Wilhelm Krahe

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Wilhelm Krahe (born January 8, 1839 in Braunschweig ; † October 2, 1921 there ; full name Peter Theodor Julius Wilhelm Krahe ) was a German architect and Brunswick construction officer .

Wilhelm Krahe around 1867

life and work

As the eldest son of the architect Friedrich Maria Krahe , he attended the high school in Braunschweig and took part in the drawing school of the Braunschweiger Gewerbeverein in the lessons of the building councilor Louis Kuhne (1814-1896). After one year of voluntary military service , he studied construction at the Collegio Carolinuo from 1857 to 1860 . He then gained practical experience, first as a construction trainee with Carl Tappe , then as a teacher at the Ducal Building Trade School in Holzminden and finally as an engineering assistant to the railway builder Carl Ebeling (* 1816 in Bad Harzburg ; † 1890 in Braunschweig) during the construction of the Holzmindener Railway (1862– 1865) with the Naensen , Stadtoldendorf and Kreiensen train stations .

After passing the building eleven test, he started as a construction manager in the ducal building department of Braunschweig in 1869 and from 1871 worked as a district construction manager in Blankenburg . In 1874 he was given the management of the Wolfenbüttel rural district. Here he was appointed district architect.

In 1877 he took over the management of the urban building construction district of Braunschweig and the Thedinghausen office as the successor to the district builder Ernst Wiehe, and from 1881 also the management of the former rural building district of Braunschweig. This united urban building district and rural building district Braunschweig was first given the name "Ducal District Building Inspection Braunschweig" and was renamed in 1887 in " Building Inspection Braunschweig".

As a district building inspector, Krahe was awarded the title of building officer in 1897 . Wilhelm Krahe retired in 1907. His successor as head of the building inspection was government builder Wilhelm Eschemann from Holzminden.

In addition to his professional activity, he was on the boards of the architects and engineers, the Braunschweiger Kunstverein and the Evangelical Association .

Orangery building
Lessingplatz 13

Buildings in Braunschweig and the surrounding area

  • As a construction candidate, Krahe drew up his first construction drawing in 1864, namely for the construction of the Vechelder Bahnhof, a through station in a lateral position, built in natural stone ashlar masonry. The two-storey building was characterized by two elevated, slightly protruding side projections with a stair frieze on the verge . This listed station building was demolished in 1979.
  • In 1884, Wilhelm Krahe designed a house on Lessingplatz for Major Hermann Hollandt in the style of the Italian High Renaissance . Since it was originally open to the garden to the south with high glazed arches, it is called the orangery building .
  • In 1888, according to his plans, an ox and pig sty was built on the Steinhof monastery , which is commonly referred to as a warehouse because it contains a grain floor on the upper floor and in the attic.
  • In 1890 Krahe built the village school and the neo-Gothic church of St. Martin in Sophiental according to the planning guidelines of the building management under building officer Ernst Wiehe, who also took over the coordination with the consistory .
  • The St. Annen Convent, Papenstieg 2 , a three- story brick building, was designed by Krahe in 1894/95 according to the design rules of the Hanover School of Architecture . It now houses the cathedral singing school .
  • The former ducal hospital at Wendentor 7 was converted from 1900 to 1902 according to plans by Krahe to become the district court of Braunschweig / Riddagshausen. Today the social and administrative court is located in the yellow brick building .
Wilhelm High School

During his tenure, Wilhelm Krahe had several employees who were also assigned planning and design tasks from the building management, so that it is difficult to assign his own contribution to the design of some buildings. It includes:

