Heinrich Wiethase

Heinrich Johann Wiethase (born August 9, 1833 in Kassel , † December 7, 1893 in Cologne ) was a German architect ; he worked as a diocesan master builder for the Archdiocese of Cologne .

Grave in the Melaten cemetery

Life

After an initial apprenticeship with Georg Gottlob Ungewitter in Kassel , Wiethase worked in Cologne in the cathedral construction works under the cathedral master builder Vincenz Statz . After passing the masonry and stonemason examination, he worked under the direction of Julius Carl Raschdorff in the restoration of the Cologne Gürzenich . He then worked for the architect Friedrich von Schmidt , after which Wiethase studied as an intern at the Berlin Bauakademie , where he won the Schinkel Prize in 1861 . Although he was of a Protestant denomination, he became a diocesan master builder of the Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne due to his achievements and extensive building practice.

His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (lit. J, between lit. C + D).

According to him, which is Wiethasestraße in Cologne Braunsfeld named.

Designs and constructions

Several hundred construction plans by Wiethase are in the historical archive of the city of Cologne and document u. a. many church buildings that he planned and built in the Rhineland .

year	image	place	object	state	comment
1861-1863		Kempen	Kempen Castle	North Rhine-Westphalia	Reconstruction of the castle ruins
1862-1865		Aachen	Redemptorist Monastery Aachen	North Rhine-Westphalia	Profanation 2005
1862-1864, 1887/1888		Rheinböllen	Puricelli pen	Rhineland-Palatinate
1864-1869		Eilendorf	Catholic parish church: St. Severin	North Rhine-Westphalia
1864-1869		Pinnow	Conversion of the Pinnow mansion for Friedrich von Klinggräff	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
1866-1870		Sleeve	Catholic parish church: St. Cyriac	North Rhine-Westphalia
1867-1869		Neunkirchen (Saar)	Evangelical Christ Church	Saarland	Rebuilt after the war.
1867-1871		Ruhrort	Catholic parish church: St. Maximilian	North Rhine-Westphalia	Partial execution of an original new building concept.
1870		Ginderich	Catholic parish church: St. Mary of the Assumption	North Rhine-Westphalia	Remodeling and renovation
1871-1874		Duisburg	Catholic parish church: St. Joseph	North Rhine-Westphalia	Destroyed by the war, structural remains included in the new building
1871-1874		Stone churches	Catholic branch church: St. Martinus	North Rhine-Westphalia
1871-1875		Dulken	Catholic parish church: St. Cornelius	North Rhine-Westphalia	Construction management Edmund Renard .
1873-1874		Alps	Catholic parish church: Ortisei	North Rhine-Westphalia
1873-1875		Holten	Catholic parish church: St. John Baptist	North Rhine-Westphalia	changed after war damage
1874-1876		Haldern	Catholic parish church: St. George	North Rhine-Westphalia
1877		Binsfeld	Catholic branch church: St. Gertrude	North Rhine-Westphalia	extension
1877-1880		Frauwüllesheim	Catholic branch church: St. Mary's Visitation	North Rhine-Westphalia	Remodeling and renovation
1877-1881		Aachen	Catholic parish church: St. Jacob	North Rhine-Westphalia	together with Eduard Linse , changed after 1945
1877-1881		Knechtsteden	Catholic monastery church	North Rhine-Westphalia	Reconstruction after fire
1878-1879		Groß Königsdorf	Catholic parish church: St. Sebastianus	North Rhine-Westphalia
1879-1886		Bonn	Catholic collegiate church: St. John Baptist and Peter	North Rhine-Westphalia
1880-1882		Walsum	Catholic parish church: St. Dionysius	North Rhine-Westphalia
1880-1884		Warburg	Calenberg Castle	North Rhine-Westphalia	Renovation and new construction
1882		Heidelberg	Corp building of the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg	Baden-Württemberg
1887-1889		Winches	Catholic parish church: St. Urbanus	North Rhine-Westphalia
1889-1891		Sankt Goar	Catholic parish church: St. Goar	Rhineland-Palatinate	Together with Eduard Endler
1891-1894		Gelsenkirchen	town hall	North Rhine-Westphalia	Demolished in 1970
1891-1894		Cologne	Evangelical Christ Church	North Rhine-Westphalia	Construction management based on plans by August Hartel and Skjøld Neckelmann. Church destroyed in 1944 except for the tower and organ loft.
1891-1897		Oberpleis	Catholic parish church: St. Pancras	North Rhine-Westphalia
1892-1894		Ratingen	Catholic parish church: St. Peter and Paul	North Rhine-Westphalia	extension
1892-1894		Wipperfeld	Catholic parish church: St. Clement	North Rhine-Westphalia
1894-1897		Aachen	Catholic parish church: St. Adalbert	North Rhine-Westphalia	modification

such as

• Gelsenkirchen town hall (demolished)
• Town hall in Düren (destroyed)
• City library in Düren
• Chapel in Bonn- Auerberg

literature

• Alexander Schnütgen : Heinrich Wiethase †. In: Journal for Christian Art , Volume 6, 1893, No. 10, Column 311 f.
• "B.": Heinrich Wiethase †. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 13th year 1893, No. 51 (from 23 December 1893), p. 539.
• Wiethase, Heinrich . In: Eduard Firmenich Richartz, Hermann Keussen : Cologne artists in old and new times . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1895, column 945 ff.
• Hermann Arthur Lier :  Wiethase, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, p. 442.
• Walter Marquaß: Heinrich Johann Wiethase (1833-1893). Private master builder in Cologne. Dissertation, RWTH Aachen 1980.

Web links

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

• Digitized archive holdings on Heinrich Wiethase in the digital historical archive in Cologne

Individual evidence

1. ↑ But Wiethase was not , as sometimes read, a Cologne cathedral master builder !
2. ^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne graves and history. Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 230 .
3. ↑ under the construction management of the Reg.-Baumeister Rosskothen , Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , October 14, 1882, p. 374, accessed on December 13, 2012
4. ↑ In good and bad years. - Your heavenly grace, I obediently hand over the following 10-year report: ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 26, 2014