Conrad Wilhelm Hase

Conrad Wilhelm Hase ( born October 2, 1818 in Einbeck, † March 28, 1902 in Hannover ) was a German architect and professor.

Professional life

He was royal building officer, from 1863 Konsistorialbaumeister for the Hanover Church, 1849 teachers and from 1878 professor of architecture at the Polytechnic Institute in Hannover and founder of the Hanover School of Architecture, Member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, honorary Member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and an honorary citizen of the city of Einbeck and Hildesheim. His commitment to the preservation and maintenance of historic buildings made ​​him a pioneer of monuments in northern Germany and beyond.

Life

Hare spent his childhood and youth as the tenth child of a tax collector in Einbeck, before he began in late 1834 with the study of architecture and architecture in Hannover. After completing his studies in architecture, he initially found no job and returned in the spring of 1838 in his native city of Einbeck, where he helped his father with tax matters. On the advice of his teacher Ernst architecture Ebeling (1804-1851) completed a two-year hare bricklayer, which he successfully completed in the spring of 1840 with the final apprenticeship exam. Instructors had been the architect Christoph August Gersting. On a semi-annual pilgrimage of Hannover Kassel, Marburg, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Worms, Speyer, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg to Munich hare could study various architectural styles. Here, his penchant for consolidating the medieval architecture. A grant from the city of Einbeck enabled hare the end of 1840 to study at the Munich Academy of Art.

In the spring of 1842 Hare returned to Hanover and initially found work as a bricklayer and foreman at his former teacher. In February 1843 Hase participated in the activities of a foreman in the civil service of the Royal Hanoverian railway department, where he designed the construction of railway stations in Celle, Taught and Wunstorf and managed. In June 1848, hare turned to the sacred building with the restoration of the monastery church in Loccum.

In December 1849 Hare took over representation at the Polytechnic of Hanover. Two years later he was officially appointed as a teacher of architecture and was a founder of Architects and Engineers Association in Hanover, who made ​​a significant contribution by the which he edited publications to disseminate the ideas of the Hanover School of Architecture. Various private commissions and the successful participation in the first free architectural competition in Hannover consolidated Hase's reputation as an architect.

Hase's architectural style was influenced by the medieval Brick Gothic architecture, the construction of the building and used - preferably local - Building should remain visible to the observer ( " Shine is a lie "). Hare planned more than 300 buildings in the style of the so-called Gothic Revival, including more than 100 religious buildings. In addition, over 150 restoration projects and numerous publications on the construction history of historic buildings.

His brick Gothic, sometimes something disrespectfully referred to as " Hasik " ​​, influenced the city of Hanover and his students (Karl Börgemann, Franz Ewerbeck, Friedrich Fahro, Christoph Hehl, Karl Henrici, Rudolph Eberhard Hillebrand, Georg cone, Gerhard Franz Langenberg, William luer, Karl Mohrmann, Edwin Oppler, Johannes Otzen, Max Pommer, Paul Rowald, Eduard Wendebourg, John Francis Klomp and many others) numerous other places, not only in northern Germany. Many public and private buildings, commercial buildings, churches and monuments have been preserved to this day. His own house but, the so-called "Rabbit Castle ", was destroyed in World War II. His grave is located at the city cemetery Engesohde in Hanover. Hare was an honorary citizen of Hildesheim, where a street is named after him. On a brick building in the street you will find his portrait portrait.

Work (selection)

