Philipp Kircher

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Philipp Kircher (* 1846 in Wiesloch ; † 1921 in Karlsruhe ) was a German architect and preservationist .

Life

Philipp Kircher was the director of the building trade school in Karlsruhe. In 1889 he took over the post of curator of public monuments in Baden . Kircher was assigned to the Grand Ducal Conservator Ernst Wagner . He had the upper management of all business of monument preservation in the Grand Duchy of Baden. The third conservator, Joseph Sauer in Freiburg, acted as conservator for church monuments, and he consulted Kircher when it came to structural questions. Kircher administered the office responsibly, it earned him a high reputation.

Church was a member of the Ministerial Commission for Building Construction from 1908 to 1912.

buildings

  • 1889–1902: Badische Baugewerkschule Karlsruhe, Moltkestrasse 9 (today the University of Education)
Three-storey complex with an H-shaped floor plan, in the formal language of the Italian Renaissance, north wing in 1890, middle section in 1892, south wing in 1902, after 1945 reconstruction by the Baden district building authority

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Stopfel: History of Baden monuments and its departments Karlsruhe, Strasbourg and Freiburg. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , year 2003, pp. 202–210. ( online ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. as a PDF document) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.denkmalpflege-bw.de
  2. ^ Emil Lacroix: Hundred years of state preservation of monuments in Baden. In: Receiving and shaping, Badische Werkkunst , issue 1–2 / 1954, p. 6.
  3. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Baden. ( online )
  4. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Kircher, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and preservationist
DATE OF BIRTH 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesloch
DATE OF DEATH 1921
Place of death Karlsruhe