Paul Reber (architect)

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Paul Reber (born November 15, 1835 in Basel ; † October 29, 1908 there ) was a Swiss civil engineer and made a name for himself as an architect . He was also known as a festival poet.

Life

The son of a Basel history professor attended the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe from 1852 with a focus on engineering subjects. In 1857 he became a volunteer at the young Swiss Central Railway . There he was responsible for the structural engineering under the direction of chief engineer Buri. Around 1860 he took part in the construction of the Elisabethenkirche in Basel as a construction manager and from this time on he participated increasingly and successfully in competitions for church buildings, where he always focused his attention and his knowledge on the acoustic conditions. In 1868 he became a partner in the construction business Preiswerk & Cie.

His first buildings as an architect were late classicist houses in Basel, various hospital buildings, such as his first large building, the deaconess house in Riehen from 1869 to 1871, the ophthalmological institution of the Basel University (1877), its pathological institution - the Vesalianum (1883) -, and together with Reese and Kelterborn the psychiatry. While the former hospital buildings followed a neoclassicism, the latter institution buildings for the university were kept in the neo-Renaissance style. His favorite field, however, were historicist religious buildings , which can be found all over Switzerland, in Basel, for example, the neo-Romanesque St. Mary's Church (1883–86) as the main work . In 1892 Reber expanded the Basel synagogue , which was completed in 1869 by Hermann Rudolf Gauss . The built in oriental style building without doubled Reber a wing there own handwriting add.

Works

Building selection

Profane
Sacred

Festival

  • Festival for the anniversary of the Basel historical and antiquarian society, 1887

literature

  • Romana Anselmetti: Reber, Paul. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 437 f.
  • Dorothee Huber: Architecture Guide Basel . Architecture Museum Basel; 1993; ISBN 3-905065-22-3
  • Paul Reber (Nekrolog) In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Vol. 52 (1908) Issue 19, p. 255 Verlag A. Waldner, Zurich , accessed on July 11, 2012
  • Doris Huggel: The Zwilchenbarts in Basel and Liverpool and the construction of the neo-Gothic church of Kilchberg, Baselland (1866-1868) , Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011 (with list of works by Paul Reber, pp. 191–199).

supporting documents

  1. Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Vol. 52 (1908) Issue 19, p. 255

Web links

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