Johann Jakob Breitinger (architect)

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Johann Jakob Breitinger (born January 30, 1814 in Dinhard ; † March 15, 1880 in Weesen ) was a Swiss architect .

education

Breitinger, who became an orphan at an early age, completed an apprenticeship in the still young business of the builder Jakob Locher-Oeri after attending school in Zurich and Horgen . From 1832 to 1837 he was in Neuchâtel, Paris and Berlin, the extent to which he studied formally there is not certain - there was no training facility in Neuchâtel at that time, the building of the building academy was just being built in Berlin - the influence of the Berliners Schinkel , Stüler , Strack and Knoblauch on his later work is emphasized.

Career

In 1837 Breitinger set up his own construction business in Zurich, which he kept until 1845. The inn on the Üetliberg (1838–1839) (which was demolished again in 1872 and replaced by successor buildings) dates from this time and is an early testimony to Alpine tourism, built in the Swiss wooden style . In 1845 he went to Tyrol for eight years to plan and manage a mine and an asphalt factory near Innsbruck. After his return to Switzerland, he was responsible as architect and coordinator for the construction of new railway stations on various railway lines.First, after 1853 he worked for the newly founded Swiss Northeast Railway , for which he built the Romanshorn railway station . From 1859 (or 1857) he worked for the competing United Swiss Railways, responsible for the station construction of the Wetzikon – Rapperswil – Weesen – Glarus ( Rapperswil – Ziegelbrücke , Weesen – Linthal ), Weesen – Sargans ( Ziegelbrücke – Sargans ) and Rheineck – Chur ( Chur – Rorschach railway ). Here he built the station buildings of Chur and Glarus (both in 1859).

Great Minster Chapel, 1858

In Zurich Breitinger, who had repeatedly made urban planning proposals, for example for a new train station district (1855) and the Quartier im Kratz (1859), was also active in building policy matters from 1857 to 1867. He was a councilor and a member of the municipal building commission, and from 1859 also of the newly founded building council. Breitinger belongs - alongside Zeugheer , Wegmann and Stadler to a generation of Zurich architects who were trained before a real architecture education was established in Switzerland, which is outlined with the establishment of the Polytechnic and the generation of Semper's students . From 1865 to 1867 he submitted a development plan for the development of Zurich together with the latter.

Unfortunately, many of his Zurich buildings are lost. Only the Great Minster Chapel in the Tudor Gothic style, which he planned in 1858 as part of a renovation of the Helferei, and the neo-Gothic fountain in front of it from 1861, as well as possibly two strictly classical houses in Nordstrasse, are preserved here.

After the devastating fire in Glarus in 1861, Breitinger and his student Johann Heinrich Reutlinger (1841–1913) were involved in the reconstruction of a number of residential buildings that have been preserved.

In 1876 Breitinger moved to Weesen, from where he still worked on the plans for the church of Siebnen and the Stachelberg baths in Linthal , which were completed posthumously in 1881.

Works (selection)

  • Inn on Uto Kulm , Üetliberg, Zurich, 1839 (demolished in 1872)
  • Landhaus Bühl , Winterthur, 1849–50
  • Bahnhof , Romanshorn, 1853–55
  • Grossmünsterkapelle , Zurich, 1858–1859
  • Landhaus Bommerstein , Mols, 1860–61
  • Villa Flora , Glarus, 1861–62
  • Hotel Raben , Glarus, 1862
  • House at Marktgasse 2 , Glarus, 1862
  • Villa Stockerstr. , Zurich, 1863
  • Hotel Bernina , Samedan, 1864–65
  • Station building , Toggenburgbahn, Wil-Ebnat, 1868–70
  • Quay, Stritzenhaus and community hall , Weesen, around 1870
  • Reformed Church , Siebnen, 1875–78

literature

  • Werner Stutz: Breitinger, Johann Jakob . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 89
  • NN: Breitingerstrasse, J. J . In: The Railway . tape 12 , no. 20 , 1880, p. 120 ( e-periodica.ch ).

Web links

supporting documents

  1. Hanspeter Rebsamen: The restaurants on the Uetliberg. Uetlibergverein, accessed on January 11, 2014 .
  2. Here, Nekrolog from Die Eisenbahn und Architektenlexikon contradict one another