Eduard Zais

Portrait of Eduard Zais, painted by Schultz-Norway in 1887

Eduard Zais (born October 8, 1804 in Maulbronn , † February 16, 1896 in Wiesbaden ) was a German architect , Nassau construction clerk and church builder.

Live and act

His father was the architect and urban planner of Wiesbaden Christian Zais . In the letter of December 3, 1817, his father Christian Unser Eduard wrote to go to Herr Bodreich to learn Latin, and now, incidentally, expresses the most decided inclination for the arts of drawing and architecture, using every minute that he has arrived at mine from Darmstadt If he goes on like this, he must become a capable architect, in whatever field he can be a happy person with his disposition and preference for this business Christian Zais, so the letter of December 29, 1817, follow the suggestion of his son Wilhelm and send Eduard to the local pedagogy this spring . On November 30, 1818, the father's letter states that Eduard is diligently doing Latin with Mr. Thiriot and that he will make up for what he has missed this winter . In addition to attending the pedagogy since spring 1818, Eduard also received lessons from private teachers. This was followed by studies at the predecessor institute of today's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. At that time the important representative of classicism, Friedrich Weinbrenner , taught there, and his father was already a student.

After graduating, he entered the Nassau civil service in 1825, as Herrmann reports. In 1825 he was assistant to the court building director Friedrich Ludwig Schrumpf in Wiesbaden. In 1826 it was examined with the assistance of the building inspector Wirth. He passed the Nassau state examination as a "candidate for building history" and was a master builder accessist from 1828 to 1840, as such an employee of building director Carl Florian Goetz . He continued his education in Munich, because the register of the Academy of Fine Arts records him from November 11, 1828 to July 23, 1829. From 1840 to 1852 he worked as a state master builder for the Wiesbaden district. In 1846 he was appointed building officer. From 1852 to 1858 he was responsible for the Nassau building district as a district builder. From 1858–1870 he was a building inspector in the Nassau building construction district.

In 1866 he was accepted into Prussian service. From October 1, 1870 to 1873, he took over the management of the construction business of the Wiesbaden district as a district official. In 1873 he was retired at his own request. Eduard Zais traveled a lot as a building officer. In his early years he had already received permission to study at the insane asylums in Erlangen, Achern, Siegburg and Hall in Tirol. As a result of these trips he planned and built sanatoriums and nursing homes in the Nassau area himself. But mainly he built churches.

In 1894 he celebrated his 90th birthday with great sympathy from Wiesbaden.

