Ludwig Friedrich Gaab

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Ludwig Friedrich Gaab , from 1852 Ludwig Friedrich von Gaab (born April 1, 1800 in Tübingen , † August 23, 1869 in Stuttgart ) was a German architect and Württemberg construction clerk .

Life

Ludwig Friedrich Gaab was the son of the university professor , Ephorus and prelate Dr. Johann Friedrich von Gaab and his wife Luise Eberhardine, née Hoffmann. After confirmation, he left Latin school and apprenticed to a carpenter. At the age of 18 he worked for a year at the "Royal Garden and Construction Directorate".

He was the student of the builder Friedrich Bernhard Adam Groß . Gaab studied mathematics and philosophy in Tübingen. During his studies in 1818 he became a member of the Tübingen fraternity Arminia . His fellow students were Carl Marcell Heigelin and Ludwig von Zanth . After graduating, he trained with the architect Ferdinand von Fischer . At the age of 21 he took his exams and traveled to France and Italy. In 1824 he worked for the senior building officer Gottlob Georg Barth , designed penitentiaries and built one in Ludwigsburg. In 1826 he designed the Rotebühlkaserne, the infantry barracks in Stuttgart. At the age of 28 he married Emilie Pistorius and had five children with her. He becomes "Weginspector" in Biberach , builds roads and bridges, for example the road to Wangen im Allgäu .

Ludwig Friedrich Gaab was brought to Stuttgart by Wilhelm I as "Hofbauinspector". In 1838 he was appointed the Württemberg court chamber builder, and in 1840 he was appointed city director in Stuttgart. In 1846 he started building railways, where he was a member of the Württemberg Railway Commission until his death. In contrast to his initial colleagues Karl Etzel and Michael Knoll , he was a pure architect with no engineering background.

In 1852 Gaab received the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown as an award . This gave him personal nobility . In 1855 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Stuttgart.

Ludwig Gaab died on August 23, 1869 in Stuttgart and was buried in the Hoppenlauf cemetery. The Heilbronn city and foundation master builder Louis de Millas is one of Gaab's students .

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Friedrichshafen City Railway Station (Sept. 2008)

In 1831 Ludwig Friedrich Gaab built the Honauer Steige zum Lichtenstein as well as the road from Oberjettingen to Nagold and the road from Freudenstadt to the Kniebis. He drafted the plans for the church of the parish of Pfrondorf built in 1833, the Evangelical Johanneskirche built between 1833 and 1834, at Kirchstrasse 10 in Dettenhausen, each in the camera office style , in 1843 the infantry barracks (today's Rotebühlbau, together with Johann Kaspar Vogel), the reconstruction of the old one Lusthaus on Schloßplatz and the Kronprinzenpalais (1846–1850, modeled on the Herzog-Max-Palais in Munich ) in Stuttgart, the reconstruction of the castle in Kilchberg (1843), the new Holy Cross Church in Loffenau (1843), the Protestant church in Neckarwestheim (1844), the Berger Church in Berg (1853–1855) and the reconstruction of the castle in Donzdorf (1856). In his role at the City of Stuttgart, he also planned various private houses, including a. the houses Herdweg 31 and Kriegsbergstraße 30.

As part of his work for the Württemberg railways, the Ulm – Friedrichshafen Südbahn was built from 1846 to 1853 with representative reception buildings such as those in Ulm (1850) and Friedrichshafen Stadt (1847–1848). In 1857 and 1858, von Gaab made the first plans for the Heilbronn – Hall (“Kocherbahn”) line, which, however , became largely obsolete due to the decision to build the line via Weinsberg instead of Neckarsulm . From 1857 to 1869 he devoted himself to the Upper Neckar Railway Plochingen – Villingen. From 1865 to 1869, the Hohenzollern Railway Tübingen – Hechingen was built under von Gaab .

Gaab's architectural style was initially influenced by classicism . Later he developed a penchant for historicism , which he could hardly implement in his buildings for the railroad.

literature

  • Gebhard Blank: Stuttgart Villas in the 19th Century: A companion publication to the exhibition in the Wilhelms-Palais from March 18 to August 16, 1987 , Stuttgart 1987, pages 8, 12, 16.
  • Christine Breig: The construction of villas and country houses in Stuttgart 1830-1930. An overview of the different implementations and changes in the villa building type in Stuttgart , Stuttgart 2004, pages 269–271, 348–350, 524.
  • Karl Büchele: Church in Berg . In: Stuttgart and its surroundings for locals and foreigners , Stuttgart 1858, pages 318–322.
  • Hartmut Ellrich: The historic Stuttgart: Pictures tell , Petersberg 2009, page 75-76.
  • Roland Feitenhansl: Heilbronn railway station - its reception building from 1848, 1874 and 1958 . DGEG Medien, Hövelhof 2003, ISBN 3-937189-01-7 .
  • Joachim Hennze: Churches in the Heilbronn district. In: Heilbronnica 3. Contributions to the city and regional history. Heilbronn 2006.
  • Georg Himmelträger : The Kronprinzenpalais in Stuttgart . In: Schwäbische Heimat: Journal for regional history, Württemberg regional culture, nature conservation and monument preservation 8.1957, page 48.
  • Horst Ossenberg: What remains, the builders create: the Württemberg court and state construction from the 15th to the 20th century , Norderstedt 2004, pages 64–65.
  • Bertold Pfeiffer: The Hoppenlau cemetery in Stuttgart. In: Württembergischer Altertumsverein. Annual report for the years 1894 and 1895. Stuttgart 1895, page 67, number 234.
  • Bernhard Sterra: Planning guiding concepts in conflict: The dispute over the Kronprinzenpalais . In: The Stuttgart city center under construction: Architecture and urban planning 1945 to 1960 , Stuttgart 1991, pages 183–189.
  • EJ Zeller: Stuttgart's private building from 1806 to 1844. In a selection given by master builder EJ Zeller. Stuttgart 1845–1846, first issue, plates 6, 9–10, second issue, plates 6, 10–12, third issue, plates 3–4.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart Germany: 150th anniversary of the death of Ludwig Friedrich von Gaab: A hardworking and versatile master builder. Retrieved November 14, 2019 .
  2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 231-232.
  3. ↑ #Pfeiffer 1895 . - Grave not found.
  4. ↑ Construction and condition description ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 8, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.evangelischer-kirchen district-tuebingen.de
  5. ↑ Data sheet , accessed June 30, 2013
  6. ^ Ellrich 2009.
  7. ↑ Destroyed in World War II. See Breig 2004, pp. 269-271.
  8. ↑ demolished in 1883. See Breig 2004, pages 348-350.
personal data
SURNAME Gaab, Ludwig Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaab, Ludwig Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, Württemberg construction clerk
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1869
Place of death Stuttgart