The voyages caused by its activities enabled him to discover the landscapes and the principal medieval monuments of Alsace, of which it carried out drawings sometimes inspired by the romantic taste of picturesque, sometimes marked by the archaeological concerns of its time.

After having taken part in the creation of the railway and stations of the line Strasbourg-Basle (1838-1841), it is established with Mulhouse as a liberal architect. But it is as an architect-voyer of this city (1844-1876) that Schacre carried out its most important works. In spite of this fascinating and theoretically exclusive municipal function (it obtained the right to complete work for other communes or private individuals only after 1848, the economic crisis having caused the reduction in its salaries), it had a big role in the department of Haut-Rhin, in particular following its integration with the departmental Council of communal work (1861).

His/her Jean-Baptiste son was also architect, just as his nephew Alfred Schacre (active with Champagnole).

Principal work

Drawing and engraving

  • Many landscapes and sights of monuments (important collection with the cabinet of the prints of Strasbourg).
  • Contributions to the work of Jacques Rothmuller, Seen picturesque of the castles, monuments and remarkable sites of Alsace , Hahn and Vix, Colmar, 1839.

Structure

In Mulhouse
  • Fountain of the child to the goose (1845) (destroyed, only the statue was preserved)
  • Synagog (1847-1849)
  • Synagog of Dornach (v. 1851)
  • Catholic church Saint-Etienne (1855-1860)
  • Temple protesting Saint-Etienne (1859-1869)

In other communes of Haut-Rhin

In other departments
  • Delle : Parish church (1858-1861, rebuilding)

Sources

Danielle Bohly-Meister, “a self-educated architect: Jean-Baptiste Schacre (1808-1876) - His religious work”, Directory of the Company of History of Sundgau , 1992, pp. 23-42.

Jules Joachim, “Jean-Baptiste Schacre, architect (1808 - 1876)”, Bulletin of the historical Museum of Mulhouse , 1953, pp. 170 - 190.

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