Afterfire architecture
Post- fire architecture is an auxiliary term in art history and describes a special character of Hamburg architecture after the Great Fire of 1842. The specialty of this construction method is the execution of the then modern round arch style mixed with other, mostly classical elements. But borrowings were also taken from the Romanesque and Gothic styles. When building the largely destroyed city, builders and architects stuck to the central features of past art eras, so that they found widespread use in the new cityscape. In the 21st century, however, only a few documents of this type have survived.
The term after-fire architecture is also applied to the new urban planning in Hamburg after the fire. In addition to the architectural design of the town hall market , the expansion of the sewer system under William Lindley and the creation of new wide streets with mostly even heights of the eaves-standing buildings below, which still characterize the image of Hamburg's inner city today.
The most famous example of after- fire architecture are the Alster Arcades on the Kleine Alster , which were completed in 1846 under the direction of Alexis de Chateauneuf . The light facade plaster was a preferred element of this construction period, but brick buildings such as the Alte Post , also designed by Chateauneuf in 1847, or the Niemitzhaus , built between 1846 and 1848 , with its reference to models of the Italian early Renaissance , are also included. Other of the few remaining buildings of this style are the house Alstertor 17 by the architect Gerhard Gottlieb Ungewitter from 1843/1844, the house Kunhardt at Ferdinandstrasse 63 around 1850 by Alexis de Chateauneuf and the houses on Deichstrasse 21 and 23 built around 1844 .
Alte Post, built in 1847
Niemitzhaus, built 1846–1848
Alstertor 17, built in 1843/1844
Kunhardt House, built around 1850
Deichstrasse 21 and 23, built around 1844
reception
The historian and author Boris Meyn recorded the argument about after-fire architecture in the historical detective novel Der Tote im Fleet , set in Hamburg in 1847 during the construction phase.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , p. 485.
- ^ Ralf Lange : Architectural Guide Hamburg . Stuttgart 1995, p. 39 f.