Vincenz Statz
Vincenz Statz or Vinzenz Statz (born April 9, 1819 in Cologne ; † August 21, 1898 ibid) was a German architect . He is considered one of the most important and influential representatives of neo-Gothic in the Rhineland.
Life
Vincenz Statz was born in Cologne on April 9th, 1819 and was a well-known and influential architect of the neo-Gothic . He received his first lessons from a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and then entered the Dombauhütte of Cologne Cathedral in 1841 , where he worked as a foreman from 1845. At the same time as Friedrich von Schmidt , who later built the Vienna City Hall , he was called in by the cathedral builder Ernst Friedrich Zwirner to work on the plans. He was so enthusiastic about the beauty of the work on which he was allowed to work that his imagination has only lived in the creations of medieval architecture ever since. This enthusiasm is also expressed in his watercolor vision of the completed towers of Cologne Cathedral , the much-acclaimed original of which is in the graphic collection of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud Cologne . This watercolor comes from the year 1861, when the structural completion of the towers of Cologne Cathedral was far from being thought of for many reasons. So the work of art is captioned with the saying “And he'll be finished!”; a vision and encouragement for Zwirner at the same time.
In Cologne and the Rhineland, then in Holland and Belgium, and finally in France and England, Statz studied Gothic with such devotion that in a short time he was considered one of their best connoisseurs and with his own designs rekindled the general interest in Gothic architecture .
After Statz had started his own work in 1847, he had been working full-time as an architect since 1854. The parish church of St. John the Baptist in Ostrog near Ratibor , which was built between 1855 and 1856, is one of his early works . When he was appointed a master builder in 1861 without the usual academic training and in 1863 a diocesan master builder at the Archdiocese of Cologne , he could already look back on a life's work that included 150 churches and chapels, 47 church reconstruction buildings, 15 pastor's apartments, 8 hospitals and around 200 designs of altars , Pulpits and other major ecclesiastical furnishings. At this point in time, Statz had already begun his most powerful creation, the New Cathedral in Linz (Upper Austria), which is one of the most remarkable architectural monuments of the 19th century in Austria. The Marienkirche in Aachen, the Mauritiuskirche in Cologne and the pilgrimage church in Kevelaer are also worth mentioning as particularly demanding facilities. His sphere of activity extended from Holland to Naples.
His designs for the Votive Church in Vienna , the Berlin Cathedral and the Lille Cathedral also aroused admiration. His versatility is evident in the Liebieg Palace in Kobern-Gondorf , the town hall in Cologne-Ehrenfeld , the St. Hedwig Hospital in Berlin, the courthouse in Eberswalde and large ecclesiastical items such as the altar of the Church of Our Lady in Trier. In addition to his Gothic pattern book , Statz also published other works, including Die Mittelalterliche Bauwerke nach Merian .
Many of his buildings were damaged in the Second World War and then only restored in a simplified manner, some even completely demolished. In others, the furnishings were completely or partially removed because the neo-Gothic was no longer particularly valued. It was not until the 1970s that the architecture of historicism, and with it Statz, was again given greater esteem, so most of its buildings are now listed , many have been or are being restored true to the original.
His son Franz Statz (1848–1930) was also an architect.
Works in Germany
year | image | place | object | state | comment |
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1857 | Eupen | Marienbrunnen with Marian column | Rhine Province | ||
1872 | Eupen | St. Joseph | Rhine Province | ||
1876/1877 | Eberswalde | Catholic parish church: | Brandenburg | ||
1866 | Somborn (open court) | Chapel: Hof Trages chapel | Hesse | ||
1874-1876 | Bernshausen | Catholic parish church:
St. Peter and Paul |
Lower Saxony | ||
1855 | Aachen | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | Dating 1855, based on the second draft 1859–1863. After war damage and poor reconstruction, it was finally demolished in 1978 in favor of a new building by the architect Karl-Otto Lüfkens from Krefeld. | |
1879-1883 | Aachen , fire | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1880-1883 | Aachen , Hahn | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1863 | Aachen , Orsbach | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1879/1880 | Alfter , Gielsdorf | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | Expansion measures | |
1862/1863 | Baesweiler , Setterich | Catholic parish church:
St. Andrew |
North Rhine-Westphalia | Completely destroyed in 1944 | |
1864-1871 | Bergisch Gladbach- Refrath | Catholic parish church:
St. Johann Baptist |
North Rhine-Westphalia | Expanded in 1963 based on a design by Karl Band | |
1855 | Bedburg | Castle chapel | North Rhine-Westphalia | Ground settlement caused irreparable damage to the castle chapel, so that it was demolished in July 2011. | |
1875 | Bonn , Graurheindorf | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | Extension | |
1860-1862 | Bonn , Bad Godesberg | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1869 | Bonn , Buschdorf | Aegidius Chapel | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1880 | Bornheim | Catholic parish church:
St. Michael |
North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1867/1868 | Bruggen | Dilborn Castle Chapel | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1885-1887 | Bruehl | Catholic parish church:
St. Margareta |
North Rhine-Westphalia | Eastern parts of the parish church | |
1875-1878 | Dormagen , Feste Zons | Catholic parish church:
St. Martinus |
North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1856 | Düren , Gürzenich | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1854/1855 | Volmerswerth | Catholic Parish Church of St. Dionysius | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1857-1859 | Erkelenz , Holzweiler | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1855 | Essen , Borbeck | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1864/65 | Euskirchen , Stotzheim | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1868-1875 | Euskirchen , Weidesheim | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1877-1879 | Engelskirchen | Catholic parish church:
St. Peter and Paul |
North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1852 | Kerpen , Horrem | Catholic parish church:
St. Clement |
North Rhine-Westphalia | Expansion measures. | |
1858-1864 | Kevelaer | Pilgrimage church
St. Mary |
North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1850-1852 | Cologne , trinkets | Catholic parish church:
St. Heinrich and Kunigund |
North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1852 | Cologne | Baudri House, Mohrenstrasse | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1858 | Cologne , Altstadt-Nord | Marian column | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1851-1853 | Cologne | Chapel of St. Joseph | North Rhine-Westphalia | Chapel of the former Carmelite convent (Gereonskloster 14). | |
1859/1860 | Cologne | Diocesan Museum | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
Cologne | Weißhauskapelle Schloss Weißhaus | North Rhine-Westphalia | |||
1863-1866 | Cologne , Kalk | Catholic parish church:
St. Mary |
North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1863-1867 | Cologne , Rodenkirchen | Catholic parish church:
St. Maternus |
North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1863 | Cologne , Bayenthal | Catholic parish church on the corner of Goltsteinstrasse and Bonifazstrasse | North Rhine-Westphalia | Demolished around 1904 in favor of a new building on Mathiaskirchplatz. | |
1864-1866 | Hönnersum | Catholic parish church: | Lower Saxony | ||
1870 | Cologne | House Statz, St. Apern-Strasse | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1872 | Cologne , Ehrenfeld | Catholic parish church:
St. Joseph |
North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1854-1860 | Krefeld | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1852-1854 | Krefeld , Hohenbudberg | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1857-1859 | Lippetal , Lippborg | Catholic parish church:
St. Cornelius and Cyprianus |
North Rhine-Westphalia | Tower from around 1875 | |
1867 | Marienheide , Gimborn | Catholic parish church:
St. Johann Baptist |
North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1857-1860 | Mechernich , Kommern | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1852-1854 | Mönchengladbach | Mariahilf Hospital | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1854-1856 | Mönchengladbach , Hardt | Catholic parish church:
St. Nicholas |
North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1851-1853 | Mönchengladbach , Hehn | Catholic parish church:
St. Mary Visitation |
North Rhine-Westphalia | Extension (octagon with choir and 2 flanking towers) from 1890, based on plans by Julius Busch . | |
1853-1856 | Mönchengladbach , Rheydt | Catholic parish church:
St. Mary |
North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1867-1869 | Mönchengladbach , Venn | Catholic parish church:
St. Nicholas |
North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1853-1876 | Nettetal , Hinsbeck | Krickenbeck Castle | North Rhine-Westphalia | remodeling | |
1863-1867 | Nettetal , Hinsbeck | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1860/1861 | Nettetal , Leuth | Catholic parish church:
