Theodor Gohl
Theodor Gohl (born March 22, 1844 in Aarberg ; † October 1, 1910 in Basel ) was a Swiss architect , city architect of Winterthur from 1875 to 1880, cantonal master builder of St. Gallen from 1880 to 1891 and chief architect of the Federal Building Department from 1892 to 1910 .
Education and career
After attending the Realgymnasium in Bern, Gohl studied at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich from 1861 to 1865 . After his first job in Zurich with the construction company Locher , in Baden with Robert Moser and in Geneva with Charles Elles, he went on a 14-month study trip to Italy in 1870/71. He then became an adjunct to the Bernese cantonal master builder Friedrich Salvisberg .
In 1875 he became the city architect of Winterthur , where he designed the main building of the technical center founded in 1874 from 1877–78 . In 1880 he became the cantonal master builder of St. Gallen for eleven years . According to his plans, the psychiatric clinic in Wil was built around 1885 and the maternity hospital in St. Gallen in the 1890s .
From 1891 he became an architect in Bern in the management of the Federal Buildings founded in 1888, where he was elected adjunct in 1892 after a brief teaching activity at the Biel Technical Center. He was the chief architect in the office led by engineer Arnold Flükiger for the eighteen years up to his death. There he designed, among other things, the building of today's Federal Archives from 1896 to 1899 and the Federal Mint in Bern's Kirchenfeld district until 1906 as well as several post offices throughout Switzerland. Finally, the building of the Federal State Topography was completed, in which the Federal Office for the Environment, Forests and Landscape was housed in the meantime . Theodor Gohl died unexpectedly of a stroke while on a business trip.
Works (selection)
- Technikum , Winterthur 1877–78
- Psychiatric clinic , Wil, around 1885
- Prison , renovation, St. Gallen 1884–86 (demolished in 1958, today OLMA area)
- Riding arena and stables at the old armory, St. Gallen 1889
- Maternity home , St. Gallen 1894–95
- Post Office , Glarus 1896
- Post Office , Frauenfeld 1897–98
- Swiss Federal Archives and State Library , Bern 1896–99
- St. Fiden Schoolhouse , St. Gallen 1899
- Main Post Office , Freiburg 1897–1900
- Swiss Army Pharmacy , Flüelen 1901 (conversion of the former Hotel Unterhof)
- Post office building , Herisau 1902
- Post Office , Chur 1905 (with Jean Béguin )
- Federal Mint , Bern 1903–1906
- Bahnpost , Basel 1905-07 (canceled 1975)
- Post Office , Lugano 1909-12
- Swiss Federal Topography , Bern 1902–1914
literature
- Martin Fröhlich: Gohl, Theodor . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 225 f.
- Martin Fröhlich: Gottfried Semper as a designer and design teacher: materials for design theory in the 19th century from the Zurich Semper archive. Zurich 1974. doi : 10.3929 / ethz-a-000333430
- NN: Theodor Gohl . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 56 , no. 16 , 1910, pp. 216 ( online at: E-Periodica ).
Web links
- Martin Fröhlich: Gohl, Theodor. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gohl, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aarberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 1910 |
| Place of death | Basel |