Johann Claudius of Lassaulx

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Johann Claudius of Lassaulx. Painting by Simon Meister .
Old school in Dieblich
Church in Valwig
Church in Lonnig
Church in Waldesch
The parish church of St. John the Baptist in Treis
Former boys' school in Treis
Lassaulx's grave in Weißenthurm

Johann Claudius von Lassaulx (born March 27, 1781 in Koblenz , † October 14, 1848 ibid) was an architect working in the Prussian Rhine Province .

Life and work

Johann Claudius von Lassaulx was the eldest of seven children of the judge Peter Ernst von Lassaulx (1757-1809) and Anna Barbara Lassaulx, née. Welter (1756–1799), born. After attending grammar school in Koblenz, he studied law and medicine in Würzburg from 1798 , but did not graduate and returned to Koblenz in 1804, where he opened a vinegar factory to earn a living for himself and his family. He eventually worked as an architect and in 1812 became a district builder in Koblenz. Four years later he already held the position of a city ​​and district construction inspector in the now Prussian city. This was remarkable in that von Lassaulx was purely self-taught in his new field of work. In 1817 he was finally even employed as civil servant without having completed appropriate training.

In addition to his public activities, he also worked for the private sector as an architect, was a restorer, for example. B. of the Rhenser Königsstuhl , and also appeared as a writer. He published the plans for many of his buildings as lithographs , presumably as an advertising medium for himself, but also to give other builders suggestions - in fact, features of his buildings such as B. the use of different colored, unplastered natural stone from other builders in the region around Koblenz. He was also anxious to revive old craft techniques (e.g. in vault construction), on the other hand he often used the then ultra-modern cast iron as a stable material that was useful for the realization of his ideas.

Lassaulx worked closely with Karl Friedrich Schinkel , but was in direct competition with Ferdinand Nebel in his hometown , which in later years turned into open hostility. Von Lassaulx created an abundance of buildings mainly in the Koblenz area: churches, schools and other secular buildings. Since the Prussian government attached great importance to improving school teaching, many inadequate and dilapidated school buildings had to be renewed, the increase in population and the flourishing of the Catholic Church encouraged new buildings and parsonages to be built or old churches renovated. His activity extended beyond the vicinity of his hometown. In 1846/1847, on his initiative, the Georgskapelle belonging to the former Kommende Ramersdorf was relocated to the old cemetery in Bonn . A number of demolished or destroyed historical buildings have also come down to us through building recordings by Lassaulx. A portrait of the architect, an oil painting by the Koblenz painter Simon Meister , has only survived through a photograph, as it was stolen in Koblenz in 1923.

family

In 1803 he married Anna Maria Müller (1781–1855). The couple had several children:

  • Ernst (March 16, 1805 - May 9, 1861) ⚭ 1835 Julie Baader
  • Otto Phillip (1806–1897), building inspector in Elberfeld, emigrated to Fayette County (Texas) in the USA in 1849
  • Hermann (1808–1868), architect in Koblenz
  • Maria Anna (1810–1866), Superior of the Holy Spirit Hospital in Luxembourg, founder of the Elizabethan Sisters in Luxembourg
  • Peter Francis (* 1811)
  • Clementine Maria (1812–1877), Superior General in Luxembourg
  • Karl Adam (1814-1815)
  • Amalie (1815–1872), superior in the St. Johannis Hospital in Bonn
  • Katherina (1817-1819)

Works

Fonts

  • Description of the process for the production of light vaults over churches and similar rooms, in: Journal für die Baukunst: in informal booklets 1.1829, pp. 317-330 digitized, UB Heidelberg
  • Architectural-historical corrections and additions [about the buildings on the Rhine] by the Königl. Prussia. Lassaulx construction inspector in Coblenz . in: JA Klein: Rhine journey from Strasbourg to Rotterdam. 2nd edition, by K. Bädeker, Koblenz o. J. [1835], p. 439 ff. ( Digitized by dilibri Rhineland-Palatinate)

literature

  • Eva Brües:  Lasaulx, Johann Claudius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 643 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Hans Feldbusch: Johann Claudius Lassaulx . Dissertation University, Cologne 1942
  • Hyacinth Holland :  Lasaulx, Johann Claudius von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 729-731.
  • Udo Liessem: Signs and Testimony. On the person and work of Johann Claudius von Lassaulx (1781-1848) . Documentation on the occasion of the Lassaulx exhibition in the Sparkasse Koblenz, Bahnhofstrasse, from June 4 to July 30, 1982. Koblenz 1982.
  • Udo Liessem: Studies on the work of Johann Claudius von Lassaulx (1781-1848) . Görres-Verlag, Koblenz 1989, ISBN 3-920388-03-8 (Koblenz contributions to history and culture; Vol. 5)
  • Udo Liessem: On the church and chapel building by Johann Claudius von Lassaulx . Görres-Verlag, Koblenz 1998, pp. 25-41. (Koblenz Contributions to History and Culture; Vol. 8)
  • Udo Liessem: The school buildings by JC von Lassaulx (1781-1848) in the Prussian administrative district of Koblenz. Verlag der Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, Koblenz 2008, ISBN 978-3-931014-76-6 (Mittelrheinische Hefte; 22)
  • Peter-Frank Schwieger: Johann Claudius von Lassaulx (1781-1848). Architect and monument conservator in Koblenz . VG for book printing, Neuss 1968 (plus Aachen TU Diss. 1966)
  • David Wendland: Lassaulx and the vault construction with self-supporting wall layers. New medieval architecture around 1825-1848 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2008
  • Willy Weyres: Johann Claudius von Lassaulx . In: Edmund Strutz (Hrsg.): Rheinische Lebensbilder, Vol. 4 . Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1970

Web links

Commons : Johann Claudius von Lassaulx  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Estate and documents to buildings by Lassaulx in Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz (inventory 700.007)
personal data
SURNAME Lassaulx, Johann Claudius von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1848
Place of death Koblenz