Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann [SEP] place of death
Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann
Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662–1736) was a German master builder and architect who helped to rebuild Dresden after the fire of 1685. His most famous work is the Zwinger Palace.
Life.
Pöppelmann was born in Herford in Westphalia on 3 May 1662 the son of a shopkeeper. 
In 1680 he began working on an unpaid basis as a building designer in the court of Dresden Castle.
As court architect for the King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, Augustus II the Strong, he designed
this palace seven years later (December, 1586) and originally was interred in Hrodna. (His autopsy there was the first to take place in Eastern Europe.) After his death, the castle was altered on numerous occasions, although a 17th-century stone arch bridge linking it with the city still survives. The Saxon monarchs of Poland were dissatisfied with the old residence and commissioned Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann to design the New Grodno Castle, whose once sumptuous Baroque interiors were destroyed during World War II.
Architecture Medieval.
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