Carl Wolf (architect)
Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Wolf (born March 28, 1820 in Blankenburg ; † August 21, 1876 in Oels ) was a German architect and Brunswick construction clerk .
Life
His father was the architect and Brunswick senior building officer Karl Wolf (1793–1869). Studying building sciences at the Braunschweig Collegium Carolinum from 1837 to 1840 was followed by several years of teaching at the Holzminden building trade school . From 1846 he worked as a construction manager in the Brunswick state service. But he mainly worked for the ruling Duke Wilhelm , in his principality Oels in Silesia , where he was responsible for construction. Wolf died in Oels in 1876.
Works
Wolf's main work in Oels was the neo-Gothic reconstruction of the Sibyllenort Castle between 1851 and 1867. In the years 1854/1855 he built the royal hunting lodge Zuschenhammer. Further buildings and conversions by Wolf in the Principality of Oels were the aristocratic country seats of Moisdorf Castle, Groß Wartenberg Castle and Randowshof Castle in Bogschütz.
The new Ducal Court Theater in Braunschweig
After the opera house on Hagenmarkt, which had existed since 1690, was due to be closed due to dilapidation, it was decided to build a new theater building on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Duke Wilhelm's reign. In the autumn of 1857, an architecture competition was announced for this purpose, but Wolf was already the winner beforehand. On behalf of Duke Wilhelm, he had already undertaken a trip to southwest Germany in May of that year to study the modern theaters there. Unrealized drafts came from a. by district builder Friedrich Maria Krahe and by the building officer and Ottmer student Louis Kuhne (1814–1896). In November 1857, the surveying of the building site at the end of Steinweg was completed. Nevertheless, the public discussion about the theater location continued until spring 1858. Wolf's design in the historicist style of the Florentine Renaissance was finally carried out between 1859 and 1861. The technical execution was headed by Heinrich Karl Friedrich Ahlburg (1816–1874), professor of building sciences at the Collegium Carolinum. The new theater was opened on October 1, 1861 with the performance of Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris .
Reconstruction of the Braunschweig residential palace
A fire in the Brunswick Residenzschloss on the night of February 24, 1865 due to a technical defect destroyed the north wing and severely damaged the northern part of the main building. Wolf prepared an appraisal with the recommendation to restore the building. Until 1868 he reconstructed the building together with Constantin Uhde and Friedrich Lilly .
literature
- Bernhard Kiekenap : Wolf, Carl Heinrich Wilhelm . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 666 .
- Norman-Mathias Pingel: Wolf, Carl (Heinrich Wilhelm). In: Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Hrsg.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 140 .
- City of Braunschweig (ed.): 300 years of theater in Braunschweig 1690–1990. Braunschweig 1990, ISBN 3-926701-11-0 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolf, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolf, Carl Heinrich Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and Brunswick construction officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blankenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 1876 |
| Place of death | Oils |