Georg Heinrich Schuster

Georg Heinrich Schuster (born November 6, 1799 in Einbeck , † January 20, 1890 in Hanover ) was a German architect and father of Eduard Schuster .

life and work

1859: Letter from von Malorties , represented by Schuster, about the establishment of the Herrenhausen cemetery

Georg Heinrich Schuster was born in Einbeck as the son of the town planner. After attending grammar school there, he trained in Northeim and Göttingen .

From 1818 Schuster worked in the court building trade in Hanover and in 1857 finally became court building officer.

He worked with Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves , the leading architect of the Kingdom of Hanover , as well as with Justus Heinrich Jakob Molthan . Schuster was responsible in particular for the maintenance of the existing buildings and the new buildings in the garden districts of Herrenhausen , Monbrillant Castle and the royal kitchen garden .

Schuster was the executive architect for the planned Laves Welfenmausoleum in the mountain garden of Herrenhausen .

After he had renewed the facade of the grotto in the Great Garden in Herrenhausen in 1848 , in 1854 he became “conductor of the fountain system”.

As the deputy of the Oberhofmarschall Carl Ernst von Malortie, Schuster took part in the construction of the Herrenhausen cemetery in 1859 .

From 1860 to 1863 he built the water art on the Leine with Richard Auhagen , in 1862 the iron arcade in the Great Garden, as well as greenhouses and bridges.

Shortly before the end of the Kingdom of Hanover designed Schuster 1864/65 the facade of the royal house to: Following the designed by Laves transformation of Herrenhausen Palace disguised Schuster half-timbered building with a yellow rustication - plaster and adorned it with wooden window and door frames.

Between 1875 and 1876, Schuster and Ferdinand Wallbrecht created the military riding institute on Vahrenwalder Strasse.

Schuster was a founding member of the Architects and Engineers Association for the Kingdom of Hanover .

Gravestones of the royal court building officer HG Schuster (right) and his wife (left) in the Herrenhausen cemetery

His tombstone with the title royal "Ober-Hofbaurat" stands in the Herrenhausen cemetery .

Fonts

The mausoleum at Herrenhausen by Oberhofbaudirektor Laves, communicated by Oberhofbaurat Schuster. In: Journal of the Architects and Engineers Association in Hanover , number 19, 1873, column 33 ff.

literature

in: Günther Kokkelink , Harold Hammer-Schenk (eds.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century , ed. by Harold Hammer-Schenk and Günther Kokkelink (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ), Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X (582 pages):
- Klaus Siegner: Schuster, Heinrich (1799–1890) , p. 569 f.
- Dieter Lange: The mausoleum in the Berggarten , pp. 186–188.
Helmut Knocke : Schuster, (2) Georg Heinrich , in: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 328, online via Google books
Helmut Knocke: Schuster, (2) Georg Heinrich. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 557.

Web links

Commons : Georg Heinrich Schuster - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

↑ Deviating from this, the date of death is “10. 1. 1890 “called; compare Franz Rudolf Zankl (Ed.): List of Architects , compiled with the collaboration of Helmut Zimmermann , in this: Hanover. From the old train station to the new town hall. Pictorial documents on urban development in the second half of the 19th century , exhibition guide of the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer, Hanover, 1975, p. 42f.

Individual evidence

↑ Helmut Knocke: Schuster, (2) Georg Heinrich , in Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 328; Preview over google books
↑ Dieter Lange: The mausoleum in the mountain garden. In: Günther Kokkelink , Harold Hammer-Schenk (ed.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century , ed. by Harold Hammer-Schenk and Günther Kokkelink (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ), Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X (582 pages), pp. 186-188
^ Thomas Schwark , Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Fürstenhaus Herrenhausen Museum. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 197
↑ Gerd Weiß: Princely House (Alte Herrenhäuser Strasse 14). In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1, [Bd.] 10.1 , ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 206f.
^ Franz Rudolf Zankl (ed.): List of architects , compiled with the collaboration of Helmut Zimmermann, in this: Hanover. From the old train station to the new town hall. Pictorial documents on urban development in the second half of the 19th century , exhibition guide of the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer, Hanover, 1975, p. 42f.
↑ Gitta Kirchhefer: A walk through the Herrenhausen cemetery , brochure with photos by Sergej Stoll and a numbered overview plan, Hannover: Selbstverlag, 2012

personal data
SURNAME	Schuster, Georg Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect and court building officer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 6, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH	Einbeck
DATE OF DEATH	January 20, 1890
Place of death	Hanover

[2] Deviating from this, the date of death is “10. 1. 1890 “called; compare Franz Rudolf Zankl (Ed.): List of Architects , compiled with the collaboration of Helmut Zimmermann , in this: Hanover. From the old train station to the new town hall. Pictorial documents on urban development in the second half of the 19th century , exhibition guide of the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer, Hanover, 1975, p. 42f.

[HBL-1] Helmut Knocke: Schuster, (2) Georg Heinrich , in Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 328; Preview over google books

[3] Dieter Lange: The mausoleum in the mountain garden. In: Günther Kokkelink , Harold Hammer-Schenk (ed.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century , ed. by Harold Hammer-Schenk and Günther Kokkelink (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ), Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X (582 pages), pp. 186-188

[4] Thomas Schwark , Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Fürstenhaus Herrenhausen Museum. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 197

[5] Gerd Weiß: Princely House (Alte Herrenhäuser Strasse 14). In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1, [Bd.] 10.1 , ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 206f.

[6] Franz Rudolf Zankl (ed.): List of architects , compiled with the collaboration of Helmut Zimmermann, in this: Hanover. From the old train station to the new town hall. Pictorial documents on urban development in the second half of the 19th century , exhibition guide of the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer, Hanover, 1975, p. 42f.

[7] Gitta Kirchhefer: A walk through the Herrenhausen cemetery , brochure with photos by Sergej Stoll and a numbered overview plan, Hannover: Selbstverlag, 2012