Diedrich Christian Rutenberg

Diedrich Christian Rutenberg (* 1782 in Bremen ; †  1861 in Hamburg ) was a master builder from Bremen .

biography

Rutenberg came from an old, respected family in Bremen to which several master builders belonged in the first half of the 19th century. He also became a builder and built 15 houses in the street Am Wall between 1825 and 1841 . The one-sided development on the old town side of the street running along the Bremer Wallanlagen was started in 1820. The builders working there were, in keeping with the building culture of the time, mostly masons and called themselves that. The result was a new type of house for Bremen: the two- or three-storey terraced house , plastered and brightly painted, with a flat sloping roof covered with slate and classicist decorative shapes on the cornice and house entrance. Rutenberg was also a representative of classicism in the architectural style .

The uniform development of the street Am Wall was later described by the monument conservator from Bremen, Rudolf Stein , who was active in the 1950s , as a “classicist total work of art of quality”, which was largely destroyed in the Second World War .

In 1842 Rutenberg was commissioned to build the new Remberti monastery . Among other things, he built the station building on Rembertistraße with the gateway into the large inner courtyard, which was surrounded by two-story row houses. A group of buildings was later added by the Bremen architect Heinrich Flügel in the 1870s. Today the popular residence for the elderly comprises 45 houses with 105 apartments.

Rutenberg designed and built several representative residential buildings, such as the residential building at Rembertistraße 1A in 1846 .

With his wife Berta geb. Vagt (1778–1849) he had seven children. All four sons learned a construction trade, of which Lüder Rutenberg achieved a special meaning for Bremen.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Bremen-Mitte
• List of Bremen architects

literature

• Rudolf Stein : Classicism and Romanticism in the architecture of Bremen. 1: The area of ​​the old town and the old new town, the wall and the Contrescarpe . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1964 (= research on the history of architectural and art monuments in Bremen; 4), without ISBN.
• Rudolf Stein: Classicism and Romanticism in the architecture of Bremen. 2: The suburbs and the urban estates, Vegesack and Bremerhaven . Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1965 (= research on the history of architectural and art monuments in Bremen; 5), without ISBN.
• Wilhelm Wortmann : Bremen builder of the 19th and 20th centuries . Ed .: Aufbaugemeinschaft Bremen . Johann Heinrich Döll-Verlag , Bremen 1988, ISBN 3-88808-056-8 , pp. 12-13.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .