Alexis de Chateauneuf

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Alexis de Chateauneuf

Alexis de Chateauneuf (born February 18, 1799 in Hamburg ; † December 31, 1853 there ) was a German architect and urban planner . In addition to his hometown, he also worked in London and Oslo and is considered one of the pioneers in the renewal of brick architecture in Hamburg.

Life

Alster arcades
Old post

After completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter, the son of French emigrants began studying in Paris in 1818 , which he continued after a short time in Karlsruhe with Friedrich Weinbrenner . Trips to Italy and Greece followed. The stay in Italy, in particular, had a lasting effect on his designs (the post office building, now known as the “ Alte Post ”, and the Alster arcades should be mentioned here ). After his return in 1821 he settled as an architect in Hamburg.

His houses on ABC-Strasse , built with exposed bricks for Senator Hudtwalcker in 1826 , were received with astonishment; it was customary at the time to plaster the front side of the houses and only leave the canal side unplastered. Only with the renovation of a country house for Karl Sieveking in Hamm (in collaboration with the painter Erwin Speckter ) and the house for August Abendroth on Neuer Jungfernstieg was his achievement recognized. However, he was denied a public office in the building deputation. He submitted much-noticed designs, for example for the construction of the Johanneum on Domplatz (1827), which were highly praised by Schinkel , among others , but were not carried out because the head of the building deputation, Carl Ludwig Wimmel , decided to build his own Prevented the draft. The construction of the Hamburg city post on Neuer Wall , whose portal has been moved to Nagelsweg and is a listed building there, can be traced back to his design .

In 1838 he submitted a brick-built design for the Hamburg Stock Exchange , but it was never realized. In 1838/39 he lived briefly in London, where he created a draft for the stock exchange there, which came second in the competition. After his return, the Amalienstift was built in St. Georg (1839/40).

The Amalienstift in St. Georg

After the Great Fire in 1842, he presented a plan to redesign the future town hall market , from which the Alster arcades were actually built. The actual new construction of the St. Petri Church after its extensive destruction - only parts of the northern outer wall remained - was carried out according to his design.

He also built the office building for the merchant Schemmann and the Berlin train station in Hamburg in brick .

From 1847 to 1850 he moved his field of activity to Christiania (today: Oslo) in Norway, his wife's home. Among other things, he was involved in the renovation of the Church of the Redeemer . He only returned to Hamburg shortly before his death.

Fritz Schumacher , who was still able to study Chateauneuf's estate, describes his work as "Hamburg's greatest artistic achievement in the 19th century".

Hermann Hipp sees Chateauneuf as the architect who restored the unplastered brick to Hamburg. At the end of the 18th century it had become fashionable to give buildings an exterior plaster. Many of his Hamburg buildings had visible brick in the facades again, which was initially discussed in public controversy. On his initiative, the Patriotic Society held a competition in 1836 for a better and more even texture of bricks, as he was apparently dissatisfied with the quality of the bricks.

Works (selection)

Sieveking tomb in Hamburg-Hamm
Berlin train station
Water tower Berliner Tor

Honors

Tomb of the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery

The grave of Alexis de Chateauneuf is located in the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery at Ohlsdorf cemetery . The Chateauneufstrasse in Hamburg-Hamm bears his name in his honor.

Since 1999, the Hamburg Architects and Engineers Association has been awarding the Chateauneuf Medal to individuals or voluntary institutions that have committed themselves to buildings and projects that shape the cityscape.

Fonts

  • Architectura domestica. London: Ackermann & Co., Paris: Brockhaus & Avenarius, Hamburg: Meissener, 1839. 2 °. ( Full text online )

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Otto Beneke:  Chateauneuf, Alexis de . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 113.
  • Wilhelm Melhop : Old Hamburg construction . Brief historical development of the architectural styles in Hamburg (shown on the secular building up to the resurrection of the city after the great fire of 1842, along with information about the area and life history). Boysen & Maasch, Hamburg 1908, p. 195 ff . ( archive.org ).
  • Günther Grundmann :  Chateauneuf, Alexis de. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 195 ( digitized version ).
  • Günther Lange: Alexis de Chateauneuf. A Hamburg builder (1799–1853) , Verlag Weltarchiv Hamburg 1965 (publications by the Hamburg World Economic Archive).
  • David Klemm: Chateauneuf, Alexis de . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 72-74 .
  • David Klemm, Hartmut Frank (Ed.): Alexis de Chateauneuf. 1799-1853. Architect in Hamburg, London and Oslo. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg, Munich 2000. (Series of publications by the Hamburg Architecture Archive ), ISBN 3-933374-75-8 .

Web links

Commons : Alexis de Chateauneuf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Father: Pierre Basile François Delespine de Chateauneuf (1750–1799). Since 1794 owner of a bookstore selling Italian, English and French literature. (Source: Hans Schröder: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present , vol. 1, Hamburg, 1851.) Mother: Marie Elisabeth Schniebes. She was the daughter of the council printer Gottlieb Friedrich Schniebes (1743-1818).
  2. ↑ Address 1853: "de Chateauneuf, Alexis, Architect, address: Schopenstehl no 1" in: Hamburg address book at Hamburg State Library
  3. ^ Hermann Hipp: On the brick building of the 19th century in: Arno Herzig (editor): Das Alte Hamburg (1500-1848) , Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin + Hamburg, 1989, ISBN 3-496-00948-9 , p. 229
  4. ↑ Biography , accessed January 15, 2013
  5. ↑ Trefoldighetskirken in the database of the Riksantikvaren, cf. also Trefoldighetskirken (Oslo) and Trefoldighetskirken - Oslo
  6. ↑ Chateauneuf Medal , retrieved January 15, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Chateauneuf, Alexis de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Châteauneuf, Alexis de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1853
Place of death Hamburg