Louis Kuhne (architect)

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Louis Kuhne (* 14. October 1814 in Bortfeld ; † 10. November 1896 in Braunschweig ; Complete name: Emil Ludwig Georg Kuhne ) was a German architect and herzoglich Braunschweigischer construction officer, Mr . From 1846 to 1854 he worked as a lecturer in architecture at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig.

Life

Kuhne was the son of Bortfeld pastor Johann Friedrich Sylvester Kuhne (1777-1819) and his wife Sophie Henriette Elisabeth Kuhne nee Steinbrück, he grew up as a half-orphan in Braunschweig after the early death of his father . There he attended from Michaelis 1832 to the end of March 1834 the Collegium Carolinum to study building science. At that time he was already taking part in the construction of the residential palace , which burned down in 1830, under the guidance of court building officer Carl Theodor Ottmer . In 1839 he passed the student examination and was then officially assigned to the court building council as a Baueleve. At the beginning of 1842 he took over the Sunday afternoon classes in "drawing of plans and cracks " at the drawing institute of the newly founded Braunschweiger Gewerbeverein . A few years later he also taught "geometric and machine drawing" on Saturdays . After passing the building conductor examination in June 1842, a year later he was assigned to the district master builder Heinrich Blumenstengel as an assistant in the construction of the railway line Wolfenbüttel - Oschersleben, which was then under construction . After Ottmer's death in August 1843, Kuhne saw it as his task to complete the construction of the second Braunschweig main station , which Ottmer had planned and had already started to replace the first building from 1838.

Just before Christmas 1844 the Brunswick granted him Ministry an unpaid leave for a two-year study trip at government expense, which he immediately took him and through most of Germany, throughout Italy and Sicily by Spain , France , Belgium , England and Scotland led. Immediately after his return he was appointed assessor and voting (ie voting) member of the ducal building management. In addition to the design and execution of the state and church buildings, he was also given the task of examining the plans for private villas on the ramparts . Attention should be paid to a dignified and demanding development. In the same year he also found a job as a lecturer for architecture at the Collegium Carolinum in the subject of beautiful architecture .

In the summer of 1851 Kuhne attended the first international technical and handicraft exhibition in London .

In December 1853 he was appointed building officer. Shortly thereafter, he gave up teaching at the Collegium Carolinum in order to devote himself exclusively to the tasks of building management. However, he continued the hourly lessons in the drawing institute of the trade association until his retirement in 1877.

