Arnold Güldenpfennig

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Arnold Güldenpfennig (1830–1908)

Arnold Güldenpfennig (born December 13, 1830 in Warburg , † September 23, 1908 in Paderborn ) was a German architect who mainly worked in the field of Catholic sacred buildings in the Archdiocese of Paderborn .

Pilgrimage church in Dietrichswalde
St. Joseph and St. Medardus in Lüdenscheid
New Mariendom in Hamburg
St. Joseph in Delbrück-Westenholz
Catholic parish church St. Jakobus in Zerbst / Anhalt (1896)
Monastery church in Hünfeld (1895–1900)
Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption in Rückers (1891–1893)

Life

Arnold Güldenpfennig was born in Warburg as the son of the royal Prussian border and tax officer Georg Wilhelm Arnold Güldenpfennig from Hausberge an der Weser and Maria Christine born. Wattendorf born. In 1836 the family moved to Ladbergen in Tecklenburger Land near Osnabrück .

Güldenpfennig attended high schools in Münster and Minden. After leaving school, he was a construction trainee in Minden and studied at the Berlin Building Academy until 1854. He then joined the architectural office of the cathedral and diocesan master builder August Hubert Uhlmann in Paderborn. In the summer of 1858 he passed the examination for qualification as a master builder before the Royal Technical Building Deputation. In 1856, at the age of 25, he was appointed cathedral and diocesan master builder in Paderborn. Güldenpfennig also worked as a freelance architect with his own office. In this activity he also designed secular buildings, mostly in the neo-Gothic style, for example the Reismann School, the Michaelskloster school (destroyed in the war) and residential buildings.

On the occasion of his 50th anniversary as a diocesan master builder on February 9, 1906, Kaiser Wilhelm II gave him the character of a secret building officer .

family

On September 23, 1858, he married Auguste Volmer from Oelde, daughter of the district and city court director Volmer, in the Oelder parish church. The marriage had twelve children between 1862 and 1875. The youngest son Hans Güldenpfennig was a master builder in Cologne. The son Jürgen (1873-1914), who studied at the Technical University of Hanover and then became a structural advisor to the cathedral chapter, took over the function of cathedral and diocesan master builder in Paderborn after the death of his father, without holding the title. He fell in the First World War. Güldenpfennig, like his wife and son Jürgen, is buried in the Paderborn Ostfriedhof.

buildings

Arnold Güldenpfennig created drafts for the following Catholic churches, among others:

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literature

  • Klaus Hohmann: Diocesan and cathedral master builder Arnold Güldenpfennig died a hundred years ago. In: Die Warte , No. 139 (autumn 2008), pp. 33–38.
  • Norbert Aleweld: Arnold Güldenpfennig . In: Robert Stupperich (Ed.): Westfälische Lebensbilder , Vol. 15. Aschendorff, Münster 1990, pp. 221–242.
  • Martin Beitz: Arnold Güldenpfennig - a forgotten church builder? In: Sachsen-Anhalt-Journal 28 (2018), no. 2, pp. 12-14.

Web links

Commons : Arnold Güldenpfennig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Hohmann: Diocesan and cathedral master builder Arnold Güldenpfennig died a hundred years ago. In: Die Warte, No. 139 (autumn 2008), p. 35.
  2. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 26, 1906, No. 13 (from February 10, 1906), p. 91.
  3. ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): State Capital Magdeburg. (= Monument Register Saxony-Anhalt , Volume 14.) Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 472.
  4. ↑ http://www.kath-zeitz.de/bild/upload/dom-2-1887-1902-700x900-Missionspfarrei.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Güldenpfennig, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Warburg
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1908
Place of death Paderborn