Julius Carl Raschdorff

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Julius Carl Raschdorff (1905)

Julius Carl Raschdorff (born July 2, 1823 in Pless ; † August 13, 1914 in Waldsieversdorf ) was a German architect and university professor . He is considered one of the well-known architects of the second half of the 19th century in Germany and created his most important work with the Berlin Cathedral .

Life

After graduating from high school in Gleiwitz in 1842 , Raschdorff studied from 1845 to 1853 at the Berlin Building Academy . From his appointment as 2nd city architect on November 1, 1854, he worked in Cologne until 1878. There he had a major influence on urban development and renovated a. a. the Gürzenich (1854-1859) and the town hall. From 1864 he was the first city architect, but left office in 1872 to settle down as a private architect. In 1856 Raschdorff gave a lecture on new construction techniques at the Paris World Exhibition. Between 1876 and 1880 the Ständehaus in Düsseldorf , which housed the Prussian provincial parliament and later the North Rhine-Westphalian parliament , was built according to his plans . Raschdorff became a professor of architecture at the Technical University of Charlottenburg in 1878 . In 1914 he retired. Raschdorff designed over 220 structures in Germany and neighboring countries, of which around 100 were also carried out in 40 different locations. Adolf Brütt created a bronze portrait of Raschdorff in 1895 for the Berlin Cathedral , in which Brütt was just as involved as in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Mausoleum (1888/1890) for Potsdam. In 1896 he received a large gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Berlin . In Düsseldorf, a new street in the Garath district was named after him in the 1960s .

tomb

He found his final resting place in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof II in field S, G3 in an honorary grave of the city of Berlin.

His son Otto also became an architect and his closest collaborator.

plant

Buildings and designs

Main facade of the Berlin Cathedral
House of the Casino Society in Saarbrücken (Saarland State Parliament)

A total of six churches, a synagogue, 17 school buildings, four university buildings, two museums, two libraries, four hospitals, a theater, two town halls, seven train stations, seven palaces, 23 mansions and ten residential and commercial buildings are known from Raschdorff.

drafts

In 1884 his competition design for the development of the Berlin Museum Island was awarded a 4th prize next to his son Otto Raschdorff (1854–1915).

Fonts

  • The Gürzenich department store in Cologne. Berlin 1863.
  • Illustrations of German blacksmiths . Berlin 1875–78 (small edition 1878).
  • Drafts and construction work in the German Renaissance style . Berlin 1879.
  • The building construction executions of the Prussian state. Toeche, Berlin 1880. ( digitized version and full text in the German text archive )
  • Illustration of German blacksmiths. Published by Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1882.
  • Palace architecture of Northern Italy and Tuscany . Berlin 1883–88 (2nd part: Tuscany, 3rd part: Venice; as a continuation of the work begun by Robert von Reinhardt ).
  • A draft by Kaiser Friedrich for the new construction of the cathedral and for the completion of the royal palace in Berlin . Berlin 1888.
  • Renaissance architecture . 4 volumes, Berlin 1880–90.
  • Rhenish timber and half-timbered buildings from the 16th and 17th centuries . Berlin 1895.

literature

  • Michael Bollé:  Raschdorff, Julius Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 155 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Klaus Peters: Life and work of the architect Julius Carl Raschdorff. (1823-1914). University of Hanover - Institute for History and Theory in the Department of Architecture, Hanover 2004, ISBN 3-931585-13-1 . (= Writings of the Institute for the History of Architecture and Art of the University of Hanover , Volume 14.)
  • Uwe Kieling: Berlin. Buildings and builders. From Gothic to 1945. Berlin Edition, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8148-0095-8 .
  • Julius Carl Raschdorff: Notes from the life and work of the architect Professor JC Raschdorff. Patriotic Publishing House, Berlin 1903.

Web links

Commons : Julius Raschdorff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon . 6th edition. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1909 ( zeno.org [accessed on June 17, 2019] Lexicon entry "Raschdorff").
  2. ^ Albert Ruppersberg : History of the former county of Saarbrücken. History of the cities of Saarbrücken and St. Johann 1815–1909, the city of Malstatt-Burbach and the unified city of Saarbrücken up to 1914. Volume III, part 2, 2nd edition, Saarbrücken 1914, p. 99.
  3. ↑ Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn 1819–1914. Bouvier, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 3, Catalog (2), pp. 126-131. (also dissertation, University of Bonn, 1994)
  4. ^ Second prize for the Museum Island design , in the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 15, April 12, 1884, p. 143., accessed on December 27, 2012.
  5. ^ Annonce , Anzeiger zum Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , December 28, 1882, p. 3, accessed on December 14, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Raschdorff, Julius Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, construction officer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Pless , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1914
Place of death Waldsieversdorf