Robert Friedrich Rhien

Robert Friedrich Rhien (also: Norbert Friedrich Rhien and Robert Rhien ; * 1811 in Elbingerode ; † January 25, 1891 in Hanover ) was a German architect and teacher at the building trade school in Nienburg / Weser and headmaster.

Life

Robert Friedrich Rhien was born in Elbingerode during the so-called " French era " in 1811, possibly as the son of the mayor Friedrich Wilhelm Rhien, who was in office there from 1843 to 1847. Around this period Rhien was active as "Landbau-Conducteur extr." In the agricultural district of Hanover under the agricultural master Georg Ludwig Comperl from 1846 to 1847 . From the following year 1848 he served in the same position under the agricultural inspector Georg Wilhelm Mittelbach in the agricultural district of Hildesheim.

In 1854 Rhien moved to the Nienburg agricultural district, where he was first subordinate to the agricultural inspector Ludwig Eberhard Hesse , and then from 1857 to 1859 to the agricultural inspector "EW Hausmann". In 1860 Rhien was promoted to "Land-Bau-Inspector tit". In the same year the church of St. Martin in Breselenz , built according to his plans in the neo-Romanesque style, was inaugurated, where Rhien's brother-in-law, the pastor Chrysostomus Friedrich Gustav Dangers , was active at the time .

The court and state manual for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1863 lists " BCF Rhien , currently in Nienburg, director of the building trade school in Nienburg ". The - incorrect - abbreviations of the first names Rhiens were repeated in the Hanoverian state handbooks from 1855 to 1867; what was meant, however, was Robert Friedrich Rhien.

In 1865 Rhien was promoted to real agricultural inspector, around two years later, in 1867, appointed building officer for agricultural matters in the Nienburg building district, and in 1880 as district building inspector and building officer for agricultural matters for both the office and the city of Nienburg.

At the same time as the division of the Nienburg building district in 1884, Rhien took over the position of district building inspector in the building construction inspection Nienburg I and thus the areas of Nienburg, Hoya, Bruchhausen and the city of Nienburg.

Rhien retired on October 1, 1885; his successor as building inspector was "Mr. Tesmer" from Berent near Danzig.

Robert Friedrich Rhien was awarded the - Prussian - Order of the Red Eagle, fourth class . He died on January 25, 1891 in Hanover, where, according to the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden , the building council was reported to be out of service for the year 1891 on the ground floor of Lutherstrasse 50 in the Hanover district of Südstadt .

Works

The church of St. Martin in Breselenz , built in the neo-Romanesque style and consecrated in 1860

At the beginning of the 21st century, the architectural work of Rhiens, who had been active in the civil service for almost four decades, was almost completely untapped. The building historian Stefan Amt publicly asked for information on further research in a publication dated 2002.

Previously known:

• 1860, Breselenz: Church of St. Martin

bust

In front of the building of the former University of Applied Sciences in Nienburg - the plans submitted by the Lower Saxony Minister of Science Lutz Stratmann (CDU) after 2010 were closed - a bust of "Director Baurath Rhien" was erected at the Nienburg location of the University of Applied Sciences Hanover (FHH) after a fundraising campaign . The artist Erhard Joseph , who works in Wibbecke near Adelebsen in the Göttingen district , initially modulated the sculpture as plaster models based on photographic models of an older bust of Rhiens. In 1971, the artist was one of the first to take his exams in what was then the art and design department of the FHH. Plaster model was then used in the in Rinteln make Bildgießerei Richard Barth for the final bronze casting. The bust of Robert Friedrich Rhiens was ceremoniously unveiled on July 10, 2001 in front of the main entrance of the FHH in Nienburg.

literature

• Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biographie , Volume 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866 , Sponholtz, Hannover 1912, p. 312
• Dietrich Lösche : State building administration in Lower Saxony. From Ortsbaubeamten in Landbaudistrikt to State Construction Management , Gütersloh: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2004, ISBN 978-3-89534-545-6 and ISBN 3-89534-545-8 ; passim ; Preview over google books

Archival material

Archives by and about Norbert [Robert] Friedrich Rhien can be found, for example

• in the Hanover City Archives in the estate of the building historian Günther Kokkelink under the archive signature StadtA H 3.NL.518 No. 2023

Web links

Commons : Robert Friedrich Rhien  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Statues - Hither & Thither / Robert Friedrich Rhien , photographs and notes to bust in English on the side vanderkrogt.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Stefan Office : Robert Friedrich Rhien , in ders .: "We don't want to train architects and artists ..." From building trade school to technical college - training in construction in Nienburg , as a PDF document from May 2002; can be viewed on the website of the office for historical building research bhb-hannover.de
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Compare the information from the Hanover City Archives on the page of the Arcinsys Lower Saxony Bremen archive information system
3. ^ ^{A b c} address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden , section 1, 3: Alphabetical directory of authorities and institutions, residents and trading companies , p. 667; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
4. ↑ ^{a b} o. V .: Rhien, Robert Friedrich , in the database Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the GWLB [ undated ], last accessed on April 5, 2019
5. ↑ ^{a b} o. V .: Breselenz on the page kirchengemeindelexikon.de of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover [undated], last accessed on April 5, 2019
6. ↑ Werner Trolp: The military chaplaincy in the Hanoverian army. Supervision within the general structures of the church, taking into account the special features of the army (= studies on the church history of Lower Saxony , volume 045), also dissertation 2012 at the University of Hanover, Göttingen: V & R Unipress, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8471-0067- 6 and ISBN 3-8471-0067-X , p. 102; limited preview in Google Book search
7. ↑ Hof- und Staatshandbuch for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1863 , printed and published by the Berenbergschen Buchdruckerei, 1863, p. 388; Digitized via Google books
8. ^ Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History , Volume 77, Hanover: Verlag Hahnsche buchhandlung, 2005, p. 379; limited preview in Google Book search
9. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Lutherstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 166
10. ↑ ^{a b} Ester Bekierman, Dagmar Thomsen (ed.), Roswitha Stöllger (collaborator): The head is there , in: Spectrum. Journal of the University of Applied Sciences Hannover , issue 2 (2001), p. 20; as a PDF document on the hs-hannover.de website of the Hanover University of Applied Sciences
11. ↑ n.v .; dpa : Universities / Abgeschablo / Lower Saxony closes two universities of applied sciences ... , article on the website of the daily Süddeutsche from May 10, 2010, last accessed on April 5, 2019