Paul Lange (architect, 1853)

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Paul Lange, in Paris around 1878
Paul Lange and his wife in 1925

Paul Lange (born August 21, 1853 in Planschwitz ; † July 30, 1932 in Leipzig ) was a German architect who mainly worked in Leipzig and the surrounding area .

Life

Paul Lange was accepted into the royal building school in Dresden in 1867 . At the same time he was training as a mason in Auerbach and in 1870 attended the college for industrial arts. From 1871 he worked for five years in Vienna in the architectural offices of Emil von Förster and his brother Heinrich , where he was able to help design the Ringtheater . He also worked at Hefft & Raschka , where he also worked on the plans for the Brno State Parliament building. From 1876 he spent about four years in Paris , where he was employed by the architect Lambert. Here u. a. various buildings for President Mac-Mahon and for Count Pozzo di Borgo, for example the new building of the Montretout Castle near Saint-Cloud , which burned down in 1870 , and numerous architectural studies in Paris and the surrounding area were possible for him.

Lange returned to Leipzig, where he worked for five years in the Grimm architectural office. In 1885 he started his own business as an architect. In 1893, Lange moved his apartment and studio to the house he built on Konstantinstrasse and Lutherstrasse. He lived here with his wife and seven children.

Paul Lange is referred to as a church builder, as a total of 25 churches in Leipzig and the surrounding area, in Vogtland and as far as Austrian Bohemia were built according to his plans, including several village churches. Around 40 churches were rebuilt or restored by him. He was an advocate of building small churches because of their better acoustics and the greater sense of community in the community. He attached great importance to the interior design, as it u. a. in Leipzig in the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche or in the Riquethaus.

In addition to church buildings, parsonages and buildings for the Inner Mission (including Bethlehem monasteries, convalescent homes ), he also built commercial buildings, factories (including the Riquetsche Chocolate Factory ), warehouses, schools, hostels, houses and villas. One of his most famous buildings is the Riquethaus in downtown Leipzig, it is considered one of the most important Art Nouveau buildings in Leipzig. He contributed several exhibition buildings to the Saxon-Thuringian industrial and commercial exhibition in 1897 in what is now Clara-Zetkin-Park , above all in the so-called pub district (including Rothenburg Erker, Geraschsche Musterbäckerei, Weinburg zum Dürkheimer).

Paul Lange and his family were buried in the New Johannisfriedhof in Leipzig.

buildings

Churches

In Leipzig

In other places

More buildings

In Leipzig

  • 1887: Herberge zur Heimat (hostel for traveling journeyman craftsmen), Gneisenaustrasse 2
  • 1888: Marthahaus der Innere Mission, Löhrstraße 9
  • 1887–1893: Schwabesche houses, Konstantinstrasse 6–16
  • 1907–1908: Regional Church Community, Paul-Gruner-Straße 44
  • 1908–1909: Commercial building for the grocery store and chocolate factory Riquet & Co. , Schuhmachergäßchen 3 (built as a steel frame building, today Café Riquet)
  • Commercial building, Ritterstrasse / Grimmaische Strasse (destroyed)
  • Art Nouveau villa, Cunnersdorfer Straße 6
  • Villa, Jacobstrasse 25
  • Villas Reichel and Schmidt, at the entrance to Rosenthal
  • House Kornig, Grimmaische Strasse

In other places

  • Holy Cross Church in Leipzig-Neustadt

  • Emmaus Church in Leipzig-Sellerhausen

  • Church of the Resurrection in Leipzig-Möckern

  • Church in Eibenberg

  • Luther Church in Kellers

  • Church in Fuchshain

  • Luther Church in Chemnitz-Harthau

  • Regional church community in Leipzig

  • Church in Türmitz

  • Chocolate factory Riquet & Co. in Gautzsch

  • Riquethaus in Leipzig

  • Cunnersdorfer Strasse 6 in Leipzig-Sellerhausen

literature

  • Wolfgang Hocquél: Leipzig. Architecture from the Romanesque to the present. Passage, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 .
  • Wolfgang Hocquél: The architecture of the Leipziger Messe. Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-345-00575-1 .
  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 .
  • Peter Guth, Bernd Sikora: Art Nouveau & Werkkunst. Architecture around 1900 in Leipzig. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-361-00590-6 .
  • Gerhart Pasch: Churches in Leipzig and the surrounding area. Schmidt-Römhild, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-7950-3903-7 .

Web links

Commons : Paul Lange  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Instead of Magdeborn, there is now the Störmthaler See . The art installation "Vineta" reminds of the former church .
  2. ↑ The factory in today's Markkleeberg was almost completely demolished in 2002 and the property was rebuilt as the "Quartier Riquet". Two buildings of the former factory have been renovated and are under monument protection.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evangelický kostel pokoje , on litomerice-leitmeritz.net
  2. ↑ Emanuel POCHE ed .: Umělecké památky Čech 4 T-Ž. ČSAV, Prague 1982, s. 152.
personal data
SURNAME Long, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Sweat
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1932
Place of death Leipzig