August Heinrich Andreae

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1968 reproduced portrait medallion of Friedrich Adolf Soetebier on the tombstone in the old St. Nikolai cemetery in Hanover

August Heinrich Andreae (born December 4, 1804 in Horst (former name: Horst auf Ricklingen), † January 6, 1846 in Hanover ) was a German architect , city ​​architect , painter and etcher .

Life

Born the son of a pastor, Andreae began his training in Hanover with Diederich Christian Ludwig Witting . He continued it from 1823 in Karlsruhe with Friedrich Weinbrenner , from 1824 in Göttingen with Karl Otfried Müller and in 1826 in Darmstadt with Georg Moller . Rudolf Wiegmann was his childhood friend and college friend in Hanover and Göttingen . Even as high school students they were interested in astronomy, Wiegmann's father had built an observatory for them. Inspired by the exhibition of the painter Johann Heinrich Ramberg , Andreae also tried her hand at landscape drawings.

Painting by Andreae with Forum of Augustus in Rome and ruins of the Temple of Mars Ultor , 1829
Court wing at the old town hall in Hanover, designed by Andreae
Gravestone in the old St. Nikolai cemetery in Hanover

His application of January 18, 1827 for a job at the royal Hanoverian court building authority was rejected in March. Instead, he became a volunteer at the Royal Hanoverian War Chancellery and supervised its buildings.

After passing the state examination, he built several citizens' apartments in Hanover, which attracted general attention with their “ingenious exterior design” and established his reputation in a wide area. He resumed the brick building that was high in the Middle Ages in northern Germany .

On May 1, 1829, he succeeded Justus Gerhard Kahle († June 2, 1836) as a city ​​architect in Hanover.

From 1828 to 1832 Andreae built the city hospital, which opened in 1833, with eighty beds on the Ihmeufer in Linden . For this he designed an independent round arch style , in which he also integrated elements of French revolutionary architecture and the Florentine Renaissance. The municipal hospital St. Georg in Hamburg, built between 1821 and 1823, served as a model for the hospital construction . The hospital that he built has not been preserved; it was extended and annexed by the master builder Ludwig Droste between 1856 and 1858 , a new building was added in 1933, destroyed by air raids in the Second World War and replaced by a new hospital in 1955. The Linden Dermatology Clinic is located there today .

From 1835 he designed the replacement building for the old town hall , initiated by city director Wilhelm Rumann , from which the prison wing was built from 1839–1841 and the court wing from 1845–1850.

From autumn 1839 to summer 1840 he went on a trip to southern Germany and Venice. Then he built the extension of the town hall called the Doge's Palace .

In 1845 he built the water tower for water art.

The city gave him a building site with a garden on Alte Umfuhr E (Andreaestrasse 7). Shortly after moving into his house in 1845, he married a woman from Oldenburg. Only a few months later he fell ill with consumption .

August Heinrich Andreae is buried in the old St. Nikolai cemetery . The portrait medallion on his tombstone was copied in 1968 by the sculptor Friedrich Adolf Soetebier .

Painting (incomplete)

For a time Andreae was secretary of the Kunstverein Hannover founded by Hausmann and Wiegmann , where he showed his own architectural paintings, including

Honors

In 1847 Andreaestrasse , which leads across the Packhof, which was demolished in 1865, was named after the city architect.

literature

Web links

Commons : August Heinrich Andreae  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth as stated on the tombstone
  2. ↑ Dirk Böttcher : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon ; P. 29. Online text:
  3. ^ A b Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt:  Andreä, August Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 436.
  4. ↑ glass-portal.privat.t-online.de ; includes list of works
  5. ^ New necrology of the Germans. Volume 23 (strangely postponed: 1805 - October 24, 1845)
  6. ^ Friedrich Lindau: Planning and building in the 50s in Hanover. P. 34.
  7. ^ Schmidt, Voight: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 1838, p. 1032 ( [1] ).
  8. ↑ Günther Kokkelink, Monika Lemke-Kokkelink: Architecture in Northern Germany. Hanover 1998, p. 31.
  9. ↑ Text from Stadttafel 84 at www.stadthistorie.info, last accessed on January 15, 2011.
  10. ↑ Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction.
  11. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : From the stone gate to Herrenhausen. Forays into Hanover's history. Verlag Ellen Harenberg-Labs, 1986, ISBN 3-89042-018-4 , p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Andreae, August Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andreä, August Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Architect, construction officer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Horst on Ricklingen
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1846
Place of death Hanover