Leo Hugot

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Leo Hugot (born January 3, 1925 in Aachen ; † August 26, 1982 ibid) was a German architect and building historian .

As an architect, master builder of the cathedral and city curator, Leo Hugot made outstanding contributions to the city of Aachen and the legacy of Charlemagne in the post-war period.

life and work

Leo Joseph Hugot was born as the only son of Josefine Hugot, nee Alt, and Leonhard Hugot. The family lived in Aachen- Burtscheid . Leo Hugot attended elementary school there for eight years . The Aachen cathedral music director Theodor Bernhard Rehmann became aware of the talented young cathedral boy Leo Hugot and made it possible for him to attend the Aachen humanistic Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium .

After being transferred to the last class of the grammar school, Hugot was called up for the Reich Labor Service in 1943. From 1943 he was an infantryman and joined the Army Intelligence Service as a radio operator. In September 1944 he was imprisoned in France for two and a half years.

After returning home, he obtained a general university entrance qualification in June 1948 through a special course at the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium . In 1949 Hugot began studying architecture at RWTH Aachen University . In addition to his studies (1949–1954) at the Faculty of Construction, Leo Hugot regularly worked as an intern and auxiliary foreman at the Robert Grünzig construction company during the semester break at Aachen Cathedral .

After completing his studies in 1954 with the degree of a graduate engineer , Hugot was the local site manager at the Aachen cathedral construction works under the cathedral master builder Felix Kreusch . Hugot's fondness for building history was very beneficial to this activity on an early medieval architectural monument of the first order. Soon he published works on the reconstruction of the Carolingian west building, on the numerical scheme of the Palatinate Chapel and on the position of the royal throne .

From 1956 to 1969 Leo Hugot lived and worked in the house "Klosterplatz 1". From 1969 until his death in 1982 the house and his own architecture office were in the house "Hof 9" in Aachen. Since his special interest and ability was in the preservation of monuments and the architectural history research of the cathedral and the architectural monuments of the city of Aachen, Leo Hugot became Aachen city curator in 1969 and master builder in 1974.

An archaeological investigation of the provost church in Kornelimünster revealed a rich architectural history of the former Benedictine monastery. Leo Hugot received his doctorate on this work in 1965 under Willy Weyres at the RWTH in Aachen.

Palatine model after Leo Hugot 1981 Reconstruction of the Carolingian King's Hall with connecting buildings to the Palatine Chapel and atrium

For the Council of Europe exhibition “Charlemagne” in 1965, Hugot had to make a model of the Aachen Palatinate. Since that time he has been working more intensively on the Aachen town hall and was able to prove both the king's hall and the residential building of Charlemagne.

In the area of ​​the Aachen Quirinusbad he succeeded in 1967/68 a. a. the uncovering of a Roman cult area from which two temples and the architecture of the changing halls could be secured. Hugot researched and reconstructed the former Blasius Hospitium under the houses "Hof 7/9".

As a city conservator (since 1969), Hugot's concern was with the large number of listed buildings, which he knew how to protect and preserve individually and as an ensemble. The " Löwenstein House " and the " Ejjene Keizer Karl " house were saved from demolition, not least by Hugot. The redevelopment of the city center, which Hugot carefully carried out with its fundamental knowledge of the development of the building history, was recognized far beyond Aachen. In 1975 Leo Hugot was awarded the NRW Architecture Prize of the Association of German Architects (BDA) for the urban design based on a concept he developed for the restoration of the old streets and the scale of the original old town development. In 1976 he was awarded the Albert Steeger Prize of the Rhineland Regional Council “for his services to archaeological research in the Rhine region, for building research and preservation of medieval buildings in the Aachen area” .

In 1978 the Aachen city hall towers designed by Hugot, based on the historical design language of the Middle Ages , were erected. In his office as master builder, the cathedral chapter in Aachen entrusted him with the static securing of the choir hall by means of a combined ring anchor system of medieval and modern iron welding technology . Hugot signed the security check and functionality of the new technical system two days before his sudden death in August 1982. In 1979 Hugot had a new cathedral museum and a nuclear-safe cathedral bunker set up for the Aachen sanctuary tour. In the same year, the modern glazed choir hall windows initiated by Hugot and reopened were inaugurated.

Leo Hugot rebuilt or restored, rebuilt and furnished numerous churches in Aachen, in neighboring Belgium , in the Eifel and in Cologne ( St. Gereon and St. Kunibert ) after the war.

