Friedrich Ebert (architect)

Friedrich Ebert

Synagogue in Bruchsal

Kurhaus in Scheveningen

Upper Rhine Bank in Heidelberg

Friedrich Ebert (born August 30, 1850 in Ruchsen ; † December 23, 1914 in Heidelberg ) was a German architect and building contractor .

Life

Friedrich Ebert worked with the architect and building contractor Johann Friedrich Henkenhaf (1848–1908) and his brother Jakob Henkenhaf (1855–1927) from 1875 to 1914, in the company “Henkenhaf & Ebert”, including in Heidelberg and Amsterdam . Friedrich Ebert was married and had two daughters.

His family grave is in the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof in Section X. The tomb shows a monumental niche stele with a female mourning figure .

Buildings (selection)

1880–1881: Synagogue in Bruchsal (design together with Jakob Henkenhaf ; destroyed in 1938 on Kristallnacht )
1884–1887: Kurhaus in Scheveningen (with Johann Friedrich Henkenhaf)

built 1884–1885, inaugurated on July 11, 1885, burned down in 1886, rebuilt in 1886–1887, construction costs around 600,000 guilders

1900–1901: Residential and banking house for the Oberrheinische Bank in Heidelberg
1901–1903: Heidelberg City Hall

literature

Dagmar Hartmann: Henkenhaf and Ebert. Architects of the town hall in Heidelberg and the Kurhaus in Scheveningen. (= Book series of the city of Heidelberg , volume 11.) Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher / Heidelberg / Basel 2004, ISBN 3-89735-255-9 . (also dissertation, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 2001. ( online ))
Elaine Denby: Grand Hotels. Reality & Illusion. An Architectural and Social History. Reaction Books, London 1998, ISBN 1-86189-010-9 .

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Ebert - Collection of images, videos and audio files

over het Kurhaus in Scheveningen . jenneken.nl, June 4, 2009 (with postcard around 1930; Dutch)
Bruchsal (Karlsruhe district): Jewish history / prayer hall / synagogue . Alemannia Judaica , February 25, 2018 (Synagogue in Bruchsal)

Individual evidence

↑ Leena Ruuskanen: The Heidelberg Bergfriedhof through the ages (= series of publications of the Heidelberg City Archives , Volume 18). Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher / Heidelberg / Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-89735-518-7 , p. 243.

personal data
SURNAME	Ebert, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect and contractor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 30, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ruchs
DATE OF DEATH	December 23, 1914
Place of death	Heidelberg

[1] Leena Ruuskanen: The Heidelberg Bergfriedhof through the ages (= series of publications of the Heidelberg City Archives , Volume 18). Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher / Heidelberg / Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-89735-518-7 , p. 243.