Emil Lorenz (architect)
Emil Lorenz (born February 6, 1857 in Zwickau ; † November 5, 1944 ) was a German architect who worked mainly in Hanover until 1931 , but also in Peine .
Life
During his studies in 1876 he became a member of the Erato Dresden singers . On October 14, 1887, he married the butcher's daughter Wilhelmine Johanna Maria Happe (born April 5, 1864 in Hanover; † November 11, 1928 in Hanover) from Hanover.
Works (incomplete)
- 1893/1894: "Municipal office building" as a corner building in neo -Gothic style at Herschelstraße 1 at the corner of Kurt-Schumacher-Straße , formerly the seat of the Hanoverian registry office and the land registry office , today (as of 08/2014) the seat of the central police station
- 1897 (inauguration on November 11th), possibly with Christoph Hehl : New construction of the sister house originally initiated in 1848 by Pastor Hermann Wilhelm Bödeker as an “asylum for poorly aged, middle-class virgins” in Schwesternhausstrasse in the Hanover district of Bult
- 1897/1898, together with Bernhard Weise : Landschaftstrasse 8 at the corner of Sophienstrasse , bank building for the former Braunschweig-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank ("Braune Hanne"), which later became Berlin Hyp ; today (as of: 07/2014) headquarters of the auditing firm Ernst & Young ; monumental, three-storey corner building in the style of the Italian Renaissance , rich sculptural jewelry by Karl Gundelach , including the sculptures of the Brunsviga and the Hannovera
- 1903-1904, Georg street corner Rathenaustraße extension of the original 1869 by Otto Goetze built Café Robby (not preserved the later, so Café Kröpcke ), see Kröpcke
- 1909: Hindenburgvilla at today's address Bristoler Straße 6 , where Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg , who returned to Hanover after the First World War, lived in 1919
- for the Stephansstift in the Hanoverian district of Kleefeld in accordance with the reform efforts of the architects of the Deutscher Werkbund as a simple clinker building , but with a saddle - hipped roof , listed :
- 1910/1911: Brüderhaus with ballroom , Kirchröderstraße 44a
- 1913: Ludolf Wilhelm Fricke School
- 1910 to 1913: Extension of the formerly 1888 to 1890 by Theodor Unger in neo-Gothic style for the VGH insurance group building at Schiffgraben 4 ; Demolished in 1969 for a new VGH office building by the architect Walter Henn
- around 1912, for the banker Bernhard Caspar : former Caspar bank (which was expanded in 1922 and 1950), Prinzenstrasse 23 , completely demolished in September 2014.
- 1924/1925: Preliminary draft for the Anzeiger high-rise (revision of the draft by Fritz Höger in 1927/1928)
- 1928: New building for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hanover
literature
- August Heitmüller (draftsman), Wilhelm Metzig (red.): Hanoverian heads from administration, economy, art and literature , Volume 2. Hanover: Heinrich Osterwald, 1929 [without page numbers]
- Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity. Schlütersche, Hannover 2001 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , SS 330f.
- Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Emil Lorenz. In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon , passim
- Birte Rogacki-Thiemann : Emil Lorenz (1857-1944) - architect in Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 69 (2015), pp. 81-103
- Birte Rogacki-Thiemann: “We change, but we do not perish.” The buildings by the architect Emil Lorenz (1857–1944) (= Hannoversche Studien , Volume 17), 1st edition, Hanover: Wehrhahn-Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978 -3-86525-677-5
- Conrad von Meding: The forgotten architect .... In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 6, 2019, p. 19
Web links
Commons : Emil Lorenz - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sascha Hendel: Emil Lorenz (see under the section Weblinks )
- ↑ a b Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
- ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 22.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Emil Lorenz (see literature )
- ^ Rainer Kasties MA: sister house. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 558f.
- ↑ Compare, for example, Rolf Hentschel (Branch Manager ): EY in Hanover , last accessed on August 12, 2014
- ↑ Reinhard Glaß: Goetze, Wilhelm Otto Gustav on the page glass-portal.privat.t-online.de , last accessed on August 12, 2014
- ↑ a b c Gerd Weiß: Stephansstift (Kirchröder Strasse 43–45). In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover , part 2, vol. 10.2, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , here: pp. 80f .; as well as Kleefeld in the addendum : List of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 17ff.
- ↑ a b Conrad von Meding: Old houses in the city / “Demolition has to stop” / Two historic buildings are being demolished again in the city of Hanover. In view of the destruction in the Second World War and the disappearance of many other old houses to this day, Hanover's Monument Foundation demands that this must finally come to an end in the city center. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of September 16, 2013, last accessed online on August 11, 2014
- ↑ Claudia Turtenwald: Fritz Höger (1877-1949). Architect between stone and steel, glass and concrete. Dissertation, University of Münster, Münster 2003, p. 333.
- ^ Klaus Mlynek : 1928. In: Hannover Chronik , pp. 165ff .; Preview over google books
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lorenz, Emil |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1857 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwickau |
DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1944 |