Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt

Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt (variations include Schultheiss von Unfried) (1678 – 10 June 1753) was a German Baroque architect, official, and councillor most active in Königsberg and throughout the Kingdom of Prussia.

Life

Possibly born in Altruppin, Brandenburg, Schultheiss was the son of Joachim Scultetus von Unfried, a privy councilor of Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg. He began studying at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) on 23 August 1689 Schultheiss oversaw the transfer of material from the declining castle in Fischhausen to the fortifications of Pillau until 1705. He was then named Building Director (Baudirektor) on 11 June 1705. From 1705-10 he worked on the galleries, royal lodge, and pulpit-altar of the Schlosskirche, the church connected to the castle. Schultheiss designed the Royal Orphanage in Sackheim (1703–05), Tragheim Church (1708–10), and the Brauerhaus in Löbenicht. From 1704-05, along with Jean Baptiste Broebes and Johann Caspar Hindersin, he also aided in the transition of the manor house in Schlobitten into the Schlobitten Palace of the Dohna family. In 1708 he renovated the church of Kaukehmen.

After the coronation of King Frederick William I of Prussia in 1713, Schultheiss took the position of building director in Berlin. Darkehmen and its 13 morgen market square (1723); Ragnit's old town (1723); Gumbinnen's old town (1724), new town (1727), and town hall (1727); Schirwindt and its market square (ca. 1725); and Pillkallen (ca. 1725). Ca. 1730 he possibly worked on the family grave of Friedrich von der Groeben at the church of Groß Schwansfeld. From 1731-32 he oversaw the rebuilding of the church in Drygallen. Schultheiss designed the Neustädter Reformierte Kirche in Gumbinnen from 1736 to 1739.

In his second period in Königsberg, Schultheiss designed the incomplete Garnisonkirche (garrison church) of the Königsgarten (1731) and the French Reformed Church (1733–36) on Königstraße. He died in Königsberg.

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