Balthasar Harres

Balthasar Harres (born November 22, 1804 in Darmstadt ; † August 16, 1868 in Bingen ) was a German architect and builder .

Life

Carl Balthasar Harres was born in Darmstadt in 1804 as the son of master mason Carl Harres (1774–1813). He attended the pedagogue in Darmstadt and then the State University of Giessen. Harres is said to have been a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Vinzenz Fischer-Birnbaum. In 1837 Harres was appointed building inspector in Coburg. From 1839 he was urban planning inspector in Coburg , where he built the Ducal Court Theater (1837–1840), now the “ Landestheater Coburg ”, and Hohenfels Castle in the late classical style.

In 1841 he returned to his hometown and taught construction and engineering as well as architecture at the higher industrial school, a predecessor of the TH Darmstadt . Harres designed the new building on Kapellplatz in 1844, which was carried out by his successor in the office of city architect, Johannes Jordan. Harres built the Villa Büchner in Pfungstadt in 1862 for the entrepreneur Wilhelm Büchner (pharmacist) .

After the death of Edmund Külp , he was acting head of the technical college in Darmstadt from 1862 to 1864. He was committed to the reorganization of the facility and in March 1868 obtained the approval of the Hessian state estates to set up the Polytechnic School in Darmstadt.

Balthasar Harres retired on August 4, 1868. He died in Bingen a few days after his retirement. He was married to Therese Müller from Zwickau. Several children were born from the marriage.

Honors

• 1859: Appointment to the building council

Publications

• 1856: The bricklayer's school , Leipzig.

literature

• Balthasar Harres, in: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt, Stuttgart 2006, p. 348f.
• Christa Wolf and Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1977, p. 74.