Conrad Wahn

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Conrad Wahn

Conrad Wahn or Konrad Wahn (born October 12, 1851 in Niederaula , † December 14, 1927 in Kornelimünster ) was a German architect and municipal building officer .

Conrad Wahn attended the higher vocational school in Kassel and the technical colleges in Hanover and Munich . In 1871 he was employed in the studio of Conrad Wilhelm Hase , one of the most important representatives of the neo-Gothic of the 19th century. Under Hase's direction, Conrad Wahn took part in the design of churches and school buildings for three years. The Metz cathedral builder and district master builder of Lorraine, Paul Tornow , hired Wahn in 1875, initially as an assistant for the district building construction, and from 1876 to 1887 as the first assistant for the restoration of the Metz cathedral . In 1887, Conrad Wahn was appointed as the successor to the late Metz city architect Braunwald on the recommendation of the head of the cathedral construction works, Louis Auguste Dujardin.

During the German rule in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine , Wahn designed numerous secular and sacred buildings in this function. The Metz school buildings include:

  • Clay court school in 1887 (today Ecole de la Grève )
  • Girls' school on Ziegenstrasse (Ecole Notre-Dame, Rue de la Chèvre) in 1902 (demolished in 1973)
  • Paixhans elementary school from 1904 to 1907 (today École élémentaire Chanteclair-Debussy ) on Paixhans-Straße (today Boulevard Paixhans)
  • Higher school for girls in 1907, today's Lycée Georges-de-la-Tour
  • Upper secondary school in 1911 (today Lycée Georges de la Tour)
  • Municipal boys' school in the Saint-Eucaire district from 1890 to 1891 (today École élémentaire Saint-Eucaire )

With regard to the sacred buildings in Metz, Wahn dealt in the years 1896 to 1898 with the restoration of the Saint-Ségolène church, which actually meant a nearly complete reconstruction of the church, including a neo-Gothic double tower facade. From 1901 to 1904, under the strong influence of Kaiser Wilhelm II , Wahn built the Evangelical City Church of Metz , a neo-Romanesque building in gray Vosges sandstone on the Île du Petit-Saulcy (Small Willow Island) in the Moselle , which has a shaping effect on the cityscape. Wahn built the tower of St. Martin's Church in Metz between 1886 and 1887.

In the years 1902 to 1903, Wahn, in cooperation with the Cologne building officer Josef Stübben, also designed the plans for the new district between Metz's old town and Metz train station , which is now the so-called Quartier Imperial ( imperial quarter ). Wahn's artistic signature can be found in the Villa Wahn (Avenue Foch, then "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring"), where he worked in the neo-renaissance style.

In the neo-early Gothic style, Wahn built the Protestant church in St. Avold from 1888 to 1889, the Protestant town church of Forbach from 1891 to 1892 , the Protestant church of Saarburg on the upper Saar and the Catholic church from 1896 to 1898 John the Baptist in Kerlingen . In Spittel , Wahn carried out a neo-Gothic redesign of the St. Nicholas Church between 1882 and 1886. Wahn also built the Catholic parish church of St. Willibrord in Niederham between 1891 and 1893 in neo-Gothic design . In the years 1904 to 1907 Wahn built the neo-Gothic church of St. John the Baptist (Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste) in Algringen .

In the neo-Romanesque style, Wahn built the evangelical city church of Saargemünd , which has its models in neo-Romanesque churches in Berlin and prepared the design of the evangelical city church of Metz.

Mad's plan for the Martinskirche in Saaralben , the so-called "Saar Cathedral" ("Cathédrale de la Sarre") in 1897 was rejected. Instead, the church was built between 1904 and 1907 by Johann Adam Rüppel . Rüppel, however, was strongly based on Wahn's neo-Gothic double tower facade of the Segolena church in Metz.

In 1905 Conrad Wahn became the technical assistant to the mayor of Metz. After the city of Metz was annexed to France after the First World War, Conrad Wahn moved to Germany.

literature

  • Niels Wilcken: Architecture in the Border Area. Public construction in Alsace-Lorraine (1871–1918). (= Publications of the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland , Volume 38.) Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2000, pp. 367–368.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ancestral passport for Gerhard Ritter (privately owned); see. Hessian biography
  2. ^ Niels Wilcken: Architektur im Grenzraum, The public building industry in Alsace-Lorraine (1871-1918) (= publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Vol. 38), Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2000, pp. 367-368.

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personal data
SURNAME Madness, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Madness, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and municipal building officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederaula
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1927
Place of death Kornelimünster