Maximilian Nohl

Grave of Maximilian Nohl in the Iserlohn main cemetery

Maximilian August Nohl (born September 11, 1830 in Iserlohn ; † June 9, 1863 in Cologne ) was a German architect .

Life

Max Nohl was the fifth of 18 children of the Iserlohn judiciary Franz Ludwig Nohl and brother of the music writer Ludwig Nohl .

After attending grammar school in Duisburg from 1845 to 1848, he completed a one-year survey of surveyors , also in Duisburg. Subsequently he worked as a geometer in the railway construction from 1849 to 1850 .

During his studies at the Berlin Building Academy , which lasted from 1850 to 1853, he passed the first state examination in 1852. After completing his studies, Max Nohl worked as a site manager in Bonn in 1853 . This was followed by two years of design work in the architectural offices of William Lindley in Hamburg and Rudolf Gottgetreu in Munich. He then worked as a construction manager in Naumburg and Halle an der Saale , before continuing his studies at the building academy in 1856/1857 and taking the examination as a master builder in 1857 .

Study trips to Belgium, France and Italy followed. He stayed in Rome from November 1858 to August 1859. In April 1859 he participated in an exhibition of the German Artists' Association . During his travels, many hand drawings were made with pencil on paper or cardboard as travel sketches.

Nohl established himself as a freelance architect in Cologne, from 1861 until his death in 1863 he worked in Mülheim an der Ruhr .

The preserved grave relief (original in the museum) is a work by the sculptor friend Gustav Willgohs .

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Buildings and designs

• 1858–1859: Higher Citizens' School / Realgymnasium (today special school) in (Duisburg-) Ruhrort (preserved)

  Brick building with neo-Gothic stepped gables on all four sides of the building and large pointed arched windows with cast iron tracery

• 1860: three competition designs for the new Berlin City Hall (later called Red City Hall )

Iserlohn orphanage

• Begun in 1860: Extension of the orphanage in Iserlohn (preserved)

  The expansion of the already built 1,774 schools and factory building for Iserlohner orphans consisted of an increase and an extension to the west, on the upper floor, the facades are by pilasters , five stories, Sohlbank- and eaves cornices divided. The building has been a listed building since 1986 .

• around 1862: Ceiling and roof construction in cast iron for the main synagogue in Berlin (partially preserved)

  The synagogue was built by Friedrich August Stüler based on designs by Eduard Knoblauch . Nohl designed the ceiling and roof construction including the structure of the dome and participated in the execution.

• 1862–1867: Westphalian provincial insane asylum in Lengerich (preserved)

  The castle-like building complex consists of six individual buildings. After Nohl's death, the construction management was taken over by the builder Dittmar.

• 1862–1863: “Alexanderhöhe” shooting hall in Iserlohn (not preserved)

  On behalf of the Iserlohner Bürger-Schützen-Verein, Nohl built the “Great Hall” on the Alexanderhöhe with a capacity of 4,000 people, which up to the turn of the century was one of the largest halls in the Sauerland .

• 1863–1864: Evangelical Christ Church in Oberhausen (partially preserved, rebuilt in different ways)

  The construction of the church was completed according to Nohl's plans by the architect and Essen district master builder August Kind , as Nohl died shortly after the foundation stone was laid on May 28, 1863 .

• 1863/64: Winter garden (so-called "glass palace") of the Cologne Flora (partially preserved, roughly rebuilt in outline by 2014)

  The 18 meter high structure made of cast iron and glass with the basic dimensions 57 meters × 22.5 meters was designed by Nohl in 1862 based on the model of the London Crystal Palace and the Paris Jardin d'hiver (view formerly in the architecture museum of the TU Berlin) and in executed modified form.

• 1864–1866: Evangelical Peace Church in (Mönchengladbach-) Rheydt (partially preserved, converted for residential purposes)

  Nohl's designs with elements of neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance were slightly modified and carried out by Ewald Landmann.

Fonts

• Wilhelm Lübke (ed.), Maximilian Nohl: Diary of an Italian trip. Stuttgart 1877.

literature

• Norbert Aleweld: The builder Maximilian Nohl 1830–1863. Habelt, Bonn 1980. (= studies on building research , 10th) (also dissertation , Technical University Aachen, 1979).
• Norbert Aleweld: Maximilian Nohl , in: Hermann Holtmeier: Striking heads from the Märkisches Kreis. Hans-Herbert Mönnig, Iserlohn 1997, ISBN 3-922885-89-6 , p ...

Web links

• Holdings on Maximilian Nohl in the Architekturmuseum der Technische Universität Berlin , last accessed on April 7, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Holtmeier: Striking heads from the Märkisches Kreis. P. 93 (note p. 9).
2. ^ Albert Mühl:  Curtius, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 444 f. ( Digitized version ).
3. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 427.
4. ↑ Route of industrial culture : Bergiusstrasse
5. ^ Ag arch ruhrgebiet (ed.): Architecture in Duisburg. Mercator-Verlag, Duisburg 1994, ISBN 3-87463-214-8 .
6. ↑ Barbara Fischer: Special School, former Realgymnasium, Bergiusstrasse , in: Oortszeit. Urban development in Duisburg-Ruhrort , Duisburg: Edition Haniel; Berlin, Wasmuth Verlag, 1999, pp. 54/55.
7. ↑ Max August Nohl - The Red Town Hall in Berlin (watercolor drawing ) on artnet.de , last accessed on April 7, 2011 - cf. Holdings in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin (→ Weblinks)
8. ↑ Götz Bettge: Iserlohn Lexicon. Hans-Herbert Mönnig, Iserlohn 1987, ISBN 3-922885-37-3 , p. 153.
9. ↑ New Synagogue in honor directory of Luisenstädtischer Education Association
10. ↑ Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Buildings and parks of the LWL-Klinik Lengerich in LWL-GeodatenKultur
11. ↑ Lüdenscheid History Museum: Exhibition Schützenwelten. Alice von Plato: The story of a shooting hall in the Sauerland ( Memento of the original from June 22, 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 April 9, 2011 
12. ↑ History of the Christ Church in Oberhausen on oberhausen-rheinland.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed April 7, 2011  
13. ↑ Founding history of Flora  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at museenkoeln.de , last accessed on April 7, 2011  
14. ↑ Gerd Bermbach, Alexander Kierdorf: The Glass Palace , in: Gerd Bermbach, Stephan Anhalt: The Cologne Flora. Festival House and Botanical Garden , Cologne: Bachem 2014, pp. 68–81.
15. ↑ Oliver Meys: Social housing in the house of God. In: Landesinitiative StadtBauKultur NRW , LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland , LWL Office for Monument Preservation in Westphalia (ed.): Churches in Transition. Changed use of listed churches .. Düsseldorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-939745-06-8 , p. 130. stadtbaukultur-nrw.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 10.5 MB; excerpt p. 89–172, in PDF p. 43)