Christian Friedrich von Leins

Portrait photo of Christian Friedrich von Leins

Christian Friedrich Leins , von Leins from 1872 (born November 22, 1814 in Stuttgart ; † August 25, 1892 ibid), was a German architect .

Rosenstein Castle, lithograph after a drawing by CF Leins

Stuttgart Schloßplatz with Schloßplatz fountain (1863), pavilion (1871) and Königsbau (1859)

Grave in the Pragfriedhof Stuttgart

Life

Christian Friedrich von Leins attended the newly founded trade school in Stuttgart from 1829 to 1831 . In 1843 he made study trips to Bavaria and Austria to study buildings from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . In 1846/1847 he accompanied the Crown Prince of Württemberg on his bridal trip to Italy to study models for the planned construction of the Villa Berg .

In 1858 he became a professor at what would later become the Stuttgart Polytechnic ; he was there from 1870 to 1872 and from 1878 to 1880 the architecture school there. From 1876 to 1878 he was rector of the Stuttgart Polytechnic. After the arts and crafts school was spun off from the Polytechnic, von Leins was the first director of the now independent Royal Arts and Crafts School from 1881 to 1892 .

In 1872 Leins was awarded the First Class Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown , which was associated with the personal title of nobility. In 1879 he received the crown of the Knight's Cross. He died in 1892 in his house at Uhlandstrasse 23 in Stuttgart. His grave of honor is in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart . His estate is kept in the Stuttgart University Library.

Buildings (selection)

• 1844: own house in Stuttgart, Uhlandstraße 23
• 1845–1853: " Villa Berg " in Berg near Stuttgart (summer residence of the Württemberg Crown Prince Karl and his wife, Crown Princess Olga)
• 1852–1855: Martinskirche , called “Filderdom”, in Stuttgart-Möhringen (destroyed in 1944, rebuilt in a simpler form in 1949): With its 63 meter high tower, it is by far the largest church in the Filder region, hence the name “Dom”
• 1854: Redesign of the church tower of the Evangelical Johanneskirche in Rutesheim
• 1857–1859: " Königsbau " (courtly ballroom and bazaar building) in Stuttgart, Schloßplatz (together with architect Johann Michael Knapp )
• 1858: City theater in Biberach an der Riss (canceled in 1976)
• 1858–1860: new nave of the Protestant town church in Vaihingen on the Fildern
• 1862–1864: Kreuzkirche am Ölrain , Bregenz
• 1863: Evangelical Church in Gschwend
• 1863: Fountain on the Schloßplatz in Stuttgart
• 1864–1866: new nave of the Protestant collegiate church in Dettingen an der Erms
• 1865: Evangelical Petruskirche in Wurmberg
• 1865–1867: Church in Nattheim near Heidenheim
• 1863–1864: Liederhalle Stuttgart commissioned by the Stuttgarter Liederkranz (destroyed in 1943)
• 1871: Pavilion on the Schloßplatz in Stuttgart
• 1874: Large ballroom of the Liederhalle Stuttgart (destroyed in 1943)
• 1865–1876: Evangelical Johanneskirche am Feuersee in Stuttgart-West (1943 partially destroyed)
• 1869–1873: Schwaigern Castle is expanded
• 1876–1877: Church in Saulgau
• 1877–1879: Straub's grave chapel in Geislingen an der Steige
• 1879: Synagogue in Göppingen (destroyed in 1938)
• 1879–1883: Evangelical town church in Weingarten (Württemberg)
• 1883: Henri Arnaud Church in Schönenberg near Maulbronn
• 1884–1886: Martinskirche in Ohmenhausen near Reutlingen
• 1884–1886: Evangelical Church of St. Gallus in Böhringen
• 1887: Redesign of the church tower of the Evangelical Martinskirche in Münsingen
• 1889–1890: Reconstruction of the Protestant Michaelskirche in Degerloch near Stuttgart (together with Heinrich Dolmetsch )

Employee

• Johann Mathias von Holst (1839–1905), Baltic-German architect
• Paul Kienzle (1861–1941), German architect and hotelier

literature

• Max Bach:  Leins, Christian Friedrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 625-627.
• Winfried Nerdinger :  Leins, Christian Friedrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 147 ( digitized version ).
• Eva-Maria Seng: The Protestant Church Building in the 19th Century. The Eisenach movement and the architect Christian Friedrich von Leins. Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-8030-1914-1 . (With a comprehensive biography and a catalog raisonné of the church buildings by Lein.s)
• EJ Zeller: Stuttgart's private building from 1806 to 1844. In a selection given by master builder EJ Zeller. Stuttgart 1845–1846, second issue, plates 7–8.

Remarks

1. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1877. P. 29.

Web links

Commons : Christian Friedrich Leins  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Christian Friedrich von Leins in the catalog of the German National Library
• Christian Friedrich von Leins. In: arch INFORM .
• Pencil drawings of his trip to Spain in the company of the poet and Württ. Garden director Fr. W. Hackländer and the Munich painter Theodor Horschelt in the Stuttgart University Library: list of his estate (PDF file; 54 kB)