  • Mausoleum for Count Carl von Alten in Hemmingen - Westerfeld (1842 )
  • Railway stations in Celle, Taught, Wunstorf (1847-1848), Nordstemmen (1853-1860), Oldenburg (1879 ) and Göttingen and Salzderhelden
  • Monastery church in Loccum ( restored 1848-1854 )
  • Artist House of Hanover (1853-1856) and Old Town Hall ( restored 1877 to 1882, extended from 1890 to 1891 ) in Hannover
  • Church of St. Mark in Wettmar (1854-1855), Sacred architecture in Rundbogenstil then turn to the Gothic Revival
  • St. John the Baptist Church ( Hilter ) ( 1857-1859 )
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Jakobi in Elbingerode (Harz ) (1863 inaugurated )
  • Marienburg Castle (1857-1864) at Nordstemmen (1864-1867 completed by his student Edwin Oppler )
  • Christ Church (1859-1864), Church of the Apostles (1880-1884) and Zion Church / Redeemer Church (1878-1880) in Hannover
  • Dorothee Church in Nortrup - Loxten (1859/1860)
  • Restoration of the Church of St. Michael (1855-1857) and St. Godehard (1857-1863) as well as school - new building for the Andreanum (1869 ) in Hildesheim
  • Interior design of St. Nicholas Church in Göttingen ( 1861)
  • Residential and commercial building on the main street in Wennigsen (1862 )
  • Restoration of the Church of St. Nikolai in Lüneburg (1865-1871)
  • Restoration of the Cathedral Church of St. Boniface in Hameln (1870-1875)
  • Restoration of the Frankenberger Church in Goslar (1873-1880)
  • Reconstruction of the church of St. Salvatoris in Clausthal- Zellerfeld (1863-1864)
  • School building (1864 ) in Bordenau
  • Schools in Bad Munder and Bakede
  • Church in Immensen
  • Church in Markoldendorf
  • St. Dionysius Church in Nettelrede
  • Church of St. George (1867 ) in Eitzendorf ( Hilgermissen ) model at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago
  • Restoration of the Romanesque Sigwardskirche (1889-1890) and neo-gothic building next to Idensen (part of Wunstorf )
  • Comprehensive redesign of the St. John's Church Lüchow ( 1866)
  • Catholic church to the holy angels in Peine (1867 )
  • Elizabeth's Church (1867-1869) in Langenhagen
  • Church St Nicolai (1869-1871) in Hagen Burg- old Hagen
  • Manor House ( 1869) and Gutskirche ( 1875-1878 ) in Vollenschier
  • Castle Oldershausen ( Kalefeld ), the family seat of Oldershausen
  • Church of Our Lady (1870-1872) in Kalefeld
  • Restoration of the Church of St. Magnus in Beber (1871-1872)
  • School Construction of Domgymnasium (1872 ) in Verden (Aller)
  • Christ Church Bremerhaven - Geestemünde (1872-1875)
  • Conversion of St. Mary's Church (1872-1875) in Bremerhaven - Geestemünde
  • Matthew Church ( Taught ) (1874/1876)
  • St. Jakobi Church in Wietzendorf (1874-1876)
  • Mausoleum in the castle park Etelsen (1873 )
  • Protestant Gustav Adolf Church in Gieboldehausen (1877 )
  • Planning identical churches in Lauenau (St. Luke's Church ) ( 1877-1878 ) and Georg Marienhütte ( Luther Church ) ( 1877-1878 )
  • Renovation and complete interior redesign of the Collegiate Church of St. Maurice and St. Victor in Bassum (1865-1870)
  • Holle'sches house in Wunstorf (1880-1881), reconstructed from the remains of walls
  • Church of St. Barbara (1882 ) in Seelze - Haren mountain
  • St. Anthony's Church (1882-1884) in Fintel
  • Apostle Church in Hanover (1880-1884)
  • New Church (1887-1888) in Wunstorf district Idensen
  • St. Martin's Church (1884-1887) in Bernburg (Saale )
  • Church of the Holy Cross (1857-1859) Taught in Arpke
  • Tower of the Church of Horst in Garbsen (1866/1867)
  • Expansion of St John the Baptist church in Mellinghausen (1893 )
  • Protestant chapel in Norten -Hardenberg in the district Bishausen (1883 )
  • Cross Church in Katlenburg- Lindau in Lindau district
  • Chapel in Seelze, district Dedensen (1897 )

Honors

In the centenary year of his death an exhibition on the life and work of Wilhelm Conrad Hase was shown at Christ Church. Due to the positive feedback of this event and in view of the upcoming 150 - year celebration of the church square in Conrad Wilhelm Hase- square was renamed in 2007. There are also plans to renovate the threatened demolition of the station building in Nordstemmen and to design a memorial museum for the builder Conrad Wilhelm Hase.

Quotes

With respect to Conrad Wilhelm Hase:

  • " Will you hare characterize in a few words, then you have to say: He was in the work of man, in the pleasure of a young man and in the mind a child. " - Karl Mohrmann, obituary for Conrad Wilhelm Hase, 1902.

With regard to their own teaching:

  • " Shine is a lie. "
  • " We want to create genuine and beautiful. "
  • "We want truth practice the art. "
  • " The art is without lies and deceit. "

Personal home saying:

  • " Everyone builds after his nose, My name is Conrad Wilhelm Hase. Who wants to build off'ner streets, envious and fools must be blame. If you want to blame this house here, which was standing still just a little, and say without flattery, whether the his is probably better. And if you do not like my house, it does not cost my your money. "

Personal grave inscription:

  • " A man's work rests in God's hands " - grave at the city cemetery Engesohde

Traveled over the Schaumburg area, the rabbit 1855:

  • "The whole little country resembles a magnificent garden, and the friendly " Good morning! " a crowd of church-goers in full old-fashioned Sunday plasters puts us in the land of our childlike dream world. "

Student

  • Johann Mathias von Holst (1839-1905)
  • Joachim Herrmann Evers (1838-1905)
  • Julius Rasch (1830-1887)
  • Edwin Oppler (1831-1880)
  • Alexander Behne (1843-1924)
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