Karl Wilhelm Bareiss

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Karl Wilhelm Bareiss (born March 23, 1819 in Tübingen ; † July 12, 1895 in Stuttgart ; also: Wilhelm Friedrich Carl Bareiß ) was a German architect and the first master builder of Winterthur .

Life

Karl Wilhelm Bareiss came from a family of carpenters. After finishing high school in Tübingen, he studied at the building trade school in Stuttgart, then from 1841 at the building academy in Munich and from 1842 at the building academy in Berlin . After study trips through Holland, Belgium, France and Italy, he taught as a master builder himself at the building trade school in Stuttgart from 1844. Between 1855 and 1860 he worked as court architect for the Princes of Thurn and Taxis in Neresheim .

From 1860 to 1871 he held the position of the first city architect in Winterthur (Switzerland). Mayor Johann Jakob Sulzer had set up the position to promote the urgent structural development in Winterthur. Under the direction of Bareiss and partly according to his plans, important buildings in the neo-Gothic style were built: the salt, grain and warehouse , the cavalry barracks , the bath and laundry facility , the Bauhütte house (which now houses the cinema and hotel Loge), the Church of St. Peter and Paul and the Haus zur Gloria . Bareiss saw the preservation of the cityscape of Winterthur as his life's work. When the city demolished the gates and towers of the old town, he felt betrayed and resigned from his office in 1871. He returned to Stuttgart and taught at the building school and at the Stuttgart Polytechnic until 1885 .

Buildings in Winterthur

The Winterthur bath and laundry facility, watercolor by Jakob Ziegler-Sulzberger, 1868

(Selection)

  • 1861: cavalry barracks
  • 1862–1864: Bath and laundry facility, Badgasse (Moorish)
The Winterthur bath and washing facility was opened in 1864 with bathtubs made of Carrara marble, various shower options, baths with chemical additives and a swimming pool. It was the first indoor swimming pool in Switzerland and was also called the bathtub mosque because of its appearance.
The weighing house, the most important Gothic secular building in the old town, was built in 1503 and served as a department store and weighing hall in which all goods traded in Winterthur had to be weighed and cleared.
  • 1867–1868: Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul
The first newly built Catholic church in post-reformist Zurich is a monument to the history of the canton and is the architectural focus of the Neuwiesenquartier, which was newly created during the industrial boom in Winterthur. Bareiss designed a longitudinal building with a choir and front tower and thus adopted the common scheme of neo-Gothic parish churches.
Bareiss built the Gothic-shaped cemetery chapel as an architectural ornament. The interior stylishly decorated chapel was used for abdication at funerals and was considered the most mature work of Bareiss.
  • 1868: House Zur Gloria
Residential and commercial building as a plastered brick building with a neo-Gothic facade, a richly designed central axis with a bay window and a high portal bordered by statues (Mercury and Volcano).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Bruno Carl: Bareiss, Wilhelm. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ^ Badanstalt Badgasse in the Winterthur glossary , last accessed on November 1, 2012.
  3. ^ Waaghaus in the Winterthur Glossary , last accessed on November 1, 2012
  4. Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul in the Winterthur Glossary , last accessed on November 1, 2012.
  5. Rychenberg cemetery with cemetery chapel in the Winterthur glossary , last accessed on November 1, 2012.
  6. ^ Haus zur Gloria in the Winterthur glossary , last accessed on November 1, 2012.