Conrad Schick

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Conrad Schick

Conrad Schick (born January 27, 1822 in Bitz , Württemberg ; † December 23, 1901 in Jerusalem , Ottoman Empire ) was a German architect , archaeologist and Protestant missionary who lived in Jerusalem in the late 19th century.

Life

House Tabor
Inner courtyard of the Tabor house

Conrad Schick attended a pietistic school in Korntal, where he learned manual skills and the Latin language. Then he joined the pilgrim mission St. Chrischona near Basel . Christian Friedrich Spittler , the founder and head of the mission, sent him to Jerusalem in Palestine with Ferdinand Palmer in 1846, at the age of 24 . He worked as a missionary among Jews and Arabs and initially earned his living selling cuckoo clocks. In 1850 he joined the London Jewish Mission Society because he wanted to marry and not live celibacy. Schick now worked in the mission's industrial building and taught Jewish young people in their craft school, which was on the grounds of the Anglican Christ Church . In 1857 he became her school director.

Work as an architect and archaeologist

As an architect, he was involved in the founding and planning of Mea Shearim , one of the first settlements in Jerusalem, which was built outside the walls of the old city from 1874. Schick was best known for his 50 years of archaeological research in Jerusalem and the surrounding area; he had acquired the specialist knowledge in self-study. He examined the ruins of Muristan and discovered the Siloam inscription in the Hezekiah tunnel of the City of David. He was also the point of contact for the English explorer Charles William Wilson , who carried out expeditions in Jerusalem. He worked for the Palestine Exploration Fund for many years and published in the Fund's newspaper. He was also active for the German Palestine Association and wrote for its magazine. The house that Schick designed and built for his family, the Tabor House (Hebrew: Beit Tabor ) on Hanevi'im Street, still exists. Today it houses the Swedish Theological Institute .

Private

Schick has been buried with his wife Friederike, who died a few days after him, since the end of December 1901 in the Anglican-Prussian cemetery on Mount Zion . A large mourners said goodbye to him, and he was praised in the press for being loved and respected by Jews, Muslims and Christians.

Biblical models

Schick built a remarkable series of models of the Jewish Temple . His replica of the house of God was visited by numerous heads of state in Jerusalem and shown in the United Kingdom and at the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 . It was bought by the King of Württemberg, who gave Schick a knighthood for his achievements.

Schick also built a model of the contemporary Temple Mount and Dome of the Rock for the Ottoman Sultan. His final model, in four parts, each depicting the Temple Mount at a time, was shown at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.

A model of the Temple Mount from 1873 was kept in the Chrischona archive on St. Chrischona near Basel until 2011 . Today it is on display in a small museum near the Jaffa Gate , which is part of the Christ Church in Jerusalem .

Publications

  • Explanation of the models of the Haram es Sherif and the Sachra Mosque in Jerusalem , Vienna 1873
  • The models of the Harâm-esch-Scherîf and the Kubbet-es-Sachra , Basel 1874
  • Beit el Makdas or The Old Temple Square in Jerusalem as it is now , Jerusalem 1887
  • The tabernacle , the temple in Jerusalem and the temple square of the present time , Berlin 1896
  • Guide to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and its surroundings , Jerusalem 1898
  • Nearer surroundings of Jerusalem , edited and supplemented by Immanuel Benziger, publishing house of the Association for the Exploration of Palestine 1905

buildings

  • 1858–1860: Deaconess hospital, old seat opposite the citadel, Jerusalem
  • 1866: Asylum for lepers, Jesus-Hilfe, old leprosy hospital in Agnonstrasse (now part of the Lazarist monastery), Jerusalem
  • 1868: Talitha Kumi (Qumi) school , Jerusalem (demolished in 1980, central gable preserved)
  • 1874: Houses in the Me'ah Sheʿarim district
  • 1887: Asylum for lepers, Jesus-Hilfe, new leprosy hospital , Jerusalem
  • 1882–1889: Tabor house, Prophetenweg 58, until 1901 Schicks private house
  • 1860–1890: The Rothschild House , donated by Willy von Rothschild in 1857 , Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem
  • 1891–1893: Anglican Girls' School, Prophetenweg 84, Jerusalem (demolished in 1961)
  • 1890s: Edler-von-Lämel School, expansion by Schick
  • 1890s: Private house for banker Aaron Valero northeast of the city of Jerusalem
  • 1897: Schaʿarei Zedeq, old hospital building on Jaffa Street (with Theodor Sandel ), Jerusalem
Hospital Biqqur Cholim, deaconess hospital until 1939
  • 1884–1901: New retirement home, Jaffastraße (demolished in the 1980s)
  • 1892–1894: Deaconess hospital , new building on Prophetenstrasse based on plans by Ernst Schwartzkopff & Heinrich Theising, executed by Schick with Sandel, now part of the Biqqur Cholim hospital , Jerusalem
  • 1888–1901: Participation in the construction of the Kidane Mihiret Church in Ethiopia Street, Jerusalem

literature

  • August Strobel: Conrad Schick: a life for Jerusalem; Certificates of a recognized assignment. Fürth 1988. ISBN 3-924022-18-6
  • Martin Gaß: Three important Bitzer in the 19th century: Johannes Schick, 50 years schoolmaster in Engstlatt; Carl Theodor Beck, the first Bitzer entrepreneur; Conrad Schick, master builder, urban planner and explorer of Jerusalem. Albstatt-Ebingen 2000.
  • John James Moscrop: Measuring Jerusalem: the Palestine Exploration Fund and British interests in the Holy Land. New York 2000, p. 101.
  • Hunt Janin: Four paths to Jerusalem: Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and secular pilgrimages, 1000 BCE to 2001 CE. Jefferson / NC 2002. ISBN 0-7864-1264-X , p. 167. ( Online )
  • Yaron Perry: British mission to the Jews in nineteenth-century Palestine. London 2003, p. 110.
  • Uwe Bertelmann (Ed.): Old Jerusalem: Jerusalem and its surroundings in the 19th century in pictures from the collection of Conrad Schick. Giessen 2008. ISBN 978-3-7655-1002-1
  • Gil Yaron: Jerusalem: A Historical-Political City Guide. Munich 2013. p. 119. ISBN 978-3-406-64956-1
  • Marcel Serr: Conrad Schick - Nobody knew Jerusalem as well as he did! In: israelnetz.com from January 11, 2018

Web links

Commons : Conrad Schick  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Marcel Serr: Conrad Schick - Nobody knew Jerusalem as well as he did! In: Israel Network . January 11, 2018, accessed December 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Aviva Bar-Am: Rehov Hanevi'im - Around the houses. (No longer available online.) In: Jerusalem Post . 2009, archived from the original on December 16, 2010 ; accessed on May 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Martin Rösch: Chrischona and the Christ Church in Jerusalem. Chrischona Panorama 2/15, Bettingen April-May 2015, pages 14–15
personal data
SURNAME Schick, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, biblical archaeologist and evangelical missionary in Jerusalem
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Bitz , Baden-Wuerttemberg
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1901
Place of death Jerusalem