Eduard Pötzsch
Eduard Pötzsch (born June 6, 1803 in Leipzig ; † November 21, 1889 there ; full name: Christian August Eduard Pötzsch ) was a German architect and pioneer of railway station architecture .
Live and act
Inspired by the profession of his father, who was the head master of the Leipzig Masons' Guild, Pötzsch acquired knowledge in the field of painting and architecture at an early age. In 1820, at the age of 16, he exhibited numerous architectural drawings at the Dresden Art Academy . From 1820 he attended the arts and crafts school in Leipzig. On October 30, 1822, he made his first trip to Italy . On his educational trip he stayed in Milan , Brescia , Verona , Vicenza , Padua , Venice , Mantua , Parma , Modena , Bologna , Florence , Siena , Rome , Sorrento and Naples for a long time. He made numerous drawings and sketches of landscapes and architecture and their details.
From 1828 to 1860, Pötzsch was involved as an architect in the construction of many municipal and private buildings in Leipzig. The most important of his buildings, designed in the late classicist style, were the “Great Cloth Hall” in the Hainstrasse / corner of Brühl (1837), the house for the Masonic lodges Apollo and Balduin zur Linde (1847), the Hotel de Pologne (1847/1848) and the former Centralhalle (1845). He made particular contributions in the field of train station architecture. With the Dresdner Bahnhof , the Leipzig terminus of the Leipzig-Dresden Railway , he created Germany's first terminus in 1839, which was to have numerous successors. The building ensemble of the Bavarian train station in Leipzig, which opened in 1844, is a particularly valuable and well-preserved testimony to the early train station architecture.
Pötzsch was honorary president of the Leipzig Architects Association and a senior member of the Leipzig Architectural Association. He died on November 21, 1889 and was buried in the New Johannisfriedhof . A part of his fortune fell to the city of Leipzig by testamentary order, which was to use it to promote Leipzig artists, among other things. He bequeathed his book collection on architecture to the Leipzig city library.
literature
- Rolf Bayer, Gerd Sobek: The Bavarian train station in Leipzig. Origin, development and future of the world's oldest terminus. Transpress, Berlin 1985.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rolf Bayer, Gerd Sobeck: The Bavarian train station in Leipzig.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pötzsch, Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pötzsch, Christian August Eduard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1889 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |