Heinrich Seeling

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Heinrich Seeling (born October 1, 1852 in Zeulenroda , † February 15, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German architect .

Life

Seelings grave in the Wilmersdorf cemetery

The son of the master builder Christian Seeling went into his Reuss hometown Zeulenroda to school. After his apprenticeship he attended the building trade school in Holzminden and the Berlin building academy . After visiting Vienna and Italy for study purposes , Seeling returned to Berlin and worked a. a. as an assistant to the then well-known architect Wilhelm Böckmann .

Heinrich Seeling developed into a sought-after theater architect. He designed numerous theater buildings , including the German Opera House in Charlottenburg , the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin , the Princely Court Theater in Gera , the Schauspielhaus in Frankfurt am Main , the Grillo Theater in Essen, as well as the theaters in Bromberg , Freiburg im Breisgau , Halle (Saale) , Kiel , Nuremberg and Rostock . In 1901, Seeling rebuilt the theater in Aachen . He was also the architect of two Protestant churches in Bromberg .

In 1907 he became a city planner in Charlottenburg. Numerous municipal buildings were built under Seeling's responsibility as town planning officer. In collaboration with Erwin Barth, he designed the southern cascades of the Lietzensee Park and the Charlottenburg-Westend water tower . Today's Eosander-Schinkel-Grundschule was built as the 31st and 32nd community school between 1913 and 1914, with the head of the department being Paul Weingärtner . Outside of today's Berlin, the lung sanatorium Waldhaus Charlottenburg in Sommerfeld was built in collaboration with Richard Ermisch as head of the design department from 1912 to 1914 .

Heinrich Seeling was awarded the title of a Russian and a Prussian building councilor . In 1896 he was appointed a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts and in 1924 he received the honorary title of City Elder of Berlin . In the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf , Seelingstrasse, located in the local area of Klausenerplatz , is a reminder of him.

Seeling was buried in the Wilmersdorf cemetery. His grave, as an honor grave of the city of Berlin, is in the department A1-UWSt.-4

plant

Theater buildings

  • 1886: Halle City Theater
  • 1892: Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin
  • 1892: Grillo Theater, Essen
  • 1895: Rostock City Theater
  • 1896: Bromberg Theater
  • 1901: Theater Achen
  • 1902: Princely Court Theater Gera
  • 1902: Schauspielhaus Frankfurt
  • 1905: Nuremberg Theater
  • 1907: Kiel Opera House
  • 1910: Freiburg City Theater
  • 1912: City Opera Charlottenburg

  • Court Theater Gera (2007)

  • Nuremberg Opera House

  • Schauspielhaus Frankfurt (partly destroyed in 1944)

  • Rostock City Theater (destroyed in 1942)

  • Administration building of the Heilstätte Waldhaus Charlottenburg

  • City theater in Aachen after reconstruction by Seeling

  • Berlin theater on Schiffbauerdamm , around 1908

  • Charlottenburg-Westend water tower

literature

  • Irmhild Heckmann-von Wehren: Heinrich Seeling. A theater architect of historicism. Lit Verlag, Münster / Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-89473-090-0 . (with catalog raisonné)

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Seeling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin (ed.): Schools. (= Berlin and its buildings , part V, volume C.) Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-433-02205-4 , p. 404.
  2. ^ Eberhard-Günther Ermisch, Klaus Konrad Weber: Richard Ermisch. Portrait of a builder. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1971, p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Seeling, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeulenroda
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1932
Place of death Berlin