Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel

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City architect Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel, painting by Bastiné

Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel (born April 22, 1783 in Krefeld , † September 11, 1838 in Aachen ) was a German architect and master builder of classicism .

Live and act

The son of the Krefeld master builder and later city building director of Aachen Martin Leydel (1747-1817), who among other things had built the city palace of the von der Leyen family and today's town hall in Krefeld in 1794 , received from his father and his uncle Michael Leydel, who also worked as a master builder (1749–1782) and from Georg Peter Michael Leydel (1768–1826) the necessary practical training to become an architect and builder. Due to his father's appointment as master builder for the Département de la Roer based in Aachen in 1803, Franz Leydel accompanied him and was also taken on as his employee. From 1812 he drew attention to himself with independent planning and in 1814 at the latest initially took over the position of his father, and two years after Aachen entered the Kingdom of Prussia, from 1817, the position of city architect in Aachen. In the early years of this Prussian period, Leydel initially worked free of charge and even later, due to insecure payments, the income flowed only sparingly. In this respect he was forced to accept numerous orders. In addition to a large number of fountains, exclusive residential buildings and new gates, the focus was on the redesign of several Aachen baths, the construction of the Belvedere on the Lousberg and the construction of a monastery church for the Christian women .

For most of his buildings, Leydel used a classicist style still provided with elements of the Baroque and differed from the master builder Johann Peter Cremer (1785–1863), who was a pupil of Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), more strict classicist style , who was also active in Aachen at the same time Used forms. His constructions corresponded to the ideas of the 18th century, but already showed individual features. Several architects from the first half of the 19th century used the Leydelian style, especially for their facade planning.

An oil portrait of Franz Leydel, painted by Johann Baptist Joseph Bastiné , is in the Couven Museum Aachen . In honor of Franz Leydel, an Aachener Straße from the main train station to St. Marien in Wallstraße was named after him.

Leydel's grave in the Ostfriedhof no longer exists.

Buildings (selection)

The Hotmannspief (detail)
Königstor customs house
  • 1816 Remodeling of Kleinkölnstraße 18 : The balcony was made by Leydel. The measures were taken for the government to move in.
  • 1817 Conversion of Ursulinerstraße 6 as an apartment for the district president. The building consisted of two houses. Leydel removed the cross sticks and decorated the passage with a Palladio motif and balcony. In the reconstruction of the house Ursulinerstraße 6 built Leydel to heat the ovens, also bars called countershaft , which were heated from the corridor. His buildings were planned to be painted, as the building regulations had prescribed since 1826. Up until 1815, the material construction determined the external appearance of the buildings. Leydel and Cremer switched to plastered facades with bluestone integration .
  • 1820 and 1829 Rosenbad , extension of Komphausbadstrasse.
  • 1825 Hotmannspief (figures five years later).
  • 1826/27 Belvedere Lousberg , burned down in 1838, completed from 1838 to 1840 (after Leydel's death) by Friedrich Joseph Ark .
  • 1827 Hochstrasse 26 , before 1930 new building for the Politisches Tagesblatt publishing house .
  • 1828 Hotel au belle vue , Holzgraben 11 for Franz Heidger.
  • 1829 Quirinus bath .
  • 1829 to 1830 Monastery chapel of the Christian Sisters , Theaterplatz./Kapuzinergraben, receives a classicist exterior.
  • around 1830 Eijene Keizer Karl Jakobstrasse 2
  • 1834 Matthéy House , Theaterstrasse 67 in Aachen.
  • 1834 House Büchel 34 , Kleinmarschierstraße 1 and other houses that are now listed.
  • 1835 Conversion of the Higher Civic School , Klosterplatz.
  • 1835 Renewal of Neubad , Büchel.
  • 1836 Königstor customs house , Königstrasse 75.
  • around 1838 Theaterstrasse 54/56 corner house, gate entrance set back, demolished in 1962; Fields of the wrought-iron balcony grilles can be found in the final grille of the gate passage of the new building in 1962.
  • Former school building (Düren)
  • Plan for the renovation of the large house in Pontstrasse. 13 in a girls' school.

  • former monastery chapel of the Christian Sisters, Aachen

  • former Neubad (right) am Büchel, Aachen

  • Quirinusbad Aachen

  • Kleinmarschierstrasse 1, Aachen

  • former school building in Düren

literature

  • Johannes Everling: The architects Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel and Johann Peter Cremer and their significance for Aachen's building history. A study of the art history of the 19th century . Two volumes, Aachen 1923.
  • Johannes Everling: Classicism in Aachen. A building history research from 1923 . Self-published, Aachen 1923.
  • Wilhelm Vaupel: The building history of the Aachen baths from the end of the 17th century to the beginning of the Prussian period under Leydel . Meyer, Aachen 1933.
  • Ingeborg Schild :  Leydel, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 427 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingeborg Schild, Elisabeth Janssen: The Aachen East Cemetery . Mayer, Aachen, 1991, p. 390.
  2. ^ Eduard Philipp Arnold : The Altaachen house . Verlag des Aachener Geschichtsverein , Aachen 1930, p. 236.
  3. ^ Eduard Philipp Arnold: The Altaachen house . Verlag des Aachener Geschichtsverein, Aachen 1930, p. 218.
  4. ^ Eduard Philipp Arnold: The Altaachen house . Publishing house of the Aachen History Association, Aachen 1930, pp. 186, 189, 290.
  5. ↑ Hans Königs : Report on war damage and construction work on the secular architectural monuments in Aachen . In: Rudolf Wesenberg (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German preservation of monuments . Vol. 25: Reports on the activities of monument preservation in the years 1959–1964 . Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 1965, p. 135, fig. 84, p. 125.
  6. ^ Eduard Philipp Arnold: The Altaachen house . Verlag des Aachener Geschichtsverein, Aachen 1930, p. 106.
  7. ↑ Hans Königs: Report on war damage and construction work on the secular architectural monuments in Aachen . In: Rudolf Wesenberg (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German preservation of monuments . Vol. 25: Reports on the activities of monument preservation in the years 1959–1964 . Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 1965, p. 83.
  8. ↑ Hans Königs: Report on war damage and construction work on the secular architectural monuments in Aachen . In: Rudolf Wesenberg (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German preservation of monuments . Vol. 25: Reports on the activities of monument preservation in the years 1959–1964 . Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 1965, p. 203, note 1.
personal data
SURNAME Leydel, Adam Franz Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leydel, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and builder of classicism
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1838
Place of death Aachen