Ludwig Levy

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Ludwig Levy (1886)
Ludwig Levy (right) and his colleague Max Hummel (1855–1910)

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
other construction work
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.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.

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personal data
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