Otto Hoppe (architect)

Stadtkirche Meiningen

Main barracks in Meiningen, around 1880

Meiningen District Court (1878–1945)

City church and town hall in Meiningen

Otto Hoppe (born December 27, 1829 in Triebes , † September 9, 1891 in Meiningen ; full name: Robert Otto Karl Hoppe ) was a German architect and state construction officer for the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen .

Life

After studying architecture in Berlin, Otto Hoppe worked for the ducal court building authority in Meiningen from 1860 onwards. In 1863 he was appointed senior building officer. From 1872 Hoppe took over the overall management of construction in the duchy.

Otto Hoppe was regarded as a master in the planning and execution of historical architectural styles, which he implemented in numerous renovations and new constructions of public buildings and churches. After the great fire in Meiningen , he created the new urban planning concept for the reconstruction of the burned down parts of the city. The new districts built from 1875 to 1878 according to his plans are now under monument protection . His most conspicuous and ambitious project to date was the reconstruction of the Meiningen town church, which was characterized by many architectural styles and defaced over the centuries . With this conversion, Hoppe helped this church to achieve a uniform appearance, in which he combined the Romanesque , Gothic and the style - defining neo-Gothic components into a harmonious whole. Here he operated and published archaeological studies and excavations. Some of his most famous structures were destroyed in the air raid on Meiningen on February 23, 1945.

plant

Otto Hoppe realized mostly profane and sacred new buildings and conversions:

• 1859–1861: Reconstruction and extension of the north wing (Bibrasbau) of Elisabethenburg Palace in Meiningen
• 1863: Reconstruction of the Great Palace in Meiningen
• 1863: Reconstruction of the Schützenhaus (Volkshaus) in Meiningen
• from 1865: main barracks (1865–1867) with officers' mess (1889) and military hospital (1873) in Meiningen
• 1872: Villa Georg in Bad Liebenstein
• 1876–1878: Town hall in Meiningen (destroyed in 1945)
• 1877: Meiningen Secondary School
• 1878: Official building on Marienstrasse in Meiningen
• 1878–1879: Meiningen Regional and District Court (destroyed in 1945)
• from 1883: conversion of the fortress Heldburg (together with court architect Albert Neumeister)
• 1884–1889: Reconstruction of the Meiningen town church
• 1891–1892: Helenenstift in Meiningen

Fonts

• About the town church in Meiningen. An archaeological study. Kayssner, Meiningen 1883.

literature

• Hoppe, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 485 .
• Kuratorium Meiningen (Hrsg.): Lexicon for the history of the city of Meiningen. Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .