Heinrich Nikolaus Börm

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Heinrich Nikolaus Börm , also Heinrich Nicolaus Börm (born July 18, 1780 in Hattstedt , † October 16, 1831 in Lüneburg ) was a German builder and engineer. From 1820 until his death he was the city architect of Lübeck .

Life

Heinrich Nikolaus Börm was a son of the pastor Nicolaus Börm († 1820 in Schleswig ) and his wife Dorothea Maria, b. from Passow . The judiciary and Preetz monastery clerk Johann Friedrich Börm (1782-1833) was his younger brother.

He studied natural sciences at the Universities of Kiel and Jena and from 1803 for three years at the Berlin Building Academy , especially with David Gilly . In 1807 he received a travel grant from the Danish government in Copenhagen to study hydraulic engineering . Initially active in dike construction, in 1815 he became a construction manager in the service of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg in Eutin . On May 31, 1820, the Lübeck council appointed him city architect, after the position had remained unfilled for almost five years after Ernst Christian August Behrens and Joseph Christian Lillie were dismissed . In addition to overseeing the city's construction projects, he was the city fire director and - which was decisive for his appointment - responsible for the maintenance and expansion of the Stecknitz Canal . Due to the repercussions of the coalition wars and the French era , there were only a few new public buildings. His main work, the building of the Reformed Church (1823/26) shows echoes of French revolutionary architecture .

  • Reformed Church Lübeck: facade

  • Reformed Church: interior

Börm was a member of various learned societies as well as the Lübeck Society for the Promotion of Nonprofit Activities , in which he also gave lectures, for example on April 10, 1821 the later printed On the Meaning and Spirit of Gothic Architecture in Contrast to Greek Architecture , on January 22, 1822 about earlier projects to connect the Baltic Sea with the North Sea, on January 14th, 1823 About the risk of fire and its prevention , on February 13th, 1827 Why are we building less solidly now? and on February 22, 1830 about railways .

In 1831 he went to Karlsbad to take a cure , but died of cholera on the way back in Lüneburg . The local city architect and former Börm's assistant, Anton Spetzler , became his successor in early 1833.

buildings

Synagogue in Moisling

Fonts

  • Via canal, especially in relation to the two duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. In: Schleswig-Holsteinisch Provinzialberichte 1812, pp. 695–709
  • Demolition of the dike knowledge. Altona 1813
  • Foreword in: Anton Spetzler: Instructions for the installation of artesian wells. Lübeck: In the von Rohden'schen bookstore. Printed by HG Rathgens in Lübeck in 1832
  • (posthumous): On the meaning and spirit of Gothic architecture as opposed to Greek. in: Neues Staatsbürgerliches Magazin 2 (1833), pp. 1–28
Digital copy , Bavarian State Library

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen 11 / I (1833), Weimar: Voigt 1835, p. 61
  2. ↑ Ulrich Pohle, Horst Seepel: The Johann Heinrich Voss School in Eutin and its predecessor schools . In: Festschrift for the ceremonial handover of the extension building for science lessons . Eutin 1984, p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Börm, Heinrich Nikolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Börm, Heinrich Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder and engineer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Hattstedt
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1831
Place of death Luneburg