Bernhard Morell
Bernhard Rudolf Morell (born June 14, 1785 in Bern , † December 29, 1859 in Bern) was a Swiss architect who worked as a construction clerk in the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1809 to 1826 . His family name was also spelled Morel or Morelli on occasion.
Life
Bernhard Morell was born in Bern as the son of the botanist, chemist and pharmacist Karl Friedrich Morell (1759–1816) and his wife Dorothea Elisabeth, born. Jenner (1760-1815) born. Morell received his first artistic and architectural training in his hometown of Bern. Another year of training with the Karlsruhe architect Friedrich Weinbrenner was followed by a three-year stay in Italy and France before he entered Bavarian services in 1809 at the Oberbaukommissariat in Munich under Emanuel Herigoyen . From 1811 to 1814 Morell was district building inspector of the Inn district in Innsbruck , from 1816 to 1821 district land development officer and agricultural inspector of the Lower Main district in Würzburg , and from 1821 to 1826 he worked in the same capacity in Augsburg . In 1826, Morell was retired by King Ludwig I. He spent most of the following decades up to his death in Italy and his Swiss homeland.
plant
Most of Morell's buildings were built in Lower Franconia during his activity from 1816 to 1821 . Responsible for the entire structural engineering there, Morell created, among other things, the designs for the village churches in Wonfurt , Gollmuthhausen , Ebenhausen , Leidersbach , Albstadt and Dalherda , as well as for the expansion of the Catholic Church in Großlangheim . Also the Castle Uettingen and Townhouses in Bad Brueckenau were carried out by Morell's plans. His architectural work is stylistically in the footsteps of Friedrich Weinbrenner and Carl von Fischer , whereby in addition to the classical repertoire of forms, early approaches to the neo-Gothic also appear in Morell's work.
Effect and afterlife
Morell's memory suffered from the fact that, during his short term in office in Lower Franconia, he came into conflict with numerous communities, colleagues and superiors in his sphere of influence over construction plans, costs and construction. In addition, construction defects quickly emerged, so that in some cases before he moved to Augsburg in 1821, complaints about the statics of his buildings were loud and extensive renovations had to be initiated over time. The immediate reason for Morell's departure from Würzburg was a dispute about cellar construction in Brückenau, in which Crown Prince Ludwig was not least involved. As a result of these circumstances, Morell's work was quickly and largely forgotten for a long time, despite the high-quality design features.
literature
- Johannes Sander: Bernhard Morell. Rise, work and fall of a royal Bavarian construction officer in Lower Franconia 1816/21. Vulpes, Regensburg 2012 (Mainfränkische Hefte vol. 111).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the Morell family in: Therese Huber : Briefe Bd. 6.2. July 1815 – September 1818. Notes. Arranged by Petra Wulbusch. Berlin u. a. 2011, p. 1380.
- ↑ In this context, Morell's apologetic declaration should be seen, which he published on September 17, 1822 in the supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung (Munich). He lists 102 buildings that were built on the basis of his designs in the Lower Main District or were still in the making. (See digitized version )
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| SURNAME | Morell, Bernhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morell, Bernhard-Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss architect and Bavarian building officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1785 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1859 |
| Place of death | Bern |