Hero Diedrich Hillern

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Hero Diedrich Hillerns (1876?)
Hillern's house on the Haaren
Former armory in the Ofener Strasse 15 / corner of Auguststrasse
Former teachers' seminar at Peterstraße 42

Hero Diedrich Hillerns (born October 1, 1807 in Tettens ; † March 28, 1885 in Oldenburg ) was a German architect and senior building officer in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg .

Life

Hero Diedrich Hillerns was born in the parish of Tetten. His parents were the merchant and landowner Hillern Heeren Hillerns and Magdalena Sophia geb. Drost.

Hillerns attended the Mariengymnasium in Jever from 1816 to 1823 and then completed a four-year commercial apprenticeship in Bremen . After a three-month trip to Germany, he decided to become an architect and began practical training in 1828 with the city architect August Heinrich Andreae in Hanover . From 1831 he attended the Höhere Gewerbeschule, which had just been founded in Hanover (later Polytechnic School or part of the University of Hanover ) and was also a member of the art association from 1832 . In 1833 he left Hanover and met the architects Müller, Hübsch and Eisenlohr during another long trip to Germany . Then he was accepted into the building school of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In addition, he studied natural sciences at the university until 1834 , was a member of the architects and engineers association and took part in so-called "competition projects" in this group.

In September 1834 he went to Italy to study, where he stayed for three years and quickly made contact with the German artist colony in Rome . Here he met the painters Bromeis , Fried and Vernet and the art historian Schulz . In July 1837 he returned to Germany and went to Berlin to finally prepare for the exam and entry into professional life as a student of the newly established building academy . In 1838 he registered in Oldenburg for an examination for admission to the civil service, after which he initially completed a one-year temporary job under the direction of the architect Strack . He was one of the first members of the literary and sociable society founded by Gerhard Anton von Halem in 1839 and of the art society that emerged from this group (1843), in which he gave numerous lectures.

In February 1840 Hillerns was hired as building manager II. Classe and undertook a trip to the most important German libraries as part of the library planning, during which he also visited the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel . After several changes, his design for the library was approved in 1842 and the execution of his new building on the dam (1842–1846) was transferred to Hillerns under Strack's supervision. At the same time he began planning the construction of the new seminar on Peterstrasse in Oldenburg, which was built in 1844/45. The completion of these two projects gave him a prestigious position in Oldenburg, but there were still no major orders in the following years. Hillerns found this situation very unsatisfactory and had to be content with minor planning and building maintenance tasks. He used the time to travel further through Germany to study the buildings of other architects. On May 14, 1855 he was appointed Oldenburg building inspector and started building the insane asylum in Wehnen (construction 1854-1858), the post office (1854-1856), the regional court (1857-1859), and the armory (1862-1867, today) used by the Jade University and the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation ) as well as various smaller buildings. Hillerns was now a recognized architect, who was promoted to building council on March 5, 1866. Most recently, he also dealt with plans for a systematic layout of the court and theater district . On May 1, 1878, he was retired with the title of senior building officer.

style

Hillern's brick building and round arch style, influenced by the Hanoverian Andreae and the Baden buildings by Hübsch and Eisenlohr, were characteristic of Hillerns , while in his earliest designs the impression of the late classicism associated with Friedrich von Gärtner in Munich can still be recognized. Hillerns devoted himself to these topics in a theoretical treatise. With the introduction of the round arch style and the departure from Nordic classicism , Hillerns shaped a significant period of the architectural development of the city of Oldenburg, which ended with the Peter Friedrich Ludwigs Hospital von Strack (1838) and the beginning of the neo-Gothic with the station building of Hase ( 1878) was limited.

family

In 1847 Hero married Diedrich Hillern's Ida geb. Driver from Vechta . Six children grew up in the family, who had lived in their own house at Georgstrasse 2 in Oldenburg since 1853.

Works (excerpt)

Hillerns has planned and carried out numerous construction projects in Oldenburg and the surrounding area. Traces of his work can be found in Wehnen in the Karl-Jaspers-Klinik , in Oldenburg on Johann-Justus-Weg and Artillerieweg (arsenal buildings), in Wallstraße 17 (former city boys' school) and in Georgstraße 1 (gym), in Elisabethstraße 1 ( Augusteum ), in Peterstraße 42–44 (former teachers' seminar ), in Elisabethstraße 7 (regional court), at Damm 44 ( State Museum for Nature and Man , formerly library), at Damm 46 (formerly castellany), in Auguststrasse 5, Zeughausstrasse 1 and Ofener Strasse 15 (Zeughausbauten). Hillerns designed the post and customs office building in Jever (Mühlenstrasse 14) and the penal institution in Vechta .

Honor

Hero-Diedrich-Hillerns-Strasse in the Oldenburg district of Bümmerstede is named after Hillerns.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elise Lasius, 1849, Fig. 14: The library
personal data
SURNAME Hillerns, Hero Diedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and senior building officer in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Tettens
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1885
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)