Ferdinand Ludwig August Merckel
Ferdinand Ludwig August Merckel (* July 4, 1808 in Detmold ; † December 24, 1893 there ) was a German architect of historicism . He was a construction clerk for the Principality of Lippe and was best known for his numerous church buildings.
Life
Merckel came from a family of theologians and lawyers in Lippe. His father, the lawyer Johann Friedrich Merckel, held the office of city secretary and judge in Detmold . Ferdinand Merckel received his training at the Bauakademie in Munich.
From 1832 he worked in his hometown Detmold, where he took on construction contracts for the princely government as well as for private individuals. He is likely to have gained professional experience from the building officer Ferdinand Brune , of whom he was an employee. Merckel was later assigned the construction of the Princely Rent Chamber and the Forest Directorate. In 1872 he was finally appointed building officer. It was not until 1887, at the age of 78, that he retired with the rank of domain builder .
In the course of his activities, Merckel constructed numerous public and private residential buildings. A total of eight new churches, four church conversions or restorations and 13 rectory buildings as well as numerous other appraisals and conversions can be verified. Its particular importance for Lippe is in the area of church building. He carried out numerous renovations and new buildings, but also the restoration of older churches. Merckel's church buildings have many things in common. For the most part, it was a broad structure, structured by a base and pilaster strips, with a tower and a recessed low choir . The master builder designed the interior of his sacred buildings as three-aisled hall churches , the wide central nave of which is significantly higher than the narrower aisles. The supports on which the vaults rest are extremely slim and mostly made of cast iron . This construction was possible because the vaults were not made of stone, but of plastered trellis work with wooden ribs .
Buildings (selection)
Ev.-ref. Church in Lines
Ev.-ref. Church in Leopoldshöhe
Old rectory Reelkirchen
Evangelical Church in Bega
Old rectory Silixen
Former penitentiary in Detmold, today part of the OWL University
Residential house in Detmold, Allee 17
Manor house of Iggenhausen Castle
- 1836–1843: Evangelical Church Alverdissen , Alverdissen , design and new construction of the nave (drastically changed in 1951)
- 1841–1845: Evangelical Church Deserts , renovation and expansion
- 1846–1847: snakes , rectory
- 1848–1849: Prison, Detmold (designed in 1846), today a building of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences
- 1850–1851: Evangelical Reformed Church Leopoldshöhe
- 1851: House in Detmold, Allee 17
- 1851–1852: Catholic St. Bonifatius Chapel , Detmold
- 1853: Reelkirchen , rectory
- 1853–1857: Bösingfeld Evangelical Church , Bösingfeld , renewal and expansion of the church
- 1856–1865: Castle Iggenhausen mansion , in Pottenhausen , location
- 1858–1861: Marienkirche in Lemgo, interior restoration
- 1859: Evangelical Church Horn , Horn , renovation of the late Gothic town church
- 1860–1862: Detmold, State Hospital
- 1861: Detmold, Natural Science Museum
- 1863: Evangelical Church Bega , Bega , Church
- 1863: Town hall location
- 1865: Evangelical Church Almena , Almena , Ev.-ref. Parish church
- 1865–1866: Detmold, Princely Forest Directorate
- 1873–1878: Haustenbeck , rectory
- 1874–1876: Silixen , rectory
- 1875–1876: Evangelical Church Augustdorf , Augustdorf , Church
- 1877–1878: Evangelical Church of Snakes
- 1878: Evangelical Alexander Church in Oerlinghausen , extensive renovation of the late Gothic church
- 1880–1881: Humfeld near Bega, Elisenstift
literature
- Dorothea Kluge: The Lippe Building Councilor Ferdinand Ludwig August Merckel (1808–1893) and his church buildings. In: Institute for Architecture, Art and Cultural History in North and West Germany, Weser Renaissance Museum (Hrsg.): Historicism in Lippe. (= Materials on art and cultural history in northern and western Germany , volume 9.) Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 1994, ISBN 3-89445-165-3 , pages 85-102.
- Heinrich Stiewe: Parsonage in Northwest Germany . Ed .: Thomas Spohn. Waxmann, Münster / New York / Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89325-717-9 , Chapter 8.5 Rectory buildings by Ferdinand Merckel (1808-1893) , p. 249–252 ( digitized in Google book search).
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Individual evidence
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↑ a b While the author Dorothea Kluge (see literature ) only mentions the year of death 1893 , the exact date and place as well as the last civil servant rank are given in the annotation apparatus of the following publication:
Norbert Hohaus: The cover book of the government councilor Christian von Meien for the Year 1832. Living conditions of a family of civil servants in Detmold in the early 19th century. (= Special publications of the Natural Science and Historical Association for the Land of Lippe , Volume 37.) Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 1991, ISBN 3-925670-42-4 , p. 137 (note 176). - ↑ a b Stiewe / Spohn, p. 249
- ^ Monument description Georg-Weerth-Str. 18, Detmold ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2013 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. (PDF; 14 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Merckel, Ferdinand Ludwig August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect of historicism, building clerk in the prince of Lippe |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detmold |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1893 |
| Place of death | Detmold |