Karl Mohrmann

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Karl Mohrmann around 1914
Memorial plaque in the Gustav Adolf stave church in Hahnenklee

Karl Mohrmann (born July 21, 1857 in Einbeck , † April 26, 1927 in St. Georgen ; full name: Karl Heinrich Friedrich Mohrmann ) was a German architect , consistorial builder and university professor and temporarily rector at the Technical University of Hanover . His most famous buildings include the Gustav-Adolf-Stave Church in Hahnenklee and the Bethlehem Church in Hannover-Linden-Nord .

Life

Three-quarter sculpture of the client at Haus Mohrmann in Hanover
Family tomb in the New St. Nikolai Cemetery

Career

Karl Mohrmann grew up in Einbeck as the son of the painter Friedrich Mohrmann. After graduation, he studied construction from 1873 as a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase in Hanover and Berlin. In 1886 he became a private lecturer in construction in Hanover. In 1887 he went to Riga as a full professor of architecture , where he was also involved in the restoration of the cathedral . In 1892 he returned to the Technical University of Hanover, where he succeeded Conrad Wilhelm Hase as professor of medieval architecture and the design of public buildings.

From 1898 Karl Mohrmann worked as a part-time consistorial builder for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover and built or restored churches, parsonages and private houses in this capacity. In 1909 he was given the title of Secret Building Councilor. From 1911 to 1913 he was rector of the technical university. Mohrmann traveled to Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Great Britain, Africa and America, among others.

Mohrmann was also very involved in society. For example, in 1901 he was a co-founder and from 1912 to 1914 chairman of the Heimatbund Lower Saxony , was chairman of the Bauhütte zum Weißen Blatt founded by Hase , on the board of the Hanover Art Association and chairman of the heraldic association "Zum Kleeblatt" , which was founded in 1888 and which supports the Lower Saxony coat of arms .

After his retirement in 1924, he moved his main focus of life to St. Georgen near Freiburg im Breisgau , where he owned a small villa. There he died shortly before the age of 70. His urn was buried in Hanover in the New St. Nikolai Cemetery.

The estate of Karl Mohrmann found in the city archives Hannover .

Buildings (incomplete)

  • Own house in the northern part of Hanover

  • Martin Luther Church in Bremen-Blumenthal

  • St. Ansgari Church in Oldenburg-Eversten

  • Bethlehem Church in Hanover-Linden-Nord

  • St. Johannis Church in Hannover-Misburg-Nord

  • Luther Church Hamburg-Eißendorf

  • Jerusalem Church in Wendeburg-Rüper

  • St. Michael Church in Bremen-Grohn

  • Gustav-Adolf-Stave Church in Hahnenklee

  • St. Michaelis Church in Hamburg-Neugraben-Fischbeck

  • St. Briccius Church in Adenstedt (Ilsede)

Honors

  • 1909: Appointed privy councilor
  • 1920: Award of an honorary doctorate in engineering (Dr.-Ing. E. h.) From the Technical University of Hanover
  • Deichmannstrasse , originally named after Major Arnold Deichmann , was laid out in the northern part of Hanover in 1935 and was renamed Mohrmannstrasse in 1936 .
  • In Hahnenklee, a street near the stave church has been named Prof. Mohrmann Weg .

Fonts

  • Conrad Wilhelm Hase. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter. Reprint, Hanover 1902.
  • From the life of a German artist. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 22nd year 1902.
  • Evangelical-Lutheran hymn book of the Hanoverian regional church : script ( Karl Mohrmann script ) and book decorations for the multi-colored jewelry edition , Hanover 1910, and for the monochrome sheet music edition , Hanover 1914.

literature

  • Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover 1931, p. 96.
  • Helmut Knocke : Mohrmann, Karl. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 258 ( online via Google books )
  • Stefanie Lindemeier: The performing art and church painters , as well as a short biography Mohrmann, Karl Heinrich Friedrich , in this: Studies on the restoration history of medieval vaults - and wall paintings in the area of ​​today's Lower Saxony: Representation of historical methods, technology and materials , dissertation 2009 at the university for fine arts Dresden, volume 2 (text volume), passim , v. a. P. 316; Digitized version of the Dresden University of Fine Arts

Web links

Commons : Karl Heinrich Friedrich Mohrmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography , accessed on February 24, 2010
  2. ^ Kristian Teetz: Nordstadt. Mohrmann House is being renovated. In Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of March 3, 2011 ( online , last accessed on December 5, 2012)
  3. ↑ Helmut Knocke : Mohrmann, Karl (see literature)
  4. ^ Gerd Weiß: Herrenhausen Kirchweg / Reinholdstrasse. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, Volume 10.1: City of Hanover, Part 1. Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 111 f .; as well as Nordstadt in the addendum to volume 10.2, list of architectural monuments acc. § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 6f.
  5. ↑ Erich Bock, Renate Pahlow: History of the Church and Parish Rüper. Verlag Uwe Krebs, Wendeburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-932030-38-3 .
  6. ^ Goslarsche Zeitung of June 25, 2008 on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Hahnenklee stave church
  7. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Mohrmannstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag , Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 176.
  8. ↑ Mohrmann font on www.klingspor-museum.de
personal data
SURNAME Mohrmann, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mohrmann, Karl Heinrich Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Einbeck
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1927
Place of death St. Georgen