Georg Weidenbach

The Russian St. Alexi Memorial Church in Leipzig

Georg Weidenbach (born October 1, 1853 in Dresden , † September 30, 1928 in Leipzig , full name: Hermann Georg Carl Weidenbach ) was a German or Saxon architect .

Life

Georg Weidenbach was a student of Karl Weißbach in Dresden and worked in Leipzig from 1886 at the latest. There he was temporarily Anton Käppler associated and operational afterwards together with Richard Tschammer to 1916 the successful architectural firm "Weidenbach and Tschammer" the 1912/1913 and the detailed design and construction management of the Russian Memorial Church St. Alexi designed by the St. Petersburg architect Vladimir Alexandrovich Pokrovsky took over. Also in 1913 Weidenbach and Tschammer were general architects of the International Building Exhibition (IBA) in Leipzig.

Georg Weidenbach was a city councilor in Leipzig and chairman of the Leipzig Association for Public Art Care . He was also a member of the Deutscher Werkbund (DWB) and the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA). He received the honorary title of (royal Saxon) building officer and privy councilor . The city of Leipzig honored him on November 19, 1998 by naming a new street in the Crottendorfer Plan development area in the Anger-Crottendorf district in Weidenbachplan , but this street has not yet been built.

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together with Anton Käppler from 1886 to approx. 1890

• 1886–1888: Society house of the Casino Society in Chemnitz , Theaterstrasse (destroyed)
• 1887–1888: Hôtel National (from 1913 Parkhotel ) with an annex to the ballroom in Fürth , Weinstrasse (today Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse, changed several times, demolished in 2013 against protests)
• 1887–1889: Reconstruction of the church in Radeberg

from approx. 1890, later mostly together with Richard Tschammer

Plato Dolz monument

• 1891–1893: Andreaskirche in Leipzig, Alexis-Schumann-Platz (destroyed)
• 1893: Building of the Erbländisch Ritterschaftlichen Creditverein in Leipzig
• 1894: Plato Dolz monument in Leipzig, Dittrichring
• 1895–1897: Evangelical Paulus Church in Plauen
• 1896–1899: Reformed Church in Leipzig, Tröndlinring
• 1896–1899: Evangelical Christ Church in Düsseldorf, Kruppstrasse; local construction manager Moritz Korn
• 1896–1899: Evangelical Peace Church in Düsseldorf, Florastraße; local construction manager Moritz Korn
• 1897: “Resource” clubhouse (since 1949 municipal theater ) in Erfurt , cloister
• 1898–1903: Evangelical St. Luke Church in Dresden with parish and parish hall, Südvorstadt , Lukasplatz
• 1902–1903: Superintendent in Leipzig, Thomaskirchhof 18
• 1904–1905: Comenius library in Leipzig, Schenkendorfstrasse 34
• 1906–1909: Reconstruction and expansion of the town hall in Zeitz
• 1908–1909: Handelshof exhibition center in Leipzig, Grimmaische Strasse 1–7
• 1911–1913: Administration building of the Leipziger Feuerversicherungs-AG (after 1949 district management of the state security, called " Runde Ecke ") in Leipzig, Dittrichring (together with city planner Hugo Licht )
• 1912–1913: various buildings at the Leipzig International Building Exhibition 1913 ( Marienbrunn garden suburb )

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• Georg Weidenbach - Leipzig Lexicon