Eduard Wendebourg

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Eduard Wendebourg (born September 23, 1857 in Lewe-Liebenburg , † October 22, 1940 in Bückeburg ; full name: Eberhard Julius Eduard Wendebourg ) was a German architect of historicism .

Life

Wendebourg was born in 1857 as the third of a total of nine children to a pastor couple. The poet of the Deutschlandlied Hoffmann von Fallersleben was the uncle of Wendebourg's mother and therefore often stayed in the Wendebourg's house, also to write lyrics with his father Hermann.

From 1864 to 1872 Wendebourg attended a private school in Liebenburg, which was founded by his father. From 1872 he attended high school in Wolfenbüttel , which he broke off without a degree to begin a business apprenticeship in Gotha . But even this he broke off after three months in order to get his Abitur at the reorganized royal trade school in Hildesheim .

From 1875 to 1879, Wendebourg studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover , listening to lectures by the Hanoverian architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase , who was a long-time friend of the family. In 1878 he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . After completing his studies, he did military service with the 2nd Kurhessian Infantry Regiment No. 82 in Göttingen. During this time he came into closer contact with the student choir of the Georgia Augusta , whose house he finally designed from 1901. In the years 1881 to 1887 Wendebourg completed his legal clerkship as a government building manager, he managed new buildings in Hanstedt and in Schönfeld . From 1885 to 1887 he led the reconstruction of a church in Neuenkirchen near Melle that was destroyed by fire . There he met Julie Niemann, whom he married on March 5, 1888 in Neuenkirchen.

On February 22nd, 1888, he established himself as a freelance architect. In the years that followed, up to his 82nd birthday, he carried out more than 200 projects such as new buildings, conversions and restorations, mainly on church and school buildings. A few buildings were in the neo-Romanesque style, but most of his designs were in the neo-Gothic style. The Nicolaikirche in Hanover-Bothfeld is considered one of the most important buildings ; the aysmetric built-in house was decorated with Nordic-Norman decorations.

Around 1915, Wendebourg became a church building advisor to the Evangelical Lutheran City Church Association of Hanover . After the First World War , in which his eldest son died, he had great problems getting orders. Only the committee of the Evangelical Lutheran Association of the City of Hanover entrusted him with the regular inspection of church buildings. In 1939 he moved with his wife to Bückeburg , where he died on October 22, 1940.

Honors

On March 19, 1906, Wilhelm I awarded him the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class. In 2009 the Eduard-Wendebourg-Weg in Soltau was inaugurated in his honor .

Works (selection)

Wendebourg built numerous churches, schools and residential buildings in northern Germany, u. a .:

  • Nicolaikirche in Limmer

  • St. Nicolai Church in Bothfeld

  • Matthew Church in List

  • St. Johannis Church in Soltau

  • St. Antonius Church in Bispingen

  • Luther Church in Soltau

literature

Web links

Commons : Eduard Wendebourg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1866–1966, Corps Hannovera at the Technical University of Hanover , 1966, p. 91
  2. ↑ a b c d e Helmut Knocke: Wendebourg, Eduard. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon (see literature)
  3. ↑ Evangelical Church in Schladen , accessed on January 24, 2020.
  4. ^ A b c Klaus Siegner: Architect biographies . In: Günther Kokkelink, Harold Hammer-Schenk (ed.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxon architecture in the nineteenth century. (Rev. New edition of the catalog for the exhibition From the Castle to the Train Station, Building in Hanover , 1998–1999) Verlag Th. Schäfer and Institute for the History of Architecture and Art of the University of Hanover, Hanover 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , p. 567ff., Here: p. 571
personal data
SURNAME Wendebourg, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wendebourg, Eberhard Julius Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Lewe-Liebenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1940
Place of death Buckeburg