Christoph August Gersting

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Christoph August Gersting (also: Christian Gersting and August Christian Gersting ; born September 30, 1802 in Hanover ; † March 31, 1872 ibid) was a German master mason, master builder , senator and architect . Gersting built in the classicism style and was the trainer of Conrad Wilhelm Hase .

Life

Gersting worked from 1823 to 1826 on various construction sites in Hanover, Berlin , Lübeck and Riga . From late 1826 to November 1827 he attended the architecture school in Copenhagen . He then made trips to England, France, Italy and Switzerland in 1828. In 1829 he passed his master craftsman examination in Hanover.

Christoph August Gersting was appointed royal court mason and also became a senator. He was the trainer of Conrad Wilhelm Hase during his bricklayer apprenticeship; later he was involved in Hase's first construction, the mausoleum of Count Carl von Alten in Wilkenburg-Sundern (1842).

In 1847 Gersting delivered a new school building for 200 pupils to the community of Neu-Linden in Posthornstrasse, which was then built with the financial support of the von Platen family, who ruled Linden at the time .

After a general health insurance was founded in Hanover on March 26, 1849 , Gersting became a member of the board together with "GW Roese" and the court distiller Georg Wilhelm Peters and was one of the "most conspicuous spokesmen in the liberal bourgeoisie."

In the High Street , another school building after designs Gerstings was built. 1851

His son Theodor Gersting (1837–1868) was also an architect. The bathing establishment on Friedrichstrasse was his most important work.

Buildings (incomplete)

House Adolfstrasse 5 (in the foreground)
School building Posthornstrasse 8 from 1847, today the youth center Posthornstrasse

literature

Web links

Commons : Christoph August Gersting  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e Klaus Siegner: Architect biographies . In: Günther Kokkelink, Harold Hammer-Schenk (ed.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxon architecture in the nineteenth century. (New edition of the catalog for the exhibition (1998–1999) From Schloß zum Bahnhof, Bauen in Hannover ) Verlag Th. Schäfer and Institute for the History of Architecture and Art of the University of Hannover, Hannover, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , p. 567ff. , here: p. 568
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Walter Buschmann: Keyword Gersting in ders .: Linden. History of an industrial city in the 19th century (= sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , Volume 92), revised new edition of the edition published in Hildesheim by August Lax 1981 ( ISBN 3-7848-3492-2 ), Hanover: Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7752-5927-9 , pp. 88, 130, 363
  3. ↑ The Hannoversche Biographische Lexikon writes art academy instead of architecture school
  4. ↑ Photo of the building
  5. ↑ Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Neu-Linden . In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 2, Vol. 10.2, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 147
  6. ^ Klaus Siegner: Gersting, Christoph August (1802–1872) , in Harold Hammer-Schenk , Günther Kokkelink (ed.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century , ed. by Harold Hammer-Schenk and Günther Kokkelink (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ), Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , p. 568
personal data
SURNAME Gersting, Christoph August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gersting, Christian; Gersting, August Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder and architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1872
Place of death Hanover