St. Lambertus |
North Rhine-Westphalia | remodeling | |
1862-1864 | Neuss , Grefrath | Catholic parish church:
St. Stephen |
North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1862/1863 | Opladen | Catholic parish church of St. Remigius | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1869 | Schwelm | Evangelical Martfeld crypt chapel | North Rhine-Westphalia | In honor of Baroness Friederike von Elverfeldt | |
1852-1853 | Vettweiß , Kelz | Catholic branch church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | The church tower was built in 1889 according to plans by the architect Richard Odenthal. | |
1869-1877 | Vettweiß , Sievernich | Catholic branch church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1855 | Viersen , Dulken | Marian column | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1855-1858 | Viersen , Süchteln | Catholic parish church:
St. Clemens |
North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1848-1859 | Waldfeucht , Braunsrath | Catholic parish church:
St. Clement |
North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1850-1870 | Weeze | Castle knowledge | North Rhine-Westphalia | expansion | |
1876-1878 | Weeze | Castle chapel | North Rhine-Westphalia | New building | |
1869-1883 | Wuppertal , Barmen | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | Reconstruction and expansion of the parish church. The church was badly damaged in World War II and demolished in 1968. |
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1867-1871 | Asbach | Catholic parish church:
St. Laurence |
Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1861/1862 | Asbach , Niedermühlen | Catholic pilgrimage and rectorate church:
To the painful Mother of God |
Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1869 | Bernkastel-Kues | Catholic parish church:
St. Agatha |
Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1879-1881 | Betzdorf | Catholic Parish Church of St. Ignatius | Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1858/1859 | Binningen (Eifel) | Catholic Remigius Chapel | Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1867-1871 | Ettringen (Eifel) | Catholic parish church of St. Maximin and Anna | Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1859-1861 | Kobern-Gondorf | Liebieg Castle | Rhineland-Palatinate | modification | |
1851/1852 | Koblenz | Church of Our Lady | Rhineland-Palatinate | Interior design | |
1854 | Koblenz | Peter Friedhofen Chapel | Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1862-1866 | Koblenz | St. Mauritius | Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1857 | Kottenheim | Catholic parish church: | Rhineland-Palatinate | The church tower from 1772 was raised in 1904 according to plans by Caspar Clemens Pickel . | |
1868/1869 | Kretz | Chapel:
At the birth of Mary |
Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1859-1862 | Country core | Catholic parish church:
St. Servatius |
Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1852-1857 | Mendig-Niedermendig | Catholic parish church:
St. Cyriac |
Rhineland-Palatinate | extension | |
1861/1862 | Mudersbach | Catholic parish church:
St. Mary of the Assumption |
Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1855 | Münstermaifeld | Weckbeck tombs | Rhineland-Palatinate | Location: municipal cemetery | |
Münstermaifeld | Pulpit of the collegiate church of St. Martin and St. Severus | Rhineland-Palatinate | |||
Münstermaifeld | Stone cross | Rhineland-Palatinate | Location: east side on the outside of the choir | ||
1860-1862 | Neustadt an der Weinstrasse | Catholic parish church:
St. Mary |
Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1852 | Nod | High altar attachment
Catholic parish church: St. Arnulf |
Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1859/1860 | Plaidt | Catholic parish church:
St. Willibrord |
Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1888 |
Prosterath 150 inhabitants |
Catholic branch church of St. Anthony of Padua |
Rhineland-Palatinate | Plan from the Statz office before the takeover by Franz Statz | |
1865/1866 | Remagen-Oberwinter | Catholic parish church:
St. Laurence |
Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1852-1856 | Rheinbrohl | Catholic parish church:
St. Suitbert |
Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1856-1859 | Seelscheid | Catholic parish church: | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1854-1858 | Sinzig | Sinzig Castle | Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1871-1876 | Sinzig | Villa, in the Zehnthof. | Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1862-1865 | Stromberg | Catholic parish church:
St. James |
Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1862-1865 | Tellig | Catholic parish church:
St. Cornelius and Cyprianus |
Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1856-1859 | Vallendar | hospital
St. Joseph |
Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1869/1870 | Windhagen | Catholic parish church:
St. Bartholomew |
Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
1883 to 1885 | Saarlouis | Catholic parish church: | Saarland | Market facade with tower | |
1854-1858 | Dessau | Catholic Provost Church of St. Peter & Paul | Saxony-Anhalt | ||
1855-1858 | Dornbusch (Viersen) | Mary Help of Christians | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
1851-1853 | Cologne Bocklemünd | St. John at the Latin Gates | North Rhine-Westphalia | In 1850 the planning contract was finally awarded to
Vinzenz Statz, who planned a church in the neo-Gothic style. The foundation stone was laid in 1851 and the church was consecrated in 1853. |
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1885-1887 | Cologne-Ehrenfeld | St. Francis Hospital | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Works in France
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St. Privat la Montagne - War memorial 1870 for the fallen members of the Guards Grenadier Regiment No. 4
The memorial has been preserved.
