Friedrich Rumpf (architect)
Heinrich Friedrich Rumpf (* 1. March 1795 in Frankfurt am Main ; † 16th March 1867 ) was a German architect of classicism , which was mainly active in his hometown of Frankfurt. With the Hospital of the Holy Spirit and the portal buildings of the main cemetery, he created architecture that shaped the cityscape of the time.
Life
The Rumpf family has been Protestant since the Reformation . The ancestors include a number of pastors in Upper Hesse, especially in the Butzbach area , where the main building can be traced back to 1480.
The father Ludwig Daniel Philipp Rumpf (born November 18, 1762) was the eldest son of the second pastor in Oberroßbach , Johann Georg Friedrich Rumpf (1729–74), and his wife Susanne Marie , a daughter of the pastor Seiler in Schwalheim near Friedberg . His youngest son, Friedrich Karl Rumpf , brought his brother Ludwig Daniel Philipp Rumpf to Frankfurt am Main and made it possible for him to complete an extensive schooling at the municipal high school .
Little is known about Heinrich Friedrich Rumpf's childhood and youth . His father, actually a master upholsterer , worked for Nicolas Alexandre Salins de Montfort . This architect, who came from France , had already worked for high-ranking secular and ecclesiastical clients in his home country and had come to Frankfurt am Main during the French Revolution . Here in the 1790s and 1800s he created some of the classicist buildings that were groundbreaking for the time .
Around 1810 Heinrich Friedrich Rumpf followed his father's employer, initially in Fulda under Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray , then from 1815 to 1817 - probably on the recommendation of his teacher - at the famous École des Beaux-Arts in Paris . In 1817 he took up an activity as an architect in his hometown, which fell into the era of the purist, classicist city architect Johann Friedrich Christian Hess .
On March 16, 1831, he married Elisabeth Vogel (* November 18, 1808; † January 5, 1879), and the marriage had eight children. The eldest son, Ludwig Daniel Philipp , also became an architect, but died in Rome at the age of 28 . The second son, Ernst Friedrich Felix Rumpf , became President of the Senate at the Higher Regional Court in Kassel , the third son, Anton Karl Rumpf , a sculptor in Frankfurt.
Friedrich Rumpf had been a member of the Frankfurter Masonic Lodge Zur Einigkeit since 1815 ; he died in his hometown and was buried in the main cemetery there.
Works
( steel engraving by Wilhelm Lang based on a template by Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann )
In the following decades, a number of classicist buildings were built based on his designs, the largest of which was the new building of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit on Long Street . . It turned with 300 beds at the same time the largest to date Frankfurt hospital of his time is Anbetrachts the 1833-39 built the new building the old, yet Gothic Hospital with its church in the Saalgasse demolished in 1840 - despite earlier conservational protest votes, including the historian Johann Friedrich Böhmer , the lawyer and art historian Philipp Friedrich Gwinner and even the city architect himself, who was otherwise hardly known as a friend of medieval architecture. The neo-classical new building, which was badly damaged in the Second World War, has been preserved in some parts, at least externally, despite modern reconstruction, v. a. the portal system as well as the east and south wings.
His main works also include the main cemetery with the adjoining Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt am Main, both of which were opened on July 1, 1828. The crypt hall of the main cemetery and the two portal buildings go back to his plans from 1826, and have been preserved despite some considerable war damage. In addition to executed designs for the main building of the former natural history museum - a forerunner of the Senckenberg Natural History Museum - as well as an unrealized plan for a new opera house that was worked out together with Rudolf Heinrich Burnitz , Rumpf was above all an architect of the Frankfurt upper class of his time.
As most of these private residences tester the 1829-33 according to his plans for Baron is probably Amschel Mayer Rothschild established Rothschild Palace in today Rothschildpark to name. This, however, as well as numerous other buildings for long-established Frankfurt families such as Behrends , Brentano , Günderrode , Mülhens , Gontard , Grunelius , Guaita or Scharf, were destroyed in the Second World War.
However, some buildings - like many other representatives of this epoch - had to give way again to historicist architecture after just a few decades , which showed little understanding for the simplicity of classicism. A particularly curious case is the manor house built in 1845 for Baron Mayer Carl von Rothschild , the Villa Günthersburg - the building on the site of today 's Günthersburg Park was demolished directly after the client's death solely on the basis of a will.
In contrast, the garden temple for the park of the Bockenheimer Schönhof , which was built in 1820 according to a design by Rumpf and was demolished in 1964 and rebuilt in Grüneburgpark, has been preserved from the area of civil architecture . The classicist Palais Untermainkai 15, which was extended and redesigned for Baron Mayer Carl von Rothschild by Rumpf in 1845, is also still in existence. This building, originally constructed in 1820/21 by Johann Friedrich Christian Hess for the Jewish banker Joseph Isaak Speyer , is now the Frankfurt Jewish Museum .
literature
- Albert Dessoff: Monographic Lexicon of Frankfurt Artists in the Nineteenth Century. In: Frankfurter Kunstverein (ed.): Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main in the nineteenth century. Joseph Baer & Co, Carl Jügel's Verlag, Heinrich Keller, FAC Prestel, Moritz Abendroth, Frankfurt am Main 1907-09, p. 123 u. 124.
- Andreas Hansert: trunk, Heinrich Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 251 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 .
Web links
- Tomb / epitaph of the Heinrich Friedrich Rumpf family and his wife Elisabeth Rumpf geb. Vogel in the Frankfurt main cemetery
- Masonic Lodge To Unity
- Rumpf, Heinrich Friedrich. Hessian biography. (As of March 16, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Rumpf, Friedrich in the Frankfurt dictionary of persons
Individual evidence
- ↑ An der Mauer, No. 269a, signpost to the graves of well-known personalities in Frankfurt cemeteries . Frankfurt am Main 1985, p. 22
- ↑ The Rothschild Palais and its history ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rumpf, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rumpf, Heinrich Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1795 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1867 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |