Georg Eberlein (master builder)

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Georg Eberlein (* 13. April 1819 in Linden , † 8. July 1884 in Nuremberg ) was a German builder or architect and painter . From 1858 to 1878 he was a teacher or professor at the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts .

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Austrian monument, Aschaffenburg

Eberlein's birthplace was the former sacristan's house next to St. Leonhard's Church in Linden, which was demolished in 1975. A memorial stone was erected in its place.

The Protestant St. Mark's Church in Munich is an important work by Eberlein . He also built Hohenzollern Castle , integrating the few remaining Gothic elements (1854). He also restored several well-known buildings such as the Erfurt Cathedral , the cloister of the Aschaffenburg collegiate church. Together with Carl Alexander Heideloff - whose pupil he was - he decorated Lichtenstein Castle , the Coburg Fortress and Landsberg Castle in Meiningen . In the St. George Church in Guttenberg he created the ceiling painting of St. George in 1862 and the Ascension of Christ on the south side . In 1870, according to his plans, a new gable was designed over the main facade of the Aschaffenburg collegiate church in neo-Gothic style and in 1882 the pilgrim fountain on the Stiftsplatz in front of it. Numerous other works show his Franconian home z. B. a local view of Markt Erlbach or the watercolor Franconian costume in Rangau . In 1868 the Austrian monument was built in the Austrian colony in Aschaffenburg based on his design .

Georg-Eberlein-Strasse in Nuremberg was named after him. His son Johann Georg Eberlein (born February 12, 1858 in Linden; † October 11, 1918 there) continued the tradition as an architect. He designed numerous lavishly designed residential buildings in Cologne's Neustadt ( Ringstrasse ) and in Cologne-Marienburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberlein, Georg . In: Hermann Alexander Müller (Ed.): Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon , Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 152.
  2. ↑ Peter Kolb, Ernst-Günter Krenig (Ed.): Lower Franconian History . Verlag Echter, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-429-02374-2 , p. 304.

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SURNAME Eberlein, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Linden (Market Erlbach)
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1884
Place of death Nuremberg