Ernst Heinrich Blohm

Ernst Heinrich Blohm (born June 28, 1794 in Dreye , † October 26, 1869 in Aurich ) was a German master builder.

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Blohm spent the first thirty years of his life in the Elbe-Weser triangle . What he did during this time is not documented. From 1823 he can be found as "Landbauconducteur" in the state calendar of the Kingdom of Hanover . He was therefore responsible for the state buildings and therefore had to be at least a trained bricklayer. He was probably employed in Stade , where he joined the Antoni Brotherhood in 1835. From the year 1825 he created building drawings for the “lower district of the Bremen-Verdenschen agricultural district”. From 1837 to 1838 he built the church in Freiburg on the Lower Elbe . Here he designed the outer walls and the pulpit altar.

In 1839, after successfully completing his work in Freiburg, Blohm moved to Aurich due to his skills as a master builder. From 1849 at the latest, the execution of all state buildings in the Kingdom of Hanover, with the exception of those for the special operations post and railroad, was the responsibility of the domain building officials, who worked as agricultural conductors, inspectors and masters. Each Landdrostei was assigned such an officer who had a say in the construction work that affected him. As one of the assigned persons, Blohm was the forerunner of today's Emden State Building Authority. His superior, Landdrost Georg Heinrich Bacmeister , described him in the 1850s as “tireless”, “busy” and “extremely hardworking”.

Blohm made a career and was finally appointed Oberlandbaumeister in 1865. After 1866 he retired as senior building officer and died unmarried in 1869.

Buildings

Amtshaus Weener with the monogram of King George V and the year of construction "1861"

During Blohm's time in East Friesland, several buildings were built, such as the domain square Groß-Burhafe and Loquard, the offices of Leer and Weener, a prison on Norderney and the navigation school in Timmel . In addition, he had to maintain all buildings structurally. King George V of Hanover commissioned a mausoleum of the Cirksena from him , which was to be built in Aurich, but initially only reached the design stage because of the German-German War in 1866.

Blohm's building that lasted the longest was the Aurich Castle . At the beginning of 1851 he was commissioned to set up rooms for a new higher court in the existing building. Due to "the poor quality of the old castle building" he decided to demolish the existing buildings down to the foundations. In August 1851, the Hanoverian Chamber Councilor EA Oppermann visited him and brought him "instructions". Then Blohm could work completely freely. He chose the old foundations as the basis, which is the reason for the unusual shape of the inner courtyard. Contrary to the opinion of the domain chamber in front of him, he had "the tower and passage placed in the middle". He observed the specifications made for the external shape of the tower. This is how one of the rare still existing buildings of representative state architecture of the Kingdom of Hanover was created.

literature

• Walter Deeters : Ernst Heinrich Blohm. In: Martin Tielke (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland. Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich, Vol. 3 ISBN 3-932206-22-3 (2001), pages 49-50.

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