Ernst Georg Jung

Wart Castle in Neftenbach, 1889–91

Ernst Georg Jung (born February 27, 1841 in Basel ; † February 3, 1912 in Winterthur ) was a Swiss architect , the first freelance, academically trained architect in Winterthur.

Life

Ernst Georg Jung was the older son of Karl Gustav Jung , a professor of medicine who had emigrated to Basel from Germany . His younger brother, the later Reformed pastor Johann Paul Achilles Jung (1842-1896), was the father of the founder of analytical psychology, Carl Gustav Jung .

After graduating from high school, he completed an apprenticeship at Riggenbach , where he worked at the Elisabethenkirche and then went to Berlin, where he studied architecture at the Bauakademie from 1861 . There he worked for his teacher Friedrich Adler , a Prussian building supervisor, for whom he was then also responsible for managing his private assignments. In 1867 he returned to the Basel area for the architect Louis-Frédéric de Rutté , whose office was then in Mulhouse . When he took over the project management of the Villa Bühler-Egg in Winterthur, he took the opportunity to settle there in 1869. The soon-to-be successful office provided designs for villas for the upper class, plans for factory and commercial buildings as well as rental housing for the workers 'and salaried employees' quarters with several settlements for the Society for the Construction of Cheap Housing (GEbW). In 1888 he took the architect Otto Bridler into his office as a partner. At times there was a branch in Konstanz with building contracts there, in Ulm and Bamberg.

Jung was the Grand Master of the Alpina Freemason Lodge from 1884–90 , President of the Winterthur Music College from 1873–75, President of the Winterthur Art Association from 1877–1907 , and presided over the Swiss Art Association from 1899 to 1905. He was a founding member of the GEbW in 1872, an architect several times and from 1907 to 1911 their president. He has sat in numerous juries and has been an expert in commercial training schools for many years. In 1907 he retired by handing over his place in the office to Lebrecht Völki .

Jung was the father of the psychoanalyst Ewald Jung (1879–1943), who had a great influence on the young Karl Barth .

Works (selection)

Rebuilding of Winterthur main station, 1894–95

• Swiss locomotive factory , Winterthur, from 1871
• Deutweg settlement , Winterthur, 1872–77
• Villa Bühlstein , Winterthur, 1872–73
• Villa Bühlhalde , Winterthur, 1872–73
• Lloyd administration building , Winterthur, 1876–79
• Villa Rychenberg , Winterthur, 1887–88
• Wart Castle , Neftenbach 1889–91
• St. Georgen school building , secondary school building, Winterthur, 1894–95
• Winterthur main station , renovation and new building, Winterthur, 1894–95
• Villa Jungheim , own house, Winterthur, 1895
• Cantonal sanatorium , Wald ZH, 1899–1901
• Akazia , Masonic Lodge, Winterthur 1903-04
• Administration building Gebr. Volkart , Winterthur, 1903–05

literature

• Regula Michel: Jung, Ernst Georg . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 301 f.
• NN: Young, serious . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 60 , no. 24 , 1912, pp. 326 ( e-periodica.ch ).
• Moritz Flury-Rova: Brick villas and workers' houses - the Winterthur architect Ernst Jung (1841–1912). Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-0340-0860-0 .

Web links

• Jung Ernst Georg, architect, 1841–1912 in the Winterthur glossary.
• Barbara Junod: Jung, Ernst Georg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .