Friedrich Salvisberg

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Bern City Hall (1895), later remodeled by F. Salvisberg

Friedrich Salvisberg (* 1820 in Murten ; † August 18, 1903 in Grünen ) was a Swiss architect .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a stonemason and journeyman in Basel, Alsace and the Black Forest, Salvisberg studied architecture at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic from 1843 to 1846. Further studies at the University of Heidelberg followed from 1847 to 1849 . In 1851 Salvisberg was appointed city master builder in Zofingen until he was appointed to the office of cantonal master builder in Bern in 1859 , which he held until 1881. In the first decade of his office he opened up the new workers' quarters on Länggasse and Lorraine and also had the botanical garden laid out on Altenbergrain from 1860–62 . He was also involved in the Quartierhof planned in Lorraine from 1861 to 1863 , an early form of a building cooperative, together with Friedrich Studer and the later Federal Councilor Jakob Stämpfli . Together with Studer and Johann Carl Dähler, he drew up an urban expansion plan in 1869, which was to become the basis for the urban development competitions for the expansion of Bern.

In 1862 he planned the previously humid and undeveloped area of ​​the Seefeld in Thun to become a quarter for summer villas. After he organized the demolition of the Christoffelturm in 1865 , a very controversial measure which the community had decided with a majority of only 4 votes (415 yes and 411 no), his renovation of the town hall facade (1865-68) soon afterwards was heavily criticized . In 1867 he built the Villa Beaulieu and the lake bathing establishment in Murten in Freiburg . 1873–76 he built the women's hospital in Bern, which is now the location of the University of Bern .

After losing to Franz Stempkowski as cantonal builder in the 1881 elections - his vote in favor of demolishing the Christoffel Tower had created many enemies for him - he ran a construction business in Basel for a number of years and took part in the construction of buildings in the canton of Bern before finally leaving retired from professional life.

His "Explanatory Texts on the Standard Parts for School Buildings" (1870, reprinted 2003) are considered to be a pioneering publication for school building.

Friedrich Salvisberg was the father of the art historian Paul Salvisberg and the great-uncle of the architect Otto Rudolf Salvisberg .

literature

  • Martin Fröhlich: Salvisberg, Friedrich . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century Basel: Birkhäuser 1998. p. 467. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 .
  • F. Salvisberg. (Nekrolog) In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung Vol. 42 (1903) No. 11 P. 121. Online .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ The obituary of the Schweizerische Bauzeitung mentions September 15th, the Swiss Architectural Encyclopedia July 15th, and the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland September 5th.
  2. ↑ Online
  3. ^ Andreas Hauser, Peter Röllin, Brechtold Weber: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture, 1850–1920: Bern. Vol. 2, p. 421 f. Zurich: Orell Füssli 1986, doi: 10.5169 / seals-3534
  4. ↑ Ursula Maurer, Daniel Wolf: Inventory of the newer Swiss architecture, 1850–1920: Thun. Vol. 9, p. 341 f. Zurich: Orell Füssli 2003, doi: 10.5169 / seals-10097
  5. ^ Andreas Hauser, Peter Röllin, Brechtold Weber: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture, 1850–1920: Bern. Vol. 2, pp. 351 f. Zurich: Orell Füssli 1986, doi: 10.5169 / seals-3534
personal data
SURNAME Salvisberg, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Murten
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1903
Place of death Greens