Hans Rychner

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Cantonal observatory Neuchâtel, 1858

Hans Rychner (born October 26, 1813 in Aarau ; † May 23, 1869 in Neuchâtel ) was a Swiss architect . The offices that he and his descendants, especially his sons Adolphe (1844–1901), Alfred (1845–1918) and his grandson Alfred Henri Rychner-Ponchon (1881–1919) headed, shaped the building industry in Neuchâtel for decades.

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Hans Rychner was a trained stonemason before studying with Friedrich von Gärtner in Munich in the 1830s . In 1836 he had a job with Louis Châtelain in Neuchâtel, from 1838 to 1845 he had his own office in Freiburg together with Johann Jakob Weibel , with whom he had been friends since studying in Munich. Among the orders were the school house in Murten and Barberêche Castle .

From 1845 Rychner ran his own office in Neuchâtel. At the first Fête fédérale de gymnastique et tir des Armes-Réunies , a seven-day festival after the Sonderbund War, he built the festival buildings. He had a number of official tasks, as a competition judge, including on the juries for the Bundeshaus in Bern and the quay facilities in Zurich, in 1864 as the official examiner for the main building of the Polytechnic . As a district planner, he was responsible for the first alignment plan for Biel (1853) and plans for Le Locle and Murten.

In his planning work, he was able to erect a large number of buildings that are now listed, and among other things, he was a specialist in school building: Neuchâtel (1854 and 1860), La-Chaux-de-Fonds (1860), Biel (1863), Twann, Ligerz, La Neuveville, St.-Imier, Cudrefin, Boudry etc. He built hospitals, churches (1851-1853 German reformed church La-Chaux-de-Fonds), villas, rental and residential houses (1854 the clockmaker's houses in Murten, 1859 Residential house and Masonic lodge in Neuchâtel), public buildings (1864 Neuchâtel exhibition gallery, 1859 Neuchâtel observatory ), bathing facilities and port facilities.

literature

  • Elisabeth Castellani Zahir: Rychner, Hans . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 463 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claire Piguet, Gilles Barbey: Neuchâtel. In: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture, 1850–1920. Volume 7: Montreux, Neuchâtel, Olten, Rorschach. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-280-02320-3 . P. 188.
  2. ^ Jacques Gubler: La Chaux-de-Fonds. In: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture, 1850–1920. Volume 3: Biel, Chur, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Davos. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-280-01397-6 . P. 166-
personal data
SURNAME Rychner, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarau
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1869
Place of death Neuchâtel NE