Arwed Roßbach

Max Arwed Rossbach (often: Rossbach, * November 24, 1844 in Plauen, † December 31, 1902 in Leipzig ) was a German architect. He lived and worked in Leipzig, his main effect time fell in the period of historicism.

Life and buildings

Rossbach studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden, where he was inspired by the monumental buildings Gottfried Semper. Following a brief period in Berlin he settled down in 1871 in Leipzig. In the fair city that he made most of his buildings. For the University of Leipzig he established the new university library Bibliotheca Albertina in Beethoven Street ( 1888-1891 ). In addition, he was responsible at the Augustus Platz (1891-1897) for transformation of the main building Augusteum. The latter was a profound restructuring of the bodies set up by Albert Geutebrück and Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the neoclassical style of the Italian Renaissance Revival building ( damaged during the Second World War, busted 1968).

The destroyed in World War II clubhouse society harmony on Roßplatz 5b he designed 1887. For the adjacent late-Gothic university church at the same time he created a new neo-Gothic façade (1968 Burst). In addition, he built the new building for the University for the so-called Red Knights Street in College ( 1891-1892 ). His major works include also the 1898-1901 resulting building the Leipzig bench near the New Town Hall ( after her bankruptcy acquired by Deutsche Bank) and the impressive Neo-Romanesque Tabor Church in Leipzig Kleinzschocher, which was completed in 1904 posthumously. As the corner building Beethoven Street / Grassistraße on the adjacent picture - - A full range of multi-family dwellings have in Leipzig and get some villas, such as the residence of Friedrich- Ebert-Straße 77

Among his foreign buildings, the Municipal Theater in his hometown of Plauen (1889-1899), the New Royal district court in Dresden (1890-1892) and the people of Jena (1898-1902) should be emphasized.

Rossbach 1891 were awarded an honorary doctorate by King Albert the title of Royal Saxon building advice and in 1897 by the University of Leipzig. For years he was the Leipzig city councilor and bore the title of Leipzig City Council since 1891. Arwed Rossbach was engaged and socially. He founded the association Ostheim who built houses for workers in the district of Leipzig Sellerhausen. To commemorate the architect, a street was named after him. There is also a Ostheim road. Since July 2007, also means a vocational education center " Arwed Ross Brook School ", which forms a variety of building trades and combines a professional gymnasium ( civil engineering and information and communication sciences) and a technical school (technology).