Christian Heidecke

Christian Heidecke (born May 16, 1837 in Dietersdorf (Südharz) ; † November 17, 1925 in Saalburg an der Saale ) was a German architect .

Life

Heidecke initially completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and carpenter. He left his homeland at the age of twenty. In Berlin he worked in Adolf Lohse's studio . In 1862 he was enrolled at the Berlin Building Academy , Johann Heinrich Strack and Richard Lucae were his teachers. In 1865 he started his own business as an architect. With its noble residential buildings, Heidecke quickly became the most popular villa architect of upper-class society.

In 1867 he joined the Berlin Architects' Association . In 1888 he was a co-founder of the Saalburg marble works , which he expanded into an important company. On his 70th birthday, an appreciation appeared in the weekly newspaper of the Architects' Association No. 25 from 1907: “Personally, Christian Heidecke is a man of great kindness, purest character and rare modesty, who never sought outward honor and recognition, but was and he is always there to advise and help. Accustomed to making the highest demands on himself and then believing that he has only done his duty, he always judges other people's achievements from the most favorable side, and he will never let a too derogatory criticism of a work by fellow professionals go unchallenged. "Heidecke wore the Honorary title of a Royal Building Councilor .

Schwartz's villa

Heidecke built the Schwartzsche Villa in Steglitz between 1895 and 1896 for the banker Carl Schwartz , which was inaugurated in February 1898. The building, which is used for a variety of cultural purposes, now houses a gallery and a café. In Berlin-Mitte, his buildings at Pariser Platz 6 and 7 are known as home of Max Liebermann (destroyed in the Second World War). In 1875 he built the villa for Kommerzienrat Salomon Lachmann in Tiergartenstrasse 3, in no.3a for the banker Valentin Weisbach, in no.4 for Georg Liebermann, in no.16 for the manufacturer Reichenheim and in no.16 for the banker Sigismund Born the Landhaus Volckaert .6 um. In Rauchstrasse 10 he built the Villa Hirschberg and in Schadowstrasse 6–7 the resource from 1794 / commercial resource.

In Charlottenburg he designed the Villa Oppenheim in neo-renaissance style, which now houses a gallery for contemporary art. According to his plans, the lodge house of the Great National Mother Lodge “To the Three Worlds” was expanded and rebuilt by 1887 .

Christian Heidecke died in 1925 at the age of 88 in Saalburg an der Saale and was buried in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin-Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling of the cemetery carried out by the National Socialists in 1938/1939, Heidecke's remains were reburied in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Berlin. His tombstone reads: “A good person brings good things out of his good treasure of the heart. (Ev. Matth. 12.35.) "

Individual evidence

1. ^ Schwarztsche Villa ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 4, 2019
2. ^ Villa Oppenheim ( memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on April 4, 2019
3. ↑ Pictures of the Villa Oppenheim http://www.kudaba.de/seiten/berlincharlottenburg/villaOppenheim.htm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Christian Heidecke: The mother house of the Great National Mother Lodge. in Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 22 (December 1888) p. 577
5. ↑ Julius Schlichting: The motherhouse of the large national mother lodge "To the three world balls " in O. Berlin , [Berlin]: Niethe 1888 ( digitized ).
6. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 303, 469.
7. ↑ Peter Hahn, MAZ from 16./17. May 2007 A Royal Building Councilor who also left traces in the old district of Teltow ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )