Wilhelm Mithoff

Hector Wilhelm Heinrich Mithoff (born June 13, 1811 in Uelzen ; † March 20, 1886 in Hanover ) was a German architect and "art writer" as well as a draftsman .

Mithoff worked with Conrad Wilhelm Hase on the restoration of the Michaeliskirche in Hildesheim , which is now a World Heritage Site . His most important work, however, is "the first comprehensive art monuments inventory of the Kingdom of Hanover ".

Life

family

Wilhelm Mithoff came from the old bourgeois family Mithoff (also: Mithobe, Mithobius, Mithof ), who had lived in Neustadt am Rübenberge since 1430 and later in particular in Hanover , from whom a branch was raised to imperial nobility in the middle of the Thirty Years War . Mithoff's father was the future master builder in Celle, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Mithoff .

Career

Wilhelm Mithoff completed an apprenticeship as a Baueleve at the royal court building administration in Hanover under the architect Georg Ludwig Comperl and has since been employed in Hanover by the state building authorities there.

In the 1830s Mithoff was a student of the architect and later author Georg Moller , and later worked with Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves .

From 1835 to 1837 Mithoff went on a study trip to Germany, Italy and France, during which he met the architect Henri Labrouste in Paris . Also in 1837 he began - together with the architect Heinrich Ludwig Krüger - with the new building of the higher regional court in Celle , which was completed by 1842 , interrupted only in 1839 by a second study trip to Italy.

From 1839 Mithoff worked for the royal domain chamber and the monastery chamber of Hanover . During this time, for example, he worked with Conrad Wilhelm Hase in 1850 during the restoration of the Michaeliskirche in Hildesheim.

As a member of the Hanover Art Association , Mithoff co-founded the Hanover Architects and Engineers Association (AIVH), which was founded in 1851 .

From 1858 Mithoff worked as a building consultant for the royal house ministry and the Oberhof-Marshal department. Finally, in 1866, he was promoted to senior building officer in the finance department.

It was only after his retirement in 1868 that Mithoff began to work on the first comprehensive inventory of art monuments in the Kingdom of Hanover (see section Writings ) and, with his archive for Lower Saxony's art history , placed himself in the "successor of the great works of [Georg] Moller and Boisserée ".

Honors

• In the year of his death, the city of Hanover named the newly created Mithoffstrasse in the southern part of the city in his honor.

Works

Buildings (if known)

Stiftstrasse 12 in Hanover-Mitte : Remnants of Mithoff's own villa, built in 1862, now converted into an office building

The air raids on Hanover in World War II in 1943 "destroyed the building department and with it considerable parts of the historical documents stored there." A short time later, the flood disaster of 1946 "received the history of the city from the 19th century [through the Hanover city archive ] 80% lost. ”Therefore, not all of Mithoff's works are known and are the subject of renewed research today .

• 1837–1842 (with agricultural inspector Heinrich Ludwig Krüger): Celle, Higher Regional Court; receive
• 1840s, Hanover: Building recordings of town houses, the town hall, etc.
• around 1850: Walsrode : Pulpit wall for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Johannis , built by Ludwig Hellner until 1850 , which was then designed by the sculptor Ludwig Taeger and the painter Carl Oesterley sen. was executed
• 1852 Hanover, Leinstraße / corner of Mühlenstraße : Renaissance town house ( house of the fathers )
  • Demolished in 1852 due to expansion of the Leineschloss
  • 1852 Reconstruction in Langen Laube 3 as a residence for the painter Carl Oesterley (destroyed in World War II)
  • 1957 Reuse of facade elements in the new building of the house in Leinstraße 33
• 1857–1861 Winzenburg : New construction of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary's Birth
• 1862 Hanover, Stiftstrasse 12 : Mithoff house; preserved in remains

Fonts (incomplete)

Lithograph by Wilhelm Kretschmer after a drawing by Mithoff of the Wienhausen monastery

