Julius Bertuch
Julius Bertuch (born June 29, 1838 ; † January 13, 1904 in Gotha ) was a German architect and municipal building officer for the city of Gotha; he designed the first crematorium commissioned in Germany .
Life
Bertuch worked for the municipal building authority for almost four decades as a town builder and later as town planning officer. He died on January 13, 1904. The Bertuch family's grave is located in the main cemetery in Gotha .
Buildings in Gotha
- 1878: District hospital, Erfurter Landstrasse
Since the inauguration of the new district hospital in Sundhausen in 2002, the buildings have been empty. - 1878: Gotha crematorium (together with Carl Heinrich Stier )
- 1881: Gotthard School (vacant since 2011)
- 1892: Spoonbill School
- 1900: Reyher School
literature
- Henning Winter: The architecture of the crematoria in the German Empire 1878–1918. (= Kassel Studies on Sepulchral Culture , Volume 10.) JH Röll Verlag, Dettelbach 2001, ISBN 3-897-54185-8 , p. 211.
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Wenzel : Time leaps in Gotha. Sutton Verlag , Erfurt 2012, ISBN 3-954-00055-5 , p. 42.
- ^ Matthias Wenzel: Gotha on old postcards. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2005, ISBN 3-897-02822-0 , p. 26.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bertuch, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and municipal building officer for the city of Gotha |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1838 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1904 |
| Place of death | Gotha |