Hilger Hertel the Elder

Hilger Hertel the Elder (born November 21, 1831 in Cologne , †  January 26, 1890 in Breslau , baptismal name: Johann Vincens Maria Hertel ) was a German architect and diocesan master builder in Münster .

Life

Hilger Hertel did an apprenticeship as a stonemason after passing the Abitur and passed the master craftsman's examination in the stonemasonry and bricklaying trade in the cathedral building works in Cologne . After Hertel had worked in the office of his cousin Vincenz Statz , he was called to Münster by Bishop Johann Georg Müller in 1857 to work there as a diocesan master builder. Since 1864, Hertel had its own construction office and a stonemason workshop at Südstrasse 36 in Münster.

A total of 56 new buildings and over 100 renovations of churches in the Münsterland and the northern Ruhr area can be attributed to him. There are also many secular buildings . The works Hilger Hertel also lists churches in the diocese of Warmia , including new churches in Bartoszyce ( German  Bartenstein ) Krokowo (Krokau) Pieniężno (sack of flour), Dywity (Dywity) and Butryny (Wuttrienen) and church restorations in Krekole (Krekollen) Braniewo (Braunsberg ), Reszel (Rößel), Biesowo (Groß Bößau) and Sątopy (Santoppen). In Kolding (Jutland / Denmark) the Sankt Michaels Kirke, built 1882–1885, is from him.

More important but less noticeable were his works on church furnishings and ecclesiastical minor art. The number of altars he designed is between 300 and 400, as are the number of confessionals and pulpits. He also designed around 100 goblets and 40 monstrances .

He was an honorary member of the Catholic student association VKDSt. Saxonia Münster in the CV .

Hilger Hertel was married to Angela, born in 1859. Schraeder, and had three sons with her: the architects Hilger the Younger (1861–1918) and Bernhard (1862–1927), as well as the sculptor Adalbert (1868–1952).

On a trip he died of pneumonia in Breslau and was buried in the central cemetery in Münster , the layout of which he designed himself. His grave has been preserved as a monument to this day.

Buildings

Here is a non-exhaustive list of the buildings that can be attributed to Hilger Hertel the Elder:

image	construction time	Building	place	description
	1858-1864	Marienbasilika	Kevelaer	New building as a master builder under the architect and cousin Vincenz Statz
	1858	St. Peter and Paul	Holdorf	New building as a three-aisled brick hall
	1863	St. Mary of the Assumption	Ahaus	Redesign of the upper part of the tower
	1865-1867	Surenburg	Riesenbeck	St. Aloysius Palace Chapel
	1866-1869	St. Lambertus	Ochtrup	New building
	1870-1873	St. Laurence	Send	New building
	1871-1874	St. Stephen	Heessen	New building
	1872-1876	St. Vitus	Visbek	Construction of the hall church together with Franz Xaver Lütz
	1873	Darfeld moated castle	Rosendahl- Darfeld	chapel
	1875-1879	St. New Years Eve	alder	New construction of the neo-Gothic church
	1875	St. Felizitas	Ludinghausen	Reconstruction of the church roof
	1878-1884	Überwasserkirche	Muenster	External repairs
	1881-1884	St. Catherine	Płoskinia	Extension of the choir
	1882-1884	St. John Baptist	Altenberge	New construction of the tower
	1885	St. John Nepomuk	Burgsteinfurt	Southern expansion
	1885	St. Dionyisus	Havixbeck	modification
	1885-1894	St. Nicomedes	Borghorst	New building
	1886-1898	St. Lamberti	Muenster	New construction of the tower
	1887	Central cemetery	Muenster	layout
	1887-1890	St. John Baptist	Mesum	New building
	1888	St. Joseph	Muenster
	1888	St. Vitus	Olfen	New building
	1889	Huesker factory owner's villa	Gescher	New building in neo-Gothic style at Hauptstraße 18
	1890-1892	St. Otger	City wages	New building

Works of art

• Relief panels of the neo-Gothic high altar in the Wissel Abbey / St. Clemens Church

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hertel in Westphalian History
2. ^ Johann Josef Böker : A catalog of works found by the Münster diocesan master builder Hilger Hertel . In: Westphalia . tape 61/2 , 1983, pp. 91-94 .
3. ^ Karl Emil Otto Fritsch : Hilger Hertel †. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 24, 1890, No. 19 (from March 5, 1890), p. 113f. (can be downloaded from the BTU Cottbus publication server: Issue 18–26 as a PDF document with approx. 11 MB)
4. ↑ on the central cemetery MS (accessed May 2012)

literature

• Manfred Dondrup: Materials on church building in the 19th century in the Münsterland: Studies on buildings by Hilger Hertels the Elder. Coppenrath Verlag, Münster 1981.
• Peter Vormweg: The sacred buildings of the brothers Hilger and Bernhard Hertel in Münster. Studies on neo-Gothic using the example of the Holy Cross Church and St. Joseph's Church. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-8364-8839-6 .
• Hans Josef Böker: A catalog of works found by the Münster diocesan master builder Hilger Hertel (1830-1890). In: Westphalia, booklets for history, art and folklore , 61st volume (1983), 2nd part.