Lüder Rutenberg

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Lüder Rutenberg

Lüder Rutenberg (born February 8, 1816 in Bremen , † June 14, 1890 in Bad Harzburg ) was a Bremen builder , architect and brewery owner .

biography

Rutenberg - son of the builder Diedrich Christian Rutenberg  - learned from his father after attending Remberti and Latin schools. He studied physics, chemistry and technology in Berlin from 1836 to 1840 . From 1841 he worked for his father.

In 1847 he became an independent builder. His operation was one of the largest construction companies in Bremen. Lüder Rutenberg was particularly successful during the expansion of the Bremen suburbs as a master builder for the typical residential streets with one or two-story row houses . At that time, men of his profession built entire streets for their own account and sold the houses and apartments at a profit. In 1849 the Bremen Senate rejected an application by Rutenberg to be allowed to build apartment houses of similar size in Bremen, for example in Hamburg or Berlin. If the application had been approved, this would have had a major impact on the appearance of many residential areas in Bremen.

In 1853 Rutenberg got into the brewery business and acquired the Runge Brewery with his sister and brother-in-law as a partner , which he renamed the St. Pauli Brewery and expanded it to become the largest brewery in Bremen by 1870. Later he bought several smaller breweries together with the master brewer Heinrich Beck and in 1873 he took part in the construction of a brewery in Neustadt , which was then called the Kaiserbrauerei (later the large Beck & Co. )

His son, the doctor Christian Rutenberg , was murdered in Madagascar in 1878 . His three daughters (later family names Leisewitz, Marwede and Jenisch) were the heirs of the brewery.

Lüder Rutenberg rests in the Riensberg cemetery in a mausoleum (grave number AA 17/25) that he had built in honor of his murdered son. A life-size representation of Christian Rutenberg by the sculptor Diedrich Samuel Kropp sits enthroned on the highest point of the roof .

Works

The Rutenhof at the Domshof in Bremen (built 1873–1875, demolished 1967/1968)

From 1847 to 1849 the Kunsthalle Bremen Am Wall 207 was built according to his plans , his first notable building. The hall was rebuilt and expanded by Eduard Gildemeister at the beginning of the 20th century .

From 1862 to 1910 a number of residential buildings were built in the Fesenfeld district . Rutenberg built numerous row houses for wealthy families, such as B. in Kohlhökerstraße , Contrescarpe and Humboldtstraße . The streets of (today's) Rutenstrasse and Mathildenstrasse with the ensemble Mathildenstrasse (1866–1871) were designed almost completely by him .

In 1861 he set up his own domicile - the Rutenberg house at Dobben 91. It remained in the family until 1920, when the city bought it and since then has served as a health department, trade supervisory office and state archive. Today the local office is located there. Like many of his other buildings, the building is now a listed building (see list of cultural monuments in Bremen-Ostliche Vorstadt ).

Honors

Named after him were and are:

  • The rod road in Ostertorviertel in Bremen-Mitte .
  • The Rutenhof in Victorian style on the west side of the Domshof in Bremen-Mitte, which was built from 1873 to 1875 in place of three pastors' houses and was demolished in 1967/68.
  • The Rutenberg Foundation on Humboldtstrasse in Bremen, donated by him in 1861 from his father's inheritance.
  • The Rutenberg street in Bremerhaven .
  • The Rutenberg pavilion in Bremen's Bürgerpark, which was built in 1870 and donated by him.
  • The Mathildenstraße received about 1867 named after his wife Mathilde Rutenberg, born Marker.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on www.fof-ohlsdorf.de
personal data
SURNAME Rutenberg, Lüder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bremen builder and brewery owner
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1890
Place of death Bad Harzburg