Ludwig Levy
Ludwig Levy (born April 18, 1854 in Landau in the Palatinate ; † November 30, 1907 in Karlsruhe ) was a German architect and university professor .
Life
Ludwig Levy was the sixth child of the Jewish textile merchant Jonas Levy and his wife Barbara nee. Machhol born.
After finishing school in Landau, he studied mathematics and engineering at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic from 1870, and later also architecture. After completing his studies, Levy took on various positions at architects from 1876, a. a. with Paul Wallot . In 1882 he opened his own architecture office in Kaiserslautern . From 1886 he taught at the building trade school in Karlsruhe , and from 1902 he was a structural engineer at the Ministry of the Interior. In recognition of his achievements, he was appointed building councilor by the Baden Ministry of the Interior in 1902 .
Levy had been married to Flora Levinger since 1890. The children Marie Babette (* 1891) and Erwin Walter (* 1896) emerged from the marriage. His widow Flora was established in 1940 from Karlsruhe to Gurs , from there in the summer of 1942 to Theresienstadt deported . There she died on April 23, 1943 at the age of 74. Her two children were already dead at this point, and there were apparently no grandchildren. Ludwig Levy's confiscated house in Karlsruhe was destroyed in the Second World War , and his estate has been lost to this day.
buildings
Levy's work focused primarily on Baden , the Palatinate , but also Alsace , where he mainly planned synagogues , residential buildings , but also club houses .
- Synagogues
- 1882: Old Synagogue in Thionville (destroyed in 1940)
- 1883–1886: Kaiserslautern synagogue ( destroyed in 1938 )
- 1892: Synagogue in Pforzheim (destroyed in 1938)
- 1895–1898: Synagogue in Strasbourg (destroyed in 1940)
- 1896: Synagogue in La Chaux-de-Fonds
- 1897: Synagogue in Barmen (destroyed in 1938)
- 1899: Baden-Baden synagogue (destroyed in 1938)
- 1900/01: Synagogue (Winnweiler) (destroyed in 1938)
- 1905: New Synagogue in Bingen (destroyed in 1938)
- 1905: Synagogue in Rastatt (destroyed in 1938)
- Synagogue in Luxembourg (destroyed in 1943)
- Synagogue in Rostock (destroyed in 1938)
- Synagogue in Winnweiler (destroyed in 1938)
- other construction work
- 1884–1885 (?): Protestant church in Olsbrücken
- around 1885: Catholic club house in Kaiserslautern
- around 1885: Villa Ritter in Kaiserslautern
- 1886: Villa Böhm in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
- 1888–1889: Protestant Church (Bexbach)
- 1889: Levy Gate in Kirchheimbolanden
- The so-called Levy Gate is a wrought iron gate that is located on the northwest corner of the palace garden . The then owner of the palace, Friedrich Brunck, had the two - winged neo - baroque gate made in the Frankfurt workshop of the art blacksmith Franz Brechenmacher based on a design by Levy . It is lavishly decorated with flowers and fruits as well as tendrils , garlands and cords. The gate is framed by two sandstone pillars with crowning vases . In 2009 the gate was restored and given a protective coating.
- 1890: Villa Lieberich-Merkel in Neustadt an der Haardt
- 1890: Burckshof in Gimmeldingen
- 1893: Villa Streccius in Landau in the Palatinate
- 1899–1911: Ministerial building on Kaiserplatz (today: Place de la République) in Strasbourg
- 1902–1903: District Office (today: Police Headquarters) in Mannheim as successor to Oberbaurat Hanser
- Sanatorium and nursing home in Wiesloch
- 1904: Queuleu Reformed Church ( Metz )
- 1904–1907: Laboratory building of the Agricultural Research Institute Augustenberg in Karlsruhe (today part of the Agricultural Technology Center [LTZ] Augustenberg)
- 1907: Evangelical Church (Siegelbach)
- as well as other Protestant churches in Weilerbach , Mittelbach / Pfalz (destroyed in 1945), and Steinwend (interior design)
Aerial view of the Wiesloch sanatorium, today the North Baden Psychiatric Center
Levy Gate at Kirchheimbolanden Castle
Individual evidence
- ↑ stille-zeitzeugen.de: Stille Zeitzeugen - Architects ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on September 25, 2012
literature
- Otto Böcher : The architect Ludwig Levy (1853–1907). In: Communications of the Upper Hessian History Association , New Series, Volume 77 (1992), pp. 33-46.
- Christine Kohl-Langer: An architect who shaped Landau's elegant townscape. Ludwig Levy was born 140 years ago. In: Pfälzer Tageblatt , No. 89 of April 18, 1994.
- Helmut Range: Ludwig Levy. A major architect of historicism in southwest Germany. In: Festschrift Martin Graßnick. Kaiserslautern 1987, pp. 117-128. (not yet evaluated)
- Jean Daltroff: La synagogue du quai Kléber de Strasbourg (1898–1941), ID L'Édition, Bernardswiller, 2012, pp. 15–31, 89.
- Bernd Gölz: On the Augustenberg: The laboratory building and its architect, in: Manfred Koch (Ed.): View into history, Karlsruher urban historical contributions 2008–2013, pp. 290–292.
Web links
- Institute for Palatine History and Folklore at the District Association of the Palatinate - anniversary page for Levy's 150th birthday
- The Nassau-Weilburger in Kirchheimbolanden - Weilburger news from December 16, 2009 about the Levy Gate
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Levy, Ludwig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1854 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Landau in the Palatinate |
DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1907 |
Place of death | Karlsruhe |