Jakob Hochstetter

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Jakob Hochstetter (born February 5, 1812 in Durlach , † April 25, 1880 in Karlsruhe ) was a German architect and, as a Baden civil servant, a university lecturer.

Life

After studying at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic under Heinrich Hübsch , he traveled with a state scholarship to study through Italy and Greece from 1835–38. From 1842 on he taught with a teaching position at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic and was appointed professor of architecture in 1846. From 1864 to 1866 he was director of the Polytechnic, which was elevated to a technical college at this time. In addition, as a military building officer, from 1862 he was in charge of the construction of several barracks and other military structures. Hochstetter's reputation suffered above all from the failure of his first major contract, the Durlach official prison, which was built in 1843–1846 and doubled in 1847–49. The new building, which was subsequently built by Franz Serger and which reused essential components of the old building, was demolished in 1990 despite opposition from the population. The insistence on the principles of the Karlsruhe arched style drew Hochstetter the massive criticism of his student Josef Durm , who, since 1868 professor of architecture in Karlsruhe, became a well-known representative of historicism .

buildings

  • 1842 Baden-Baden , Villa Bethmann
  • 1842 Baden-Baden, Villa Lehwald
  • 1843–47 Mannheim , Villa van der Hoeven (broken off in 1922)
  • 1843–1846 prison, Durlach , Marstallstrasse, replaced by a new building in 1872
  • 1848 war memorial in Mannheim
  • 1846–49 Karlsruhe, Rheinstetten, Catholic parish church St. Ulrich in Mörsch
  • 1869 Durlach, barracks (destroyed in 1944)
  • 1871 Freiburg im Breisgau , barracks
  • 1871 Karlsruhe, Friedrichs barracks near Gottesaue Palace (demolished)
  • 1871 Karlsruhe, Friedrichs-Baracken-Lazarett (demolished)

Fonts

  • Jakob Hochstetter: Architectural versions . 1851.
  • Jakob Hochstetter: St. Michaels Kapelle zu Kiederich (=  Medieval buildings in southwest Germany and on the Rhine . Band 2 ). Veith, Karlsruhe 1857 ( Online Heidelberg University Library ).
  • Jakob Hochstetter: Wooden buildings of the Bernese Oberland, taken by C. Weinbrenner and J. Durm (=  Swiss architecture in perspective views, floor plans, sections, facades and details with explanatory text . First section). Veith, Karlsruhe 1857, doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-9284 . (apparently the only published volume in the series)
  • Jakob Hochstetter: Friedrichs-Baracken-Lazareth to Carlsruhe . Geissendörfer, Karlsruhe 1871 ( KIT library [PDF; 4.3 MB ]).

literature

Web links

  • City wiki Karlsruhe [1]
  • Homepage "Silent Contemporary Witnesses" [2]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hanno Brockhoff: The Durlach official prisons in the Weiherhof . In: Johann Josef Böker: “A somewhat bankrupt art establishment”. The old Karlsruhe school between Hübsch and Durm ( materials on building research and building history, vol. 24). Karlsruhe 2017, pp. 12–114.
personal data
SURNAME Hochstetter, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, architectural theorist and, as a Baden civil servant, university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Durlach
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1880
Place of death Karlsruhe