Adolph Passavant

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Samuel Adolph Passavant (born July 14, 1841 in Lyon ; † August 7, 1926 in Biebrich am Rhein ) was a German architect and entrepreneur .

Tomb of Samuel Adolf Passavant and Johanna Passavant, b. Eckhard

Passavant came from the Reformed Passavant family in Frankfurt am Main . He was a son of Christian Passavant (born November 1774 in Frankfurt; † March 23, 1830 ibid) and Sara Passavant (born March 5, 1776 in Frankfurt; † March 8, 1830 ibid).

As a site manager he worked with Gustav Greiß under the cathedral builder Franz Josef Denzinger on the reconstruction of the Frankfurt Cathedral from 1869 to 1871 . He then worked as an architect in Frankfurt.

Manhole cover from Passavant

He acquired on 16 March 1885 by the Lords of the Lossem Michel Bacherhütte in between Limburg an der Lahn and Wiesbaden located in Aartal Michelbach and built them to the main plant of Passavant-works from. All over Germany you can still find many manhole covers with the manufacturer's mark “Passavant”.

He was married since June 20, 1874 to Johanna Elisabeth, born Eckhard (* July 2, 1854 in Frankfurt am Main; † December 17, 1929 in Wiesbaden-Biebrich). His son Wilhelm Passavant (1886–1959), who joined the company in 1910 and took over management from his father in 1917, expanded the business. His grandson Udo Passavant (* 1921) sold the company to the ACO Group and Bilfinger & Berger in 2000 .

Adolph Passavant's grave is in the Michelbach cemetery.

buildings

  • 1873/74 Frankfurt, Kirchnerstrasse 4, tenement house
  • 1874 Frankfurt, Kaiserstraße 21, office building
  • 1876 ​​Frankfurt, Grüneburgstrasse 67, tenement house
  • 1879 (?) Frankfurt, Friedensstrasse 10, tenement house
  • 1881 Frankfurt, renovation and redesign of the German Reformed Church , with Heinrich Burnitz

Remarks

  1. ^ Franz Joseph Denzinger in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon .

literature

  • Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography. Short biographies from 13 centuries. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-922244-68-8 , p. 302.
  • Heinz Schomann : The Frankfurt train station district and Kaiserstraße. A contribution to town planning and the art of historicism. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-421-02876-1 , p. 313.
  • Thomas Zeller: The architects and their building activities in Frankfurt am Main from 1870 to 1950. Henrich, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-921606-51-9 , p. 278.
personal data
SURNAME Passavant, Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Passavant, Samuel Adolph (full name); Passavant, Samuel Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1926
Place of death Biebrich on the Rhine