Nicolaus Hartmann (architect, 1838)
Nicolaus Hartmann (born November 4, 1838 in Chur ; † July 16, 1903 in St. Moritz ) was a Swiss architect.
Life
Hartmann learned the craft of bricklaying and carpentry in his father's workshop. After the drawing school in Basel, he then attended the building trade school in Holzminden . After the village fire of 1863 he took over the reconstruction planning of the Prättigau village of Seewis . Similar to Glarus , which burned down two years earlier , the village was planned in a checkerboard pattern with wide streets. In 1866 he was the construction manager of the Kurhaus in Davos commissioned by Willem Jan Holsboer . In 1869 he was commissioned to convert the Villa Planta in Samedan , and in 1872 he moved to the Engadin, to St Moritz. From 1870 to 1873 he was once again responsible for a reconstruction plan, this time for the Engadiner Lavin . Jacques Gros worked for him from 1884 to 1887 .
The main building task for Hartmann then became hotel construction and the necessary infrastructures during the emerging tourism of the Upper Engadine - in the following decades he planned a large number of private villas in St. Moritz, the expansion of the Kronenhof, the Grandhotels Victoria and Du Lac, the French and Catholic ones Church and a casino.
The construction of the Grand Hotel Waldhaus in the Lower Engadine was also significant in terms of style, including the use of sgraffiti , a technique that a few years later revived the Heimatstil.
His son Nicolaus (1880–1956) took over the office after his father's death at a young age, and he became one of the most important architects of the Bündner Heimatstil.
Selection of works
- Reconstruction of Seewis , town planning, 1863
- Reconstruction Lavin , town planning, 1870–73
- Hotel Kronenhof , extension, Pontresina, 1876
- Hotel Victoria , St. Moritz, 1875
- Hotel Du Lac , St. Moritz, 1875
- French Church , St. Moritz, 1877
- Chesa Salis I , renovation, Bever, 1882
- Villa Planta , renovation, Bever, 1883
- Chesa Salis II , renovation, Bever, 1886
- Catholic Church , St. Moritz, 1886
- Villa Story , St. Moritz, 1886
- Schoolhouse , St. Moritz, 1886
- Hotel Kulm , extension, St. Moritz, 1887, 1900
- Hotel Waldhaus , Vulpera, 1897
- Church tower , Sent, 1899
literature
- Isabelle Rucki: Nicolaus Hartmann (senior) In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 253 f.
- NN: Hartmann-Meiser, Nikolaus. (Nekrolog) Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Zurich 1903. Volume 42. P. 52 f.
Web links
- Isabelle Rucki: Nicolaus Hartmann (architect, 1838). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hartmann, Nicolaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hartmann-Meiser, Nikolaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chur |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1903 |
| Place of death | St. Moritz |