Aloys Boller
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Aloys Boller; Bust on his grave, Worms main cemetery
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Tomb of the Boller family in the main cemetery in Worms
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Veterans Monument Worms , 1848 by Aloys Boller
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Factory signature 1848, veteran memorial, Worms
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Signed gravestone with vine leaves and grapes, 1874, Grethen cemetery (Bad Dürkheim)
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Signed tombstone for the Seltsam family, Grünstadt cemetery , 1875
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Aloys Boller (born February 8, 1825 , in Freiburg , Switzerland ; † July 28, 1882 , Worms ) was a German sculptor and stonemason of late classicism and historicism .
Life
Boller came from the Swiss town of Freiburg in Üechtland. His father, Peter Joseph Nikolaus Boller, owned the Worms homeland rights, his mother Anna, nee. Stempfel was Swiss. Aloys Boller was trained as a stonemason, because in 1843 he applied for a hiking book from the Worms city administration . With the late Classicist memorial for the veterans of the Napoleonic Wars in the old cemetery in Worms (today Albert-Schulte-Park ), he achieved his professional breakthrough at the age of 23 in 1848.
Aloys Boller was a member of the Worms city council from 1864 until his death.
He was with Karoline Dorothea, geb. Schwind, (1836–1910) married. They had one son, Aloys Boller II (1860–1899).
The couple are buried in the Hochheimer Höhe main cemetery in Worms , where they have the most elaborate and magnificent tomb that has been preserved from the 19th century. It was built like a chapel in a neo-Gothic style. A marble bust by Aloys Boller is the central visual focus of the building. The bust was made by his son, Aloys Boller II, who supported his father in the business and continued to run it after his death. In 1918 the company was in the hands of Heinrich Groll.
Aloys Boller's descendants adopted the family name Schwind-Boller and the family still exists today.
plant
Aloys Boller owned his own stone quarries for red and white sandstone as well as for Kapuzin stone in the Palatinate and ran a stonemason and sculpture workshop in Worms. From here he supplied Rheinhessen , Starkenburg , Palatinate and northern Baden with his products, mainly tombstones . Today his signed works are mostly cultural monuments according to the monument protection laws of the respective federal states in which they are located today. The company headquarters was on Karmeliter Strasse .
After his success with the veterans' monument in Worms, the veterans in the Palatinate town of Grünstadt had the same, but cast-iron monument erected in the Peterspark there in 1852, so that the monument designed by Boller exists today in duplicate, but in different materials. The Grünstadt monument was cast in individual parts by the Gienanth company in Eisenberg .
In addition to sculpting, Aloys Boller's company was also active in the building trade. They also manufactured and sold millstones made of white Neckartenzlingen sandstone . By 1888 the sculptor and stonemason business had grown to such a size that it had its own company health insurance fund.
literature
in alphabetical order by authors / editors
- Berthold Forster: Cultural and historical tour in Gernsheim ; in Gernsheimer Advertisement Gazette No. 46 of November 12, 1998
- General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Worms. ( Memento from June 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Mainz 2018 [ Version 2020 is available. ] (PDF; 5.0 MB).
- Fritz Reuter: Karl Hofmann and "the new Worms": urban development and municipal construction 1882–1918. Self-published by the Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and the Historical Commission for Hesse, 1993, ISBN 3-88443-180-3 , pp. 369 and 473.
- Irene Spille (editor): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 10: City of Worms. Werner, Worms 1992, ISBN 3-88462-084-3
- Ferdinand Werner : The train station and its consequences. From Karmelitergasse to Kaiser-Wilhelm Strasse - civil building in Worms 1850-1914. In: The Wormsgau . 33/2017 (2018), pp. 127–192 (here the section: Aloys Boller's gravestone camp , pp. 144–146).
Web links
- Website on art monuments in Bensheim (with reference to an elaborate tomb of the Müller family, made by Aloys Boller)
- Aloys Boller data page
Remarks
- ^ Later: Kaiser-Wilhelm Strasse , not to be confused with today's Karmeliterstrasse .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data according to gravestone and Worms city archive
- ↑ a b Werner: The train station and its consequences. P. 144.
- ↑ Werner: The train station and its consequences. P. 146.
- ↑ Advertisement in the Worms address book from 1867.
- ↑ Werner: The train station and its consequences. P. 144 ff.
- ^ Website of the company Gienanth ( Memento from March 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber (arrangement): Bad Dürkheim district. City of Grünstadt, Union communities Freinsheim, Grünstadt-Land and Hettenleidelheim (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 13.2 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2006, ISBN 3-88462-215-3 , p. 206 (excerpt from the source, on the Grünstadt monument books.google.de ).
- ^ Advertisement in the "Pfälzer Zeitung" Ludwigshafen , No. 246, from October 15, 1856.
- ^ Statutes of the company health insurance fund, A. Boller, Worms, 1888
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Boller, Aloys |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Swiss sculptor and stonemason of late classicism and historicism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friborg , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1882 |