Richard Plüddemann

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Richard Plüddemann around 1909

Richard Plüddemann (born September 30, 1846 in Funkenhagen , Pomerania ; † February 1, 1910 in Breslau ; full name: Richard Adolf Odo Plüddemann ) was a German architect and construction officer . For many years he was a city ​​planning officer in Wroclaw and with his brick buildings he had a lasting impact on the city's public architecture.

Life

Wroclaw Municipal Savings Bank
Elementary school on Lehmgrubenstrasse
Sandstrasse market hall / Ritterplatz

Richard Plüddemann was born the son of the landowner and officer in the Prussian army Sellmar Plüddemann. From 1857 he attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin . After graduating from high school in 1866 and doing military service (he fought in the German War ), he enrolled at the Berlin Building Academy in 1868 and studied a. a. with Friedrich Adler and Johann Eduard Jacobsthal . With renewed military service in the Franco-Prussian War , he took part in the Battle of Weissenburg in 1870 . Then he continued his studies. On March 4, 1876, he won the Schinkel Prize in the building construction category for the design of a central cemetery for Berlin (in Spandau ). From 1878 he was employed as a government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration) at the Prussian Ministry of Public Works in Berlin and was later transferred to Flensburg , Breslau and Potsdam .

In 1885 he was appointed to Wroclaw for a twelve-year term as town planning officer (building department). In the election by the city ​​council (the city council) on July 2, 1885, he surprisingly prevailed against his predecessor Johann Robert Mende and two other Wroclaw construction officials in the third ballot and after being discharged from civil service on September 1, the position took place on September 3 September at. After the 12 years had expired, he was re-elected for a further term on March 18, 1897. In 1903 he was given the honorary title of secret building officer .

As town planning officer, Plüddemann designed most of the public buildings in the expanding city, whereby from the mid-1890s he transferred many planning tasks, in particular to the council builder Karl Klimm and the employees Gustav Oelsner , Heinrich Küster , Julius Nathansohn and Charlot Cabanis and only kept the project management. Plüddemann was responsible for numerous buildings: no less than thirty school buildings, two inner-city market halls, several bridges, bathing establishments, customs and fire stations, orphanages and the high-rise buildings of the new Oder port. About half of these buildings have been preserved. The so-called Grunwalder Axis (the former Kaiserstraße), which connects the Ohlauer Vorstadt in a straight line with the Fürstenbrücke, goes back to his idea, as does the Kaiserbrücke as a suspension bridge, which forms the beginning of this axis . Plüddemann created neo-Gothic (or according to its name in the spirit of the old ) clinker buildings with picturesque building ends, with numerous gables , dormers and copper-covered spiers . He often used shaped stones and engobe bricks . The floor plans of his school and government buildings were basically rational and functional. For Plüddemann, however, it was important to dissolve the resulting evenness of the facades, so he gave his buildings a historical-romantic costume - from 1900 also with influences from Art Nouveau . With regard to construction technology, he did not shy away from modern solutions, such as B. the use of reinforced concrete .

In 1909, Plüddemann no longer stood for election, apparently due to age and declining health, and retired on January 2, nine months before the end of his term of office. On this occasion, the Prussian Crown Order III. Class as well as with the honorary title of city ​​elder . At Christmas 1909 he visited his family in Berlin and fell seriously ill during the exhausting journey home. He died shortly afterwards, before his most famous work, the Kaiserbrücke, was completed at the end of 1910.

Plüddemann's daughter was the painter, sculptor and glass painter Ina Hoßfeld (* 1881 in Flensburg, † 1943 in Munich). Her husband, Friedrich Hoßfeld (* 1879; † 1972 in Stuttgart), 1918–1930 City Planning Officer of Naumburg (Saale) , was a son of the architect Oskar Hossfeld .

Buildings and designs

All of the following buildings in Wroclaw:

  • Municipal savings bank and city archives building on the Roßmarkt in Breslau (today the Wroclaw University Library , Karola Szajnochy street ), 1887–1891
  • Kanonenhofschule (now IX. General Education Lyceum, ulica Piotra Skargi ), 1891–1893, with Karl Klimm
  • Building trade school on Lehmdamm (today Faculty of Architecture and Institute Building of the Technical University of Wroclaw , ulica Bolesława Prusa ), planning 1899–1901, execution 1903–1904 with Karl Klimm
  • Pass bridge (now most Zwierzyniecki ), 1895–1897, with Karl Klimm, supporting structure by Alfred von Scholtz and Alfred Frühwirth
  • Market hall on Ritterplatz (now plac Nankiera / ulica Piaskowa ), 1906–1908, with Heinrich Küster , has been preserved
  • Market hall on Friedrichstrasse (now ulica Kolejowa ), 1906–1908, main building with Heinrich Küster, damaged in World War II and demolished in March 1973; Front building with Julius Nathansohn, preserved
  • Kaiserbrücke (now most Grunwaldzki ), Plüddemann's preliminary design from 1902, bridge built 1908–1910 based on the competition entry by Martin Mayer and Robert Weyrauch under the direction of Plüddemann and Alfred von Scholtz

literature

Web links

Commons : Richard Plüddemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Breslau he was involved in the founding work for the royal government building.
  2. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 5th year 1885, No. 31 (from August 1, 1885) , p. 325 (section official communications ).
  3. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 29, 1909, No. 3 (from January 9, 1909) , p. 13 ( Official Communications ).
  4. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 29th year 1909, No. 23 (from March 20, 1909) , p. 158 (rubric miscellaneous ).
  5. ↑ Ina Hoßfeld. Artist made many visible signs. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of February 1, 1995. ( Article text online , last accessed on February 25, 2012)
predecessor Office successor
Johann Robert Mende Wroclaw City Planning Council (building construction)
1885–1909 		Max Berg
personal data
SURNAME Plüddemann, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plüddemann, Richard Adolf Odo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Funkenhagen , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1910
Place of death Wroclaw