Nicolaus Blohm

Nicolaus Blohm (* 1779 in Dreye (near Bremen); †  1855 in Bremen ) was a German architect and engineer as well as city planning director in Bremen.

biography

The town house of the Domshof around 1850–1864.

Nicolaus Blohm joined Bremen in 1815 as a dike conductor (dike construction supervisor). Nothing is known about his training. He was probably “a scientifically educated man”, as Hermann Bücking , who later became the chief construction director for water and port construction in Bremen , wrote about Blohm in the reference work Bremische Biographie des 19. Century from 1912.

Blohm worked as an architect and engineer at the same time, as was still common at the time. From 1816 to 1818 he directed the conversion of the old palatium into a town house . Most of the old building was demolished, rebuilt and supplemented and expanded with extensive new components. The palatium building in the brick Gothic style was built in the 13th century as the seat of the Bremen archbishops and, after a checkered history, came back into the hands of Bremen in 1803 as part of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . It stood northwest of the cathedral , where the New Town Hall is today. Blohm knew how to give the town house building a new face. Later, in 1909, the town house was demolished to make way for the new town hall built by the architect Gabriel von Seidl .

After the new town house was built, Blohm became active in hydraulic engineering and later became the town planning director of Bremen. It was not until 1822 that he received personal help from Friedrich Moritz Stamm , who became the building inspector and later building director for "Agriculture and Structural Engineering", while Blohm was in charge of the dike and hydraulic engineering . Stamm then took over the office of city planning director in 1839.

Blohm did an excellent job and achieved a high reputation in Bremen.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Bremen-Mitte
• List of Bremen architects

literature

• Historical society of the artists' association (ed.): Bremische Biographie des 19. Century . Winter, Bremen 1912; Reprint: Schünemann Verlag , Bremen 1976.
• Wilhelm Wortmann : Bremen builder of the 19th and 20th centuries . Ed .: Aufbaugemeinschaft Bremen , Döll-Verlag , Bremen 1988, ISBN 3-88808-056-8 , p. 10.