Karl Albert Gollwitzer

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Family grave in Augsburg

Karl Albert Gollwitzer (born December 17, 1839 in Meringerau near Augsburg, today Augsburg-Siebenbrunn , † October 9, 1917 in Augsburg ) was a German architect , building contractor and civil engineer from the early days .

life and work

Karl Albert Gollwitzer was an extremely versatile architect. The construction tasks he worked on were residential building planning and execution, city and traffic route planning, as well as the construction of industrial plants and barracks. He became known in particular for his upper-class residential buildings of historicism with orientalizing elements, the guest house of the Hessing clinics in Göggingen, and a port city project. This provided for an expansion of the city moat for Danube ships, with a direct connection to the Lech and on to the Danube, which should enable Augsburg to be connected to the international waterway network. The project was of great importance for the industrial location Augsburg. However, it was probably a little too bold to be realized, Gollwitzer was rather ridiculed for it. Another unrealized major Gollwitzer project was a rail link from Augsburg to Innsbruck and on to the Brenner Pass.

Gollwitzer's training path began with attending the district trade school and the Royal Bavarian Polytechnic Institute in Augsburg (both predecessors of the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences) from 1855 to 1858, and continued from 1859 to 1860 at the Munich School of Architecture and Engineering. In 1864 he took over his father's construction business and worked at the same time as a planning civil engineer and architect . In 1905 he sold the construction business, withdrew into private life and made numerous trips in the Mediterranean region.

His travel diaries (twenty octave books) have survived. His estate (239 units from the years 1855–1897) of plans and 40 photographs of urban and private buildings (from the years 1867 to 1900) is in the photo collection of the city archive. Many of his buildings are registered in the Bavarian list of monuments.

Karl Albert Gollwitzer is buried with his family in the Protestant cemetery on Haunstetter Strasse in Augsburg. His estate is in the Swabian Architecture Museum .

Buildings (selection)

Gollwitzer houses in Augsburg
  • Augsburg, Textilviertel: Augsburger Kammgarn-Spinnerei (AKS), the first shed roof buildings with cast iron structures in Augsburg (1867) and the director's villas and garden pavilion (1869), Provinostraße 45 and 47
  • Augsburg, Herwartstrasse and Blauerkap: residential complex (1881)
  • Augsburg, Volkhartstrasse 8–16, as well as 31: residential complex with neo-Gothic-oriental plaster decoration (1885–1890)
  • Stadtbergen -Leitershofen: Waldkuralpe Nervenheil (restaurant and hotel) (1886–1887; demolished 1964)
  • Augsburg- Göggingen , Göggingerstraße 122: "Villa Afra" with Moorish ornaments on the balcony (1890)
  • Augsburg-Göggingen, Klausenberg 28: Former "Villa Gollwitzer" (1894)
  • Augsburg-Göggingen, Hessingstr. 6a: (in Hessing-Park) Hessingburg (around 1880)
  • Augsburg, Alpenstrasse ( Bismarckviertel ): street with residential complex (1896)
  • Augsburg, Oblatterwall: Industrial port project on the Lech Canal (1901).
  • Augsburg, Wolfzahnau hydropower plant (1902, not secured).
  • Bobingen - Straßberg : Castle with a walled park, 1880/81

literature

  • Willfried Burgner (author), Architekturmuseum Schwaben (ed.): Karl Albert Gollwitzer 1839–1917. A builder, architect and visionary from Augsburg. Accompanying publication to the exhibition in the Schwaben Architecture Museum from May 20, 2004 to August 22, 2004. Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-929771-08-X .
  • Matthias Arnold: 19th century architecture in Augsburg. Drawings from classicism to art nouveau. Exhibition catalog. Augsburg 1979, p. 53.
  • Günther Grünsteudel , Günter Hägele, Rudolf Frankenberger (eds.): Augsburger Stadtlexikon. 2nd Edition. Perlach, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-922769-28-4 , p. 448.
  • Gollwitzer, Karl: The Waldkuralpe Nervenheil near Augsburg with its surroundings. Augsburg: 1887

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personal data
SURNAME Gollwitzer, Karl Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, building contractor and civil engineer from the early days
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Mering
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1917
Place of death augsburg