Hermann Wehrenfennig

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Karl Hermann Wehrenfennig (born May 28, 1822 in Bad Goisern , † February 10, 1881 in Vienna ; also Hermann Wehrenpfennig ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Hermann Wehrenfennig studied from 1837 to 1842 at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna, now the Technical University of Vienna, and then for a year at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Pietro Nobile . In 1843 he became an intern at the kk building management; from 1853 he was assistant 1st class in the construction department of the Ministry of Commerce and around 1876 became chief engineer in the construction department of the ministry.

Realizations

Wehrenfennig mainly worked as a civil servant architect. In addition, as a "private architect" he built several tenement houses and the Villa Klusemann in Gmunden (1873) in Vienna's 1st district .

He planned the Protestant churches in Gosau , Gmunden and Vöcklabruck .

Familiar

Hermann Wehrenfennig came from the pastor family Wehrenfennig , whose offspring worked from Regensburg in the Gosau valley at the end of the 18th century . His father, Johann Theodor Wehrenfennig (1794-1856), was pastor of Schladming from 1816 and of Goisern from 1820. From 1854 to 1856 he was Superintendent of the Superintendenz AB Upper Austria. His grandfather was Johann Georg Overbeck , senior of the Evangelical Churches in Upper Austria, from a well-known Lübeck family.

Publications

  • Hermann Wehrenpfennig: The Fatton houses on Kolowratring in Vienna. In: Allgemeine Bauzeitung 33.1868, p. 317ff, T.52f

literature

  • Erwin Horst Schuller: Karl Hermann Wehrenfennig (1822–1881) and his importance as an architect of Protestant churches in Upper Austria. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 153, Linz 2008, pp. 429–504 ( PDF (48.3 MB) on ZOBODAT ).
  • Erwin (Horst) Schuller: Protestant churches of the 19th century in Upper Austria and the architect Hermann Wehrenfennig. Vöcklabruck 2011.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hermann Wehrenfennig. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007. Accessed April 4, 2012.
  2. ^ Leopold Temmel: Evangelical in Upper Austria. Career and existence of the Evangelical Church , Linz 1982, p. 81 ( Online ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2013 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 remove then this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / museum.evang.at
personal data
SURNAME Wehrenfennig, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wehrenpfennig, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Goisern
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1881
Place of death Vienna