Eduard von Rodt

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Eduard von Rodt, Portrait of Robert von Steiger (1893)
Alliance disc Eduard von Rodt and Anna von Mülinen

Friedrich Karl Eduard von Rodt (born July 22, 1849 in Bern ; † July 12, 1926 Bern) was a Swiss architect and historian .

biography

Eduard von Rodt was born as the son of Karl Eduard von Rodt and Cäcilie Brunner . He completed an apprenticeship with the architect Gottlieb Hebler and as a stonemason in Bern's Münsterbauhütte. From 1869 to 1870 he studied at the Polytechnic School in Stuttgart and then traveled to Germany and Italy. In 1874 he married Anna von Mülinen . From 1872 he worked as an architect in Bern. He joined the architectural office of Paul Adolphe Tièche and August Eggimann. His buildings include the Eidgenössische Waffenfabrik in Bern, the Physikalisches Institut, the Jennerspital in Bern, the old Ziegler Hospital , the wing extensions of the Bern City Library, the Villa Zeerleder-Pigott in Kiesen and various residential buildings, especially in Kirchenfeld, where he comes from the Berne Land Company had acquired building plots.

From 1881 to 1894 he was director of the Historical Museum in Bern, and in 1889 he received an order from the civic council to build a new building on the Kirchenfeld. Eduard von Rodt, together with Adolf Tièche, was the executive architect of the winning project for the new building of the Bern Historical Museum . From 1892 to 1923 he was also a member of the museum's supervisory committee.

From 1876 to 1880 Eduard von Rodt was an officer in the fire corps, then treasurer of the fire insurance . He was a member of the Orphans 'Commission of the Society for Merchants , from 1883 to 1921 a member of the Citizens' Council, from 1890 to 1921 a member of the Burgerspitalkommission , a member of the Art Museum commission and from 1902 to 1906 an expert on the Art Antiquities Commission. From 1915 to 1916 he chaired the Association for the Preservation of Patriotic Art Monuments . From 1924 to 1926 he was a member of the Federal Commission for the Preservation of Monuments.

Eduard von Rodt's estate (drawings, graphic collection, books) is in the Bernisches Historisches Museum.

Awards

Works

Fonts

  • Old Bern. Collected from drawings and own photos by Eduard von Rodt , Bern 1885.
  • Bern city history , Bern 1886.
  • Berns Burgerschaft and Societies In: Festschrift for the VII secular celebration of the founding of Bern, 1191–1891, Bern 1891, pp. 1–114.
  • Catalog of the collection of the historical museum in Bern. On behalf of the antiquarian Commission des Burgerrath von Bern, written in 1891 by Eduard von Rodt , Bern 1892.
  • Classes and coats of arms of the Bernese families . In: Neues Berner Taschenbuch, 1896. S. 60f. Digitized
  • Alt-Bernisches Jagdwesen , In: Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1900, pp. 18–59. Digitized
  • Bern in the XVI. Century , Bern 1904.
  • Bern in the XV. Century , Bern 1905.
  • Bern in the XIII. and XIV century. Along with a look back at the prehistory of the city , Bern 1907.
  • Bernese castles. A contribution to its history , Bern 1909.
  • Bernese churches. A contribution to their history , Bern 1912.
  • Nydegg Castle and the founding of the city of Bern. Based on the chronicle by Konrad Justinger , Bern 1919.
  • The St. Vinzenzen-Kirchhof in Bern and its surroundings . In: Blätter für Bernische Geschichte, Kunst und Altertumskunde, Volume: 17 (1921) doi : 10.5169 / seals-184622
  • The town hall in Bern . In: Leaves for Bernese history, art and antiquity, vol. 18, issue 3/4, doi : 10.5169 / seals-185086

building

Design for a market fountain
  • Cantonal military institutions , Papiermühlestrasse 13–17, Bern 1873–78 (with Tieché and Eggimann)
  • Single-family houses and blind factory Schaerer , Terrassenweg 10–18, Bern 1876–78
  • Villa , Rainmattstrasse 20, Bern 1883
  • Double villas , Englische Anlagen 6–8, Bern 1886
  • Villas , Marienstrasse 11–13, 16, 17, 19–23, 25–27, 29–31, Bern 1887–96
  • Workers' apartments, Polygonstrasse 5–7, Bern 1890
  • Bernisches Historisches Museum , Helvetiaplatz 5, Bern 1892–94, implementation planning with Tieché (design by Andre Lambert & Stahl (Stuttgart))
  • Double house , Luisenstrasse 8-10, Bern 1897
  • Six single-family houses , Florastrasse 15–25, Bern 1897
  • Villa , Thunstrasse 55, Bern 1899
  • Jennerspital , Freiburgstrasse 23, Bern 1899–1903
  • Villa , Justingerweg 18, Bern 1902
  • City, University and Citizens Library , south wing, Münstergasse 61–63, Bern 1904–1907

literature

  • Anne-Marie Biland: Rodt, Eduard von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Rudolf von Tavel : Eduard von Rodt . In: Neues Berner Taschenbuch, Vol. 32 (1926), pp. 1–12. Digitized
  • Elisabeth Castellani Zahir: Rodt, (Friedrich Karl) Eduard von. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , pp. 449 f.
  • Mathias Bäbler: The town house in Ghent. Distant worlds in Rodt's photo collection . In: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde, 1994, vol. 56, pp. 243-251 digitized
  • Karl Zimmermann: Chronical Notes on Museum History. In: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde / Volume 56 (1994), pp. 371–459. Digitized

Web links

Commons : Eduard von Rodt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventory number 37910.
personal data
SURNAME Rodt, Eduard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodt, Friedrich Karl Eduard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1926
Place of death Bern