Carl Friedrich Reichardt

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Carl Friedrich Reichardt , also Karl Friedrich Reichardt or Charles F. Reichardt , (born June 27, 1803 in Giebichenstein near Halle (Saale) ; † August 7, 1871 in Hamburg ) was a German architect and author .

Life

His father, the composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt, was married for the second time. His siblings were Johanna (married to the philosopher and poet Heinrich Steffens ), Friederike (married to Hofrath Karl von Raumer ) and Sophie (married to the superintendent Ernst Wilhelm Jacob Radecke in Wernigerode). His brother Hermann had a fatal accident when he was a high school student in Magdeburg while ice skating. His half-sisters Louise Reichardt , composer and music educator in Hamburg, and Wilhelmine Juliane (married to Higher Regional Court President Christian Friedrich Bernhard von Steltzer in Halle) came from his first marriage .

After studying natural sciences and mathematics in Halle and Berlin, he was trained as a master builder at the Berlin Building Academy and then carried out buildings for Karl Friedrich Schinkel until 1832 . After starting his work as an architect in New York and Charleston in 1833, he lived in Hamburg from 1840 and became a member of the Technical Commission after the Great Fire in 1842 .

In 1846 he became a citizen of the city of Hamburg, lived in 1847 at Neuen Wall 39 in Hamburg and then worked in Nicaragua. He died in Hamburg in 1871.

plant

Charleston Hotel, ca 1860/1865
William Roper House
  • 1834: Chisolm Alston House in Charleston
  • 1836: Draft for the grandstand in Hampton Park, Charleston
  • 1838: Roper House in Charleston ( attributed to )
  • 1839: Charleston City Hall remodeled
  • 1839: Design for the Charleston Hotel on Meeting Street in Charleston
  • 1843: Hotel Petersburg on Jungfernstieg / Alsterarkaden in Hamburg
  • 1847–1848: Sparkasse at Adolphsplatz 2 in Hamburg (together with Hermann Peter Fersenfeldt )

Fonts

  • A few words about the choice of the plan to rebuild Hamburg. (Memorandum, 24 pages)
“As soon as the question about the reconstruction of the burned down part of the city came up, the following two emerged as the extremes of the different views on the way: Either to keep the whole earlier division of the building sites and the layout of the streets, according to which everyone should be previous real estate remained undiminished; or to consider the whole burnt part as a tabula rasa, and to undertake a completely new layout of the streets, squares, etc., which would not be feasible without a general expropriation and abolition of all individual property. "
  • Centro America. According to the current conditions of the country and people, in relation to the connection of the two oceans, and in the interests of German emigration. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1851.
  • Nicaragua as per my own view in 1852, and described with special reference to the emigration to the hot zones of America, etc. Braunschweig 1854.
  • To justify general building regulations in terms of sanitary, safety, traffic and aesthetics. Meissner, Hamburg 1863.

literature

  • Fritz Schumacher : Carl Friedrich Reichardt. A pioneer in urban planning. (= Lectures and Essays , Issue 12.) Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1964. (Lecture in the series "Important Hamburgers" by Gerhard Langmaack)
  • Kevin R. Eberle: A History of Charleston's Hampton Park. 2012, ISBN 1-60949-624-8 .

Web links

Commons : Carl Friedrich Reichardt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Salmen:  Reichardt, Johann Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 295 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Hamburg address book for 1847 . Hermanns Erben, Hamburg, p. 217 ( online ).
  3. ^ View , accessed January 13, 2013
  4. ↑ Washington Race Track , accessed January 13, 2013
  5. ↑ Literature ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on January 16, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.classicalamerican.org
  6. ↑ Jonathan H. Poston: The Buildings of Charleston, 1997 , accessed January 13, 2013
  7. ↑ Picture gallery , accessed on January 16, 2013
  8. ^ Hotel Petersburg built in 1843: View as a steel engraving by Gottheil / Poppel? , accessed January 16, 2013
  9. ↑ List of cultural monuments in the Hamburg district of Hamburg-Mitte , accessed on January 16, 2013
  10. ↑ two photos , accessed on January 16, 2013
  11. ↑ p. 511 , accessed on January 16, 2013
  12. ^ Bayerische Staatsbibliothek digital , accessed on January 13, 2013
  13. ^ German biographical encyclopedia: (DBE) , (google-online), accessed on January 16, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Reichardt, Carl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichardt, Karl Friedrich; Reichardt, Charles F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Giebichenstein
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1871
Place of death Hamburg