Paul Reber (architect)
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
- Diakonissenspital Riehen , 1869–1871
- Residential houses Steinengraben 69–79, Basel, 1872–1875 (broken off)
- Residential houses Leimenstr. 10–12, Basel, 1876–1877
- Sälischlössli , Starrkirch-Wil , 1870–1871
- Basel eye hospital, 1877 (canceled)
- Psychiatric University Clinic Basel, 1883–1886
- Sacred
- Birsfelden Church , 1865/66 (changed)
- Kilchberg Church BL , 1867/1868 (based on the English model: Everton near Liverpool )
- Church Bubendorf BL , 1880/1881 (broken off)
- Catholic Marienkirche Basel , 1883–1886
- Reformed Church Zurich-Unterstrass , 1883/1884
- Reformed Church Allschwil , 1887–1889
- Reformed Church Gibstorf , 1889–1891
- Extension of the Basel synagogue , 1892
- Reformed Church Bühl , Zurich-Wiedikon 1895
- Reformed Church Wetzikon , 1896
- Reformed Johanneskirche (Zurich industrial quarter ) , 1897/1898
- Reformed Church Zurich-Leimbach , 1898/1899 (broken off)
- Reformed Church Altstätten SG , 1904–1906
- Reformed Church Adliswil , 1898, (the interior was changed in 1966)
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
Web links
- Romana Anselmetti: Reber, Paul. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Reber, Paul |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss architect |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1835 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1908 |
Place of death | Basel |