Ludwig Bohnstedt

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Ludwig Bohnstedt

Franz Ludwig Carl Bohnstedt (born October 27, 1822 in Saint Petersburg , † January 3, 1885 in Gotha ) was a German architect . In the first architectural competition for the Reichstag building in 1872, his design was awarded first prize, but was not carried out because he was not a Berliner. In addition, Bohnstedt designed numerous buildings in Thuringia .

Life

Bohnstedt's design for the Reichstag building
Gothaer Privatbank (1873–1877)

Bohnstedt was born in Saint Petersburg as the son of German immigrants. In 1839 he began studying philosophy at the University of Berlin , but soon switched to architecture . After graduation, he returned to Saint Petersburg in 1843, where he worked as an architect. The Russian Grand Duchess Helene appointed him court architect. 1851-1854 he acted as chief architect of the Russian government, in 1858 as councilor and professor at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art.

On December 12, 1850, he married Olga, b. van der Vliet (1833–1906), with whom he had five surviving children: the manufacturing director in St. Petersburg Ernst Bohnstedt (1851–1908), the architect Alfred Bohnstedt (1854–1906), the painter Ida Bohnstedt (born March 17 1858 in Saint Petersburg, † September 16, 1916 in Gotha) and the also unmarried daughters Olga (1856–1937) and Ella (1865–1945).

In 1862 he moved with his family to the residential city of Gotha of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha , where he worked as a city architect and designed many representative buildings and the Bahnhofstrasse including development, but also villas for private clients.

From 1866 to 1871 he was an honorary senator for construction in the city administration. In 1874 he was appointed a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, and in 1875 he became an honorary member of the Amsterdam Building Academy . In 1876 he was awarded the 1st medal at the art exhibition in Munich.

Bohnstedt found his final resting place in Gotha Cemetery IV . When it was cleared in 1951, Bohnstedt's tombstone was secured, which today (but without the crowning piece) stands in the grove of honor in the main cemetery . At the back of the tombstone there is a plaque for the daughter Ida.

The city of Gotha named a street in the west of the city in honor of the architect as "Bohnstedtstraße".

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City Theater in Riga, ca.1875
Gravestone in the main cemetery in Gotha

The buildings designed by Bohnstedt include:

  • 1840 Villa Jacobs , Gotha, Mozartstrasse 3
  • 1860–1863: Riga , City Theater, today Latvian National Opera
  • unveiled on July 9, 1867: Gotha, Paul-Emil-Jacobs- Monument
  • 1868: Eisenach - buildings in the south quarter , e.g. B. Reutervilla , 1866-1868
  • around 1870 and again in 1878: Bonn, extensive renovations and additions to Villa Koenig (today's Villa Hammerschmidt ) in Bonn
  • 1870/1871: Gotha, state war memorial, also regimental memorial of the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95, opposite the theater (1874)
  • 1870 (1878?): Gotha, Villa Gelbke, Gartenstraße 19 (facade destroyed in 1966 for the widening of Gartenstraße)
  • 1872–1874: Gothaer fire insurance bank
  • 1872–1877: Gotha, Deutsche Grundkreditbank
  • 1873–1877: Gothaer Privatbank
  • 1874: Nordhausen , Villa Kneiff, see Park Hohenrode
  • 1876–1883: Helsinki , National Bank of Finland
  • 1880: Nordhausen , war memorial for those who died in the Franco-Prussian War 1870/1871, in the grounds on Sedanstrasse

Employee

Honors

  • The city of Gotha renamed the street called "Werderstraße" in Gotha-West until 1945 after a general in the Franco-German War of 1870/71 to "Bohnstedtstraße".

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Ludwig Bohnstedt  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Ludwig Bohnstedt  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Roob, Günter Scheffler: Gothaer Personalitäten , p. 23, ISBN 3-932081-37-4 , Rhino-Verlag, 2nd edition 2006
  2. ↑ There is a drawing of her from 1875 in the Museum of Regional History and Folklore in Gotha under inventory number 11866.
  3. ↑ Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn 1819–1914. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 1, pp. 191 ff. (Also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
  4. ↑ The 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95 at GenWiki
personal data
SURNAME Bohnstedt, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bohnstedt, Franz Ludwig Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1885
Place of death Gotha