Andreas Hansen (master builder)

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Andreas Hansen (baptized October 25, 1788 in Aachen ; † March 29, 1875 there ) was a German master builder of classicism .

Life

Hansen was baptized on October 25, 1788 as the son of master mason Wilhelm Hansen and his wife Anna Maria Schmitz in the Catholic parish church of St. Martinus in Aachen- Richterich . His interest in the building trade was shaped early on by his father, so that he trained as a private master builder. In 1814 he married Alexandrine Denis (1789-1851) from 's Gravenvoeren (now Belgium, Limburg province ). This connection resulted in nine children, of whom only five sons and one daughter reached adulthood.

Hansen was one of the most successful business people in the Aachen area at that time and executed numerous public and private buildings there. These include in particular the Aachen city theater , the Elisenbrunnen , the presidential building, the main customs office on Bahnhofsplatz and the Aachen congress memorial . He worked intensively with the then government master builder Johann Peter Cremer and city master builder Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel , who often drafted the plans for his buildings. As a private master builder, he was also responsible for the construction of numerous high-quality houses in Aachen at that time, including in Michaelstrasse, Theaterstrasse 69 and Harscampstrasse, which he built together with Barthold Suermondt . The Palais des Marquis de Sassenay in the Römerstrasse in Aachen was also a building by Hansen. His daughter Gertrude (1817–1878) married the Aachen cloth manufacturer Alois Knops (1814–1894), who in 1833 founded the important Alois Knops cloth factory.

Johann Baptist Joseph Bastiné created two individual portraits of the Hansen couple in 1823 and the group picture of the Andreas Hansen family in 1835 .

Andreas Hansen died at the age of 86 and was buried at the side of his wife and the children who had died before him in Aachen's Ostfriedhof . His grave monument has been preserved.

literature

  • Johannes Everling: The architects Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel and Johann Peter Cremer and their significance for Aachen's building history. A study of the art history of the 19th century. Dissertation, RWTH Aachen, Aachen 1923, p. 87f.
  • Ingeborg Schild , Elisabeth Janssen: The Aachen East Cemetery. Aachen 1991, p. 421f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Ripphausen: How gefahndet a chief inspector in the old facade , Aachener Nachrichten, October 14, 1970, p 12
  2. ^ Felix Kuetgens : Johann Baptist Joseph Bastiné. (= Aachener Kunstblätter , booklet XIV.) La Ruelle , Aachen 1928, fig. 75, fig. 76 and panel IV.
personal data
SURNAME Hansen, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German master builder of classicism
DATE OF BIRTH baptized October 25, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1875
Place of death Aachen