Elias David Häusser

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Elias David Häusser (1687-1745) was a leading German baroque architect.

He is most noted today for his work in Denmark where Danish King Christian VI commissioned as master builder of a new grand castle, Christiansborg Palace, on the site of the old Copenhagen Castle, which had been torn down in 1731. The site had recently been an island but had silted in and only a few water channels remained.

Häusser's Vienese baroque and French Rococo design of an extensive four-winged block was constructed from 1733 to 1745. Häusser is credited with introducing both those styles to Denmark.

The palace went up in flames in 1794, destroyed forever.