Sigmund Munchhausen

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Sigmund Münchhausen (* 1856 or 1858 in Paderborn ; † 1924 in Cologne ) was a German architect of historicism .

Life

Münchhausen was born on April 5, 1858 in Paderborn as the son of Samuel Münchhausen and his wife Amalie, b. Bamberger, born. He grew up in this Jewish family. From 1877 to 1878 he studied at the Hanover Polytechnic . He then worked as an architect in Cologne. His designs were influenced by the historicism of the Hanover School of Architecture , but "he (he) pursued a self-confident, clearly distinguishable design in synagogues with his buildings". He played with elements of the chosen models and abstracted historical styles, but never completely copied them.

buildings

literature

  • Silke Grade: "An ornament of the city of Osnabrück" or "the temple of Jews". The synagogue on Rolandstrasse Osnabrück. In: Osnabrück Yearbook Peace and Science , 18/2011.
  • Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne and its Jewish architects. JP Bachem, Cologne 2010, pp. 335–343.
  • Klemens Klemmer: Jewish master builders in Germany. Architecture before the Shoah. DVA, Stuttgart 1998.
  • Harold Hammer-Schenk : Synagogues in Germany. History of a building type in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hamburg 1981.
  • Harold Hammer-Schenk: Architecture of the Synagogue. In: Hans-Peter Schwarz (ed.): The architecture of the synagogue. Exhibition catalog, Frankfurt am Main / Stuttgart 1989.
  • Günther Kokkelink , Monika Lemke-Kokkelink: Architecture in Northern Germany. Architecture and handicrafts of the Hanover School. Hanover 1998.
  • Saskia Rohde: Synagogue discussion. Architects and the Modernization of Judaism. In: Arno Herzig u. a. (Ed.): Judaism and Enlightenment. Jewish self-image in the bourgeois public. Göttingen 2002.

Web links

Commons : Sigmund Münchhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klemens Klemmer: Jewish master builders in Germany. Architecture before the Shoah. DVA, Stuttgart 1998, p. 267.
  2. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel: Cologne and its Jewish architects. JP Bachem, Cologne 2010, pp. 335–343. (Indication of the year of birth on p. 335)
  3. ↑ Detmold civil status archive. P 10 No. 15. Family book of the Jewish community in Paderborn
  4. ↑ Harold Hammer-Schenk: Synagogues in Germany. History of a building type in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hamburg 1981, p. 256 f.
  5. ↑ http://www.altesynagoge-einbeck.de/geschichte-der-juden-in-einbeck/1900-1944
  6. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums of December 29, 1905 (Höchst am Main, December 18, 1905)
  7. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums of October 5, 1906.
personal data
SURNAME Münchhausen, Sigmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect of historicism
DATE OF BIRTH 1856 or 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn
DATE OF DEATH 1924
Place of death Cologne