Jacob Ephraim Polzin

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Jacob Ephraim Polzin, painting by Rudolph Suhrlandt , around 1830. Focke-Museum Bremen.

Jacob Ephraim Polzin (* 1778 in Labiau near Königsberg ; † November 18, 1851 in Bremen ) was a Bremen architect of classicism .

biography

Polzin, the son of a master carpenter from Labiau, studied architecture in Berlin , Vienna and Dresden from 1798 before going to Copenhagen to complete his studies. He was silver after being awarded two and a golden prize medal at the academy first Konducteur (site manager) for the construction of by Christian Frederik Hansen designed Christiansborg Palace appointed. He held this post for three years.

In 1811 he came to Bremen, where in 1812 - during the French occupation - he made his first appearance with a design for the redesign of the market square , which at that time was still restricted by a wall and a guardhouse. Polzin's proposal provided for the construction of a ring-shaped, arcade-lined market hall, which should be arranged around an obelisk with a fountain in the center of the square.

In 1814 he married the daughter of the council carpenter Poppe. In the following years he built various houses on the glory (on the Teerhof island) and on the Schlachte . Many of his works, influenced by Karl Friedrich Schinkel , were created in the 1820s and 1830s in connection with the development of the Am Wall and Contrescarpe streets, which were newly laid out after the fortifications of the Bremen ramparts were demolished - here are above all the Villa Lürmann from 1822 and the Von Gröningsche House from 1833 to be highlighted.

In 1832 he provided the plans for the renovation and extension of the Evangelical City Church in Vegesack , and in 1838 he rebuilt the Museum am Domshof. In the same year he built the new building of the House of Union from 1801 on the corner of Wall and Ostertorstraße. In addition, he was involved in restoration work on the Bremen town hall and the Church of Our Lady . The gate buildings of the Ostertorwache, which were previously attributed to Polzin, were designed by Friedrich Moritz Stamm . 

His sons Christoph and Ferdinand Polzin were also architects. The Ferdinandstraße in Bremen-Mitte was named after the builder of the road Ferdinand Polzin.

Works (selection)

Villa Lürman, Contrescarpe 22/24
Vegesack town church , rebuilt and expanded by Polzin in 1832
The house of Gröning , Am Wall 113; Erected by Polzin in 1833, destroyed in 1944
Museum am Domshof after reconstruction by Polzin, 1838
  • 1812 - Redesign of the market square, not realized
  • 1816 - Houses at Glory 14-16, not preserved
  • 1819 - Schlachte 1, not preserved
  • 1820 - House bowl basket 1, not preserved
  • 1822 - Villa Lürmann (today Senator for the Interior), Contrescarpe 22–24, has been preserved
  • 1829 - Haus Am Wall 197, not preserved
  • 1830 - Tea house of the Rosenthal estate , Marcusallee 1A, preserved (the similarly designed guard houses in the Bremen ramparts were built by Friedrich Moritz Stamm )
  • 1832 - Reconstruction and expansion of the Evangelical City Church Vegesack , preserved
  • 1833 - House von Gröning, Am Wall 113 and the houses Am Wall 199/200 and Am Wall 151, none of them preserved
  • 1838 - Conversion of the Museum am Domshof, not preserved
  • 1838 - House of the Union from 1801 at Wall 102 (corner of Ostertorstraße), not preserved

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Kirsch: The ring hall projects by Jakob Ephraim Polzin and Heinrich Averdieck for the Bremen market square (1811). In: Martina Rudloff (Red.): Classicism in Bremen. Forms of bourgeois culture (= Yearbook of Wittheit zu Bremen. Vol. 33). Hauschild, Bremen 1994, ISBN 3-929902-21-4 , pp. 66-72.
  2. ↑ Bremen master builder of the 19th and 20th centuries . Johann Heinrich Döll Verlag, Bremen 1988, p. 8
  3. ↑ Bremen biography of the 19th century . Winter, Bremen 1912, reprint: Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 1976, S390

literature

  • Historical society of the artists' association (ed.): Bremische Biographie des 19. Century . Winter, Bremen 1912, reprint: Schünemann Verlag , Bremen 1976.
  • Classicism in Bremen. Forms of bourgeois culture . Yearbook of Wittheit zu Bremen 1993/1994, Bremen 1993.
  • Wilhelm Wortmann : Bremen builder of the 19th and 20th centuries . Ed .: Aufbaugemeinschaft Bremen . Johann Heinrich Döll-Verlag , Bremen 1988, ISBN 3-88808-056-8 , pp. 12-13.

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personal data
SURNAME Polzin, Jacob Ephraim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect of historicism
DATE OF BIRTH 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Labiau near Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1851
Place of death Bremen