Jean-Baptiste Schacre

Jean-Baptiste Schacre (Delle, 1808 - Mulhouse, 1876), was a French architect.

Life

Born in Delle in 1808, Jean-Baptiste Schacre began his career in 1826 as a drawer in the Ponts et Chaussées services. In that time, he drew many sketches and watercolours depicting Alsatian landscapes and monuments. Drawer in chief on the Strasbourg-Basel railway, he settled in Mulhouse in 1838, where he opened his own architectural office in 1841. From 1844 till his death, Schacre was "architecte voyer" (city architect and road surveyor) of Mulhouse. Thereby, he erected significant building in this city, like the synagogue (1846-1849), the Saint-Steffen catholic church (Gothic revival, 1855-1860) and the Saint-Steffen Calvinist temple (Gothic revival, 1859-1869). In the 1860's, he designed many churches through the Haut-Rhin, most of them in Romanesque revival style.

Main works

Drawings

*Views of alsatian romantic landscapes and medieval monuments (ruined castles, Gothic and Romanesque churches).
*Views of Sélestat for Jacques Rothmuller's lithographic album, "Vues pittoresques des châteaux, monuments et sites remarquables de l'Alsace", Hahn et Vix, Colmar, 1839.

Architecture

Mulhouse

*Goose fountain (1845) (destroyed)
*Synagogue (1847-1849)
*Synagogue, Dornach (c. 1851)
*Saint-Steffen catholic church (1855-1860)
*Saint-Steffen calvinist temple (1859-1869)
*Schools, professional high school and nursery schools (1850's-1870's)

Other places

*Gueberschwihr : church (1870-1877, reconstruction around the romanesque tower)
*Jettingen, Haut-Rhin : church (1874-1877)
*Masevaux : chapel (1870-1875)
*Pfastatt : church (1867)
*Riedisheim : town hall and school (1843-1848)
*Steinbrunn-le-Haut : town hall and school (1859-1862)
*Zillisheim : church
*Delle : church (1858-1861, reconstruction)

Gallery

References

*Danielle Bohly-Meister, « Un architecte autodidacte : Jean-Baptiste Schacre (1808-1876) - Son œuvre religieuse », "Annuaire de la Société d'Histoire du Sundgau", 1992, pp. 23-42.
*Jules Joachim, « Jean-Baptiste Schacre, architecte (1808 - 1876) », "Bulletin du Musée historique de Mulhouse", 1953, pp. 170 - 190.