Friedrich Heinrich Kronenberg

Friedrich Heinrich Kronenberg (* 1802 in Halberstadt ; † after 1873) was a German architect and Prussian construction clerk who excelled above all with neo-Gothic church buildings.

Life

Kronenberg initially worked as a construction manager at Cologne Cathedral around 1824/1825 . In 1837 he was mentioned as a construction officer in Düsseldorf . He was the site manager for the restoration of the Altenberg Cathedral . In 1838 he changed the plans for the Protestant church in Wermelskirchen to a classicist hall with a flat ceiling and a retracted apse.

In 1841 Kronenberg moved to Westphalia. Between 1851 and 1857 he was a building inspector at the Arnsberg district government and responsible for the Arnsberg , Meschede , Brilon and Iserlohn districts .

In 1850 he made a cost estimate for the restoration of the early Gothic Nikolaikirche in Obermarsberg . Because of the high costs, it was initially not carried out. After all, Kronenberg was able to carry out security work in 1852.

His church buildings approached the neo-Gothic style more and more during this time. In Velmede he built a hall room in the arched style with the parish church of St. Andrew in 1846 . As a result, however, he particularly emerged with churches in the neo-Gothic style. His design for the Evangelical Church in Niedermarsberg from 1845 was not carried out. Between 1849 and 1851 St. Pankratius in Reiste was built according to his plans . This was followed by St. Magnus in Niedermarsberg in 1851 , St. Pankratius Warstein (1852), between 1853 and 1858 St. Severin in Calle and from 1854 to 1857 St. Peter and Paul in Medebach . His plans from 1857 for the parish church in Hüsten were not carried out .

He later changed his place of work and was retired in Opole in 1873 .

literature

• Peter Vormweg: The neo-Gothic in the Westphalian church building. Lindenberg im Allgäu 2013, p. 374 f.
• Peter Vormweg: Friedrich Heinrich Kronenberg. Prussian pioneer of neo-Gothic in the Sauerland . In: Sauerland 1/2015 pp. 23–28