Karl August Hiller

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Glarus railway station

Karl August Hiller (* 1852 in Rommelshausen , Kingdom of Württemberg ; † April 19, 1901 in St. Gallen ) was a German-Swiss architect .

Life

Hiller attended grammar school in Ellwangen and then did specialist training in Stuttgart . Then he entered the service of the Royal Württemberg State Railways . In 1876 he moved to St. Gallen, where he joined the architectural office of Johann Christoph Kunkler in 1877, and in 1880 he started his own business. In St. Gallen and the surrounding area he built a large number of residential and commercial buildings, including mansions in the historicist style on the Rosenberg and buildings in the Museum Quarter.

He also designed the train stations in Rapperswil and Rorschach . The station building in Glarus, the plans of which he prepared and which Heinrich Ditscher (1832–1915) executed between 1902 and 1903 in the neo-Gothic castle style, is together with the other buildings on the site an "ensemble of national importance". Outside the vicinity, he had drawn up the plans for the weaving school in Wattwil and several buildings in Davos and Bad Nauheim in Hesse .

Works

Web links

Commons : Karl August Hiller  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Waldner: Swiss construction newspaper. A. Waldner, 1901 limited preview in the Google book search
  2. ↑ Schweizerische Bauzeitung : Wochenschrift für Bau-, Verkehrs- und Machinentechnik, Volume 37, Schweizerischer Ingenieur- und Architekten-Verein, H. Zürcher, 1901, p. 185 (obituary)
  3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Important St. Gallen architects: Processing is not necessary In: Heimatschutz SG / AI, communications November 2007 (original link leads to the wrong page and archive link unusable)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.heimatschutz-sgai.ch
  4. ↑ Heimatschutz.ch
  5. ^ Successful renovation of the Rapperswil SG train station: A piece of Rapperswil's identity secured
  6. ↑ Arohitektonische Rundschau, 1895, issue 12, plate 101.
personal data
SURNAME Hiller, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH near Cannstatt , Kingdom of Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1901
Place of death St. Gallen