Johann Daniel Osterrieth

Johann Daniel Osterrieth (* 9. October 1768 in Strasbourg , Alsace , † 25. July 1839 in Bern ), a native of France, was an architect of classicism and Berner city architect .

family

His parents were the master carpenter Johann Friedrich Osterrieth (born November 11, 1732 in Strasbourg , Alsace ; † June 4, 1775 in Strasbourg, Alsace), on February 7, 1763 in Strasbourg and his wife Catharina Margaretha Werner.

Johann Daniel Osterrieth was the fourth child. He married Marie Uffelmann (1781-1854) in Bern on November 18, 1803, with whom he had three children: Louise, Fritz Ludwig and Sophie. Son Fritz Ludwig (1807–1888) was also an architect.

Life

Osterrieth probably spent his childhood in Strasbourg, his training must have been completed in the mid-1790s, when his first work was the Meyer-Feer-Haus in Aarau from 1794 to 1797 , followed by the town planning for the planned first capital of the Helvetic Republic and several official houses in the Laurenzenvorstadt known. Osterrieth moved to Bern in his late twenties , because in 1798 he took over the construction management of the mint planned by Jacques-Denis Antoine for the Bern estate at Gerbergraben. The construction of this building, designed by the Parisian architect of the Hôtel de Monnaie, served as the first federal mint from 1855.

From 1801 he was employed in the canton of Bern, initially in civil engineering, from 1803 also as a builder of rectories such as in Hindelbank and Aarwangen and churches, for example in Limpach and Grosshöchstetten . Osterrieth's work in Bern, such as the Aarberger Tor from 1825–1826, the last gate built in the city, together with the two penal houses (1824–1834), but also the coin, have not survived, so that his work is mainly in the cantonal area is over. It is characterized by a strictly axial classicism.

Through his seat on the Linth Correction Commission (1804-1822) and on the jury of the Zürcher Neumünster (1834) he also became known nationally.

buildings

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  Aarau, Meyerhaus (1797).

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  Limpach, Reformed Church (1808).

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  Grosshöchstetten, Reformed Church (1811).

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  The plain of the Linth river with the state before and after the Linth correction (1811).

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  Reformed Church in Rüschegg (1812).

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  Aarwangen, Reformed Church (1813).

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  Hindelbank, rectory (1817).

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  Hindelbank Nord rectory (1817).

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  Bern, Äusseres Aarbergertor (around 1820).

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  Büren an der Aare, wooden bridge (1821).

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  Albligen, Reformed Church (1824).

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  Wangen an der Aare, Reformed Church from (1825).

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  Sumiswald, rectory (1830).

• Planning: representative government quarter in the Laurenzenvorstadt in Aarau (capital of the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803), town planning Huttwil after the fire in 1834.
• Rüschegg Church 1812.
• Parish houses: Aegerten BE 1812.

literature

• Regula Hug: Johann Daniel Osterrieth (1768–1839). An architect of classicism (licentiate thesis), Bern 1995.
• Regula Hug: Osterrieth, Johann Daniel. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 407 f.

supporting documents

1. ^ Regula Hug: Johann Daniel Osterrieth. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 10, 2008 , accessed July 4, 2019 . Or 1789–1795 based on Regula Hug: Swiss Architects' Dictionary . 19./20. Century. Ed .: Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , Osterrieth, Johann Daniel, p. 407 f .
2. ^ Andreas Hauser, Peter Röllin, Brechtold Weber: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture , 1850–1920 . Bern. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): INSA . tape 2 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-280-01716-5 , p. 461 , col. 1 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-3534 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on September 26, 2015]).

Web links

Commons : Johann Daniel Osterrieth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Regula Hug: Osterrieth, Johann Daniel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .