Heinrich Lauenburg

Heinrich Christian Johann Lauenburg (born August 27, 1832 in Bützow / Mecklenburg; † January 15, 1890 in Berlin ) was a German architect and building contractor .

Career

After an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, Heinrich Lauenburg worked in the railway construction industry in Mecklenburg from 1849. From 1853 to 1860 he graduated from the Berlin Building Academy with a private master builder examination . In 1855 he became a member of the Architects' Association and there received the Schinkel Prize in 1859 for the design of the Parliament House in Prussia . From 1859 he was the owner of a construction company that mainly carried out state buildings. a. the construction of the provisional Reichstag in Leipziger Strasse in Berlin-Mitte. The company, which continued under his name after his death, erected numerous buildings in Berlin.

Buildings (selection)

• 1864: House of the craftsmen's association , Berlin-Mitte, Sophienstrasse 15 ( demolished together with Bernhard Kolscher , 1902)
• 1864: Interior construction of the Red City Hall in Berlin (together with Kolscher)
• 1872–1875: Palais des Fürsten von Pleß, Berlin-Mitte, Wilhelmstrasse (based on a design by Destailleur , demolished around 1910)
• 1875: Apartment building in Berlin-Schöneberg, Kurmärkische Strasse 11 & 13, Zietenstrasse 1, monument no. 09066604

literature

• Uwe Kieling: Berlin private architect and master railroad builder in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1988, p. 45 .

Web links

• Heinrich Lauenburg: Projects. In: Architekturmuseum TU Berlin. Retrieved April 13, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lauenburg, H. in Monument Database Berlin. Retrieved April 13, 2020
2. ↑ Uwe Kieling: Berlin - Builders and Buildings: From Gothic to Historicism . 1st edition. Tourist Verl., Berlin; Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-350-00280-3 , p. 214 .