Heinrich Velde

Entrance building of Höchst train station , 1880 (architect: Heinrich Velde)

Heinrich Velde (born May 29, 1827 in Diez , Duchy of Nassau ; † April 16, 1905 ) was a German architect and construction clerk in the service of the state railway administration.

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Heinrich Velde

Heinrich Velde studied from 1847 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, the subject of architecture ( architecture ) and then became Royal Railway and Operations Inspector . As an architect, Heinrich Velde mainly designed high-rise buildings for the Lahn Valley Railway and the neighboring Rhine Valley route .

According to a design by Velde, numerous standardized reception buildings were built along the Lahn Valley Railway from the middle of the 19th century . Velde designed a total of 37 train stations and was also responsible for the construction of stops, station keepers' houses and tunnel portals. The second Höchst station from 1880, which replaced the first station building from 1839, is considered to be his architectural masterpiece in railway construction . The railway stations in Bad Ems , Diez and Weilburg have been preserved . The Rüdesheim am Rhein station, which was renovated in 2007 , was built by Velde in the classicist style from 1854 to 1856 . The former Biebrich-Mosbach train station (today: Wiesbaden-Biebrich train station ) can also be traced back to Velde's plans, as does the Mittelheim station building in the Rheingau .

Velde also worked as an architect for individual buildings outside of the railway construction; Among other things, he led the construction of the new Catholic parish church St. Georg in Oberreifenberg from 1853 to 1855 and designed the Feldberghaus on the Großer Feldberg , the foundation stone of which was laid in 1859.

family

Heinrich Velde's father was the master tailor Johann Heinrich Velde. Heinrich Velde's brother, August Velde (* March 4, 1829; † 1904) was involved in the Turner movement during the German Revolution of 1848/1849 , later worked as a lawyer in Diez and co-founded the Nassau-Selterser Mineralquellen AG in Oberselters .

One of Heinrich Velde's sons, Dr. Gustav Velde (* March 21, 1865; † July 4, 1920) accompanied the German expeditionary corps during the Boxer Rebellion as a military doctor and wrote several medical reports on his experiences there. Heinrich Velde's daughter, Julie Velde (born January 3, 1869 - † July 4, 1965) helped shape the German women's movement and was among other things at the private girls' school and what later became the Schmidt Lyceum (today: Anna Schmidt School ) in Frankfurt am Main Has worked as a teacher for many years since the school was founded in 1889 .

Picture gallery (buildings based on Velde's design)

Station Biebrich Mosbach (state 1900)
Feldberghaus , Großer Feldberg im Taunus (1860)
Weilburg train station (current state)
Parish church of St. Georg in Oberreifenberg
Ruedesheim am Rhein station. Recording from 2011.

literature

Karl Friedrich Walbrach: Life and work of the Nassau railway planner Moritz Hilf . In: Nassau Annals . Volume 112, Wiesbaden 2001, pp. 363-405. (Excerpts freely available online; contained in: Bridges and tunnels: Railway construction in the Biedermeier period in the Duchy of Nassau , article by Karl-Ludwig Diehl on www.ureader.de of November 27, 2007; last accessed: May 26, 2009)

State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Heinz Schomann: Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen , railway in Hessen , vol. 2.) Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 .

Individual evidence

↑ Matriculation set of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich

↑ ^a ^b Karl Friedrich Walbrach: life and work of Nassau railway planner Moritz Hilf. In: Nassau Annals. Volume 112, Wiesbaden 2001, pp. 363-405. (Freely available online; see literature).

↑ The representative entrance of Rüdesheim restored ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), press release of the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art from July 6, 2007 (last accessed: May 25, 2009).

^ Illustration of the Rüdesheim train station at the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse (last call: May 25, 2009).

↑ Little hope for the train station in FAZ from June 19, 2015, page 43

↑ Feldberg im Taunus >> 1859 ( memento from June 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on www.feldbergrennen.de (last accessed: May 26, 2009).

^ History of the creation of the Feldberghaus in the communications of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies (MHG) from 1859, pp. 250–255 (last accessed: May 26, 2009).

↑ Bernd-Michael Neese: Three Diezer Turner in the revolutionary years 1848/49: Julius Oppermann, August Velde, Alois Henninger. Lecture on June 21, 2007 in the Diez youth hostel. In the holdings of the Hessian State Library in Wiesbaden, 2007.

↑ Section 101, Oberselters Mineral- und Heilquellen GmbH >> August Velde ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Hessian Economic Archives (last access: May 26, 2009).@1@ 2

^ Dietlind Wünsche: Field post letters from China. Patterns of perception and interpretation of German soldiers at the time of the Boxer Rebellion 1900/1901. 1st edition, Ch. Links Verlag , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-502-7 , pp. 51-52. (Additional dissertation; Free University Berlin 2007).

↑ Lyceum with “maternal touch” ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Anniversary publication of the Anna-Schmidt-Schule from 1986, p. 6 (PDF; last accessed: May 26, 2009).@1@ 2

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Velde, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 29, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH	Diez
DATE OF DEATH	April 16, 1905

[1] Matriculation set of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich

[Annalen-2] Karl Friedrich Walbrach: life and work of Nassau railway planner Moritz Hilf. In: Nassau Annals. Volume 112, Wiesbaden 2001, pp. 363-405. (Freely available online; see literature).

[3] The representative entrance of Rüdesheim restored ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), press release of the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art from July 6, 2007 (last accessed: May 25, 2009).

[4] Illustration of the Rüdesheim train station at the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse (last call: May 25, 2009).

[5] Little hope for the train station in FAZ from June 19, 2015, page 43

[6] Feldberg im Taunus >> 1859 ( memento from June 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on www.feldbergrennen.de (last accessed: May 26, 2009).

[7] History of the creation of the Feldberghaus in the communications of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies (MHG) from 1859, pp. 250–255 (last accessed: May 26, 2009).

[8] Bernd-Michael Neese: Three Diezer Turner in the revolutionary years 1848/49: Julius Oppermann, August Velde, Alois Henninger. Lecture on June 21, 2007 in the Diez youth hostel. In the holdings of the Hessian State Library in Wiesbaden, 2007.