  • the Herzogliche Neue Gymnasium (now Wilhelm-Gymnasium ) at Leonhardstrasse 63. The design was based on planning guidelines from building officer Ernst Wiehe.
The school building impresses with its five large tracery windows in the entrance area and the cross vault in the entrance hall, which rests on cast-iron and brick pillars.
  • the district and remand prison (now Braunschweig correctional facility ) in Rennelbergstrasse 10.
  • the Neue Herzogliche Krankenanstalt (now the Braunschweig Clinic ) in Celler Strasse. In general, building officer Johannes Pfeifer is considered an architect. The transfer of the sick from the old building at Wendentor began in April 1895.
The multi-storey pavilion mixed with a corridor system was considered to be the ideal type of construction for a hospital at the time.
  • the tax office

Under the direction of the building advisers Ernst Wiehe and Johannes Pfeifer , Wilhelm Krahe had restoration work carried out on the court and cathedral church in Braunschweig , the monastery church in Riddagshausen and the St. Aegidienkirche .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norman-Mathias Pingel: Kuhne, Emil Ludwig (Louis) Georg. In: Luitgard Camerer, Manfred Garzmann, Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon. Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 84.
  2. ↑ a b c NLA location Wolfenbüttel: 76 New Col. 2 No. 302; professional career of W. Krahe
  3. ^ Literature by and about Carl Ebeling in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Gerd Biegel and Angela Klein: Carl Theodor Ottmer: 1800 - 1843, Braunschweigischer Hofbaumeister - European architect. Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum 2000, ISBN 3-927939-48-X , p. 242 f
  5. ↑ Communications from the division of the Ducal Building Direction in Braunschweig per 1883, George Westermann, Braunschweig 1884, p. 4.
  6. ↑ a b Dietrich Lösche: State building management in Lower Saxony, from local officials in the agricultural district to state building management. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2004, ISSN  0436-1229 , p. 308.
  7. ↑ Reinhard Roseneck: The buildings on the Braunschweig - Hanover railway line with a focus on the Vechelder area. In: Carsten Hein: Dörfer unter Dampf, reflections on the 150-year history of the Braunschweig-Hanover railway line in the Vechelder area 1844 - 1994, published by the Vechelde community, 1994, p. 57 ff
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 1.2 .: City of Braunschweig. Part 2, Verlag CW Niemeyer, Hameln 1996, ISBN 3-8271-8256-5 , p. 231.
  9. ^ NLA location Wolfenbüttel: K 1022; Drawing for the construction of an ox and pig sty on the Steinhof monastery estate, 1888 .
  10. ↑ Gut Steinhof on braunschweig.de, accessed on January 6, 2019
  11. ↑ St. Annen-Konvent on braunschweig.de, accessed on January 6, 2019
  12. ↑ Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 1.1 .: City of Braunschweig. Part 1, Verlag CW Niemeyer, Hameln 1993, ISBN 3-87585-252-4 , p. 198.
  13. ^ Franz lattice man: The construction of the Ducal New High School in Braunschweig. Meyer, Braunschweig 1891, p. 3 on digibib.tu-bs.de, accessed on December 7, 2018
  14. ↑ On the history of the Wilhelm-Gymnasium at wilhelm-gym.de, accessed on January 6, 2019
  15. ^ Falko Rost: Krahe, Peter Theodor Julius Wilhelm. In: Horst Rüdiger Jarck: Braunschweigisches biographical lexicon. 19th and 20th centuries. Hahn, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 344.
  16. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Duchy of Braunschweig, Meyer, Braunschweig 1897, p. 41.
  17. ↑ Literature by and about Johannes Pfeifer in the catalog of the German National Library
  18. ↑ Hans Pfeifer: The building of the new ducal hospital in Braunschweig. Meyer, Braunschweig 1897, panel I. on p. 2 on digibib.tu-bs.de, accessed on January 6, 2019
  19. ^ Catalog of the German Building Exhibition Dresden 1900, Dept. 1, 3: Section: Duchy of Braunschweig. Arnold, Dresden-Blasewitz 1900, p. 19 ff
personal data
SURNAME Krahe, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krahe, Peter Theodor Julius Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and Brunswick construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1921
Place of death Braunschweig