Franz Schöberl (architect)

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Franz Seraph Schöberl (born December 17, 1845 in Turnau , † July 23, 1908 in Speyer ) was an Austro-German architect of historicism .

Life

Schöberl, son of the surgeon Carl Schöberl, studied architecture in Vienna and Graz . In 1874 he moved to Speyer. In the Kingdom of Bavaria belonging Palatinate he was an architect of numerous churches. As a Catholic who was married to a Protestant woman, he built churches of both denominations. He made use of the range of historicism. In his early work he transferred the Maximilian style , an architectural style that was pronounced under King Maximilian II , to the Palatinate. Later he used the Neo-Gothic and Neo-Renaissance , but also elements of the Neo- Romanesque and the New Baroque . Here he was influenced by Johannes Otzen . In Speyer he also built numerous residential houses and public buildings.

Schöberl was married to Johanna Disqué since 1874.

The city of Speyer named a street after Schöberl.

Buildings (selection)

literature

  • Clemens Jöckle: Architect Franz Schöberl. His church buildings in the Palatinate 1874–1908. In: Der Turmhahn, magazine for building and art in the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate , 24th year 1980, issue 1/2.
  • Friedhelm Borggrefe: On the way to the port of hope. 150 years of the Protestant Church in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2003, ISBN 3-924667-31-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. Death register StA Speyer, No. 257/1908
  2. Marriage register, Speyer registry office, No. 118/1874
  3. Clemens Jöckle, district capital Speyer, buildings from the Bavarian past , Speyer 1984 ISSN  0175-6583 .

Web links

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