Ludwig Arntz

Robert Ludwig Arntz (born July 19, 1855 in Cologne ; † May 5, 1941 there ) was a German architect , monument conservator and cathedral builder .

Life

After an internship with Hermann Otto Pflaume in 1873 , Ludwig Arntz studied architecture from 1874 to 1878 as a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase at the Hanover Polytechnic . After completing his studies, he completed a legal clerkship as a Prussian government building supervisor and worked in Brandenburg and Kiel between 1880 and 1883. In 1883 he continued his studies with Friedrich von Schmidt in Vienna , where at the same time he was already working in the Dombauhütte of St. Stephen's Cathedral . From 1885 to 1886 Arntz worked again in Berlin, as a government master builder ( assessor in the state building administration). In 1895 Arntz became master builder at the Strasbourg Cathedral , where he stayed until 1902. After his release he went back to the Rhineland and then worked, first in Bonn and later in Cologne, as a freelance architect until his death.

Arntz was married to Maria Friederike Albrecht since 1897. He died at the age of 85 from arteriosclerosis in his apartment in Cologne-Marienburg .

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Arntz mainly dealt with sacred architecture and was mainly concerned with the restoration of church buildings. In addition, he also built some mundane residential buildings, mostly in the Rhineland. A well-known example is the twin villa of the brothers Karl and Leopold Bleibtreu built in 1925 in what is now the Oberkassel district of Bonn , one half of which ( Basaltstrasse 18 ) has been preserved.

New construction of sacred buildings

• 1909–1911: Church of St. Jakobus the Elder in Lichtringhausen

Restoration of sacred buildings

• 1885–1887: Evangelical Kilian Church in Heilbronn
• 1892–1894: Catholic Matthias Chapel in Kobern-Gondorf
• 1898: Catholic Church of St. Johannes Baptist in Nideggen
• 1895–1902: Strasbourg Cathedral in Strasbourg
• 1904–1907: Catholic Minorite Church in Cologne
• 1905–1907: Catholic Church Klein St. Arnold in Arnoldsweiler
• 1905–1907: Catholic Church of St. Niolai in Kalkar

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  Kilian's Church
  Heilbronn

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  Matthias
  Chapel Kobern-Gondorf

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  St. Johannes Baptist
  Nideggen

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  Strasbourg Cathedral

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  Minorite Church
  Cologne

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  Klein St. Arnold
  Arnoldsweiler

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  St. Nicolai
  Kalkar

Fonts

Arntz published more than 100 writings on architectural history and monument preservation . Among other things, he was co-author of the publication Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt Köln , which appeared in the series Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz under the editorship of Paul Clemen .

literature

• Hans Vollmer : Arntz, Ludwig . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 147 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Paul Clemen: Speech in memory of the cathedral builder Ludwig Arntz. In: Yearbook of the Cologne History Association. Volume 23, 1941, pp. 221-224.
• Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne: Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb (= city ​​traces, monuments in Cologne. Volume 8), Volume II, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , p. 789.
• Udo Liessem: Ludwig Arntz. Architect and cathedral builder 1855–1941 (= Mittelrheinische Hefte. Volume 4.) Görres Verlag, Koblenz 1980.

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Arntz  - Collection of Images

• Dataset on Ludwig Arntz in the database of architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , last accessed on June 24, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Death certificate no. 418 from May 6, 1941, registry office Cologne IV. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 15, 2018 . 
2. ↑ glass-portal.privat.t-online.de (accessed on August 11, 2014).