Arwed Rossbach
Max Arwed Roßbach , often also Rossbach , (born November 24, 1844 in Plauen , † December 31, 1902 in Leipzig ) was a German architect . He lived and worked in Leipzig, his main period of activity fell during the period of historicism .
Life and Buildings
Roßbach completed his architecture studies at the Dresden Art Academy , where he was inspired by the monumental buildings of Gottfried Semper . After a brief activity in Berlin, he settled in Leipzig in 1871, where most of his buildings were built.
For the University of Leipzig he designed the new university library Bibliotheca Albertina in Beethovenstrasse (built 1887–1891 by the master builder Hugo Nauck ). Furthermore, he was responsible for the redesign of the main building Augusteum on Augustusplatz (1891-1897), the profound reconstruction of the classical building created by Albert Geutebrück and Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the style of the Italian Neo-Renaissance (damaged in World War II, blown up in 1968).
He designed the Harmonie Society's clubhouse ( Roßplatz 5b), which was destroyed in the Second World War , in 1887. At the same time, he created a new neo-Gothic facade for the late Gothic university church of St. Pauli (blown up in 1968). He also built the new building for the so-called Red College in Ritterstrasse (1891–1892) for the university . His important buildings also include the Leipziger Bank building near the New Town Hall ( taken over by Deutsche Bank after its bankruptcy ) and the impressive neo-Romanesque Tabor Church in Leipzig- Kleinzschocher , which was posthumously completed in 1904, were built between 1898 and 1901 . In addition, various apartment buildings have been preserved in Leipzig - such as the so-called “Palais Roßbach” on the corner property on Beethovenstrasse / Grassistraße - and some villas, such as the residential building Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 77 . The four upper-class villas built by Roßbach between 1886 and 1895 along Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße in the music district ( Villa Gruner , Villa Wendt, Villa Swiderski and Villa Rehwoldt ) were all either victims of the air raids on Leipzig or their ruins were only worth preserving in the post-war period blown up and demolished. In 1892 the university women's clinic ( Triersches Institut ) designed by him was built at Stephanstrasse 11, which at the time was considered a prototype for a women's clinic.
Of Roßbach's buildings outside Leipzig are particularly noteworthy: the city theater in his native Plauen (1889–1899), the New Royal District Court in Dresden (1890–1892) and the Volkshaus Jena (1898–1902).
Roßbach was awarded the honorary title of building officer by King Albert of Saxony in 1891 , and in 1897 the University of Leipzig awarded him an honorary doctorate . He was a city councilor in Leipzig for many years and has held the title of city council since 1891 . Arwed Roßbach was also socially committed. He founded the Ostheim association , which built houses for workers in the Sellerhausen district of Leipzig. A street was named after him in memory of the architect, and there is also an Ostheimstrasse. Since July 2007, a vocational school center has also been called "Arwed-Rossbach-Schule", which trains a large number of building trades and combines a vocational high school (construction technology and information and communication sciences) and a technical college (technology).
literature
- Robert Bruck : Arwed Rossbach and his buildings. Wasmuth, Berlin 1904. ( digitized version )
- Betina Maria Kaun: Arwed Rossbach (1844–1902). An architect in the spirit of Semper. The complete work. Janos Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2011, ISBN 978-3-89923-273-8 .
- Betina Kaun: Architectural accents in the music district. In: The Leipzig Music Quarter. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, 1997, ISBN 3-930433-18-4 , pp. 85-89
- Horst Riedel (Red .: Thomas Nabert ): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-936508-82-6 , p. 510
Web links
- Matthias Donath: Rossbach, Arwed . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
- Rossbach, Arwed. In: Leipzig Lexicon. Retrieved January 14, 2018 .
- Arwed Rossbach School in Leipzig
- Portrait photograph of Roßbach by Georg Brokesch , Leipzig, cabinet format (?), Undated (1903), object database of the Leipzig City History Museum , online
Individual evidence
- ^ Mario Beck: Bibliotheca Albertina: Knowledge store opened for 125 years. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , October 18, 2016, page 14
- ^ LVZ online: Bibliotheca Albertina: Jubilee colloquium for the 125th birthday
- ↑ Betina Kaun: Architectural accents in the music district. In: The Leipzig Music Quarter. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, 1997, ISBN 3-930433-18-4 , p. 89
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rossbach, Arwed |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roßbach, Max Arwed (full name); Rossbach, Arwed |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plauen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1902 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |