Jakob Friedrich Wanner

Jakob Friedrich Wanner and his wife Catharina Kaufmann in 1896

Jakob Friedrich Wanner (born April 28, 1830 in Illingen (Württemberg) ; † January 24, 1903 in Zurich ) was a Swiss architect of German origin.

Life

After training as a draftsman and construction manager in Stuttgart , Friedrich Wanner was an architect from 1857 to 1860 for the Swiss Northeast Railway (NOB), which was under the direction of the railway pioneer Alfred Escher . As part of this activity, various station buildings were built (including Frauenfeld , Winterthur ).

After a short time as the city architect of Zurich , he returned to the Nordostbahn as chief architect in 1861. Until 1871 a. a. the train stations of Zug (moved to Zurich-Wollishofen in 1897 ), Schaffhausen (together with the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways ) and Zurich main station (using a project by Gottfried Semper ).

His work as an architect at the NOB confronted him on the one hand with the standard types and their variations that were used in the construction of smaller train stations, as well as the complex train stations in the more important locations, in particular with the NOB's "flagship", Zurich main station, the was both a train station and an administration building.

In 1867 he became a citizen of Zurich. From 1872 to 1877 he built the headquarters of the Schweizerische Kreditanstalt (today's Credit Suisse ), which was also headed by Alfred Escher . From 1878 Wanner worked as a freelance architect.

Works

Zurich main station: former NOB administration building

Zurich main station: old station concourse flanked by modern extensions

• 1857–1859 Aarau station
• 1857–1859 Frauenfeld station
• 1858–1859 Turgi station
• 1859–1861 Winterthur railway station
• 1863–1864 Weinfelden railway station
• 1863–1864 Zug train station , transferred to Zurich Wollishofen in 1897
• 1864 former Zurich Altstetten station (branch of the new line to Zug from the line to Baden)
• 1864 Railway stations in Affoltern am Albis , Urdorf , Birmensdorf ZH , Bonstetten , Hedingen , Mettmenstetten , Knonau as standard types on the new NOB line to Zug
• Railway stations in Ebikon , Gisikon , Rotkreuz , Cham as standard types on the new route of the NOB to Lucerne
• 1866–1867 Amriswil station
• 1866–1867 Wallisellen and Dietikon stations as simplified versions of the Amriswil station
• 1866–1867 railway stations in Sulgen TG and Märstetten
• 1867–1868 Brugg station
• 1865 former train station in Oerlikon
• 1867–1869 Schaffhausen station , joint construction of the NOB and Grand Ducal Baden State Railways
• 1865–1871 Zurich train station (today the main train station )
• 1872–1877 Headquarters Schweizerische Kreditanstalt (today Credit Suisse ), Zurich , Paradeplatz Zurich
• 1878–1891 Wannerhäuser, Zurich , Löwenplatz

literature

• Werner Stutz: Railway stations in Switzerland. From the beginning to the First World War. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-280-01405-0 .

Web links

• Werner Stutz: Jakob Friedrich Wanner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .