Gottfried von Neureuther
Gottfried von Neureuther (born January 22, 1811 in Mannheim , † April 12, 1887 in Munich ) was a German architect and university professor .
Life
Gottfried Neureuther, the son of the painter Ludwig Neureuther (1774–1832) and his brother, the painter Eugen Napoleon Neureuther (1806–1882), grew up in Bamberg . From 1830 to 1831 he was a student of Friedrich Gärtner at the Munich Art Academy . From 1833 he worked in the building administration of the Kingdom of Bavaria, first at the building inspection in Würzburg and from 1835 at the building inspection in Reichenhall . From 1838 to 1841 Neureuther worked as a construction manager in Nuremberg , from 1842 to 1844 as a section engineer of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn , then as the second architect for the railway construction commission in Nuremberg.
In 1845 Neureuther was transferred to Munich, and in 1857 he was appointed professor for civil engineering at the Munich Polytechnic . From 1858 he was the building officer of the department for agriculture at the Supreme Building Authority , finally he was appointed professor for civil engineering at the Polytechnic in 1868, where he worked until 1882. He was particularly a representative of the Neo-Renaissance .
His grave is on the east wall of the Old North Cemetery in Munich.
Buildings (selection)
- 1845: Stations on the Lichtenfels – Hof railway line
- 1848: Main-Spessart-Bahn train stations to Kahl am Main
- 1850: Haßfurt train station
- 1851–1856: Würzburg railway station
- 1855: Veitshöchheim station reception building
- 1852–1856: Schweinfurt Stadt railway station
- 1863–1865: Riedingerhaus in Augsburg
- 1864–1868: New building of the Munich Polytechnic
- 1872–1874: Railway headquarters building in Ludwigshafen am Rhein
- 1872–1874: Villa for Paul Heyse in Munich
- 1872–1875: Villa Wendlandt in Bozen , South Tyrol
- 1873–1874: House at Schloßstraße 1 in Bad Kissingen
- 1874–1884: Munich Art Academy
Honors
In 1869 he received the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Merit from St. Michael , and in 1874 the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art . In 1875 he was raised to the Bavarian personal nobility. He was a member of the Academies of the Arts in Munich (1868), Vienna (1870) and Berlin (1874), the Royal Institute of British Architects (1877) and the Académie royale de Belgique (1885). According to him, 1887 in Munich Maxvorstadt the Neureutherstraße named.
literature
- Otto Weigmann : Neureuther, Gottfried von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 684-689.
- Angelika Burger: Neureuther, Gottfried von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 183 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Neureutherstrasse , quoted from: Karl Graf von Rambaldi - The Munich street names and their explanation (1894), on stadt-muenchen.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neureuther, Gottfried von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1887 |
| Place of death | Munich |