Friedrich Gösling

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Portrait of Fritz Gösling around 1890

Friedrich Gösling or Fritz Gösling (born June 24, 1837 in Holzhausen near Pyrmont ; † July 17, 1899 in Pyrmont; full name Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Gösling ) was a German architect and entrepreneur . In 1872 he entered the architectural competition for the new Reichstag building in Berlin with an unconventional design .

Life

Friedrich Gösling was born out of wedlock to Friedrich Gösling senior (born January 31, 1790 in Pyrmont; † November 8, 1859 in Pyrmont) and Sophie Elisabeth Suppies (born December 7, 1813 in Holzhausen near Pyrmont), but when he was two years old biological father adopted and declared marital by Prince Georg II von Waldeck-Pyrmont . Sophie Suppies married Hermann Klenke from Großenberg in 1845. From this marriage there were three children. From 1852 Gösling attended the real class of the grammar school in Lemgo, and from 1855 to 1860 the Hanover Polytechnic , where he studied construction . During his studies he was significantly encouraged and influenced by his teacher Conrad Wilhelm Hase and remained on friendly terms with him even after his studies. In addition, as a student, Gösling made some trips through Germany and made architectural sketches. Here he met his future wife, Wilhelmine Karoline Christiane Böttcher. The two married on February 14, 1864 and had seven children, three of whom died early. After completing his studies, Friedrich Gösling served from 1860 to 1861 as a one-year volunteer in the Princely Waldeck Fusilier Battalion.

Between 1861 and 1863 Gösling was in charge of building a palace in Hastenbeck near Hameln .

Then Fritz Gösling settled in Pyrmont as a builder and independent architect. Around 1863/1864 he founded a brickworks on Schellenstrasse, which, with its modern ring kiln, was one of the most progressive building material suppliers of its time. From 1874 Gösling ran a building contractor, master bricklayer and building materials business in Pyrmont and was also active in agriculture. In the following years Gösling emerged in Pyrmont and other cities with the construction of several private houses, commercial and public buildings. When the Evangelical Lutheran St. Petri Church in Oesdorf was redesigned by Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1880/1881), Gösling was the responsible site manager .

Gösling volunteered in the Pyrmont municipal council and as a lay judge, and supported his brother-in-law, the national liberal politician Friedrich Boettcher , on the election committee.

Architectural competition for the building of the Reichstag

The announcement of the competition for the construction of the German Reichstag in Berlin was published on December 18, 1871, the deadline was April 15, 1872. The eight draft sheets sent in by Gösling were registered as no. His explanatory note was not submitted until May 24, 1872 and was obviously no longer permitted.

Draft "Deutscher Lebensbau" for the German Reichstag, 1895

In his design Gösling tried to express his idea of ​​the “German way of life”. His aim was to present the “German state idea” and the relationship of the individual citizen to the whole of the nation in this draft. His style is primarily characterized by floral and botanical elements such as oak leaves and is most likely to be assigned to neo-Gothic . With his designs Gösling anticipated Antoni Gaudí's ideas , which later - albeit without being inspired by Gösling's work - found themselves in the Colònia Güell .

However, he could not prevail against the then more popular style of the Neo-Renaissance . Gösling's designs were sometimes even mocked and mocked by his contemporaries. The 1st prize of the competition went to Ludwig Bohnstedt , whose design could not be carried out for organizational reasons. Ultimately, after a second competition in which Gösling did not participate, the architect Paul Wallot was awarded the contract to build the building in 1882.

Gösling's competition drawings are preserved as blueprints in the Bad Pyrmont city archive.

Exhibitions

  • October 11, 2012 to January 27, 2013: Friedrich Gösling (1837–1899). The Pyrmont builder, architect and brickworks owner. Museum in the castle in Bad Pyrmont

literature

  • Michael S. Cullen: The Reichstag. The story of a monument. 2nd Edition. Parkland, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-88059-401-5 , p. 88 f. and p. 416.
  • Rainer Graefe: “Natural” formation processes in neo-Gothic. Friedrich WH Gösling (1837-1899). In: Uta Hassler, Christoph Rauhut (Hrsg.): Construction technology of historicism. Hirmer, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7774-3861-0 .
  • Joachim Kermann: Life and work of the Pyrmont architect, master builder and brickworks owner Friedrich Gösling. In: Bad Pyrmonter Geschichtsblätter. No. 2 (2014).
  • Werner Lamprecht: Fritz Gösling. Self-published, o. O. 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See J. Kermann, 2014, p. 19 f.
  2. ↑ See J. Kermann, 2014, p. 22.
  3. ↑ See J. Kermann, 2014, p. 12 f.
  4. ↑ See R. Graefe, 2012, p. 145 f.
personal data
SURNAME Gösling, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gösling, Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann (full name); Gösling, Fritz (alternative nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Holzhausen near Pyrmont
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1899
Place of death Pyrmont