Wilhelm Lüer

Wilhelm Lüer (full name: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Lüer ; * December 28, 1834 in Goslar ; † June 4, 1870 in Linden near Hanover ) was a German architect and university professor .

life and work

Wilhelm Lüer studied from 1850 to 1856 at the Polytechnic School in Hanover with Conrad Wilhelm Hase , whose best pupil and later collaborator he became, before he went into business for himself.

In 1858 he became an architectural assistant to Ludwig Debo at the Polytechnic School and, on October 1, 1869, his successor lecturer in architecture and ornamentation. In 1860, alongside Conrad Wilhelm Hase, he was one of the founders of the Lower Saxony construction works .

The St. Johannis Chapel in the Hanover district of Bemerode

Only the St. John's Chapel in Bemerode , built in 1866/67, remains of his buildings . His main work were the buildings of the zoological garden in Hanover , which were built from 1863 to 1869 . In 1864 he designed the villa for the co-founder of the zoo, the wine merchant Georg Schultz , and in 1865 the Egestorff aquarium. When he came under public criticism in 1865 for his zoo buildings, he was supported by Alfred Brehm , who valued him for his romanticized castle and rock structures. As a result, he designed grotto-style aquariums for Cologne (1869) and Mühlhausen in addition to the Berlin aquarium Unter den Linden . In Berlin he also built the Hotel Minerva , which existed until 1916. He restored and built churches in the Goslar area.

After his death, Hare continued the work on the churches and at the Villa Glitter castle of Karl Wedekind continued.

Honors

Lüerstraße, which was laid out in 1898 in Hanover's Zoo district, honors the architect with its name.

literature

• oV , Conrad Wilhelm Hase: Wilhelm Lüer. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Vol. 5, No. 24 of June 15, 1871, pp. 188ff. ( Obituary in a copy from the journal of the Architects and Engineers Association in Hanover ); Digitized version (PDF) of the Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg
• Paul Trommsdorff: The faculty of the Technical University of Hanover 1831-1931. Hanover 1931, p. 94.
• Catalogus professorum 1831–1981 (= Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hannover, Volume 2). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1981, ISBN 3-17-007321-4 , p. 183 (with picture).
• Wolfgang Brönner : The bourgeois villa in Germany 1830–1890. Düsseldorf, Schwann 1987, ISBN 3-491-29029-5 , p. 181.
• Lothar Dittrich , Annelore Rieke-Müller: A garden for people and animals [125 years Hannover Zoo] . Grütter, Ronnenberg / Hannover [1990], ISBN 3-9801063-2-2 , pp. 24-28, 30, 52
• Günther Kokkelink , Monika Lemke-Kokkelink : Architecture in Northern Germany. Architecture and handicrafts of the Hanover School 1850-1900. Schlüter, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-538-4 , p. 547 (biography and work) and others.
• Helmut Knocke : Luer, (2) Johann Heinrich Wilhelm. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 239; limited preview in Google Book search
• Helmut Knocke: Lüer, (2) Johann Heinrich Wilhelm . In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 417.

Web links

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

• Reinhard Glaß: Lüer, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reinhard Glaß: Lüer, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) [no date]; accessed on August 17, 2017
2. ^ Program of the Royal Polytechnic School in Hanover. P. 4. limited preview in Google Book search
3. ↑ Sabine Behrens: North German Church Buildings of Historicism. Ludwig, Kiel 2006, ISBN 978-3-933598-97-4 , p. 45.
4. ↑ St. Johannis Bemerode. (No longer available online.) In: johannis.trilos.de. Archived from the original on December 19, 2013 ; accessed on January 1, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Harro Strehlow: Exoticism on the splendid boulevard. The Berlin Aquarium on Unter den Linden at the corner of Schadowstrasse . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 5, 1998, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 4–12 ( luise-berlin.de ).
6. ↑ Aquaristics over 130 years ago. Association of Cologne Aquarium and Terrarium Friends founded in 1946 e. V., November 10, 2007, accessed January 1, 2015 . 
7. ^ Reinhard Glaß: Conrad Wilhelm Hase. In: glass-portal.privat.t-online.de. Retrieved January 1, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Lüerstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 165.