His buildings

image	building	place	year	location	annotation
	school	Schwalbach am Taunus	1833-1835		the late classicist school building on the “red meadow” just outside of the buildings at that time later became the town hall and is now used as a youth center.
	church	Steinfischbach	1841-1843	⊙	Protestant church in classical style on Camberger Straße 15
	Church of St. Peter on the mountain	Bleidenstadt	1849	⊙	The nave of St. Peter's Church in Bleidenstadt was demolished in 1849 due to its dilapidation. Eduard Zais planned and built the new classicist-romanized nave on the remaining west tower.
	Nassau sanatorium and nursing home	Eltville	1849	⊙	In Eltville, the new ducal Nassau sanatorium was inaugurated on October 18, 1849. Before Eduard Zais created the plans for it, he and Dr. Lindpaintner, the head of the previous institution, the most modern facilities in Germany, England and France. Today this is a psychiatric hospital.
	Rescue house for neglected stray boys	Obernhof	1850	⊙	With the support of Countess von Giech , a daughter of Freiherr von und zum Stein, a “rescue house” for homeless boys was built in the Langenau Castle near Obernhof in 1850 . Eduard Zais was probably commissioned because his father Christian Zais had already built the neo-Gothic tower at the castle of Freiherr von Stein. In 1855 the boys' institution was relocated to the so-called Schlösschen in Schänen.
	Johanniskirche (Lahnstein)	Niederlahnstein	⊙	1855	The Johanniskirche burned down in 1794 and remained a ruin for over half a century. In 1842 the northern choir flank tower also collapsed. King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Who looked from his summer residence at Burg Stolzenfels on this ruin directly at the mouth of the Lahn, urged the restoration of the church. This failed because of the costs to the community. In 1855 the Association for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research in Wiesbaden agreed to finance the reconstruction. This took place from 1856 to 1866 according to the plans of building officer Eduard Zais and senior building officer Richard Götz .
	Evangelical Church (St. Goarshausen)	St. Goarshausen	1860-1866	⊙	In 1857 a Protestant church in St. Goarshausen was demolished because of the construction of the railway. The new building took place from 1860 to 1866, which Manfred Köhn reported extensively.
	Carbonic acid steel bath	Bad Schwalbach	around 1860	⊙	Around 1860 he changed the carbonic acid steel bath built by Zengerle
	town hall	Bad Ems	1861	⊙	the town hall was expanded in 1861 by Eduard Zais.
	Johanneskirche (Eltville-Erbach)	Erbach (Rheingau)	1865	⊙	The Protestant church in Erbach (Eltville) was consecrated on August 1, 1865, donated by Marianne von Oranien-Nassau , born Princess of the Netherlands and from 1830 to 1849 Princess of Prussia. It is a four-bay neo-Gothic hall church with a built-in tower on the entrance side and an attached choir with a five-eighth end . This Protestant St. John's Church is considered to be the main work of Eduard Zais
	St. Martin Church	Bad Ems	1866	⊙	In addition, in 1866 the foundation stone was laid for the Church of St. Martin, which was inaugurated in 1884 by Bishop Knopp from Fulda.
	school	Chew	1866-1868	⊙	In 1866–68 a school was built as a three-wing brick building on a site formerly used as a courtyard. There were five teacher's apartments and six classrooms. Later part of it was used as the town hall of Kaub.
	Former Wilhelms Heilanstalt	Wiesbaden	1868-1871	0	The Wilhelms Heilanstalt was built at the address Schloßplatz 3 in Wiesbaden in the years 1868–71 under senior building officer Ph. Hoffmann according to the plans of the ministry responsible for public buildings in Berlin. Eduard Zais created the spa facilities and completed the construction.
	Freiherr vom Stein monument	Nassau (Lahn)	1872	0	In Nassau, on July 9, 1872, a Freiherr-vom-Stein monument was inaugurated in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm I. The planning was done by Eduard Zais. The base and canopy were made of red sandstone from Böttingen near Aschaffenburg. It was carried out by the stone carver Mai from Homburg vdH The figure was sculpted by Johannes Pfuhl from Carrara marble. Destroyed in World War II, it was replaced by a new statue in 1952.
	Freiherr von Schütz School	Bad Camberg	1874-75	⊙	The school is the oldest school for the hearing impaired in Germany.
	Opladen	Church on Bielert	1876	⊙	Far outside the Nassau area, he built the Evangelical Church on Bielert in Opladen. The foundation stone was laid in 1874 and the inauguration took place in 1876.
	Listed building in Hadamar Psychiatric Hospital	Hadamar	1883	0	In Hadamar, the "Corrigendenanstalt" was built next to the former Franciscan monastery on Mönchberg in 1883. Zais built the system based on the model of the nursing home he had planned around 30 years earlier, now a psychiatric clinic on the Eichberg in Eltville.
	St. Mary's Church	Wiesbaden-Biebrich	1874	⊙	The foundation stone for the Catholic Church was also laid in Biebrich in 1874. The plan was drawn up by the Aachen architect Hugo Schneider, and construction supervisor Eduard Zais was in charge of the construction.
	Former Henrietten Thersienstift	Nassau		0	In Nassau, Eduard Zais built the Henrietten-Theresienstift as a two-storey plastered building with a central projection in a round arch style. Later this was used as a hospital
	Rectory	Dausenau	0	0	In Dausenau he built a parsonage on the road to Nassau, later used as a school and today it is a local authority. It was completely renovated in 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolf-Heino Struck Christian Zais to his son Wilhelm - the architect of classicism in Wiesbaden in his family, Nassauische Annalen Vol. 92, 1981
2. ↑ Albert Herrmann Graves of well-known people and people who have become known in public life in the Wiesbaden cemeteries
3. ↑ Hanns Maiwald 1807–1828, Joy and Sorrow of a Nassau master builder in Weilburg, Weilburger Blätter No. 94, January-March 1992
4. ↑ Personal News. Preussen, Deutsche Bauzeitung, Vol. IV, No. 20; May 19, 1870.
5. ↑ Wiesbadener Tagblatt, October 12, 1894
6. ↑ Michael Eibel, Old Town Hall - Today Youth Center; Schwalbacher Nachrichten of November 6, 1986
7. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Church of St. Peter on the mountain In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
8. ↑ Mark Benedict Kretmair, In Fear of the Frail: The Treatment of the Disabled at the Eichberg Asylum for the Mentally III in the Nazi Germany, BASimon Fraser University, 1995, Canada
9. ↑ ^{a b} Georg Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland
10. ↑ Dr. Backes, all-day trip, combined with the annual general meeting to Lahnstein on April 25, 1971, Nassauische Annalen, vol. 83, 1972, page 323.
11. ↑ Manfred Köhn, St. Goarshausen and the old church until 1860 from planning and building, The building officer Eduard Zais zu Nassau In: In the middle of life, 125 years "Zais' church of the evangelical community St. Goarshausen"
12. ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Stahlbad Bad Soden In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
13. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Kotzur, The Catholic Parish Church of St. Martin in Bad Ems, Rheinische Kunststätten issue 251, 1st edition, 1981
14. ↑ Falko Lehmann, Cultural Monuments in Hesse, Limburg-Weilburg District, Volume 1, published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse

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