Carl Gustav Aeckerlein

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Carl Gustav Aeckerlein (1832–1886) was a German architect who worked primarily in Leipzig .

On December 6, 1856 he won one of the Great Silver Medals of the Royal Saxon Academy of Fine Arts for the year 1856 with his “Design for a market hall with the specified building site”.

Around 1875 he worked in partnership with the Leipzig architect E. Zeißig , the joint office was in the house at An der Pleiße 2.

In Leipzig he was also active as a city councilor in local politics until he left in 1885 due to illness.

In Leipzig he created a. a.

  • Villa Ackermann , built in 1863, Lortzingstraße 19 / Emil-Fuchs-Straße (then Zöllnerstraße), for Albin Ackermann-Teubner , the owner of BG Teubner Verlag and son-in-law of the publisher's founder
  • Residential and commercial building at Schillerstraße 6, built in 1863 for the merchant Wilhelm Oldenbourg, owned by the university since 1937, today the seat of the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies

  • Schillerstraße 6, 2012, from the side

  • Schillerstraße 6, around 1892, view from the street

  • Schillerstraße 6, floor plan

  • Headquarters of the ADCA, engraving by Botho Straussberger in the Illustrirten Zeitung from 1874

  • Description of the head office and general report on the ADCA

  • Headquarters of the ADCA (description in Leipzig and its buildings )

  • Headquarters of the ADCA (description in Leipzig and its buildings )

  • Headquarters of the ADCA (description in Leipzig and its buildings )

  • Headquarters of the ADCA (description in Leipzig and its buildings )

  • Headquarters of the ADCA (description in Leipzig and its buildings )

  • Headquarters of the ADCA, corner of Brühl (left) and Goethestrasse (right)

  • Gustav Harkort monument (with bust by sculptor Eduard Lürssen ), originally inaugurated on July 9, 1878 on the promenade; erected today at the western end of the cross platform in the main station

  • Harkort Memorial (2004)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipziger Zeitung of December 9, 1856, p. 6787. ( limited preview on Google Books )
  2. ↑ Leipzig address book for 1875 , p. 285.
  3. ^ Administrative report of the City Council of Leipzig for the year 1885, p. 66
  4. ^ Otto Moser: The new building of the Allgemeine Deutsche Creditanstalt in Leipzig. In: Illustrirte Zeitung , Volume 1874, No. 62, p. 309 (engraving by Bruno Straßberger) and p. 310 (description). ( online )
  5. ↑ Illustrirte Zeitung , year 1878, No. 71, p. 57. ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Aeckerlein, Carl Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1832
DATE OF DEATH 1886