Johann Ernst Wilhelm Zocher

Johann Ernst Wilhelm Zocher

Johann Ernst Wilhelm Zocher (born August 27, 1812 in Dresden , † February 6, 1881 in Leipzig ), also known as Ernst Zocher or Ernst Wilhelm Zocher , was a German construction teacher and architect of historicism with a focus on church construction .

Life

Zocher studied from 1828 in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden . In 1832 he presented his own designs for the first time, and Gottfried Semper , Joseph Thürmer and Otto von Wolframsdorf consulted him for their work. Until 1840 he worked as an assistant at the State Building Authority, after which he became a teacher at the Royal Saxon Building Trade School . After Albert Geutebrück left his position as director , he succeeded him from 1863 to 1876 and thus became the Royal Saxon Building Councilor .

Zocher undertook numerous and well-documented study trips to the Rhineland , southern Germany , Belgium , France (all 1842) and Italy (1847). In 1858 the Leipzig district directorate entrusted him with the task of assessing their church and school matters. Up until then he had built numerous residential buildings in Leipzig, and from now on he specialized in Protestant parish churches , especially in the neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque style. In the last years of his career, university buildings were added in Leipzig, which he built or converted.

Zocher married Caroline Emilie Eipper on April 12, 1849, and the marriage had two children.

Works (selection)

• 1845/1846: Hope Church , Knauthain , Seumestraße 129
• 1852: House for Hermann Härtel , Leipzig, Salomonstrasse 20
• 1858/1859: Church , Sommerfeld , Arnoldplatz
• 1859/1860: Church, Rossau-Greifendorf , Döbelner Str. 11
• 1862/1863: Commercial building for Beckmann and Limburger , Leipzig, Schillerstraße 4 / corner of Neumarkt
• 1863/1864: Church, Zschirla , Zschirlaer Dorfstraße
• 1864: Church , Collm , Kirchberg (conversion of the Romanesque hall church )
• 1865/1867: Church , Portitz , Altes Dorf 5 (with August Friedrich Viehweger )
• 1866: Taborkirche , Heuersdorf (demolished in 2010)
• 1867/1868: Chemical laboratory, University of Leipzig , Liebigstraße 29 (badly destroyed in 1943, demolished in 1948)
• 1868/1869: Peterskirche , Püchau , Hauptstrasse
• 1868: Physiological Institute, University of Leipzig, Liebigstrasse 16 (heavily destroyed in 1943 and 1945, replaced by a new building in 1946/1951)
• 1870/1871: Bornerianum , University of Leipzig, Paulinerareal, Universitätsstraße 3–5 (demolished in 1944 after severe destruction)
• 1870/1871: Old Pathological Institute, University of Leipzig, Liebigstraße 24 (heavily destroyed in 1945, replaced by a new building in 1953/1954)
• 1880: Institute of Natural Science and Medical History, University of Leipzig, Talstrasse 38 (destroyed in 1943)

• Works (selection, chronologically by year of creation)
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  Hope Church Knauthain

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  Sommerfeld Church

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  Rossau-Greifendorf Church

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  Schillerstrasse 4, Leipzig

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  Zschirla Church

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  Church of Collm

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  Portitz Church

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  Tarbor Church Heuersdorf

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  Chemical laboratory

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  Peterskirche Püchau

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  Physiological institute

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  Bornerianum

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  Pathological Institute

literature

• Friedrich Schulze : Building Councilor Ernst Zocher. (According to information from District Court Director Dr. Kranichfeld) . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig 23 (1939), ZDB -ID 513516-3 , p. 78 f.
• Hartmut Mai: Churches in Saxony. From classicism to art nouveau . Koehler & Amelang, Berlin and Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-7338-0081-8 .
• Georg Dehio (abbreviation): Handbook of German art monuments . Saxony II: administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 .
• Michaela Marek , Thomas Topfstedt (ed.): History of the University of Leipzig 1409–2009. Volume 5: History of Leipzig University Buildings in an Urban Context . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-305-1 .
• Heinrich Magirius : Art-historical remarks on the travel sketchbooks of the Leipzig architect Johann Ernst Wilhelm Zocher (1812–1881) . In: Christian Mai, Dirk Klingner, Jens Bulisch (eds.): Saxony in the 19th century. Church - art - culture . Sax-Verlag, Beucha and Markkleeberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86729-107-1 , pp. 120-147.
• 175 years of architecture from Leipzig , publisher: University of Technology, Economy and Culture, Leipzig, Faculty of Construction. Leipzig 2013, DNB 1043914544 , p. 32 f.

Web links

• Entries in the German Digital Library (mainly architectural drawings) . German Digital Library , accessed on October 22, 2019.

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c} life data from: Friedrich Schulze 1939.
2. ↑ Unless otherwise stated: Georg Dehio 1998, pp. 226 f, 391, 586, 601 f, 670 f, 870, 1029, 1065.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Catalog of the university buildings . In: Michaela Marek, Thomas Topfstedt (Ed.) 2009, p. 643 f.
4. ↑ Ibid., P. 615.
5. ↑ Ibid., P. 650.
6. ↑ Ibid., P. 676 f.