Gustav Schönermark

Gustav Schönermark (born December 5, 1854 in Golmbach , † September 13, 1910 in Hanover ; full name: Karl Heinrich August Gustav Schönermark ) was a German architect . Schönermark is co-author of a structural engineering lexicon. From 1888 to 1895 he was editor of the magazine Die Architektur der Hannoversche Schule. Modern works of architecture and applied arts in medieval style .

Live and act

Gustav Schönermark was a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase and studied at the Hanover Polytechnic from 1873 . From 1884 he worked as an inventory manager for the state preservation of monuments in the Prussian province of Saxony, at the same time he taught at the Technical University of Hanover. From 1892 he was consistorial builder of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck . He received his doctorate in 1894 at the University of Leipzig Dr. phil.

Numerous sacred buildings were erected according to his plans in what is now the state of Hesse. a. the following projects:

• extensive renovations in the chapel of Berlepsch Castle in the 1880s and 90s ,
• 1886 the renovation and expansion of the Protestant church in Breitenbach near Kassel,
• 1890-92 the renovation and refurbishment of the Protestant church in the Neustadt of Rotenburg an der Fulda,
• 1892/93 the construction of the Protestant Resurrection Church in Rothhelmshausen near Fritzlar based on plans by Louis Angermann ,
• 1892/93 the renewal of the Protestant church in Wilhelmshausen,
• 1893–95 the Protestant church in Balhorn ,
• 1894 the Protestant church in Cappel near Fritzlar ,
• 1895/96 the extension of the Protestant church in Hünfeld,
• 1895–97 the Protestant church at Gesundbrunnen near Hofgeismar,
• 1896 the reconstruction of the barrel and gallery in the Protestant church in Bosserode,
• after 1896 the Protestant church in Niederhone
• 1897 the extension and the refurbishment of the Protestant church in Obermöllrich,
• 1897 the conversion of the windows in the Protestant church in Kleinvach,
• 1898 the Protestant church in Elm,
• 1899 the Protestant church in Allendorf an der Landsburg ,
• 1899 the sacristy at the Protestant old town church in Hofgeismar,
• In 1900 the radical redesign of the Protestant church in Ronshausen
• 1900/01 the extension of the Protestant church in Hausen near Oberaula,
• 1900/01 the reconstruction and refurbishment of the previously burned down Protestant church in Thurnhosbach,
• 1906 the east expansion of the Protestant church in Uengsterode,
• the neo-Gothic furnishings of the ev. town church in Bad Hersfeld, which were largely destroyed in 1952.

literature

• Doris Böker: Neo-Gothic in the country. The work of the Kassel consistorial builder Gustav Schönermark (1854 - 1910). (= Writings of the Institute for the History of Architecture and Art at the University of Hanover, 6). Hanover 1986; at the same time: Diss. phil. Univ. Marburg, 1984. ISBN 3-931585-03-4 .

Publications

• Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the city of Halle and the hall circle . Hall 1886.
• Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Schweinitz district . Hall 1891.
• Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Delitzsch district . Hall 1892.
• Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Bitterfeld district . Hall 1893.
• Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe . Berlin 1897.
• The crucifix in the fine arts . Strasbourg 1908.
• with Wilhelm Stüber: Hochbau-Lexikon . Berlin, undated

Web links

• Gustav Schönermark in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , last accessed on July 23, 2011
• Works by and about Gustav Schönermark  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Manfred Koenig: The painter Carl Wiederhold. Notes on biography and work . in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Vol. 59, Hannover 2005, pp. 63–82, here: p. 64