Ludwig Eisenlohr

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Second from left: Ludwig Eisenlohr, 1889
Emil Stumpp Ludwig Eisenlohr (1926)

Ludwig Eisenlohr senior (born March 17, 1851 in Nürtingen ; † October 11, 1931 in Degerloch ) was a German architect .

life and work

Ludwig Eisenlohr was the son of the seminar leader Theodor Eisenlohr and his wife Auguste Henriette Eisenlohr born. Little fire. He studied architecture at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg and at the Technical University Stuttgart , among others with Christian Friedrich von Leins .

Eisenlohr had been active in and around Stuttgart since 1877. At first it was in the tradition of historicism , but around 1900 started looking for new architectural possibilities. At the turn of the century, he and his office partner Carl Weigle , with whom he also published the architecture magazine Architektonische Rundschau , were considered one of the most renowned architects in Stuttgart. In addition to numerous residential and commercial buildings, he also designed the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Nikolai , which was inaugurated in 1895, the neo-Romanesque Evangelical Church of the Savior in Stuttgart-Berg, the crypt chapel of the Barons of Gemmingen above Hornberg Castle and that - no longer as planned today Preserved form - Breuninger department store on Stuttgart market square. Eisenlohr also planned the expansion of the Hotel Marquardt .

His competition designs for the Reichstag building in Berlin, the imperial court building in Leipzig, the Schiller National Museum in Marbach am Neckar and the secondary school in Heidenheim an der Brenz (1899, since 1952 Hellenstein high school) became known nationwide. Various of his buildings were published in the trade press, such as the office building of the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik (WMF) in Berlin, the Scheufelen paper factory in Oberlenningen and the Corps Suevia liaison house in Tübingen .

Eisenlohr's son Ludwig Eisenlohr junior and his son-in-law Oscar Pfennig continued the architecture office. Many of his buildings are now listed .

  • Villa Link in Heilbronn, built in 1881

  • Schweinsberg Tower in Heilbronn, built in 1886

  • Schiller National Museum in Marbach, built in 1903

  • WMF office building in Berlin, Leipziger Strasse , built in 1905

  • Villa Giesler in Stuttgart

Fonts

  • The new administration building of the Württemberg savings bank. In: Monthly of the Württemberg Association for Building Studies in Stuttgart , year 1901, issue 2, pp. 10-13. ( Digitized version )

literature

  • Christine Breig: The construction of villas and country houses in Stuttgart 1830–1930. Hohenheim Verlag, Stuttgart / Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-89850-964-8 , p. 519 f.
  • Annette Schmidt: Ludwig Eisenlohr. An architectural path from historicism to modernity. Hohenheim-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-89850-979-6 .
  • Steffen Seischab: Harmonious Building: The architect Ludwig Eisenlohr (1851-1931) and the Scheufelen paper mill in Oberlenningen . In: Steffen Seischab: Nürtinger Köpf, Nürtingen: Senner 2018, pp. 107–114.

as well as image sources for individual buildings:

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Eisenlohr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architectural Review , 4th year 1888, issue 10, plate 76/77
personal data
SURNAME Eisenlohr, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Nürtingen
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1931
Place of death Degerloch