Emanuel Bruno Quaet-Faslem

Emanuel Bruno Quaet-Faslem (born November 10, 1785 in Dendermonde , † July 2, 1851 in Nienburg / Weser ) was a Belgian - German architect and civil engineer . He was of Belgian descent, but worked for a long time as a royal Hanover construction officer in the Weser area . Here he created some important buildings in the style of classicism and historicism .

Life

Former home of Emanuel Bruno Quaet-Faslem in Nienburg / Weser , today the Quaet-Faslem house of the Nienburg Museum

Emanuel Bruno Quaet-Faslem was born in Dendermonde, a town on the Scheldt in Flanders , in 1785 . First he received training as a draftsman and carpenter and worked from 1804 as a construction carpenter, a. a. at the architect Jean Baptiste Pisson in Ghent . He recognized and promoted Quaet-Faslem's talent, so that from 1804 to 1810 he was able to study architecture at the Gent Academy.

After completing his studies, Quaet-Faslem worked again for some time as a construction manager at Pisson, then he joined the French bridge and road construction team (French: Service des Ponts et des Chaussées ) - the former Austrian Netherlands had been annexed by France in 1797 . In the service of the French military, responsible for building major military roads, Quaet-Faslem came to northwest Germany as an entrepreneur after the Fourth Coalition War, which was annexed to the French Empire on January 1, 1811 .

After the end of the French annexation, Quaet-Faslem remained in the Kingdom of Hanover, which had emerged from the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . He settled in the Arrondissement of Nienburg , initially briefly in Bassum , later in the city of Nienburg, from where he worked until the end of his life in 1851. In Nienburg he developed into an important master builder and local politician and finally became an honorary citizen of the city: in 1827 he was appointed "Commerzien-Commissär", in 1832 promoted to building council, in 1834 to senator and finally to "Ober-Commerzien-Commissär".

Quaet-Faslem contributed significantly to the development of the Nienburger Realschule (founded in 1831), from which the building trade school for architecture and civil engineering should emerge after his death . As a senator in the city of Nienburg, he was responsible for the building industry, promoting the classicist-rationalist redesign of the cityscape. He also campaigned for the Bremen – Hanover railway to be run via Nienburg. He was a founding member of the Nienburg Freemason Lodge Georg zum Silber Unicorn .

buildings

Emanuel Bruno Quaet-Faslem created various buildings, especially in the style of classicism and historicism ( neo-Gothic , neo-Romanesque ):

• Buildings in Nienburg:
  • own house, 1821 (today Museum Nienburg , called Quaet-Faslem-Haus ), Leinstraße 4
  • Synagogue , destroyed in 1823, 1938
  • Citizens' school, from 1824, destroyed in the Second World War
  • Multi-storey car park (originally a building for the Masonic Lodge), preserved
  • Renovation of St. Martin's Church
• Diedrichsburg near Melle
• St. Peter on the chains in Melle-Gesmold
• Walburgis Church in Venne

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  Church of St. Peter to the Chains in Gesmold

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  Diedrichsburg near Melle

literature

• Frank Thomas Gatter u. a .: Quaet-Faslem. Citizens of the world, teachers, builders . Contributions to the history of the city of Nienburg, series B. Volume 1 . Nienburg 1985, DNB  890008450 .
• Nicolaus Heutger : Bruno Quaet-Faslem . In: Otto Heinrich May , Edgar Kalthoff (eds.): Niedersächsische Lebensbilder , Vol. 8. Lax, Hildesheim 1973, pp. 187–191.
• Ulrich Knufinke: Emanuel Bruno Quaet-Faslem. 1795-1851. An architect of classicism. Museum Nienburg, Nienburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813995-0-9 .
• Andreas Loheide: The St. Petrus Church Gesmold , Gesmold 1993.
• Jürgen Reulecke: The fathers of the 19th century. Quaet-Faslem and its time. Stadtarchiv Nienburg, Nienburg 1986, ISBN 3-927678-01-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ gate u. a .: Quaet-Faslem. Citizens of the world, teachers, builders. (see literature)
2. ↑ http://ronnydeschepper.skynetblogs.be/category/1105796/1/Gent (Dutch) (not available on May 10, 2011)
3. ↑ Nadja Kosuch: Animal diseases and their control on the Weser in the mirror Nienburger sources (17th to 19th century). TENEA Verlag für Medien, Berlin 2004, page 178. (also dissertation, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover) ( online as PDF document with approx. 7.14 MB )
4. ↑ Stefan Amt: "We don't want to train architects and artists ..." From building trade school to technical college. Training in construction in Nienburg. In: Ralph Johannes (Ed.): Design. Architectural training in Europe from Vitruvius to the middle of the 20th century. Junius, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88506-441-1 , pp. 544-554. ( online as a PDF document with approx. 141 kB ( memento of the original from January 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) 
5. ↑ Quaet-Faslem and the Freemasons by Hans-Werner Holz (Historical Society in Nienburg / Weser) , accessed on October 24, 2016
6. ↑ The Quaet-Faslem-Haus on the website of the Städtisches Museum ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed on May 10, 2011  
7. ↑ Stefan Amt: Research results on St. Martin's Church in Nienburg / Weser. Hannover 2004. ( online as a PDF document with approx. 204 kB ( memento of the original from April 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) 
8. ↑ The Melle-Gesmold district introduces itself at www.gesmold-geschichte.de , last accessed on May 10, 2011
9. ^ Chronicle of the Protestant Walburgis Church Venne ( memento of July 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), last accessed on May 10, 2011