Rudolf Burnitz
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Rudolf Burnitz (born December 6, 1788 in Ludwigsburg , † January 28, 1849 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German architect of classicism and early historicism .
Life
Burnitz was a student of Friedrich Weinbrenner in Karlsruhe , where he studied mathematical and technical sciences. In 1810 he joined the Württemberg engineering corps , with whom he garrisoned in Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg . During his military service, Burnitz was involved in the renovation of the palace in Ludwigsburg . In 1816 he took his leave with the rank of lieutenant .
In place of a demolished, four-wing predecessor building, Burnitz carried out the classicist new construction of the Princely Hohenzollern Castle in Hechingen from 1816 to 1819 , which remained unfinished for lack of money. In the years 1820 and 1821 he traveled with stops in Venice , Florence , Rome and Naples by Italy . At the end of 1821 he came to Frankfurt am Main, where he obtained citizenship in 1822. In the era of city architect Johann Friedrich Christian Hess, Burnitz belonged to a small group of architects, alongside Friedrich Hessemer and Friedrich Rumpf , who shaped the classicist Frankfurt cityscape of the 19th century.
Despite his busy work as an architect, he continued to make major trips within Germany, but also to Holland and Belgium . In 1824 Burnitz was appointed by the Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , Anton Aloys , as a building officer and technical consultant.
Together with the Frankfurt entrepreneur Johann Hermann Osterrieth, the architect Rudolf Burnitz and another Frankfurt business partner founded the “Kronthaler Actien-Verein” in 1831 with state permission, also known as the “Aktiengesellschaft for the establishment of a Cur-Anstalt in Cronenthal near Cronberg”. He was supposed to look for, collect and utilize sources on their land. After obtaining a building permit, Burnitz, Osterrieth and his partner built a spa and bathing house with a restaurant in 1832/33, so that now two spa businesses in Kronthal canvassed the guests, although the company of the joint-stock company did not have enough bathing water. In 1845 the company was sold again.
In 1832 he applied to the Senate of the Free City of Frankfurt to set up a steam mill. It would have become Frankfurt's first stationary steam engine . The Senate approved its construction as a grain, board and grinding mill, but Burnitz waived the execution. It was not until four years later that Senator Johann Adam Beil had Frankfurt's first steam engine installed.
From 1834 to 1837 he built the French Reformed Church in Friedrichsdorf . His best-known work was the Burnitzbau of the Saalhof , built in 1842/43 , today part of the city's history museum . It is also the only one of his works in which he abandoned strict classicism in favor of an early, neo-Romanesque historicism.
Burnitz married Maria Sophia Saltzwedel (* 1788) on May 2, 1823 . The marriage resulted in six children, including the eldest son and later architect Rudolf Heinrich Burnitz ; Burnitz had been the guardian of his nephew and orphan, the lawyer and painter Carl Peter Burnitz (* 1824), since 1833 , from whose birth he lived in Untermainkai 2 together with his parents' family .
Rudolf Burnitz died on January 28, 1849 in Frankfurt am Main. His grave is in the Frankfurt main cemetery in Gewann G at the Wall 516. Burnitz was a member of the Frankfurt Masonic Lodge Carl to the rising light .
Works (selection)
- New castle in Hechingen (1816–1819), unfinished
- Supply House of Wiesenhüttenplatz pin in the Hammel Alley (1824, in 1884 in favor of the located here today courthouse demolished)
- Orphanage (1826, probably demolished before 1900),
- Metzlersches Palais , Alt- Bonames 6 (1827),
- Princely Hohenzollrisches Landhaus in Krauchenwies (1828–1832),
- Israelite Hospital in Rechneigrabenstrasse , 1829–3181 (probably lost in the war),
- Atelier extension to his own house on Untermainkai (1831, lost in the war),
- French Reformed Church in Friedrichsdorf (1834)
- Alexander du Fay's house in Neue Mainzer Strasse (lost in war) and
- Manskopfsche's house on Untermainkai (lost in the war).
- Residence of the Leerse-Bernus family, known as the Burnitzbau des Saalhof (1842/43), today part of the Historical Museum of the City of Frankfurt am Main.
literature
- Albert Dessoff: Biographical Lexicon of Frankfurt Artists in the Nineteenth Century . In: Heinrich Weizsäcker: Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main in the nineteenth century . Published by Joseph Baer, Frankfurt am Main 1909, pp. 22–24
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .
Individual proof
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burnitz, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1788 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1849 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |