Friedrich Louis Simon

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Friedrich Louis Simon around 1850

Friedrich Louis (Ludwig) Simon (born February 1, 1800 in Berlin ; † December 29, 1877 in Mühlhausen Thuringia) was a German architect , Prussian construction clerk and student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel .

Life

Simon was the eldest son of the secret senior building officer and professor of the Berlin building academy Paul Ludwig Simon (1771-1815) and his wife Marie Madeleine (née Royer). Both parents were members of the French colony in Berlin. Their ancestors had to leave France as Huguenot religious refugees after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and were accepted into Brandenburg-Prussia by Elector Friedrich Wilhelm .

After studying in Paris in 1824 and in England in 1825 , Simon joined the Prussian building administration in 1826 in what was then the Rhine Province as a construction manager. Promoted to master builder in 1828, Simon worked in Wetzlar until 1835 , then in (Duisburg-) Ruhrort . In 1840 he was promoted to building inspector and transferred to Glogau in Silesia. Here Simon was involved in the construction of the Glogau Cathedral. He ended his career as a building officer in Mühlhausen (Thuringia).

There is evidence that two of Simon's buildings have survived almost unchanged from the outside.

Former building of the Braunschweigische Bank, today the Higher Regional Court of Braunschweig
Plaque on the former building of the Braunschweigische Bank

From 1827 to 1830 the Protestant parish church in Wißmar (then Wetzlar district , now Wettenberg municipality in the Gießen district ) was built in a purely classicist style as a large, transverse hall building with high arched windows.

For the Braunschweigische Bank , Simon built a brick building in the arched Schinkel style on Bankplatz in Braunschweig in 1853. The Braunschweig Higher Regional Court has had its seat in the building, which became the property of Braunschweig-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank in 1906 .

Evangelical parish church in Wißmar

Simon had numerous offspring from two marriages. He died on December 29, 1877 in Mühlhausen (Thuringia). One of his great-grandchildren was the business economist Erich Kosiol (1899–1990), from 1948 professor at the Free University of Berlin .

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Louis Simon  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Hessen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1966. (In: Wissmar , p. 874.)
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1992. (In: Braunschweig. Buildings for trade and economy , p. 285.)
  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin - Builders and Buildings - From Gothic to Historicism. Edition Marhold, Berlin 1988, p. 185.
  • Simon, Friedrich Louis . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 59 .
  • Inventory on the history of the Prussian building administration 1723–1848 / edit . by Christiane Brandt-Salloum et al., Red.Reinhart Route, Secret State Archives Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 2005. (Including: GStA PK, I. HA Rep. 93 B Ministry of Public Works, No. 633: Construction staff in the Liegnitz administrative district, Bd . 5, (1800), 1841-1846, p. 350.)
  • Christian Kaufmann: A stage for the word: The Evangelical Church in Wißmar. In: Günter Hans (Ed.): The history of a village on the Lahn Wißmar 778–2003. Wettenberg 2003, ISBN 3-9808830-2-7 . Pp. 345-354.
  • Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monuments in Lower Saxony / Volume 1,1: City of Braunschweig . In: Monuments in Lower Saxony . Vieweg, Braunschweig 1993, ISBN 3-87585-252-4 , p. 90 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments - Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1992. (In: Braunschweig. Buildings for trade and economy , p. 285.)
  2. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Gerhard Schildt (ed.): The Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte: Millennium review of a region . 2nd Edition. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-930292-28-9 , pp. 881 (1264 pp.).
personal data
SURNAME Simon, Friedrich Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simon, Friedrich Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, Prussian construction clerk and student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1877
Place of death Mühlhausen , Thuringia