Hermann Behaghel

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Karl Hermann Behaghel (* 6. January 1839 in Mannheim , † 7. April 1921 in Leipzig ) was a German architect and Grand Duke of Baden construction officer, Mr . According to his plans, around 30 new churches were built in North Baden between 1866 and 1912. He also planned the Heidelberg synagogue on Grosse Mantelgasse, numerous parish halls and bourgeois villas, and supervised the renovation of other churches. His church buildings are kept in the style of historicism and are based on the Eisenach regulative , later on the Wiesbaden program.

Life

Hermann Behaghel around 1870

Behaghel came from the Baden, so-called scholarly line of an old family, originally from West Flanders or Brabant, who came to the Reformed Frankenthal as religious refugees in the 16th century and produced numerous manufacturers, pastors and scholars. Hermann Behaghel was born in Mannheim in 1839 as the third son of the professor and later director of the Mannheim Lyceum. He first attended the Lyceum, where his father taught, switched to the Karlsruhe Polytechnic in 1856 and then studied architecture at the Karlsruhe Building School. He then entered the state service in the Grand Duke of Baden and initially worked as a site manager at the Mannheim Building Inspectorate. His duties included, among others. a construction survey of the Mannheim Palace.

After the specialist examination in October 1864, he came to the Protestant Church Building Inspectorate in Heidelberg as a construction trainee. From the beginning he represented the seriously ill building inspector Ludwig Franck-Marperger in carrying out the building visits in the districts of Heidelberg and Rheinbischofsheim as well as in preparing reports on the building situation in the districts. He fulfilled the responsible work to the general satisfaction, so that he was quickly awarded a salary increase and he headed the office in 1867 as a service administrator and in 1869 as a church building inspector.

In 1867 he married Mathilde Köfel from Schwetzingen. The couple moved into a house at 19 Sofienstraße in Heidelberg, where their three sons August, Georg and Karl were born. Behaghel also set up his own office in Heidelberg, where he worked on private construction contracts for bourgeois villas, but also for the Heidelberg synagogue. Until his retirement in 1913, numerous church buildings and representative town houses were built according to his plans.

In 1891 he was promoted to building officer, in 1908 to senior building officer. After retirement, Behaghel, who had been widowed since 1912, moved into a smaller apartment in Plöck in Heidelberg, and in 1920 he finally moved to his son August in Leipzig, where he died the following year.

The urn with his ashes was buried in the Heidelberg mountain cemetery, but his grave has not been preserved.

Honors

In 1886 Behaghel received the Knight's Cross 1st Class from the Zähringer Löwen . After the construction of the Rappenau town church, Behaghel was made an honorary citizen of Rappenau in 1889 . In 1902 he received the Knight's Cross First Class with Oak Leaves, and finally, when he retired in 1913, the Knight's Cross of the Order of Berthold the First.

plant

Behaghel is considered a representative of historicism . According to his plans, around 30 new churches were built in North Baden, mostly in connection with the associated new parish hall. He has also directed numerous church conversions and renovations and was also responsible for the construction of numerous church administration buildings. Up until 1900, when he built his new churches, he largely followed the Eisenach regulatory framework and mostly used neo-Gothic design elements. After 1900 he also created neo-baroque, neo-Romanesque or eclectic buildings as part of the Wiesbaden program , occasionally in later years with elements of Art Nouveau.

New churches and synagogues based on plans by Hermann Behaghel
Conversions based on plans by Hermann Behaghel (selection)
Profane buildings (selection)
  • House for Mr. Bassermann in Mannheim (1867/88)
  • House for Mr. Bassermann in Schwetzingen (1867/88)
  • Manorial seat ( New Castle ) of the Barons of Gemmingen in Neckarzimmern (1867/88)
  • Villa Czerny, Sophienstrasse 1 in Heidelberg (1885)
  • Corphaus des Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg Westfalenhaus , Neue Schloßstraße in Heidelberg (1885/86)
  • Bankhaus Köster, Hauptstrasse 133 in Heidelberg (approx. 1887)
  • Villa Schifferdecker, Neuenheimer Landstrasse 101-103 in Heidelberg (before 1888)
  • Villa Lassig-Bartholomä, Schloß-Wolfsbrunnenweg 22 in Heidelberg (before 1888)
Fonts
  • Together with Friedrich Schwarz: The Evangelical Christ Church in Heidelberg , Heidelberg 1904

literature

  • Inge and Rudolf Rothenhöfer: Hermann Behaghel (1839–1921), builder of the Protestant church in Bad Rappenau and honorary citizen of the city . In: Bad Rappenauer Heimatbote 13 , 2002, pp. 102–118.
  • Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 47, 1913, No. 78 (from September 27, 1913), p. 707. (Appreciation of the upcoming retirement with biographical details)
  • Joachim Hennze: Churches in the district of Heilbronn. In: Heilbronnica 3. Contributions to the city and regional history . Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, Heilbronn 2006, ISBN 3-928990-95-0 ( yearbook for Swabian-Franconian history. 35 = sources and research on the history of the city of Heilbronn. 17)
  • Hans Gercke: Churches in Heidelberg . Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Regensburg, 1st edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-2413-8
  • Do you know him? Hermann Behaghel (1839–1921) . In: Denkmalstiftung Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): Denkmalstimme 2, 2015, pp. 7–8 ( PDF; 1.2 MB )

Web links

Commons : Hermann Behagel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files