Léon Hertling

Catholic parish church of St. Stephan in Jaun, designed by Léon Hertling

Karl Sigismund Léon Hertling (born November 20, 1867 in Freiburg im Üechtland ; died March 9, 1948 in Freiburg im Üechtland) was a Swiss architect .

Life

Léon Hertling's ancestors originally came from Mund in the canton of Valais and settled in Friborg in 1829. The father Charles Jacques Hertling was a carpenter by trade , the grandfather Johann Christian Hertling worked as a locksmith . The cousins ​​Frédéric and Charles Hertling also became locksmiths and later occasionally supplied Léon Hertling with ironwork for his building projects.

Léon Hertling began his architecture studies in 1884/1885 at the Technikum Winterthur and then moved to the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich. There he completed his studies with a diploma in 1889. After internships with the renowned Zurich architects Heinrich Ernst and Gustav Gull , Hertling opened his own architecture office in Freiburg in Üechtland in 1890. From 1892 he was a member of the Freiburg section of the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects . From 1903 to 1907 he held the office of city building director. Hertling's marriage to Ida Fraisse (1863–1942) resulted in their son Adolphe, born in 1893, who also became an architect. In 1926, Léon Hertling handed over his architecture office to his son, who, however, died in 1929. The family grave is on the Cimetière Saint-Léonard in Friborg, where Léon Hertling was buried in 1948.

buildings

Former hall of the tram company, today Espace Jean-Tinguely – Niki-de-Saint-Phalle in Freiburg i. Ü.

Valley station of the Neuveville – Saint-Pierre funicular

Hertling's architectural work was created between 1890 and 1926 mainly in Freiburg in Üechtland. His style moves between historicism , Swiss Heimatstil and moderate Art Nouveau . He created designs for several public buildings, including the canton hospital, the canton library and a hall of the tram in Freiburg im Üechtland . His only church is the neo-Romanesque church in Jaun . His planned residential buildings in large numbers are mainly in the Alt, Pérolles and Beauregard quarters. This is how seven villas were built on Avenue de Gambach, a garden district for the urban upper class.

List of buildings (selection)

• 1899: Valley and mountain station of the Neuveville – Saint-Pierre funicular , Freiburg i. Ü.
• 1899: Café de l'Université (today Brasserie Boulevard), Boulevard de Pérolles 39, Freiburg i. Ü.
• 1900: Café des Charmettes residential and commercial building, Boulevard de Pérolles, Freiburg i. Ü.
• 1900: Hall of the tram company Strassenbahn Freiburg in Üechtland
• 1903–1905: Ecole Supérieure pour jeunes filles (today Collège de Gambach), Freiburg i. Ü.
• 1904: Brasserie du Beausite residential and commercial building, Route de Villars 1, Freiburg i. Ü.
• 1904: House on Avenue Jean-Gambach 7, Freiburg i. Ü.
• 1905: House at Avenue Jean-Gambach 26, Freiburg i. Ü.
• 1905: Villa Thérèse, Route de Berne 10, Freiburg i. Ü.
• 1905–1907: State Bank, Liebfrauenplatz, Freiburg i. Ü.
• 1905: Conversion of the Rue Joseph-Piller building into a synagogue, Freiburg i. Ü.
• 1906–1913 Cantonal Hospital, Freiburg i. Ü.
• 1907: Schaller's house, Route des Alpes 2-4, Freiburg i. Ü.
• 1907–1910: Cantonal Library, Freiburg i. Ü.
• 1908–1910: Catholic parish church St. Stephan, Jaun
• 1915-1916: Pinte paroissiale (Café St-Maurice), Vers l'Eglise 6, Bärfischen (Barberêche)
• 1924: Banque Populaire Suisse office building, 13 Avenue de la Gare, Freiburg i. Ü. (Together with Ernest Devolz)

literature

• Pierre de Zurich: Le canton de Friborg sous l'ancien régime. La maison bourgeoise en Suisse . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1928.
• Léon Hertling (Nekrolog) In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung. Volume 66, Issue 27, 1948, p. 383. [1] .
• Hermann Schöpfer: Small art guide city of Freiburg . Paulusverlag, Freiburg im Üechtland 2007, ISBN 978-3-7228-0722-5 .
• Francis Python: Freiburg, a city in the 19th and 20th centuries . Edition La Sarine, Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-2-88355-108-4 .