Hamburg temple model

The Hamburg Temple model is a baroque architectural model of Solomon's Temple. It has an area of ​​about 12 m² and is made from wood. The square with four wings has nine courtyards, two of which are summarized in the central axis. There is the real sanctuary, the Israelite Temple of King Solomon.

It was commissioned 1680-1692 by the Hamburg Opera councilors and tenants Gerhard Schott commissioned and is now back in Hamburg in Hamburg History Museum.

The model was first exhibited at the Hamburg Opera. From Schott's heirs it was to find a buyer, brought to London. There was also exhibited and eventually acquired by an agent of Augustus the Strong. In 1732 it was brought to Dresden, where it was shown in the kennel as part of the Judaica collection. After the restructuring of this collection in the early 19th century, the model came over several owners, finally in 1910 to the Museum of Hamburg History.

Schott's model is in the tradition of many attempts at reconstruction in the Renaissance and Baroque, which is the original form of the temple described in the Bible sought to approach from a theological, bibelkundlicher or architekturteoretischen considerations. While most trials were independently published in written or graphic form, is bulkhead model not original. The Hamburg model follows very closely the presentation of the Spanish Jesuit Juan Bautista Villalpando 1604, which is based in turn on the temple vision of the prophet Ezekiel.

The actual motivation for the production of expensive and complex model is unclear.