Arthur Rohmer

Friedrich Arthur Rohmer (born September 15, 1830 , † November 8, 1898 in Berlin ) was a master mason in Berlin and specialized in the construction of brewery complexes as an architect .

Buildings according to Rohmer's plans in Berlin (selection)

Mausoleum of the Roesicke family in the St.-Petri-Luisenstadt-Kirchhof in Berlin-Friedrichshain

According to his plans, the malthouse of the Schultheiss brewery in Pankow was built in 1874 , the Patzenhofer brewery on Friedrichshöhe between 1877 and 1886 and the Kindl festival halls in Hermannstrasse 218 in Neukölln in 1893/94. Rohmer was also involved in the construction of the Schultheiss brewery and the Pfefferberg brewery (Prenzlauer Berg). Finally, based on a design by Franz Schwechten, he built the neoclassical style mausoleum for the Roesicke family in Berlin's St. Petri cemetery . The merchant Adolf Roesicke (1817–1886) was the owner of the Schultheiss brewery for many years.

Mausoleum of the Rohmer family

Friedrich Arthur Rohmer also designed the mausoleum for his own family in 1895. Not only is it one of the largest and most elaborate civil burial architecture in Berlin cemeteries, it is also one of the best preserved. The antique grave chapel made of brick and sandstone - 8.30 meters high and 7.30 meters wide - forms together with the mausoleum of the Borchardt family of the gourmet entrepreneur August Friedrich Wilhelm Borchardt (1826–1896) (formerly this also included the now demolished Heese mausoleum ) a representative southern point of the main access route to the cemetery . The building is surrounded on three sides by a wrought iron lattice fence: lattice elements made of crosses vary with those made of palmettes , which end in poppy seed capsules above the handrail. The lattice decoration of the two-winged iron door of the access portal to the mausoleum, which still has remnants of a former gilding, is just as artistic. In the chapel room, the main decoration on the back wall is a colored mosaic that represents the personification of the three Christian cardinal virtues .

Work examples from Rohmer

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  Aktienbrauerei Friedrichshöhe, vorm. Patzenhofer, Landsberger Allee 54, Richard-Sorge-Strasse

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  Schultheiß-Patzenhofer Brewery

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  Bohemian brewery, mechanical-pneumatic malt house, Friedenstrasse 89–93,
  Landsberger Allee 32

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  Old malt house in Berlin-Pankow, Germany (between Neue Schönholzer Str. And Mühlenstr .; built in 1874 for the Schultheiss brewery)

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  Pfefferberg Brewery, terrace - view

Web links

• The malt house of the Schultheiss brewery in Pankow in the Hesperidenhoefen
• Aktienbrauerei Friedrichshöhe vorm. Patzenhofer in Friedrichshain
• four sheets for the design of a chapel by an author named Rohmer at the Architekturmuseum der Technische Universität Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The mausoleum of the Arthur Rohmer family on Berlin Cemetery IV of the Jerusalems-New Church in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg