Thank God Engelhard

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Gottlob Giacomo Engelhard (born December 18, 1812 in Kassel , † April 13, 1876 in Münster ) was a German architect and Kurhessischer and Prussian construction officer in Kassel and Münster.

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Engelhard's father was the Kassel master builder Daniel Engelhard , his mother Annunciata geb. Bossi. He grew up in Kassel and studied at the architecture department of the Kassel Academy of Fine Arts . The director of the department was then Johann Conrad Bromeis . After completing his studies, Engelhard lived and worked in Rome from 1834 to 1841. There he reconstructed the temple floor plan within the Palazzo Caffarelli , the seat of the Prussian embassy at the time. He worked on various projects with other German architects in Rome, such as Georg Jatho († 1851) and Johann Michael Knapp .

After his return from Italy he worked in the Hessian building administration. As of 1851, he lived in a service apartment at Wilhelmshöher Platz 2 as the chief master builder, which was taken over by his successor Heinrich von Dehn-Rothfelser in 1864 . He planned the reconstruction of the Hořovice Castle , which belonged to the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Kassel .

Engelhard later moved to the government's construction department in the Prussian provincial capital of the province of Westphalia in Münster. There he was appointed a secret councilor. He died in Münster in 1876.

Engelhard was a member of the Berlin Architects' Association and a corresponding member of the archaeological association in Rome . In addition to his achievements as an architect and builder, his work as a painter and draftsman is also noteworthy. In 2003, an exhibition with works by him took place in Kassel: From Kassel to Constantinople - Landscapes and architectural drawings by Gottlob Engelhard . A street in Kassel was also named after him.

Construction of the Kassel main station

The main train station before the destruction

The most important of the buildings created by Engelhard is the Kassel main station . It was built from 1854 to 1857 as a terminal station in the arched style of romantic classicism in what was then the upper town.

At the site of the new station there were two provisional station buildings. The architect and later secret advisor for railroad affairs in the Hessian cabinet Julius Eugen Ruhl had built these separate wooden buildings for two railway lines, the private Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn-Gesellschaft and the state Main-Weser-Bahn . From 1848 trains were dispatched here. In the same year the electoral decision to build a new central station was made. This station should also serve as a community station for the handling of the Hanover Southern Railway . Before construction began, four different options for the location were up for discussion, one of which was Engelhard's father's proposal, which was rejected by the Elector - on Möncheberg. The station was designed with three platforms and four tracks. The arriving locomotives could be turned by means of turntables and placed back at the top of the train via a side track. The waiting rooms and a prince's room were located in the side wings of the building. The station was one of the first main stations in Germany and soon developed into an important railway junction. The brick building was initially referred to as the "Upper Town Train Station". During the Second World War, the station was badly damaged and then largely replaced by a new building.

family

Engelhard married Elisabeth Clara Mathilde (* 1816), a daughter of his former teacher Bromeis. The couple had several children, including Philipp Engelhard, who died in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/1871, and August Felix Gottlob Engelhard (1854–1931), who studied architecture in Hanover and later a city architect in Eschwege and, from 1897, a building officer in Aurich / East Frisia was.

Works

  • Design for a German artist house in Rome , sign. 1837, in: Memory book of the German artists in Rome (second artist album), German artist association (ed.), Rome

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Also written by Engelhardt ; according to Hugo Brunner: History of the royal seat of Cassel, 913–1913, written by order of the magistrate to celebrate the millennium of the city. Wolfgang Weidlich, 1978 ( books.google.pl ).
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Ollrog (adaptation): Johann Christoph Gatterer, the founder of scientific genealogy. An examination of the previously known sources and publications about his origins, his life and work as well as his descendants. On behalf of the Genealogical-Heraldic Society with headquarters in Göttingen, archive for family research and all related areas with practical research assistance. 47th volume, issue 81/82, February 1981, CA Starke Verlag (Ed.), Limburg / Lahn, 1981 (p. 41.)
  3. ^ Art in Hesse and the Middle Rhine. Volume 23, Hessisches Landesmuseum and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel (ed.), E. Roether, 1984, p. 14
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Beyrodt: Gottfried Kinkel as an art historian, representation and correspondence. Volume 23 of the publications of the Bonn City Archives , Röhrscheid, 1979
  5. ^ Jürgen Krüger: Rome and Jerusalem. Church building ideas of the Hohenzollern in the 19th century. ISBN 3-05-002427-5 , Akademie, Berlin 1995, p. 47 books.google.pl  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / books.google.pl  
  6. ^ Painter, architect and court painter in Rome and Kassel
  7. ^ Friedrich Noack: Das Deutschtum in Rom since the end of the Middle Ages , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1927, p. 389 and p. 618 ( books.google.pl ).
  8. ↑ C. Presche: Cultural and historical tour , The Princely House
  9. ↑ Heidede Becker: History of the architecture and urban development competitions. Volume 85 of the publications of the German Institute for Urbanistics , W. Kohlhammer, 1992, p. 46 ( books.google.pl ).
  10. ^ Yearbook of the Brothers Grimm Society. Volumes 13-14, Brothers Grimm Society Kassel (ed.), Die Gesellschaft, 2006, p. 136 (opening on August 24, 2003)
  11. ↑ Günter Kozica: Memories of the old Rothenditmold and its downfall on October 22, 1943 , ISBN 978-3-931691-42-4 , M. Faste, p. 61 ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info : The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verlagfaste.de
  12. ^ Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Volume 107, Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies (ed.), Neumeister printing company, 2002, p. 224 ( books.google.pl ). Other sources state that it was built between 1851 and 1856.
  13. ↑ Kassel before 1939. The main train station on Kassel.de ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kassel.de
  14. ^ Johann Conrad Bromeis, 1788-1855. An architect from the Electorate of Hesse , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel (ed.), Kassel 1988, p. 23
  15. ↑ Accompanying text  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the painting Double Portrait of Philipp and August Engelhard, study from the catalog of the Museum Landscape Hessen Kassel .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / 212.202.143.131  

literature

  • Gottfried Ganßauge: Gottlob Engelhard (1812-1876), architect and painter. In: Life pictures from Kurhessen and Waldeck 1830-1930. Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck. Ingeborg Schnack (Ed.), Volume 5, Marburg 1955, pp. 83 ff.
  • Jacob Hoffmeister: Jacob Hoffmeister's collected news about artists and craftsmen in Hessen for about 300 years. G. Prior (Ed.), Meyer, Hannover 1885
  • Thank God Engelhard . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 34, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22774-4 , p. 30.
  • Friedrich Noack : Engelhard, thank God . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 538 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

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personal data
SURNAME Engelhard, thank God
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelhard, Gottlob Giacomo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1876
Place of death Muenster