Joseph Kornhäusel

Joseph Georg Kornhäusel (also Kornhäusl , born November 13, 1782 in Vienna ; † October 31, 1860 there ) was an Austrian architect and son of the master builder Johann Georg Kornhäusel . He is considered an outstanding architect of the first half of the 19th century and one of the most important Austrian exponents of classicism , which he combines with local traditions.

biography

Grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery

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Both the side of the inner city of Vienna facing the Danube Canal and the central parts of Baden near Vienna are significantly influenced by it. From 1823 to 1826 he planned and built the Vienna main synagogue, the so-called city ​​temple .

His grave of honor is located in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 14 A, number 45 A). In 1920 the Kornhäuselgasse in Vienna- Brigittenau (20th district) was named after him.

Works

Kornhäusel villa seen from Ottakringer Straße (2005, before renovation)

The Vienna City Temple , the only surviving historical synagogue in Vienna, is the center of the Israelite religious community

• numerous residential buildings in Vienna
• Castles in Moravia , especially Eisgrub Castle (as construction director for the Princes of Liechtenstein )
• Country house in Ottakring for Joseph Jenamy ( Kornhäusel Villa ), from 1804
• Circus gymnasticus in Vienna, built in 1808 in Vienna's Prater for Christoph de Bach
• Hussar temple near Mödling , 1813
• Town hall in Baden near Vienna , 1815 (is ascribed to him, but not verified)
• Sauerhof in Baden near Vienna, 1818–1820
• Theater in der Josefstadt , 1822
• Weilburg Castle in Baden (burnt out in 1945, ruins blown up in 1964), 1820–1823
• City theater in Baden near Vienna, 1815 (demolished after 1900 and replaced in 1909 by a building by Fellner & Helmer )
• Interior of the Albertina , after 1822
• City temple in Vienna, 1825–1826
• Kornhäuselturm in Vienna, 1825–1827
• Reconstruction of the Schottenstift , 1826–1832
• Heinrichslust hunting lodge near Kladeruby nad Oslavou , 1829–1830
• Olomouc Theater , 1830
• Expansion of Klosterneuburg Monastery , 1834–1842
• Mechitarist monastery Vienna , 1836/37
• Habsburg hunting lodge in Cieszyn , 1838–1840

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Kornhäusel, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1864, p. 465 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Paul Tausig: Josef Kornhäusel. A forgotten Austrian architect (1782–1860) . Konegen publishing house, Vienna 1916. (digitized version) .
• Hedwig Herzmansky: Joseph Kornhäusel . Dissertation, University of Vienna 1964.
• Hedwig Herzmansky:  Kornhäusel Josef Georg. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 132 f. (Direct links on p. 132 , p. 133 ).
• Georg W. Rizzi, Roland L. Schachel: The apartment buildings in the late work of J. Kornhäusels . Association for the History of the City of Vienna, Vienna 1979 (research and contributions to Viennese urban history; 4).
• Renate Goebl:  Kornhäusel, Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 593 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hildegard Hnatek: “Anton Hantl or Joseph Kornhäusel? - Baden's master builders during the Biedermeier period ”, catalog sheets of the Rollett Museum Baden 10, 1998.
• Bettina Nezval: Joseph Kornhäusel . Verlag F. Berger , Horn 2010, ISBN 978-3-85028-504-9 .

Web links

Commons : Joseph Kornhäusel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Joseph Kornhäusel in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Joseph Kornhäusel. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
• Entry on Joseph Kornhäusel in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )