Christian Friedrich Andreas Rohns

Rohn's tomb in the Albani cemetery (Cheltenhampark) in Göttingen

Christian Friedrich Andreas Rohns (born November 28, 1787 in Lodersleben , Electorate of Saxony , † February 25, 1853 in Göttingen ) was a German architect and building contractor in Göttingen.

life and work

Rohns came from a family of masons and stonemasons , but initially learned the trade of linen weaver . However, he then learned the job of a stonemason and pursued further self-taught training. He gained his first professional experience in Halberstadt , where he also acquired his first disused sandstone quarry . The Göttingen university master builder Oppermann moved him to Göttingen in 1811. As a journeyman, he participated in the completion of the observatory . The building contractor Linne soon handed over his company to the young master craftsman Rohns. He had secured quarries on Hainberg as well as in Klein Lengden and in Barterode within a short time and employed up to 400 workers in the quarry and construction at the end of the wars of liberation .

Rohns shaped the cityscape of Göttingen with his classical buildings from 1811 and was promoted by the long-time Göttingen mayor Konrad Julius Hieronymus Tuckermann . In 1842 he was appointed royal building commissioner . In Göttingen there are entire streets that were planned and built by Rohns. Among them was the Neuer Markt , which he rebuilt from 1820 after the Barfüsserkloster was demolished and which was renamed Wilhelmsplatz after the completion of the construction with the auditorium of the Georg-August University for the university anniversary after its founder .

The bathhouse (1819-1820), also known today as Rohns'sches Badehaus , in the ramparts opposite the Albanikirche and one of the most popular garden restaurants of the 19th century in Göttingen, the Rohns on the former quarry area of ​​a protruding plateau of the Hainberg high , are particularly associated with his name over today's east quarter - with an attractive view over the city. It was completed by him as a "Volksgarten" with romantic grottos, ponds, fountains and pavilions as well as surrounded by a natural stone wall in 1830.

His reforestation measures on this area were the model for the later reforestation of the previously karstified Hainberg in the years from 1871 to 1893 by Göttingen's Lord Mayor Georg Merkel . After his death, the Rohns garden restaurant had to be sold to the Göttingen brewery in the course of the company's decline . In 1968 the building complex was acquired by the Volkswagen Foundation and converted into guest apartments for the university, which hosts visiting professors and researchers from abroad.

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  Old canteen on Wilhelmsplatz

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  Auditorium (1837)

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  "Rohns", former inn

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  Rohn's bathhouse

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  Former prison

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  Amtshaus, former barracks building

Other important buildings by Rohns in the Göttingen cityscape were the old anatomy building at the train station , which was destroyed in World War II, the office building on Geismartor and the university clinics on Geiststrasse. He built the bone mill on today's B 27 as a company building . The drilling he had carried out in Grone contributed significantly to the financial bottlenecks in his company when he died . Together with his son and successor Philipp Rohns, he had drilled for salt and only opened up the Luisenhall salt works at a depth of 480 meters.

literature

• Heinrich Ahlbrecht: Christian Friedrich Andreas Rohns and his work. A picture of life and character. In: Neues Göttinger Jahrbuch , ZDB -ID 556955-2 , Volume 4 (1933/1934), pp. 13–32.
• Dietrich Denecke , Helga-Maria Kühn (ed.): Göttingen. History of a university town. Three volumes, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987-2002, ISBN 3-525-36196-3 .
• Gerhard Eckhardt: Where people used to like to stop off. Past Göttingen restaurants. Eckhardt, Göttingen 2007.
• Günther Meinhardt: Christian Friedrich Andreas Rohns 1787-1853. A picture of the life of the great Göttingen master builder. Verlag Göttinger Tageblatt, Göttingen 1975. (= local history publication series for southern Hanover , ZDB -ID 543637-0 , volume 2.)
• Walter Nissen, Christina Prauss, Siegfried Schütz: Göttingen memorial plaques. A biographical guide. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-39161-7 , p. 181 f.

Web links

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• The Rohns 1830