August Hardegger

Parish Church of the Heart of Jesus , Zurich-Oerlikon, 1891–1892

Liebfrauen parish church , Zurich, 1892–1894

Pilgrimage Church of Mariahilf, Haslen 1897

Parish Church of the Holy Trinity , Bülach, 1900–1902

Interior view of the Schlatt Church, 1911

August Hardegger (born October 1, 1858 in St. Gallen ; † January 12, 1927 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss architect who planned and built a large number of churches in German-speaking Switzerland from the 1880s until the First World War .

Life

Hardegger graduated from high school in St. Gallen. He then studied architecture in Stuttgart for two years, probably from 1876 to 1878. After internships with various architects in St. Gallen and Zurich , including Robert Weber, as well as study trips to Venice , Rome and Florence , he settled in St. Gallen around 1880. There he ran an architecture office together with Wilhelm Hanauer and after 1887 alone. In 1912 he moved to Disentis , where he also devoted himself increasingly to the graphic documentation and inventory of architectural monuments. In 1917 he wrote a dissertation on the collegiate church of St. Gallen.

Works

As an architect, he created numerous private and public buildings; Above all, however, he took part with great success in almost all competitions in the field of Catholic church building, which he mastered between 1880 and 1910 - with a few others like Wilhelm Keller . In total, he created around 60 churches and monasteries. In all of his buildings he remained connected to historicism . In church construction, he combined early Christian , neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque forms with progressive new spatial forms, whose centralizing tendencies made an important contribution to the development of church architecture in the late 19th century.

buildings

• Catholic Church , Rebstein , 1884–1885 (burned down in 1956)
• St. Peter , nave of the church, Wil SG , 1885–1887
• Marienkirche , Catholic Church, Dussnang , 1889–1890
• Guardian Angel Church , Gossau SG , 1890–1892, demolished
• Villa Bürgli , St. Gallen, around 1890
• Villa Rosa , St. Gallen, around 1890
• St. Martin , Catholic Church, Wuppenau , 1890–1891
• Reformed Church , Amriswil , 1891–1892
• St. Augustine , Catholic Church, Azmoos (Wartau parish), 1891–1892
• Herz Jesu , Catholic Church, Zurich – Oerlikon, 1892–1893
• St. Stephan , Catholic Church, Männedorf , 1892–1893
• Catholic Church of Our Lady , Zurich, 1893–1894
• St. Jakob , Parish Church, Escholzmatt , 1893–1894
• Catholic Church , Schwanden GL , 1894–1895, canceled
• Catholic Church , Binningen , 1895–1896
• Herz Jesu , parish church, Egolzwil , 1895–1896
• Monastery and daughter's school , Menzingen ZG , 1895–1897
• St. Marien , Catholic Church, Wädenswil, 1896
• Lady Chapel , Disentis Monastery , 1896–1897
• Pilgrimage church Maria-Hilf , Haslen AI , 1897
• Parish Church of St. Vitus , Merenschwand, 1897
• Catholic youth church , Rorschach , 1899
• St. Joseph , Basel, 1900–1901
• Parish Church of the Holy Trinity , Bülach, 1900–1902
• Bürgerheim Sonnhalde , Appenzell , 1901–1903
• Parish Church , Hildisrieden , 1901–1903
• Parish Church , Niedergösgen , 1902–1903
• Parish Church of the Holy Trinity , Adliswil, 1904
• Parish Church of St. Joseph , Abtwil SG, 1904–1905. The interior design was created by the Munich architect Joseph Elsner .
• Chapel of St. Maria zum Schnee , Meglisalp , 1905
• Franciscan convent , Tübach , 1905-06
• Parish Church of St. Otmar , St. Gallen, 1905–1908
• Catholic Church , Linthal GL , 1906–1907
• Parish Church , Oberägeri , 1906–1908
• Herz-Jesu-Kirche , Goldau , 1906–1909
• Church of St. Anna , Schindellegi, 1907–1909
• Girls' school , Appenzell, 1909–1911
• Catholic Church , Flums , interior renovation 1910
• Parish Church , Wangen SO , 1907
• St. Martin , Olten , 1908–1910 (Neo-Baroque project 1904
• Monastery church , Eschenbach LU , 1910–1912
• Catholic Church , Schlattal, 1911
• Catholic Church , Urnerboden , 1911–1912
• Parish Church , Balsthal , 1912–1914
• Institute Stella Maris , Rorschach , 1912–1914

Fonts

• The women of St. Katharina in St. Gallen. Huber, St. Gallen 1885.
• From the building history of the St. Gallen Monastery. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 17th year 1888, pp. 7–22 ( digitized version ).
• Old and new from the city of St. Gallen. In: Festschrift SIA St. Gallen section. St. Gallen 1889.
• The Cistercian Sisters at Maggenau. Zollikofer, St. Gallen 1893.
• St. Johann in the Thurtal. Zollikofer, St. Gallen 1896.
• The old collegiate church and the former monastery building in St. Gallen, an attempt at reconstruction. Dissertation, Zurich 1917.
• August Hardegger, Salomon Schlatter and Traugott Schiess (edit.): The architectural monuments of the city of St. Gallen Fehr, St. Gallen 1922.

literature

• André Meyer: August Hardegger - architect and art writer. Fehr'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, St. Gallen 1970.
• Bernhard Other: August Hardegger. In: Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber (Hrsg.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ André Meyer: August Hardegger - architect and art writer. Fehr'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, St. Gallen 1970, p. 11.
2. ↑ Brief history of our parish on the website of the cath. Rebstein parish.
3. ^ According to the Festschrift 100 Years of the Catholic Parish of Bülach 1882–1982.
4. ^ J. Huber: Churches and parishes in the Gaiserwald SG. Abtwil 2005.
5. ↑ Hanspeter Betschart: 100 years of St. Martin's Church in Olten. ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) On the website of the parish of St. Martin Olten, accessed on April 18, 2016. 
6. ^ Architect A. Hardegger, St. Gallen. The "Stella Maris" institute in Rorschach. In: Die Schweizerische Baukunst, No. 6. Remarkable Buildings in Eastern Switzerland, VI 1917.

Web links

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• André Meyer: Hardegger, August. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .