Carl Scheppig
Carl Scheppig (born January 18, 1803 in Berlin , † February 22, 1885 in Sondershausen ; full name: Carl Friedrich Adolph Scheppig ) was a German architect and construction clerk of the late classicism and an important student of the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel .
Life
Berlin time
Carl Scheppig was born in Berlin as one of ten children of the master carpenter and wood merchant Carl Benjamin Scheppig and his wife Marie Louise (née Schmidt).
He attended the grammar school for the gray monastery ; during this time he received numerous awards. Due to his interest in mathematics and construction , he began a career in architecture in 1822. Scheppig studied at the Berlin Building Academy and the Berlin Art Academy . After a corresponding internship, the surveyor's examination took place in 1823 as the first step in the Prussian construction officer training. In 1832, Carl Scheppig finally passed his master builder examination.
His first project was the repair of the towers of the German and French Domes on the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin in 1824. In doing so, he attracted Karl Friedrich Schinkel's attention, so that Scheppig was allowed to work as a freelancer in Schinkel's office between 1825 and 1831. In addition to Friedrich August Stüler, Scheppig worked as a construction manager in 1827 on the renovation of the palace of Prince Karl of Prussia .
In 1827 Scheppig became a member of the Berlin Architects' Association, which was founded in 1824, and participated successfully in the "monthly competitions" advertised by this association.
In an architecture competition in 1830/1831 he won a four-year scholarship for stays abroad in Italy with his design for an academy of the arts . He traveled to Rome via Prague , Vienna , Munich , Milan , Venice and Florence .
Back in Berlin, he became the site manager for the renovation of the Jerusalem Church designed by Friedrich Wilhelm Langerhans .
In 1836, Prince Günther Friedrich Carl II von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1801–1888) visited Schinkel because the residential palace of Sondershausen was to be rebuilt. Thereupon Schinkel entrusted Scheppig with this project, who thereupon committed himself for five years as the prince's building officer.
Special houses time
As the leading architect and building officer in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , Carl Scheppig was of central importance. He was productive at the princely court, with the chamber administration and in the state construction industry. He quickly developed into a highly placed advisor. In December 1852 he was appointed as a member to found the Princely Antiquities Association; he was chairman from 1854 until the end of his life.
In April 1843 he married Therese Wilhelmine Auguste Kleemann (1819–1905), the daughter of the councilor and domain tenant Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Kleemann from Ebeleben . He had two children with her:
- Marie, married Zahn (January 29, 1844 - May 30, 1909)
- Richard (November 17, 1845 - December 24, 1903)
Three of his sisters, Auguste (1814–1864), Minna (1817–1892) and Henriette Arper (born 1819), followed him to Sondershausen.
So he built a new home for himself and quickly integrated himself into the special house life. Professionally and in reputation, he continued to rise over the years. In 1857 he was appointed senior building officer, became a state master builder and was considered the leading architect of the principality.
On the Frauenberg near Jechaburg , so well known, Scheppig had excavations carried out in 1873, whereby the remains of a stone Romanesque chapel "Our Lady" from the 12th century were discovered.
In 1876 he finally retired after forty years of service.
At the age of 82, Carl Scheppig died after a long suffering as a successful and honorable citizen. He was buried in the former cemetery at the rose garden in the Alexander-Pushkin-Promenade in Sondershausen.
Architect for Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Scheppig's work in the principality began with the ambitious project of Prince Günther Friedrich Carl II to renovate his irregular four-wing residential palace in Sondershausen and to adapt it to the taste of his time. The art-loving Princess Mathilde, née. von Hohenlohe-Öhringen, for the redesign. In addition, the princely couple moved into the Prinzenpalais on the market in 1835. However, the plans for the redesign could never be fully realized. Originally it was planned to redesign the Renaissance wing , which was rebuilt in the Baroque , in the "Norman style". The facade would have been given a surrounding battlement, balconies and arbors . The new north and west wings were to be restructured into a baroque-classicist residential palace with a dome over the north-western courtyard entrance.
If Scheppig's plans had been fully implemented, the palace would have been one of the most programmatic and characteristic creations of German late classicism.
The costly renovation had to be severely restricted by financial bottlenecks and the relationship problems of the royal couple in the 1840s.
On the eastern slope of the Schlossberg to the market, a redesign took place from 1837 to 1839, with which Scheppig created "the most monumental and most important ensemble of classicism architecture in Thuringia ". The so-called " Alte Wache " is very similar to Berlin's " Neuer Wache ". The actual reconstruction of the castle was reduced to the new north and west wings. The necessary measures were taken from 1845 to 1851.
In the north-west of the castle grounds, a stables in the classical style and a gallery with a rotunda leading to the elevated court theater were built .
In addition, during his Sondershäuser time, Scheppig developed plans for the Lohhalle, built in 1837 on Lohplatz as a music pavilion for the once famous Sondershäuser Loh Concerts . Until its demolition in 1972/1973, it was considered a symbol of the important position of Sondershausen as a musical metropolis of the 19th century, with which Max Bruch and Franz Liszt , for example, are associated.
Numerous other buildings by Carl Scheppig were erected in the “Carlsstadt” district in Sondershausen, which the prince called, but also in other parts of the principality.
Work (incomplete)
- 1824: Structural repairs to the towers of the German and French Cathedral in Berlin
- 1827: Construction manager during the renovation of the palace of Prince Karl of Prussia in Berlin
- 1829–1831: Construction manager for the renovation of the Palais des Count von Redern on Pariser Platz
- 1836: Construction manager for the renovation of the Jerusalem Church in Berlin
- 1837: Lohhalle and Lohplatz in Sondershausen
- 1837–1839 Design and construction of the Alte Wache in Sondershausen
- 1837–1851: Redesign of the residential palace in Sondershausen
- 1851–1853: Construction of the district court, the prison and the stables in Sondershausen
- 1855: Thuringian Bank building in Sondershausen
- 1857: "Hotel Münch" in Sondershausen
- 1856: Reconstruction of the special town hall
- 1840–1842: Citizens' school in Arnstadt
literature
- Friedrich Apfelstedt : Architectural and art monuments of the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, first issue: The subordinate rule. 1886.
- Cultural Office of the City of Sondershausen (Ed.): Personalities in Sondershausen. Sondershausen 1993.
- Image archive Röttig (Ed.): Declaration of love to a city - Sondershausen. 2000.
- Cultural Office of the City of Sondershausen (Ed.): Personalities in Sondershausen - Carl Scheppig. Sondershausen 2000.
- Hendrik Bärnighausen: Carl Scheppig (1803–1885). A Schinkel student in Berlin, Rome and Sondershausen. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-46-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personalities in Sondershausen - Carl Scheppig p. 3, Ed .: Kulturamt der Stadt Sondershausen, 2000
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scheppig, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scheppig, Carl Friedrich Adolph; Scheppig, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and construction officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1885 |
| Place of death | Sondershausen |