He held many honorary positions in church and society. Among other things, he was co-founder and chairman of the Choir Capella Aquensis. Hugot actively supported numerous associations that are committed to home preservation, art and music, history and monument preservation through membership and lectures.

In 1969 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested in Bamberg Cathedral on October 25, 1969 by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . Most recently he was Chief Commander of the Carolus Magnus Commander in Aachen.

On August 26, 1982, Leo Hugot died unexpectedly of a heart attack in his office at the age of 57. He left his wife Dorothée Hugot, two daughters and two sons and was buried in the family crypt at the Heissberg Cemetery in Burtscheid / Aachen . On the occasion of the 30th year of death, a specialist colloquium in memory of Leo Hugot took place on November 9, 2012 in the coronation hall of the Aachen town hall. A large part of his estate was made available by the heirs to the city of Aachen in 2013 for the purpose of digitization in order to then make it accessible to a broader public. On October 6, 2015, a deposit agreement was signed between the Hugot family and the Aachen city archive and the entire estate of Leo Hugot with drawings, plans, photos, notebooks and manuscripts was given to the city archive for storage and processing (digitization).

Honors

  • Knight of the Holy Sepulcher (1969)
  • Architecture Prize NRW of the BDA (1975)
  • Albert Steeger Prize of the Rhineland Regional Council (1976)
  • Krüzzbrür Order (1979)

