Hugo Groothoff

Groothoff 1905

Cushion stone Carl Heinrich Hugo Groothoff , Ohlsdorf

Hugo Groothoff (born November 23, 1851 in Hamburg ; † May 30, 1918 there ; full name Carl Heinrich Hugo Groothoff ) was a German architect .

Life

From 1874 Hugo Groothoff worked as a construction manager in Frankfurt am Main , in the Frankfurt cathedral office and as a freelance architect in Wiesbaden before he returned to Hamburg in 1884.

From 1884 to 1887 Groothoff taught at the trade school. From 1887 he worked again as a freelance architect, initially on smaller orders. He later became known for church buildings in the neo-Gothic style and other public buildings in which he used different styles.

On March 19, 1899, Hugo Groothoff received the Order of the Prussian Crown for his services to church building .

Carl Heinrich Hugo Groothoff was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg on the family grave site Koester / Groothoff , grid square S 26 / T 26.

buildings

image	construction time	Building	place	description
	1888-1889	Synagogue "DS Wallichs Klause"	Hamburg-Neustadt	New building, abandoned in the 1920s
	1891	Pastorate with prayer room	Hamburg-Stellingen	New building, destroyed in 1943
	1893	Evangelical Church Aukrug	Aukrug -Innia	With the hall church with a cross-shaped floor plan, master builder Groothoff realized the typical village church type for him for the first time. The dimensions and proportions of the rural church buildings he subsequently built in Wankendorf, Brokstedt, Hamburg-Eidelstedt and Hennstedt are roughly the same.
	1893-1895	Thanksgiving Church and Pastorate	Hamburg-Hamm	New building, destroyed in 1943
	1894	Pastorate	Hamburg Horn	New building, destroyed in 1943
	1894	Evangelical Church Wankendorf	Wankendorf	New building
	1894-1895	Christ Church	Pinneberg	New building
	1895	Pastorate with prayer room	Lapwing row	New building, converted into a residential building after 1971
	1895-1896	Schiffbek Church	Schiffbek	New building, destroyed in 1943
	1896	Christ Church	Hansühn	New building
	1896	Chapel of the Good Shepherd with pastorate	Tangstedt	New building, changed 1964–1965
	1896-1897	Church of the Evangelical Johannesstift	Berlin-Plötzensee	New building, demolished after 1910 for the construction of the West Harbor
	1897-1899	Church of the Redeemer	Hamburg-Lohbrugge	New building
	1898	Bismarck Tower (Lütjenburg)	Luetjenburg	New building
	1898-1899	St. Mark	Hamburg-Hoheluft-Ost	New building, badly damaged in 1943, rebuilt as an emergency church by 1949
	1898-1900	St. Matthew	Lübeck	New building
	1899-1900	Evangelical Church Brokstedt	Brokstedt	New building
	1899-1900	Parish hall	Hamburg-Rothenburgsort	New building, destroyed in World War II
	1900	Wilhelm Bergner Mausoleum in the old cemetery in Hamburg-Lohbrügge	Hamburg-Lohbrugge	New building
	1900-1901	Maria Magdalenen Monastery	Hamburg-Eilbek	New building, destroyed in World War II
	1900-1901	Maria Magdalenen Church with pastorate	Reinbek	New building
	1900-1901	Trinity Church	Hamburg-Allermöhe	Restoration of the church, consecrated in 1614
	1902	Pastorate of the St. Nicolai Church	Hamburg-Altengamme	New building
	1902-1903	Stockelsdorf Church	Stockelsdorf	New building
	1903	St. Nikolai	Hamburg-Moorfleet	Restoration of the nave of the church, consecrated in 1680
	1902-1903	Holy Spirit Church	Hamburg-Barmbek-Süd	New building, badly damaged in 1943, rebuilt by 1955, demolished in 2008
	1903	Wittdün Chapel	Wittdün	New building
	1904-1905	Immanuel Church	Hamburg-Veddel	New building, destroyed in 1944, rebuilt in a modified form by 1954
	1904-1906	Seehospital Sahlenburg	Cuxhaven - Sahlenburg	New building
	1904-1906	German seaman's home Wolfgangsweg	Hamburg-Neustadt	New building
	1905-1906	Luther Church and House of the German Seamen's Mission	Hamburg-Neustadt	New building, destroyed in World War II
	1906	Elisabeth Church	Hamburg-Eidelstedt	New building
	1906	St. Paul	Hamburg-Heimfeld	New building
	1906-1907	St. Andrew	Hamburg-Harvestehude	New building, destroyed in 1943, rebuilt by 1951
	1907	Christ Church	Hennstedt	New building
	1908-1909	Kohlhöfen book hall	Hamburg-Neustadt	New building
	1911	Cemetery chapel, Harburg New Cemetery	Hamburg-Harburg	New building, damaged in World War II, modified 1961–1962
	1912-1913	Asylum for homeless men	Hamburg-Neustadt	New building
	1915	Eilbek book hall	Hamburg-Eilbek	New building

Fonts

• The church in Rellingen. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 26, 1892, No. 19, p. 112.
• About the worker housing question in Hamburg. (Lectures) Hamburg 1897.
• The patriotic building, its builder Theodor Bülau and this year's renovation of the house. (Lecture given in the Architects and Engineers Association in Hamburg on November 4, 1898) Hamburg 1898.
• Charitable buildings. In: Architects and Engineers Association of Hamburg (ed.): Hamburg and its buildings. 2nd edition, Hamburg 1914, pp. 330–365.

literature

• Sabine Behrens: North German church buildings of historicism. The sacred buildings of Hugo Groothoff 1851-1918. (= Kiel Art History Studies , New Series, Volume 8.) Ludwig, Kiel 2006, ISBN 3-933598-97-4 .
• Manfred F. Fischer : Groothoff, Hugo . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 156-157 .

Web links

Commons : Hugo Groothoff  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Behrens: North German Church Buildings of Historicism . 2006, p. 96 .
2. ↑ Celebrity Graves
3. ↑ Details on the family grave
4. ↑ Lohbrügge cemetery