Works in Austria
- Linz on the Danube: Mary's Conception Cathedral ( New Cathedral , 1862–1935); Structure including equipment:
Honors
- His hometown Cologne named a street in the suburb of Cologne-Braunsfeld , not far from the Rheinenergiestadion, after Vincenz Statz .
- On January 26, 2001, at the instigation of Johannes Maubach, the KGS-Lindenbornstrasse school in Cologne was named after Vincenz Statz.
literature
- Parish Council Neuss-Grefrath (Ed.): Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of the St. Stephanus Church in Neuss-Grefrath - history and stories about the church tower. Neuss 1989.
- Manfred Böckling: St. Cyriakus in Mendig. Editor: Karl-Peter Wiemer. - Cologne: Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz 2007 (= Rheinische Kunststätten, issue 500).
- Wolfram Hagspiel : The “St. Claren Quarter” - its structural and urban development up to the present. In: Am Römerturm. Two millennia of a Cologne district. Cologne 2006.
- Rolf-Bernd Hechler: Comments on the neo-Gothic and on some Krefeld buildings from this time. (= The Heimat-Zeitschrift für Niederrheinische Kultur- und Heimatpflege, 50th year). Krefeld 1979, p. 99 ff.
- Baldur Hermans : Memory of Vincenz Statz - the cemetery cross on Hülsmannstrasse . In: Das Münster am Hellweg , vol. 40 (1987), pp. 55–59.
- Christian Kratz: The New Cathedral in Linz. In: Oberösterr. Homeland papers. 48, Linz 1994. pp. 3-17.
- Christian Kratz: Vincenz Statz and neo-Gothic in Germany. In: Contributions to the city of Schwelm and its surroundings. 47, 1998, pp. 117-131.
- Christian Kratz: St. Donatus in Aachen fire. Aachen 2000.
- Michael J. Lewis: The Politics of the German Gothic Revival: August Reichensperger (1808–1895). New York 1993.
- Heinrich Mann, Willy Weyres: Handbook on Rhenish architecture of the 19th century. Cologne 1968.
- Franz Ronig: The 19th century church building in the Diocese of Trier. In: 19th Century Art in the Rhineland, Vol. 1: Architecture. Düsseldorf 1980, pp. 195-268.
- Dieter Schewe: The Zehnthof in Sinzig in the 19th century: A Rhenish dream from Hohenzollern's royal castles or publisher. o. year.
- Dieter Schewe: History of Sinzig and its royal palaces - pivots of the Romans, Carolingians, Staufer between Upper and Lower Rhine 40 to 1227, Sinzig 2004. ISBN 3-9809438-0-1 .
- Hans Vogts : Vincenz Statz (1819–1898). Life picture and life's work of a Cologne builder. Mönchengladbach 1960.
- Willy Weyres : Catholic churches in the old Archdiocese of Cologne and in the Rhenish part of the Diocese of Münster. In: 19th Century Art in the Rhineland, Vol. 1: Architecture. Düsseldorf 1980, pp. 75-193.
- Willy Weyres: Vincenz Statz (1819–1898). In: Rheinische Lebensbilder. 6, Cologne 1975, pp. 97-120.
- N / A: Vincenz Statz †. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 18, 1898, No. 35 (from August 27, 1898) , p. 415 f.
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Statz, Vincenz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 37th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1878, p. 245 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 6 design sheets for the Berlin Cathedral in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin
- ^ Hiltrud Kier : List of monuments Cologne old town and Deutz . Ed .: State Conservator Rhineland . tape 12.1 . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0455-2 , p. 64 .
- ^ Claudius Engelhardt: The parish church in Kottenheim: A tour through the church and its history. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7322-9829-7
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Statz, Vincenz |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Statz, Vincent |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1819 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
DATE OF DEATH | August 21, 1898 |
Place of death | Cologne |