Publications

  • Festive days for our diocese. in: Church newspaper for the Diocese of Aachen 1955, No. 40, p. 9ff.
  • The new bishop's crypt at Aachen Cathedral - the findings of the rising masonry. in: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein (ZAGV) 68, 1956, pp. 427–433.
  • New research on the Roman Bücheltherme in Aachen. in: Aachener Kunstblätter 19/20, pp. 85–89, Aachen 1961.
  • The west building of the Aachen Cathedral. in: Aachener Kunstblätter 24/25, 1963, pp. 108–126.
  • For the facade design of the Löwenstein house. in: ZAGV 74/75, pp. 477-482.
  • The Roman Büchelthermen in Aachen. in: ZAGV 74/75, pp. 458-466.
  • The former imperial abbey in Kornelimünster. in: Art and Antiquity on the Rhine. No. 8, exhibition catalog Düsseldorf 1963, pp. 85–91.
  • The Roman Büchelthermen in Aachen. in: Bonner Jahrbücher 163, 1963, pp. 188–197.
  • The western oratorio of the former Kornelimünster abbey church after 1500. in: Joseph Hoster , Albrecht Mann (ed.): Vom Bauen, Bilden und Bewiegen. Festschrift for Willy Weyres. Cologne 1964, pp. 101-119.
  • Johann Joseph Couven in memory. in: Heimatblätter des Landkreis Aachen 20, issue 1.
  • The model of the Aachen Palatinate. in: Charlemagne - work and effect. Exhibition catalog, Aachen 1965, pp. 395–401.
  • The King's Hall of Charlemagne in Aachen. in: Aachener Kunstblätter 30, 1965, pp. 38–48.
  • Kornelimünster - Investigations into the historical development of the former Benedictine monastery church. Dissertation at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen 1965.
  • The palace of Charlemagne in Aachen. in: Charlemagne. Volume III: Carolingian Art. Düsseldorf 1965, p. 534ff
  • Heavenly Jerusalem - City of God on earth. To the sanctuary tour in Kornelimünster. in: Church newspaper for the Diocese of Aachen, 1965, No. 28, p. 12.
  • Medieval frescoes in the Probsteikirche at Kornelimünster. in: Heimatblätter des Landkreis Aachen 21 (1965), Issue 4, pp. 83–86.
  • The Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne in number and measure the image of the heavenly Jerusalem Karlstag 28. 1. 1966. in: Aachener Volkszeitung (AVZ) of 27 January 1966th
  • Kornelimünster - Investigations into the historical development of the former Benedictine monastery church. Bonn 1968 (Rhine. Excavations 2, supplements to the Bonner Jahrbücher 26)
  • Lively past in the picture - the architectural and art monuments in the district of Aachen. Aachen 1968
  • The residential building of Charlemagne in the imperial palace of Aachen. in: Das Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn 1/69, 1969, pp. 9–11.
  • A Roman cult district with Gallo-Roman temples in Aachen. in: Das Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn 5/69, 1969, p. 72.
  • The Löwenstein House. in: Aachen - Pictures and Reports, Issue 39, 1973, pp. 15-18.
  • Press office of the city of Aachen (Hg): The city hall of Aachen. Aachen 1973.
  • Settlement history of the city of Aachen. in: Festschrift on the occasion of the completion of the redevelopment area I. Aachen 1975.
  • The Kockerellstrasse district. in: Festschrift on the occasion of the completion of the redevelopment area I. Aachen 1975.
  • Judengasse and Jakobstrasse. in: Festschrift on the occasion of the completion of the redevelopment area I. Aachen 1975.
  • Monument preservation - urban redevelopment. in: Festschrift on the occasion of the completion of the redevelopment area I. Aachen 1975.
  • The coronation throne in Aachen Cathedral. in: Report on the 29th conference for excavation sciences and building research V 76 in Cologne by the Koldewey Society , pp. 36–42, o. O. 1976.
  • Lecture on the award of the Albert Steeger scholarship in 1976 "for his services in the archaeological research of the Rhine area, for building research and preservation of medieval buildings in the Aachen area". in: Niederrheinisches Jahrbuch, Albert Steeger Scholarship, Krefeld 1976.
  • The water supply for the Roman town of Aachen. in: Deutsche Architekten-Ingenieur-Zeitschrift 8/9 1977, pp. 8-10.
  • Aachen stoneware. in: Stoneware from the Raeren and Aachen area. Aachen 1977, pp. 225–271 (Aachen Contributions for Building History and Local Art, Vol. 4)
  • The Inda monastery and the plan of the monastery of St. Gallen. in: ZAGV 84/85, 1978, pp. 473-498.
  • Construction activity and archaeological observations at the cathedral. in: Karlsverein - To restore the Aachen Cathedral. Report 1974/1975, Aachen 1978, pp. 6–41.
  • Aachen, cathedral, choir hall. in: The Parler and the beautiful style 1350–1400. European art among the Luxembourgers. Volume 1 pp. 121-125.
  • Aachen - Kornelimünster, history, monuments and treasures. 2nd revised edition (Rhein. Kunststätten 66) Cologne 1979.
  • The Inda Abbey - Kornelimünster. in: VA Schneider (Ed.): And they followed the rule of Saint Benedict. Cologne 1980, pp. 257-263.
  • A Roman figure torso. in: Aachener Kunstblätter 49, 1980, pp. 7-13.
  • Excavations and research in Aachen. in: Aquae Granni. Contributions to the archeology of Aachen. Bonn 1982 (Rheinische Ausgrabungen, 22), pp. 115–173.
  • The grave in the west building of the Aachen Minster. “Since they did not know where the bones of Emperor Charles rested” - new knowledge on a controversial issue. in: AVZ, March 6, 1982.
  • Archaeological observations in the city of Aachen in 1981. in: ZAGV 88/89, 1982, pp. 251–266.
Posthumously
  • Architectural history of the grave of Charlemagne. With a foreword by EG Grimme. in: Aachener Kunstblätter, Vol. 52, 1984, pp. 13-28.
  • Dorothée Hugot: The renovation of the medieval ring anchor system in the choir hall by master builder Dr. Leo Hugot and the associated opening of the two medieval windows. Aachener Karlsverein (Ed.), Aachen 1984.
  • Leo Hugot †: The Aachen Cathedral. Based on manuscripts written by Dorothée Hugot. Aachen 1986.

literature

  • Obituary for Leo Hugot . In: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein , 88/89, 1981/82, pp. 273ff.
  • Heinz Günter Horn : Leo Hugot died on August 26, 1982 . In: Das Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn , 6/82, p. 93.
  • Circular 1982 Koldewey Society from Ingeborg Schild
  • Niederrheinisches Jahrbuch Volume 13, pp. 165ff
  • Jan Richarz, Björn Schötten: In the footsteps of Leo Hugot. A city walk through Aachen . Aachen 2012.
  • Christian Raabe / Heinz Günter Horn (eds.): Leo Hugot, Der Mensch. His time. His estate. Contributions to the colloquium on November 9, 2012 on the occasion of the 30th year of death, supplemented by a catalog raisonné and two unpublished lectures . Geymüller Verlag for Architecture , Aachen 2014. ISBN 978-3-943-16410-7

Web links

Commons : Leo Hugot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publication of part of Leo Hugot's estate .
personal data
SURNAME Hugot, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hugot, Leo Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and building historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1982
Place of death Aachen