Christian Heyden (architect)

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Christian Heyden (baptized on August 14, 1803 in Freckhausen , today Reichshof ; † November 4, 1869 in Barmen ( Unterbarmen ) (now part of Wuppertal )) was a German architect .

Life

Christian Heyden is the son of a master builder Johann Christian Heyden the Elder. Ä. from Freckhausen. His brother Friedrich Wilhelm Heyden was a city architect in Krefeld in the middle of the 19th century ; as early as 1832 he was mentioned in connection with Adolph von Vagedes during the construction of the Herbertz houses in Uerdingen . The brothers were married to the sisters Ida (Christian, 1833) and Friederike von Vagedes, daughters of the Düsseldorf builder Adolph von Vagedes, and thus were his sons-in-law. In 1836 he built his own house on Barmer Schulstrasse.

Heyden became a board member of the Barmer Section of the Cologne Cathedral Building Association in 1843 . In 1863 he was awarded the Prussian Red Eagle Order, IV class . He was a member of the Elberfeld Freemason Lodge Hermann for the land of mountains .

Education and environment

Presumably, both Heyden brothers worked for a while in von Vagedes' studio and as site manager on his construction. Christian Heyden also attended the Berlin Bauakademie , passed the exam to become a private master builder at von Vagedes in 1841 and thus obtained approval for the construction of public buildings. As a board member of the Barmer local association of the Cologne cathedral building association, he was very likely in contact with Ernst Friedrich Zwirner , Vincenz Statz and other representatives of neo-Gothic .

Architectural work

It can be assumed that Heyden came to Barmen as his father-in-law's site manager. Christian Heyden submitted his own design for the Unterbarmer main church in 1825, but it was realized by the plan by Weinbrenner's pupil Heinrich Hübsch. However, he was assigned the construction work. From 1834 he built commercial buildings and became the leading master builder in the Wupper region. He mostly uses quarry stone for industrial buildings, less often bricks. The very clear buildings are characterized by carefully designed architectural details. Its stepped gables are characteristic, even if not used consistently. He also developed ideas for the technical inner workings of the factories, as his patent for a combing machine shows. Around 1845 he referred to himself as “Priv. Builder for the country u. Mechanical engineering u. Techn. Conductors a. Engineer d. Barmer GasAnstalt ”. From 1850 to 1853 he was the city ​​architect of Barmer . He also built prestigious town houses, villas and country houses for the factory owners.

For a number of years Heyden has been assigned a prominent role in the spread of neo-Gothic in Westphalia . Like his life, most of his oeuvre lies in the dark. His best-known, long-standing employee and site manager is Gerhard August Fischer , who was in charge of Heyden's buildings in Gütersloh and the Wichlinghauser church . Heyden also worked frequently with the Schmidt family, who also came from Freckhausen .

Heyden's authorship is undisputed only for individual sacred and secular buildings. So for the Martin Luther Church in Gütersloh , the Great Church in Aplerbeck zu Dortmund , the Wichlinghauser Church (near Barmen, today Wuppertal), the Evangelical Church in Haßlinghausen (near Sprockhövel), the Christ Church in Königswinter, the tower of the Süsterkirche in Bielefeld (1861), the Evangelical Church in Radevormwald and the Evangelical Christ Church in Werdohl .

In Gütersloh , the Martin Luther Church , the former town hall (demolished in 1970), the Evangelical Hospital (demolished in 1968), the club house “Recreation” (demolished) and Avenstroth's mill (under monument protection ) are secured as Heyden's works.

In the Bergisches Land, the Villa Braunswerth (1855) in Engelskirchen for the Engels family of manufacturers in Barm goes back to Christian Heyden . Heyden designed other villas for Lenneper and Langenberg industrialist families. Christian Heyden's authorship for the Wülfing textile factory in Dahlerau (after fire between 1836 and 1845, probably 1838) is also secured. Heyden also designed other factory buildings in the upper Wupper Valley.

Heyden is also involved in the construction of gas stations . Around 1845 it was called “Techn. Conductor u. Engineer d. Barmer GasAnstalt ”when he presented plans for a gas plant in Barmen. He also presented a plan for the gas works in Gütersloh. In 1865/66 he was involved in the gas works in Dorsten. Heyden's son followed him as an engineer.

Post fame in Gütersloh

In 2003 the Gütersloh City Museum dedicated an exhibition to him with the title “The Heyden Work”. In October 2006, the undoped Christian Heyden Prize was awarded in Gütersloh for the first time. It was founded in 2003 by Axel Hinrich Murken . The cast bronze medal is dedicated to people and initiatives who have made a special contribution to the building culture in Gütersloh. In addition, a footpath along the Martin Luther Church in Gütersloh has been named after him for several years.

Works (chronologically by date of completion)

photos

  • Martin Luther Church in Gütersloh, 1861

  • Great Aplerbeck Church, 1867–1869

  • Hasslinghausen Church, 1853–1854

  • Christ Church Königswinter, 1863–1864

  • Wichlinghauser Church in Wuppertal, 1867

  • Süsterkirche in Bielefeld, (bell tower by Christian Heyden, 1861)

  • Christ Church in Werdohl, 1866–1868

  • Holy Spirit Church in Menden, 1861–1864

  • Evangelical Church Gennebreck, 1860–1862

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hermann J. Mahlberg : The departure around 1900 and the modern age in the architecture of the Wuppertal. Evening glow of an era. Wuppertal 2008, ISBN 978-3-928766-87-6 .
  2. ↑ Most sources, including Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg ( architects, civil engineers, builders, property developers and their buildings in Wuppertal. Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-928441-52-3 .), Give the date of death as April 5, 1869.
  3. ↑ The frequently recurring wrong date of death 1896 is based on a number rotated.
  4. ↑ Willy Weyres, Albrecht Mann: Handbook on Rhenish Architecture of the 19th Century , Cologne (Greven) 1968, p. 56, No. 304 and 305.
  5. ↑ Hermann J. Mahlberg, Hella Nussbaum (Ed.): The departure around 1900 and the modern age in the architecture of the Wuppertal. Wuppertal (Müller + Busmann) 2008, ISBN 978-3-928766-87-6 , p. 23
  6. ↑ Axel Hinrich Murken and Christa Murken-Altrogge : The building history of the old Gütersloh town hall . Gütersloher Contributions Heft 24 (1971), pp. 481-487.
  7. ↑ http://www.antiquariat.de/showmedia.jsp?id=20578168&u=1&orig=1&head=2
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtgeschichte-guetersloh.de
  9. ↑ http://www.die-glocke.de/printstory?p_p_id=DetailedStory_WAR_portalsuite&p_p_lifecycle=0&_DetailedStory_WAR_portalsuite_arg_detailstory_uuid=a3b8d883-108d-489f-a9b9-b109d8be1008
  10. ↑ http://bergbau-dorsten-wiki.de/index.php?title=Gasanstalt
  11. ^ City Museum Gütersloh: The Heyden work
  12. ↑ http://www.guetersloh.de/Z3VldGVyc2xvaGQ0Y21zOjM3MTA0.x4s
  13. ↑ see: Gütersloh Clinic
  14. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtgeschichte-guetersloh.de
personal data
SURNAME Heyden, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH baptized August 14, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Freckhausen , today Reichshof
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1869
Place of death Barmen ( underbarms )