Ludwig Klingenberg

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Bremen court house in 1902
District building of the district of Wittmund
Villa Schröder in Vegesack Weserstraße 79

Anton Ludwig Dietrich Alexander Klingenberg (born October 29, 1840 in Wittmund , † April 1, 1924 in Elmendorf ) was a German architect .

biography

Klingenberg was the son of the later retirement master Ernst Georg Klingenberg (1797–1869) and Margarethe Elisabeth born. Richter (1807-1887). He grew up as one of six children in Wittmund . His younger brother Ernst (1830–1918) later also became an architect.

After attending elementary school in Wittmund and high school in Jever , Klingenberg completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in 1856 and studied at the University of Munich from 1859 . Afterwards he managed the construction of the town church Rotenburg as construction manager . He then went on extensive study trips through North America , England , France and Spain , where he worked as a draftsman . In France and England he dealt intensively with the building forms and architectural decorations of the Middle Ages and later published an extensive volume with his own sketches of medieval architectural ornaments. On these trips he established his preference for medieval style elements using brick and sandstone, glazed brick and ornamental accessories. After returning to Germany, he was initially employed for a short time at the State Building Office in Hamburg , but in 1867 he became self-employed as an architect and built a number of residential houses and official buildings in the Wilhelmshaven marine port from 1871 to 1874 . In 1875 he moved to Oldenburg , where he ran a successful office together with his partner Hugo Weber . In addition to numerous residential buildings, he also led the renovation of the Lambertikirche according to the modified plans of his brother Ernst , in which the main tower was built in a neo-Gothic style, which was later partially demolished. From 1890 he had another office in Bremen. In the greater Oldenburg area and in Bremen he built numerous public buildings, such as B. the old Kurhaus in Bad Zwischenahn (1874) and the Wittmunder district house (1901) as well as the court building Domsheide in Bremen (1895), the provincial state house in Münster (1898/1901) and several train stations.

Klingenberg was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . He had a strong interest in handicrafts and was one of the founders of the Oldenburg Museum of Applied Arts. The commercial success enabled him to acquire a large property in Elmendorf on the Zwischenahner Meer, where he lived until his death.

family

Klingenberg married Sophie Wilhelmine geb. Ulex (1844–1919), the daughter of the teacher at the Hamburgische Pharmaceutischen Lehranstalt Georg Ludwig Ulex (1811–1883) and his wife Sophie born. Dieterichs (1818-1913). The couple had two daughters and five sons, of whom the son Georg (1870–1925) became a university professor and board member of AEG , the son Walter also became an architect.

Honors

In Oldenburg , a street is named after Ludwig Klingenberg.

Buildings and designs (selection)

In the style of historicism , Klingenberg designed:

  • 1874: Old Kurhaus in Bad Zwischenahn (later changed; under monument protection)
  • 1886: Villa Bischoff in Vegesack , Weserstraße 84 (together with Hugo Weber)
  • 1887: Villa Schröder in Vegesack, Weserstraße 78a / 79 (together with Hugo Weber)
  • 1888/89: Villa Danziger in Vegesack, Weserstraße 80/81 (together with Hugo Weber), not preserved.
  • 1890: Competition draft for the new court house in Bremen , on Domsheide (together with Hugo Weber; awarded 2nd prize; revised version from 1891)
  • 1896: Competition draft for the provincial estate in Münster (Westphalia) (awarded 1st prize; executed in a version revised by a third party from 1898)
  • 1898: Strandlust in Vegesack, Rohrstraße 11 (together with Hugo Weber), rebuilt several times.
  • 1901: District building of the Wittmund district in Wittmund , market square

publication

  • The ornamental architecture of the Middle Ages. Edited and published from own recordings. Liège and Leipzig, no year.

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Klingenberg, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klingenberg, Anton Ludwig Dietrich Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittmund
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1924
Place of death Elmendorf