Nicholas of the nun

Nicholas of the nun

Nikolaus von der Nun (also Nicholas, Mikołaj, Russian: Николай Августович фон дер Нонне / Nikolai Awgustowitsch fon der Nun; * 1836 ; † 1906 ) was an architect and from 1898 to 1902 Lord Mayor of Baku .

In 1883 he was appointed to Baku as an architect and city building director. He combined contemporary European designs with oriental elements, which was very popular with the Caucasian population. In this way, occidental architecture became at home in the oriental region. From 1895 he continued to work as a freelance architect, which enabled him to receive larger planning contracts. At the beginning of March 1897 he received the order from the city building authority to rework the entire urban planning. For this he received 33,500 rubles. He had already finished the new plan in October 1898 and subsequently supervised the work. He had constructed a road scaffolding that provided blocks with an average edge length of 270 by 160 meters. These were mostly built with two-story atrium houses. The most beautiful buildings he erected in Baku are the private house for the entrepreneur Debur on Gartenstrasse (today Chkalov Street; now the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan ) and the entrepreneur Ramasanov in İçəri Şəhər (in the center).

In addition to his construction work, he often gave lectures on architecture.

literature

• Andrzej Chodubski: The architectural activity of Nicholas of the nun in Baku . In: Architectura . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1986, pp. 83–87, ISSN  0044-863X , restricted access to the digitized magazine
• Oriana Kraemer: The city where the wind turns . In: Bauwelt 36/2009 (= Stadt Bauwelt 183), Berlin September 25, 2009/100. Volume, pp. 20–27.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oriana Kraemer: The city where the wind turns . In: Bauwelt 36/2009 (= Stadt Bauwelt 183), Berlin September 25, 2009/100. Volume, p. 25.