Moritz Korn

Eller Castle Church

Moritz grain (* 13. January 1868 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; † 1927 in Dusseldorf ) was a German architect of Historicism , which had specialized in Protestant religious building.

Life

Born as the son of the railway director of the Märkisch-Posener Eisenbahn , he did an apprenticeship in a construction business as a teenager and then attended the Zittau building trade school . After his first experience as a site manager in Dresden from 1887, he joined the Berlin architectural office of Johannes Otzen , one of the most famous Protestant sacred architects of his time. From 1891 to 1894 he was the construction manager of the Luther Church on Dennewitzplatz in Berlin-Schöneberg for Otzen . From there he moved to Julius Raschdorff's office , where he was the first construction manager at the Berlin Cathedral .

In 1896 Moritz Korn was called to Düsseldorf by the Protestant community and entrusted with the construction management of the Friedenskirche in the Unterbilker Florastraße and the Christ Church in the Oberbilker Kruppstraße. The two churches were designed by the Leipzig architect Georg Weidenbach and were built between 1896 and 1899 under his artistic direction.

Moritz Korn opened his own architecture office in Düsseldorf in 1900 as a specialist in Protestant churches, mostly in the neo-Romanesque style . In his church buildings, in particular, he tied in with late Romanesque forms or the Romanesque-Gothic transition style represented by Johannes Otzen.

buildings

Christ Church Neuss

Moritz Korn was able to realize five of his own designs for new church buildings between 1905 and 1912, four of which were built almost in parallel between 1904 and 1906:

• 1904–1905: Evangelical Church in Alstaden (now part of Oberhausen )
• 1904–1905: New nave of the Evangelical Parish Church in Rengsdorf (Neuwied district) in neo-Gothic style.
• 1905: Castle Church in Eller , Schlossallee (now part of Düsseldorf)
• 1905–1906: Christ Church in Neuss , Breite Strasse
• 1907–1912: Christ Church in Homberg (today a district of Ratingen )

Other buildings:

• 1901–1902: Restoration and conversion of the Romanesque Reformation Church in Hilden under the aegis of the monument conservator Paul Clemen
• 1907: Redesign of the interior of the Evangelical Church in Marienhagen in Oberberg
• 1910: Evangelical rectory in Simmern / Hunsrück

Web links

Commons : Moritz Korn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Moritz Korn - the architect of the Christ Church ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Moritz Korn dataset in the catalog of the German National Library
3. ↑ Werner Franzen: Places of worship in change - Protestant church building in the Rhineland 1860-1914. (Dissertation University of Duisburg), Düsseldorf 2002, part 4, p. 129
4. ↑ The Christ Church in Neuss ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2015 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.