Konrad Oertel (architect)

Konrad Oertel , also Conrad Oertel , (born January 8, 1851 in Nuremberg ; † November 10, 1907 ibid) was a German architect .

life and work

Born in Nuremberg, Konrad Oertel first attended the Nuremberg Art School from 1867 to 1872 and - after a short break - the Hanover Polytechnic School from 1874 to 1875 as a student of the architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase . Subsequently, Oertel held an assistant position there until 1883, through which, among other things, he edited the guide published in 1879 through the royal residence city of Hanover . At the same time, Konrad Oertel himself worked as an architect and planned several buildings in Hanover as well as the "White Villa" for the Secret Sanitary Councilor Adrian Schücking in Bad Pyrmont , which in 1969 had to give way to the new building of the Königin-Luise-Bad.

To Oertel's best known works in Hanover was built according to his design of 4 May 1885, as one Kröpcke clock known Wettersäule at Kröpcke , a central square in Hanover. It was replaced by a modern clock in 1954 and rebuilt in 1977 as a simplified copy in its old location.

From 1886 he worked as a freelance architect in Nuremberg, in 1900 he was appointed assistant teacher at the Nuremberg building trade school. There he became a member of the Masonic Lodge Joseph for Unity . In the competition for the construction of an administration building for the Maschinenbau-Aktien-Gesellschaft Nürnberg in 1897, his design was awarded 2nd prize. For the Bavarian Trade Museum he designed the building of the confectionery at the State Industry, Trade and Art Exhibition in Nuremberg in 1896 .

Fonts

• Guide through the royal residence city of Hanover and the surrounding area for technicians and students of the Technical University. Klindworth's Verlag, Hanover 1879.

literature

• Friedrich Lindau : Conrad Oertel. In: Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity. 2nd edition, Schlütersche, Hannover 2001, ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , pp. 38, 85, 98, 332 ( online at Google Books )
• Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. KG Saur , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3 , p. 1098 ( online at Google Books ).

Web links

Commons : Konrad Oertel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Harold Hammer-Schenk , Günther Kokkelink , Sid Auffarth : Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxon architecture in the nineteenth century. Th.Schäfer, Hannover 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , p. 62.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Friedrich Lindau: Conrad Oertel. In: Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity. 2nd edition, Schlütersche, Hannover 2001, ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , p. 332.
3. ^ Historical Pyrmont: View of the Schücking Villa around 1900 at www.dr-hartmut-rau.de , accessed on August 28, 2013
4. ^ Walter Dietrichkeit: Prof. Dr. Adrian Schücking. Royal Prussian Medical Council, spa doctor, researcher, politician, writer and philosopher. A biography. Masonic Lodge to the Three Sources, Bad Pyrmont 1995, p. 31 ff.
5. ↑ Staatsbad wants to modernize Queen Luise Bath for up to 13 million euros. In: Deister and Weser newspaper from November 21, 2012.
6. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Kröpcke. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , pp. 162–163.
7. ^ Hannovers Perlen - Part 2: Der Kröpcke ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , August 10, 2011
8. ↑ The Kröpcke through the ages , HAZ photo series
9. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 31, 1897, No. 83 (from October 16, 1897), p. 524 (short report on the competition result)
10. ↑ Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3 , p. 1098.