Richard Jordan (architect)

Richard Jordan (born March 6, 1847 in Vienna ; † February 7, 1922 there ; full name: Richard Franz Jordan ) was an Austrian architect and builder of late historicism .

Life

Jordan came from a Viennese family. His father Leopold Jordan was a civil engineer and councilor. Richard Jordan studied from 1864 to 1868 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Friedrich von Schmidt , in whose construction studio he joined in 1867. There he took over the construction management of the Brigittakirche and the Lazaristenkirche . In 1871 he received the master builder license. As an architect, Richard Jordan specialized primarily in church buildings, many of which are characterized by the use of exposed brickwork in neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic forms. Together with Victor Luntz and Franz von Neumann , he was one of the busiest architects from Friedrich von Schmidt's school. Richard Jordan was buried at the Grinzinger Friedhof (group MA, number 25A).

Buildings

Basilica of the Mother of Mercy in Marburg (1892–1900)

Carmelite Monastery Döbling (1898–1901)

Art Nouveau altar after a design by R. Jordan and Eduard Hauser executed

• Hollabrunn boys' seminar (built 1880–1881)
• Hütteldorfer parish church in Vienna- Penzing (built 1881–1882)
• Norbertinum in Tullnerbach (built 1881–1890)
• Chapel of Mary, Queen of St. Rosary in Vienna (built 1885–1886)
• Pilgrimage basilica Maria Puchheim (built 1886–1890)
• Redemptorist Church in Vienna- Hernals (built 1886–1889)
• Maria Immaculata Monastery Church (Vienna) - Floridsdorf (built 1887–1888)
• Parish church Lichtenwörth (Gothic-Neo-Gothic completed 1887–1889)
• Gersthof parish church in Vienna- Währing (built 1887–1891)
• Reconstruction and enlargement of the Kalvarienbergkirche in Vienna-Hernals (1889-1894)
• Mother of God Church in Vienna- Landstrasse (built 1890-1891)
• Sacré Coeur Pressbaum (built 1891–1894)
• Wiener Neustadt Cathedral (reconstruction of the church towers according to the existing plans from 1892 to 1899)
• Basilica of the Mother of Mercy in Marburg (built 1892–1900)
• Carmelite Monastery Döbling (built 1898–1901)
• Krahuletz Museum in Eggenburg (built 1901–1902)
• Emergency Church of the Immaculate Conception of Mary in Vienna- Meidling (built in 1905, destroyed in 1945; today Church of the Mary Conception )
• Parish Church Gastern (built 1904/1905)
• Parish church Enzersfeld in the Weinviertel (built 1908–1909)
• Three buildings in the Rosenhügel Neurological Hospital in Vienna- Hietzing (built around 1908–1912)
• Parish church Kierling in Klosterneuburg (built 1912-1914)
• Trinity Church in Vienna- Favoriten (built 1913–1914)
• Filial church hl. Wolfgang in Kirchberg am Wechsel (partly rebuilt 1919–1926)

Awards and honors

• Knight of the Papal New Year's Order (1873)
• Imperial Austrian Cross of Merit with the Crown (1874)
• Highest recognition from the emperor (for the restoration of the Wiener Neustadt cathedral ; 1899)
• Highest recognition of the emperor (for the establishment of emergency churches; 1906)

literature

• Jordan, Richard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 132.
• Martin Stangl: Richard Jordan - sacred buildings. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna 1999.

Web links

Commons : Richard Jordan  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Richard Jordan. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
• Richard Jordan. In: arch INFORM .