Carl Ludwig Wimmel

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Carl Ludwig Wimmel, lithograph by Carl Heinrich Kitzerow 1830
Memorial stone for the victims of the winter siege of 1813/14 in Planten un Blomen
The memorial stone at the original burial site in Ottensen before it was moved to Hamburg .
The St. Georg hospital around 1900. In the foreground the light buildings of Wimmel, behind them the extensions under his successor Zimmermann .
"Carl Ludwig Wimmel", Ohlsdorf

Carl Ludwig Wimmel (born January 23, 1786 in Berlin , † February 16, 1845 in Hamburg ) was a German architect and Hamburg's first building director . With his buildings, which are committed to classicism , he decisively shaped the cityscape of Hamburg in the 19th century; His best-known structures still in existence include the hospital in St. Georg and the Hamburg Stock Exchange .

Life

The son of a master stonemason came into contact with Berlin architects and artists such as B. Karl Friedrich Schinkel , Gottfried Schadow and Christian Daniel Rauch . After an apprenticeship as a carpenter , Wimmel worked for some time with Carl Gotthard Langhans before he moved to Hamburg in 1807, where he attended free evening courses of the Patriotic Society . The head of the evening school, Christian Friedrich Lange , discovered Wimmel's talent and recommended him for a grant from the Patriotic Society, with the help of which he studied with Friedrich Weinbrenner in Karlsruhe from 1809 to 1810 and then at the École polytechnique in Paris. At the end of his studies, Wimmel traveled to Italy for several years together with Schadow's sons .

Back in Hamburg in 1814, Wimmel drew attention to himself with his memorial to the Hamburgers expelled in the siege winter of 1813/14 , which was originally erected in Ottensen and later moved to the Dammtor cemetery (today: Planten un Blomen ). A year later he won the competition announced by the Patriotic Society to build a general hospital in St. Georg , which at the time was considered to be the most modern hospital building in Europe.

In 1816, Wimmel joined the Hamburg civil service as the 2nd “City Architect Adjunct” and in the following years played a decisive role in shaping the cityscape with numerous public buildings. In 1841, following a reform of the municipal building administration, he was appointed Hamburg's first building director . His term of office was overshadowed by the Hamburg fire in 1842, but Wimmel was only able to help shape the subsequent redesign of the inner city to a limited extent: he died in 1845 after a long illness.

In the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery , the collective grave of architects commemorates, among others, Carl Ludwig Wimmel.

The Wimmelsweg in Winterhude was named after Wimmel in 1907 .

Works

The octagonal tower structure and the spire of the St. Petri Church in Buxtehude was not rebuilt by Carl Ludwig, but according to plans by J. Wimmel.

  • St. Pauli Church, 1818

  • Stadttheater am Dammtor, 1827

  • English Reformed Church, 1826

  • St. Georg Hospital, 1823

  • Börse and Kleine Alster, around 1860

  • Johanneum, around 1840

  • Maria Magdalenen Monastery, around 1840

  • Guard house at Millerntor

  • Old guard in front of the stone gate

literature

  • Manfred F. Fischer: Wimmel, Carl Ludwig . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 410-411 .
  • Eckart Hannmann: Carl Ludwig Wimmel (1786–1845). Hamburg's first building director . In: Dieter skull (ed.): How the work of art Hamburg came about, from Wimmel to Schumacher. Hamburg city architect from 1841–1933. (= Series of publications of the Hamburg Architecture Archive ), Dölling & Galitz, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-937-90435-2 , pp. 24–45.
  • Dieter skull and Gisela skull, Fritz-Schumacher-Institut (arrangement): The master builder Carl Ludwig Wimmel and his buildings (1786-1845). Inventory. Verlag Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte , Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-923356-97-3
  • Wilhelm Melhop : Old Hamburg construction . Brief historical development of the architectural styles in Hamburg (shown on the secular building up to the resurrection of the city after the great fire of 1842, along with information about the area and life history). Boysen & Maasch, Hamburg 1908, p. 190-191 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Commons : Carl Ludwig Wimmel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Home address 1845 "Wimmel, Carl Ludwig, Bauz-Director, St. Georg, bd Strohshaus no 64" in: Hamburg address book at Hamburg State Library
  2. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bremen - Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , pp. 331-335.
personal data
SURNAME Wimmel, Carl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1845
Place of death Hamburg