• Medieval artists and master craftsmen in Lower Saxony and Westphalia. Hanover 1866, digitized through Google books
  • 2nd, revised and enlarged edition, Helwing, Hannover 1885; Digitized version of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Archive for Lower Saxony's art history. A representation of medieval works of art in Lower Saxony and the immediate vicinity , Hanover: Hellwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, 1849–1862; Volumes 1–3 digitized via the Heidelberg University Library ; with lithographs based on drawings by Mithoff by Julius Giere and Wilhelm Kretschmer :
  • 1st division: Medieval works of art in Hanover ; Digitized
  • 2nd division: The Wienhausen monastery near Celle ; Digitized
  • 3rd division: Medieval works of art in Goslar ; Digitized
• Results from medieval wage registers of the city of Hanover. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony . Vol. 33, 1867, pp. 171-213; Vol. 34, 1868, pp. 190-242; Vol. 35, pp. 153-234; Vol. 36, 1870, pp. 97-163; Vol. 37, 1871, pp. 129–226 (see proof of digital copies at Wikisource )
• Art monuments and antiquities in Hanover. 7 volumes. Hellwing, Hanover 1871-1880; partly with panels and woodcuts , with a final word with an overview map and place register for volumes 1–7; partially digitized:
  • Volume 1: Principality of Calenberg ; 1871; Digitized by the Bavarian State Library and on Google
  • Volume 2: Principalities of Göttingen and Grubenhagen together with the Hanoverian part of the Harz Mountains and the county of Hohnstein ; 1873; Digitized by Google books
  • Volume 3: Principality of Hildesheim together with the formerly free imperial city of Goslar ; 1875; Digitized version of the Braunschweig University Library
  • Volume 4: Principality of Lüneburg
  • Volume 5: Duchies of Bremen and Verden together with the Land of Hadeln , Counties of Hoya and Diepholz ; 1878; Digitized by the GDZ
  • Volume 6: Principality of Osnabrück , Lower County of Lingen , County of Bentheim and Duchy of Arenberg-Meppen ; 1879; Digitized by the GDZ
  • Volume 7: Principality of Ostfriesland and Harlingerland , 1880
• Announcements about the Mithoff family of the bourgeois and ennobled line , with 3 photolithographic replicas [plates] and an engraved family tree (typewritten family book, not commercially available; print: Hanover: Friedrich Culemann), 1881; Digitized version of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

literature

• Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography (in Gothic script ), Volume 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 , Hannover: Sponholtz, 1912, p. 357
• Ulfrid Müller (Ed.): Friedrich August Ludwig Hellner, December 2nd, 1791 - August 2nd, 1862, consistorial builder in the Royal Consistory of Hanover; Festschrift to commemorate his 200th birthday , ed. on behalf of the regional church office of Ev.-Luth. Regional church of Hanover from the office for building and art maintenance by Ulfrid Müller, Ev.-Luth. Regional Church of Hanover, Office for Building and Art Preservation, 1991, p. 128 u.ö.
• Oberbaurath a. D. Mithoff †. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 20, 1886, No. 28, p. 167
• HWH Mithoff †. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 6, 1886, No. 15, p. 148
• Journal of the Architects and Engineers Association in Hanover , 1886, pp. 376–377
• Theodor Unger : Hanover - guide through the city and its buildings. Commemorative publication for the fifth general meeting of the Association of German Architects and Engineers , Hanover 1882
• Georg Dehio (Ed.): Handbook of German Art Monuments , Berlin: Munich: 1900–
• Helga Stein: paint on the bone hewn office building. In: Sources and documents on the history of the city of Hildesheim , Volume 1, Hildesheim 1993
• Günther Kokkelink , Monika Lemke-Kokkelink : Architecture in Northern Germany. Architecture and arts and crafts of the Hanover School 1850–1900, Hanover: Schlütersche, 1998, ISBN 3-87706-538-4 , p. 550 u.ö.
• Helmut Knocke : MITHOFF, Hector Wilhelm 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 , pp. 256f.
• Helmut Knocke: Mithoff, Hector Wilhelm 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 , pp. 445f.

Web links

Commons : Hector Wilhelm Heinrich Mithoff  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Hector Wilhelm Heinrich Mithoff  - sources and full texts

• Reinhard Glaß: Mithoff, Hector Wilhelm Heinrich in the register of the architecture portal, here: Architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , last accessed on August 21, 2013
• Wilhelm Mithoff at europeana .eu

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Helmut Knocke: MITHOFF ... (see literature)
2. ↑ Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks )
3. ↑ Note: According to information in the photo archive of Photo Marburg , Mithoff was also a monument conservationist and building officer ; compare this information; last accessed on 23 August 2013
4. ^ Karl Ernst Hermann Krause:  Mithobius, Hector . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 12-14.
5. ^ ^{A b} Claudia Grund: German-language master works of the 19th century on neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic. A critical bibliography based on the holdings of the Eichstätt University Library , also a dissertation in 1994 at the Catholic University of Eichstätt, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997, ISBN 3-447-03852-7 , p. 163; online through google books
6. ↑ According to Reinhard Glaß (see the section on web links ) documents about Mithoff's activities can be found both in the “ Hase estate ” in the Hanover city archives and in the “personal history collection” there.
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Reinhard Glaß: Mithoff ... (see section web links )
8. ^ Ludwig Hoerner : Architects and Engineers Association Hanover. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 33
9. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Knocke: Mithoff ... (see literature)
10. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Mithoffstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag , Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 175.
11. ^ NN : History of the City Archives / Archive History , Press and Public Relations Work of the City of Hanover (ViSdP), last accessed on 23 August 2013
12. ^ Helmut Knocke: HELLNER, Friedrich August Ludwig. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 161; online through google books