Adolf Weinbrenner

Adolf Weinbrenner (born September 15, 1836 in Rastatt ; † October 19, 1921 in Karlsruhe ) was a German architect , Baden construction officer and university professor . Adolf Weinbrenner was Friedrich Weinbrenner's great-nephew .

Life

Adolf Weinbrenner was born as the son of the Karlsruhe architect Johann Ludwig Weinbrenner . He studied architecture at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic under Heinrich Hübsch , Friedrich Theodor Fischer , Friedrich Eisenlohr , Jakob Hochstetter and Heinrich Lang in 1860 with the state examination.

He then worked as an assistant until 1866, then from 1867 to 1868 as a director of the railway building inspection in Constance , interrupted in 1866 and 1867 by study trips to France, Belgium and Italy. From 1869 to 1872 he was service administrator of the Mannheim district building inspection, and from 1872 to 1880 court master builder in the Princely Fürstenberg service in Donaueschingen . In 1880 Weinbrenner was appointed full professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe. In 1884 he was appointed building officer, in 1896 senior building officer, and in 1910 privy councilor. As an architect, Adolf Weinbrenner represented the neo-renaissance style .

Weinbrenner's pupils include the Karlsruhe architects Hermann Billing and Friedrich Ratzel .

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Buildings and designs

Source of the Danube in Donaueschingen, source version by Adolf Weinbrenner

• 1868–1869: Villa Baader in Constance
• 1875: structural version of the source of the Danube in Donaueschingen
• 1876: Fürstenberg riding stable in Donaueschingen
• from 1878: restoration of the St. Felix chapel and the ballroom of Heiligenberg Castle
• 1881–1883: Church of St. Maria Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Bräunlingen
• 1883: Facade redesign of the residential building at Schlossplatz 17 in Karlsruhe
• 1885 Draft of a domed church at Durlacher Tor in Karlsruhe (1885)
• 1887–1890: Ludwig Wilhelm Hospital in Karlsruhe
• 1890: Draft for the renovation of the council building in Konstanz
• 1893–1894: Building of the Baden State Insurance Institute in Karlsruhe
• 1897: Competition design for the Wiesbaden Kurhaus

Fonts

• The Fürstlich Fürstenberg Castle Chapel in Heiligenberg and its restoration 1589–1882. Constance 1882.
• The Fugger's burial chapel near St. Anna in Augsburg. (Architectural photo taken by students from the Grand Ducal Technical University in Karlsruhe). Academic Architects' Association, Karlsruhe 1884.
• The birthplace of the Renaissance in Germany. In: Ceremony for the 40th anniversary of the 40th reign of Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden , offered by the TH in Karlsruhe. Braun'sche Hofbuchdruckerei, Karlsruhe 1892, pages 75-82.

literature

• Secret senior building officer Adolf Weinbrenner † . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung 55th year 1921, p. 379 f.