Buildings

  • In 1840 Kuhne made a design for the construction of a villa for the courtyard car manufacturer Christian Gille in an attractive location on the promenade at the Steintor Assekuranz № 3036 (today Steintorwall 1). In the second half of the 19th century, the building was expanded in several phases towards the Oker . The part of the building facing the street remained largely unchanged. Its façade is determined by a central, single-storey three-sided bay window - today, however, without a battlement - and the symmetrically arranged, rectangular windows under a cornice that sit on the cornice .
The new law firm in Wolfenbüttel
  • In the office building in Wolfenbüttel, space was to be created for a higher and jury court. Kuhne had to 1851/1853 which the long building dominating lucarnes from the 16th century and the portico removed and the bow window increase by a bullet. He adopted the round arch motif from the basement as a design element for the stair tower and also the corner tower.
  • In 1854 Kuhne designed a villa for the entrepreneur Hermann Buchler on the Petritorwall 22–29 property, which is colloquially known as the Buchler villa. It was destroyed in World War II and its ruins later demolished.
  • In 1857, Kuhne entered the competition for the new building of the State Theater with a design . The Braunschweig opera house , built in the second third of the 17th century in the Weichbild Hagen , now showed considerable defects. The new building of a court theater should be a gift from the Braunschweig regional assembly for the sovereign Duke Wilhelm on his 25th anniversary in government. At the Duke's request, Carl Wolf had been designated as the architect . To keep up appearances, an architectural competition was held, which Wolf won as intended. Some convincing architectural aspects of the competition designs by Kuhne and Friedrich Maria Krahe were integrated into the implementation planning of the new building.
In the background the central building of the ducal sanatorium and nursing home in Königslutter, completed in 1865
  • In 1857 Kuhne designed a hussar barracks, no longer preserved, with a stepped gable in neo-Gothic style on the site of the former princely garden of the Dehn'schen Palais' between Ritterstrasse and Löwenwall . It was also known as the cavalry barracks on the Magnitor or just the Magnitor barracks. Up to 130 riding horses could be placed in the stables. In 1892 the municipal trade school moved here. Now located on the site Gaußschule .
  • In 1861, Lord Mayor Heinrich Caspari , Kuhne and Medical Councilor David Mansfeld submitted an application to the Braunschweig State Assembly to build a new state mental institution . The Alexius nursing home in the city of Braunschweig, which had been in use until then, had become dilapidated and overcrowded. A location outside Braunschweig, the Benedictine monastery in Königslutter, in the immediate vicinity of the imperial cathedral, was chosen for the new building . In the conception of the ducal sanatorium and nursing home , building director Wolf and later building officer Kuhne were initially involved. The main house was opened for use in December 1865.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilhelm Freist: The pastors of the Braunschweig Evangelical Lutheran regional church since the introduction of the Reformation. Landeskirchenamt, Wolfenbüttel 1974, p. 173.
  2. ↑ Kuhne. City Archives Braunschweig , H VIII A: 3210, p. 3.
  3. ↑ Claudia bei der Wieden: 50 years HBK Braunschweig. History of an art college and its predecessor institutions. Braunschweig 2013, ISBN 978-3-88895-082-7 , p. 63 f.
  4. ^ Theodor Müller: Teachers at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig between 1814 and 1862. Braunschweigischer Hochschulbund e. V., Braunschweig 1973, DNB 730505804 , p. 84.
  5. ↑ Kuhne. City Archives Braunschweig, H VIII A: 3210, p. 96.
  6. ↑ Kuhne. City Archives Braunschweig, H VIII: 3210, p. 103.
  7. ↑ Kuhne. City Archives Braunschweig, H VIII A: 3210, p. 44f.
  8. ^ Theodor Müller: Teachers at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig between 1814 and 1862. Braunschweigischer Hochschulbund e. V., Braunschweig 1973, p. 85.
  9. ↑ Kuhne. City Archives Braunschweig, H VIII A: 3210, p. 79.
  10. ↑ Kuhne. City Archives Braunschweig, H VIII A: 3210, p. 56.
  11. ↑ Kuhne. City Archives Braunschweig, H VIII A: 3210, p. 58.
  12. ↑ Kuhne. City Archives Braunschweig, H VIII A: 3210, p. 65.
  13. ^ Eva-Maria Willemsen: Ottmer's "Gothic Style". In: Gerd Biegel, Angela Klein (ed.): Carl Theodor Ottmer 1800–1843. Brunswick court architect, European architect. Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, Braunschweig 2000, ISBN 3-927939-48-X , p. 127 f.
  14. ^ Peter Giesau: Carl Theodor Ottmer (1800–1843). Braunschweiger Hofbaurat between classicism and historicism. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-422-06217-3 , p. 67 f.
  15. ↑ Painting of the Ducal Chancellery in Wolfenbüttel before the renovation by L. Kuhne , on regionalWeltenbüttel.de, accessed on August 4, 2019.
  16. ^ Hans-Henning Grote: Monument Wolfenbüttel. The building development and buildings of the city of Wolfenbüttel from 1754 to 1918 . Wolfenbüttel 2016, p. 23 f.
  17. ^ Photo of the Buchler villa on Petritorwall before 1945 , on the picture index of Art & Architecture, accessed on August 4, 2019.
  18. ↑ Walther P. Buchler: Buchler Villa. In: L. Camerer (Ed.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon. Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 32.
  19. ^ Mathias Haenchen: On the new building drafts for the Ducal Court Theater in Braunschweig. In: 300 Years of Theater in Braunschweig 1690–1990. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1990, ISBN 3-926701-11-0 , p. 43.
  20. ^ Hans-Henning Grote: Theater and town planning in and around Braunschweig. A walk through the exhibition. In: 300 Years of Theater in Braunschweig 1690–1990. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1990, ISBN 3-926701-11-0 , p. 90.
  21. ^ Ludwig Kuhne estate, in the Braunschweig city archive, G XII 13:50, G XII 13:51 and G XII 13:52. Single sheets for: Draft for the new building of a hussar barracks and for the stables for 200 horses and accessories for Braunschweig.
  22. ↑ Monika Lemke-Kokkelink : Barracks. In: Gerd Biegel, Angela Klein (ed.): Carl Theodor Ottmer 1800–1843. Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, Braunschweig 2000, ISBN 3-927939-48-X , p. 232 f.
  23. ↑ View of the cavalry barracks according to the plans of Kuhne ( Memento from June 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  24. ^ View of the hussar barracks after the conversion and new construction into a municipal trade school according to plans by the city architect Max Osterloh; enter page 32 to complete your online search.
  25. ^ Richard Moderhack : Braunschweig. The image of the city in 900 years. History and views. Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig 1985, p. 83.
  26. ^ Establishment of a state sanatorium and nursing home in Königslutter. City Archives Braunschweig, G IV 02: 588
  27. ^ Rudolf Blasius : Braunschweig in the year MDCCCXCVII . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1897, p. 232.
personal data
SURNAME Kuhne, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuhne, Emil Ludwig Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and ducal Brunswick building officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Bortfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1896
Place of death Braunschweig