August Rincklake

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August Rincklake (born February 15, 1843 in Münster , † August 19, 1915 in Berlin ) was a German architect of historicism and a university professor and inventor who worked in Münster, Braunschweig , Düsseldorf and Berlin.

Life

Rincklake was the son of the carpenter Caspar Rincklake and his wife Bernhardine nee Bartels. The ancestors of the family were all artists, builders or joiners. Like his younger brother Wilhelm , he gained his first experience in design in his parents' workshop. At the age of 14 he attended the stonemason school in Cologne, where he learned from Heinrich Wiethase , the diocesan master builder (1857).

As a stonemason's assistant he went on a hike and came to the Viennese cathedral builder Friedrich von Schmidt , who used his achievements and talent in his drawing room. In 1866 he sent him to Düsseldorf as site manager for the hospital construction, where he soon went into business for himself and subsequently built numerous mostly neo-Gothic church buildings in the Rhineland and Westphalia. For the Cologne Cathedral he designed a colored painting that was not carried out, but also made it known.

He received a call to the Technical University of Braunschweig as professor of medieval architecture, which he followed in 1876 - during the time of the Kulturkampf with few commissions. His office was taken over by his colleague and student Caspar Clemens Pickel and successfully continued to build churches. Unsatisfied from teaching Rincklake settled in 1891 as emeritus and moved to Berlin, where he distinguished himself with innovative ideas to buildings, heating and lighting. His designs for large train stations are remarkable.

When his brother Wilhelm entered the Maria Laach monastery in 1896 , he took over the architecture office in his hometown in spring. As he was denied economic success in tough competition, he went back to Berlin in 1904 after a short stay in Cologne, where he was completely lonely due to his ostensibly harsh and bitter nature after a stroke , impaired in his work, on August 19, 1915 in old age died of 72 years. Rincklake was buried in the St. Hedwigs cemetery in Berlin on Liesenstrasse . The tomb has not been preserved.

Buildings and designs

  • Erftdom, Gustorf

  • St. Maria under the Cross, Düsseldorf-Unterrath

  • St. Laurentius, Essen-Steele

  • Interior of St. Mary's Church, Hohensalza (Inowrocław)

  • Sankt-Jakobus-Kirche in Ramsloh

  • Holy Cross Church in Wollersheim

  • Marien Hospital in Düsseldorf (1902)

Patents

  • 1879: Vase to collect externally escaping oil (DRP No. 7324 of March 29, 1879)
  • 1879: Burner for an oil lamp (DRP No. 9604 of August 20, 1879)

literature

  • Gerhard Ribbrock: August and Wilhelm Rincklake, historicism architects of the late 19th century (= preservation of monuments and research in Westphalia, 7). Habelt, Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-7749-2087-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ C. Zetzsche: August Rincklake †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 25, 1915, No. 72 (from September 8, 1915) , p. 474.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, p. 55.
  3. ^ Franz Ortmann (ed.): St. John the Baptist. Historicism stained glass. Steinfeld in Oldenburg. Festschrift Hundred Years of the Catholic Parish Church in Steinfeld, November 16, 1899. Druckhaus Friedr. Schmücker, Löningen 1999, ISBN 3-9806575-2-3 , pp. 128-130.
  4. ↑ About innovations in lamps. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 237, 1880, p. 236.
personal data
SURNAME Rincklake, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect of historicism and university professor and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1915
Place of death Berlin