Friedrich Stolberg
Johann Bruno Friedrich Stolberg (born November 24, 1892 in Strasbourg ; † March 2, 1975 in Goslar ) was a German architect , castle and cave researcher .
Life
He was the son of the art historian August Stolberg (1864-1945) and his wife Luise nee Werther (1868-1943). After attending school in the Alsatian capital, he studied architecture at the University of Karlsruhe , where he became a graduate engineer in 1919.
In 1923 Friedrich Stolberg received his doctorate in engineering. with the dissertation on the subject of the tower roof from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period, shown on country churches from the Lahn region .
His first publication on Harz Caves appeared in the mid-1920s. Stolberg is one of the founding fathers of Harz cave research. For the first time he measured many important caves in the Harz, including the caves of the gypsum karst landscape of Hainholz . In the years 1928–1932, Friedrich Stolberg recorded the protected architectural and art monuments of the Hofgeismar district. As his father's successor, he took over the management of the Nordhausen Museum and City Archives in the Erfurt administrative district of the Prussian province of Saxony. After a municipal administrative reform, he lost this post in 1938 and moved to the Potsdam City Planning Department as an architect. In 1950 he left the GDR and went to West Berlin . Most recently he was active in the Goslar city building authority through Verden until 1957.
In the 1930s Friedrich Stolberg surveyed numerous castle complexes in the Harz and published the standard work Fortifications in and on the Harz from early history to modern times (= research and sources on the history of the Harz region ( Harz research , volume 9), published in 1983 published by Lax in Hildesheim, for which he received the First Class Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit in 1970.
Friedrich Stolberg was a member of the Harz Association for History and Archeology and chairman of the Nordhäuser History and Antiquity Association. He died childless in Goslar in 1975.
Publications
- Friedrich Stolberg: The caves of the Harz. In: Der Harz 2, special issue, Magdeburg, 1926, 40 pp.
- Friedrich Stolberg: News about the brick fountain and the Marthahöhle. In: Mitteilungen Höhlen- und Karstforschung , Issue 1, 1936.
literature
- René Kill: Un chercheur méconnu et injustement oublié: Friedrich Stolberg (1892–1975) et les châteaux forts alsaciens. In: Châteaux forts d'Alsace. Vol. 13, 2013, pp. 3–22 (French with German summary).
- Karl Wolfgang Sanders: In memoriam Friedrich Stolberg. In: Harz-Zeitschrift , 1975, pp. 105-109.
- Friedrich Stolberg. In: Nordhäuser personalities from eleven centuries. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2009, p. 123ff. ISBN 978-3-86595-336-0
Web links
- Entry in the Nordhausen Wiki
- Literature by and about Friedrich Stolberg in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the register of architects
- ^ Nordhausen History and Antiquity Association - NordhausenWiki
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stolberg, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, castle and cave researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2nd 1975 |
| Place of death | Goslar |