Adolf Wolff (architect)

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Synagogue in Karlsbad , postcard around 1900
Nuremberg with synagogue, postcard around 1900
Synagogue in Heilbronn. External view.

Christoph Adolf Wolff (born August 10, 1832 in Wäldenbronn , † March 29, 1885 in Stuttgart ) was a German architect and city ​​planner in Stuttgart.

Life

Wolff was born the son of Christoph Friedrich Wolff (1789–1845) and his wife Juliane Jakobine Seitz (1796–1859) in Wäldenbronn and studied at the Stuttgart Polytechnic under Professor Gustav Adolf Breymann . Breymann himself had been commissioned to build the Stuttgart synagogue. Due to the premature death of the master builder on August 17, 1859, Wolff completed the Stuttgart synagogue . Then in 1863 he was commissioned as a city architect in Stuttgart to convert the synagogue in Crailsheim . In 1864 he married Elise, born in Stuttgart, Herter (1843–1894); the marriage resulted in a daughter.

In 1869 Wolff built the synagogue in Ulm. In 1870 he moved to Nuremberg and built the Nuremberg synagogue on Hans-Sachs-Platz , where he was appointed city building officer of Nuremberg two years later. In 1873 he became a city planner in Stuttgart. Between 1873 and 1877 he built the Heilbronn synagogue . In 1878 he completed the synagogue in Carlsbad , and in 1887 the Great Synagogue in Łódź , based on the Königsberg synagogue and financed by Izrael Poznański , was completed according to his plans. He is said to have built many sacred buildings in Prague and Russia.

Wolff is listed in many reference works as a Jewish architect, but was not a Jew, even though he built many synagogues. Since about 1878 he had major health problems. After his untimely death in 1885 he was buried in the Christian part of the Stuttgart Prague cemetery.

The public works that he carried out or in which he was involved include a. the Stuttgart train station and the Karls-Gymnasium Stuttgart .

Works

buildings

  • 1859–1861: Synagogue in Stuttgart based on preliminary drafts by Breymann
  • 1863: Synagogue in Crailsheim based on preliminary drafts by Häfne
  • 1863–1868: Stuttgart train station
  • 1869: Synagogue in Ulm
  • 1869–1874: Synagogue in Nuremberg
  • 1873–1877: Synagogue in Heilbronn
  • 1874: Johannes School at Johannes-Strasse 6 and 8 in Stuttgart
  • 1874–1878: Synagogue in Karlsbad
  • 1876–1878: Stöckach School at Sick-Straße 18 in Stuttgart
  • 1876–1881: Matthäuskirche at Möhringer Straße 52 in Stuttgart-Häslach according to the plans of the architect Conrad von Dollinger , (together with the architects Stahl and Schiele)
  • 1877: own house at Alexander-Straße 8 (today house no.8a),
  • 1877–1878: Stuttgart-Häslach elementary school, (resigned)
  • 1878: Lodz weaving mill for the industrialist Israel Poznanski, (probably with Hilary Majewski)
  • 1881: Municipal trade hall
  • 1881–1883: Enclosure and gate to the chapel on the Israelite part of the Prague cemetery
  • 1883–1884: Roofing of the Bopser fountain on Hohenheimer Strasse in Stuttgart with a cast-iron pavilion on behalf of the city
  • 1883–1885: Karls-Gymnasium at Tübinger Strasse 38 in Stuttgart
  • 1883–1887: Great Reform Synagogue in Lodz
  • 1884–1886: Jakob School at Jakobstraße 11 in Stuttgart, (together with P. Burkhardt)
  • Synagogue in Russia

Fonts

  • Information about brick production in the club area. In: Monthly publication of the Württembg. Association for construction in Stuttgart . W. Kohlhammer'sche Buchdruckerei. Stuttgart 1876, pp. 24-25. ( online )

Web links

Commons : Adolf Wolff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short texts on the preservation of monuments ( Memento from April 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 11, 2013
  2. ↑ Historical Views , accessed January 11, 2013
  3. ↑ Matthäuskirche , accessed on January 11, 2013
  4. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 5th year 1885, No. 16 (from April 18, 1885) ( obituary ), p. 164.
  5. ↑ Cultural monuments in the state capital Stuttgart (PDF; 501 kB), accessed on January 11, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff, Christoph Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldenbronn
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1885
Place of death Stuttgart