Carl Friedrich Müller (architect)

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Carl Friedrich Müller (1870)

Carl Friedrich Müller (born June 14, 1833 in Bad Hersfeld ; † August 1, 1889 there ) was a German architect and construction clerk who mainly worked in the Saarland .

Life

Müller was born in 1833 as the second child of the pharmacist Heinrich Müller and his first wife Sophie Maria. He attended high school up to tertia and then secondary school . From 1850 to 1853 he studied at the higher vocational school in Kassel with Georg Gottlob Ungewitter , a former representative of historicism and the arched style . After graduating, Müller went to Bremerhaven as an architect . In 1855 he finally returned to Kassel and passed the state examination. He was then assigned to the master builder Heinrich Wilhelm Landgrebe in his home town of Hersfeld, but only stayed for a short time. The electoral government gave him leave to work in Mönchengladbach.

In the spring of 1857, Müller came to Saarland to build the Saarbrücken − Trier railway line . He was responsible for the construction of dams, bridges, signal houses and probably also for the train stations along the Saarlouis − Beckingen route. After the line was opened in autumn 1858, Müller was responsible for the expansion of the Saarlouis fortress in the Prussian service. On behalf of the district builder Birck, Müller also built most of the municipal buildings in the Saarlouis district during these years, including several school buildings and the town hall of Saarlouis. In 1859 Müller married Friederike Henriette Wilhelmine Göbel (1835–1873), who was two years his junior. He had six children with his first wife. The couple lived briefly in Dillingen , then Müller built a house in Fraulautern . After the death of his first wife, Müller married Caroline Gustave Friederike Vietor from Hersfeld a year later, with whom he had four children.

When Birck died in early 1879, the mayor of Lebach proposed him as provisional district architect. In the same year, Müller applied for a permanent successor. In June 1879 the architect was appointed municipal builder by the district council. In 1882 and 1883, Müller fell ill and even asked to be released from his position, but this was not followed. When his wife fell ill in 1885, the builder again asked for release, but at the suggestion of the government changed his request to a one-year vacation request. In fact, the vacation lasted until the beginning of 1887 and Müller finally asked to be released again because his wife was not doing better and he wanted to “keep the mother of the children”. The government finally complied with his request and dismissed him. At the same time he was proposed for the Crown Order, 4th class . Müller moved with his family to his hometown and built a villa there. Müller died there in 1889 and was buried in the cemetery in Hersfeld.

meaning

Müller is considered to be the most important church builder of the second half of the 19th century in Saarland. No other architect shaped the region as strongly as he did during this time. In doing so, Müller concentrated entirely on three-aisled historicizing hall churches with a tower in front. Many of his designs are very similar, which is probably mainly due to the tight coffers of the parishes, which grew strongly in the second half of the 19th century due to the flourishing iron and mining industry and therefore urgently visited larger church buildings.

Buildings and designs (selection)

literature

  • Rudolf Saam: Contribution to the building history of neo-Gothic churches on the Saar. On the life and work of the builder Carl Friedrich Müller . In: Saarbrücker Hefte , Heft 48, Saarbrücken 1978, pp. 17–51.
  • Rudolf Saam: The master builder Carl Friedrich Müller and his work in the Saarlouis district . In: Heimatkundliches Jahrbuch des Landkreis Saarlouis 1981 , Saarlouis 1981, pp. 23-25.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saam (1978), p. 49 f.
  2. ↑ Heinrich Müller is often wrongly named as the architect here; Saam (1978), p. 18.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Carl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Carl-Friedrich; Müller, Karl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Hersfeld
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1889
Place of death Bad Hersfeld