Wilhelm Hector

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Wilhelm Hector with his wife Anna Angela (née Leyendecker) around 1890 (estate of the Hector family)

Wilhelm Hector (born January 18, 1855 in Roden , † September 2, 1918 in Wiesbaden ) was a German architect . He significantly shaped historicism in Saarland and, above all, created numerous church buildings in the Diocese of Trier . From 1905 to 1907 the architect and state building officer Albert Boßlet was a student of Hector in Saarbrücken .

Life

Wilhelm Hector was born on January 18, 1855 as the son of the Roden miller Peter Hector and his wife Maria, geb. Quirin, born. Hector studied architecture in Karlsruhe , Aachen and Darmstadt . In 1884 he started working as an architect and found employment with architectural offices in Antwerp , Saarlouis and Düsseldorf . From an early age, Hector dealt with the design of sacred buildings. In the course of his professional years he designed more than 50 churches or worked out plans for their expansion. His designs include both simple hall churches and lavishly designed large churches. Hector not only took on the planning tasks, but also accompanied the building through to completion.

Work (selection)

Sacred buildings

Extensions and conversions
Unfinished plans
  • Parish Church of the Holy Sacrament , Dillingen, 1906, neo-Romanesque
  • Parish Church of St. Michael , Saarbrücken-St. Johann, 1913
Destroyed or heavily modified buildings
  • Parish Church of the Most Holy Trinity , Fraulautern, 1895, neo-Gothic, almost completely destroyed in the Second World War, partly rebuilt in a neo-Romanesque style
  • Parish church Mariae Himmelfahrt , Roden , 1898–1900, neo-Gothic, badly destroyed in the Second World War, subsequently added a neo-Romanesque facade
  • Parish church St. Josef u. St. Wendelin , Diefflen , 1899–1900, neo-Gothic, rebuilt in a neo-Romanesque style after being destroyed in the war

Other buildings

  • St. Josefs-Haus, so-called monastery, Riegelsberg , 1898
  • Sisters' apartment with nursing station and sewing school, Ottweiler , 1904–05
Saarbrücken-St. Johann
  • Villa Heckel, Bismarckstrasse 47, 1899
  • Residential and commercial building, Cecilienstraße 33, 1898
  • two tenement and office buildings, Fürstenstraße 5/7, for the Trier chaplain and newspaper publisher Georg Friedrich Dasbach, 1897 (house no. 5: office building and book printer of the St. Johanner Volkszeitung)
  • Residential houses at Schumannstrasse 24/26, 1908

literature

  • Hans-Berthold Busse: Wilhelm Hector . In: Saarländische Lebensbilder , Volume IV. Saarbrücken 1989, pp. 131–154.
  • Hans-Berthold Busse: The architect Wilhelm Hector, church building around 1900, Regensburg 2018.
  • Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments: Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland. 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1985.
  • Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland. (= Publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland , Volume 40.) Saarbrücken 2002.
  • Michael Andreas Schmid: Hector, Wilhelm . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 70, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023175-5 , p. 524.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Hector  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacral Buildings of Classicism and Historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 383–384.
  2. ^ Hans-Berthold Busse: Wilhelm Hector. In: Saarländische Lebensbilder, Volume IV. Saarbrücken 1989, pp. 131–154.
personal data
SURNAME Hector, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hector, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Clearing
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1918
Place of death Wiesbaden