Karl Hofmann (architect)

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Karl Christian Hofmann (born April 20, 1856 in Herborn , † December 28, 1933 in Darmstadt ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Karl Hofmann was a son of the damask weaver Philipp Ludwig Hofmann and his wife Katharine Jakobine nee. Petry, a younger brother, was the architect Ludwig Hofmann .

Karl Hofmann studied at the Berlin Building Academy and at the Technical University of Vienna . From 1885 he was both city and cathedral architect in Worms , where he was responsible, among other things, for saving the cathedral and expanding the city towards the Rhine.

Hofmann was a fan of artistic urban planning and was strongly influenced by the work of Camillo Sitte . In 1897 he submitted a development plan for the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt. In the same year Hofmann was appointed professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt ; he taught there for 30 years until his retirement on September 30, 1927, the subject of architecture.

In addition to his teaching activities, he occasionally took on urban planning tasks such as planning the Gustavsburg workers' colonies for MAN (1902), but above all he worked as artistic director in the Grand Ducal Hessian building administration. From 1903 he was a member of the monument council in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. From 1906 he was also a member of the technical examination office. With Karl Mayreder , professor of urban planning at the Technical University of Vienna, a friend from university from his time in Vienna, he examined the building regulation plan for the old town of Salzburg in 1905/1907 .

1898–1899 and 1910–1913 he was dean of the architecture department at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

buildings

District court Bensheim
Nibelung Tower
  • 1878–1880: Synagogue in Münster (emerged from an architectural competition)
  • 1880–1885: several buildings as the second construction phase of the psychiatric clinic in Eichberg
  • 1886: Trade school in Worms
  • 1888: municipal hospital in Worms (demolished)
  • 1889–1890: Water tower in Worms
  • 1891: Neusatz School in Worms
  • 1892: Nibelungen grotto in mind
  • 1895: Ludwigsdenkmal in Worms (partly reconstructed in 1992)
  • 1896: Kiautschau workers' settlement in Worms
  • 1897–1900: Ernst Ludwig Bridge in Worms (river bridge blown up in 1945, Nibelung tower preserved)
  • 1898: Double house in Darmstadt on Mathildenhöhe , Nikolaiweg 4/6
  • 1899: Elgert residential and commercial building in Darmstadt, at the city church
  • 1899 (?): Henneberg house in Darmstadt, Paulusviertel
  • 1900: Nibelung School in Worms (1st construction phase)
  • around 1901: own house in Darmstadt, Paulusviertel, Roquetteweg 53
  • 1900–1902: Bensheim District Court , Wilhelmstrasse 26
  • 1902: Oberforstamt in Darmstadt, Paulusviertel, Ohlystraße 75
  • 1902: Administration building of the Botanical Garden in Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstraße
  • 1903–1905: Darmstadt District Court , Frankfurter Strasse / Bismarckstrasse (with building inspector Wilhelm Thaler)
  • 1905: New mausoleum as the burial place of the grand ducal family in Park Rosenhöhe in Darmstadt (based on the mausoleum of the Roman Empress Galla Placidia in Ravenna )

Honors

  • 1898: Appointed Privy Councilor
  • 1921: Dr.-Ing E. h. of the TH Hannover

literature

  • Max Guther : On the history of urban planning at German universities. In: Ulrike Pampe (editor): Heinz Wetzel and the history of urban planning at German universities. Urban Development Institute of the University of Stuttgart 1982, DNB 830118632 .
  • Fritz Reuter: Karl Hofmann and "the new Worms". Urban development and municipal construction 1882–1918. Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse, Darmstadt 1993, ISBN 3-88443-180-3 .
  • Christa Wolf, Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt. Short biographies 1836–1945. Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1977, OCLC 611985164 , p. 89.
  • Reinhard Bentmann: Architecture for the madness - remarks on the building history of the psychiatry on the Eichberg. in: Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen, Allgemeine Verwaltung, Christina Vanja (Ed.): Knowledge and Irren - Psychiatry history from two centuries. (= Historical series of publications by the State Welfare Association of Hesse, sources and studies. Volume 6). Eberbach and Eichberg, LWV, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-89203-040-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 901 No. 429, p. 639 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Friedhelm Gerecke: Historicism, Art Nouveau, Heimatstil in Hessen and the Rhineland. The buildings of the architect and monument conservator Ludwig Hofmann (1862–1933) from Herborn. Verlag Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-458-5 .
  3. ^ Günter Birkmann, Hartmut Stratmann: Consider who you are standing in front of. 300 synagogues and their history in Westphalia and Lippe. Klartext, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-661-8 , p. 225 f.
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofmann, Karl Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Herborn
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1933
Place of death Darmstadt