Christian Adolf Vogell

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Christian Adolf Vogell (also: Adolph Vogell ; * March 2, 1806 in Celle ; † January 23, 1865 ) was a royal Hanover construction officer and steel engraver . He was one of ten children of the Justice Council and 2nd Mayor of Celle Friedrich (Samuel Ernst) Vogell (* 1774 ; † 1853 ). Pastor (in Lauenau) Otto Rautenberg wrote about his grandfather's brother in 1954: “The most intellectually outstanding was probably Christian Adolf, known in the family as Uncle Christel. Artistically gifted, he devoted himself to a career as a master builder and died on January 25, 1865 as a master builder in Hanover. I have a plaster cast of his fine head on his grave monument in the cemetery at Klagesmarkt and drawings from his Italian trip. "

Plaster cast

life and work

The former Ernst August Hospital in Göttingen

1838 Christian Adolf Vogell built on stone gate in Hanover instead of the older country Magnificent piece of casting the local artillery barracks .

Around 1840 Vogell created the colored steel engraving of the house of the fathers , which stood in the Leinstrasse in Hanover from 1620/21 to 1852 .

Vogell 1842 to the Board of Architects and Engineers Association of the Kingdom of Hanover called to this time he worked in the service rank of Oberland builder . From 1858 he was in charge of the Hanover II agricultural inspection .

As a Hanoverian court architect , he built the Ernst-August-Hospital in the Geiststraße in Göttingen : the classical plastered building has been the seat of the Theological Monastery of the University of Göttingen since 1983 . In front of the entrance to the library there is now a plaster cast from the previous possession of Pastor Otto Rautenberg, which was donated to the monastery by Erardo Cristoforo Rautenberg .

literature

  • Helmut Plath : Hanover in the picture of the centuries . 3rd, enlarged and improved edition. Madsack, Hannover 1966, pp. 37, 106.
  • Arnold Nöldeke : Artillery barracks at the Steintor. In: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. Vol. 1, H. 2, Part 1, Hanover 1932.
as reprint : Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 , p. 387 f.
  • Lars Ulrich Scholl: Architects and engineers association for the Kingdom of Hanover. In: Engineers in early industrialization. State and private technicians in the Kingdom of Hanover and on the Ruhr (1815–1873) (= studies of natural science, technology and economics in the nineteenth century. Vol. 10). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1978, ISBN 3-525-42209-1 , p. 262 (Zugl .: Hannover, Techn. Univ., Fac. Für Geistes- und Sozialwiss., Diss., 1977; limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography (in Gothic script ). Vol. 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1914, p. 587.
  • Jan Volker Wilhelm: Builders, contractors and architects in Göttingen. In: The construction business and the city. Urban planning, real estate transactions and construction activities in Göttingen 1861–1924. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-85425-0 , p. 31 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Celle-Lexikon , p. 231.

Web links

Commons : Christian Adolf Vogell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Helmut Plath: Hanover in pictures (see literature)
  2. ↑ Compare the information under GND number 1035179059 of the German National Library
  3. ^ Arnold Nöldeke: Artillery barracks at the Steintor. (...), p. 387 f.
  4. ^ Lars Ulrich Scholl: Architects and engineers association for the Kingdom of Hanover. (...), p. 262.
  5. ^ Jan Volker Wilhelm: Builders, contractors and architects in Göttingen. (...), p. 31.
  6. ^ Theological pen at the University of Göttingen
personal data
SURNAME Vogell, Christian Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogell, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and Hanoverian building officer, steel engraver
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1865