August Orth

August Orth ( born July 25, 1828 in wind bei Osterode am Harz, † May 11, 1901 in Berlin; Complete name: August Friedrich Wilhelm Orth ) was a German architect.

Life

August Orth was the son of an estate manager, first good wind Hausen, later Good Lengefeld Korbach in the Principality of Waldeck, where the family moved in 1834. In Korbach he attended high school and began after graduating from high school in spring 1848, studied architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig parallel to visit the academy of painting in Braunschweig. In 1850 he moved to the Berlin Academy of Architecture. His teacher at the School of Architecture reflect the various currents of post- Schinkel era resist - Friedrich August Stiller, Johann Heinrich Strack and particularly the architectural theorist Karl Boetticher are more suitable for the strict classicism, William Bull for the development of a new architecture. In 1854 he passed the Bauführerprüfung. The uncertain political and economic situation prevented for the time being the career August Orth. Instead, he followed in the next three years its picturesque vein and studied 1853/1854 at the Berlin Academy and then at the Art Academy in Munich.

By participating in competitions, he tried to establish himself as an architect. With a design for a prince's palace, he took part in the competition in 1855 and won the Academy in 1856 by the architect Schinkel price club in Berlin, which he was a member since 1852, with his design for a Romanesque church at Humboldt harbor. However, the realization of the design failed because of the funding. After study trips to southern Germany until January 1858 put with stops in Heidelberg, Marburg and Nuremberg and first professional experience in Bergisch- Märkischen Railway Company in Elberfeld beginning of 1856 August Orth from 1858 the architect exam at the Berlin Academy of Architecture. Further study trips followed 1859/1860 to southern France, Italy and Sicily. With its short-term employment at the Bergisch- Märkischen Railway Company 1861/1862 and in the Lower Silesian - Märkischen Railway Company as head of the technical office in 1863, he remained faithful to the railway sector. He then went as a private architect himself constantly, sometimes in partnership with Edmund garlic, a son of Eduard Knoblauch. As a home architect of the railway king Bethel Henry Strousberg he built next to his palace on the Wilhelmstrasse 70 (1867-1868) and whose country seat lock Zbirow in Bohemia (1869-1871), the cattle and the slaughter house facilities of the Berlin cattle market at Wells Street in behalf of by Strousberg controlled livestock market limited partnership ( 1868-1874 ). From 1865 he was also involved in research on room acoustics and used the results in its churches.

1871 and 1873 he wrote two memoranda to the project of a Berlin Central Railway, a four-track, mostly conducted as a circular railway viaduct of three kilometers in diameter in a north-south direction and four kilometers in east-west direction. With this first light rail project, a second, smaller circle line, he is one of the spiritual fathers of the Berlin Stadtbahn. His project was considered going out and not feasible as about the conditions.

In the years 1872-1877 he was a member of the board of the architects association in Berlin. On 8 June 1879, he participated in the founding of the association, however, the Berlin architect, a spin-off of private architects from the Architects Association. In the new club he again took responsibility as a longtime board member as well as 1879/1880 and 1880 as a regular deputy chairman.

In July 1877 August Orth was appointed to the inspector, in 1893 to secretly building officer and finally in 1896 to the Privy Oberbaurat. The Berlin Academy took him in 1873 as a member of the Vienna Academy in 1893. According to a study trip through England, France, Italy and Switzerland, he lived in his last years in the house Anhalterstraße 13

August Orth died on May 11, 1901 Lazarus Hospital in Berlin. With his sister Marie (1830-1910), a portrait and genre painter, and his brother, Albert (1835-1915), agronomist and founder of the agricultural Bodenkartografie, it lies in a common grave in the Trinity Cemetery II in the Bergmann Strasse in Berlin -Kreuzberg buried.

Honors

On January 3, 1884, he was awarded the Red Eagle Order 4th class.
Pyrmont 1879 awarded him an honorary citizen, Korbach, where he had attended school,

In 1893.

Work

A good overview of the work by August Orth enter the 674 original illustrations in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin (see at links).

Unexecuted designs

Religious buildings

Secular buildings and Miscellaneous

Writings

Berlin Central Railway. Railway project linking the Berlin railway station upon the inner city. Berlin, 1871.
Memorandum on the reorganization of the city of Berlin. Berlin, 1871.
New cattle market and slaughterhouse plant in Berlin. Ernst & Korn, Berlin, 1872.
The Zion Church in Berlin. Ernst & Korn, Berlin, 1874.
For the structural reorganization of the city of Berlin. Two memoranda and held at the Schinkel Festivals 1875 speech. Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1875.
Design a development plan for Strasbourg. Edited by August Orth. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1878.
The future of Charlottenburg in relation to the new routes and for incorporation in Berlin. In Berlin in 1881.
The Dankeskirche in Berlin. Ernst & Korn, Berlin, 1890.
Investments to achieve good acoustics. In: Josef Durm (eds. ): Handbook of Architecture, Part 3: The Building - constructions, Volume 6 Bergsträsser, Darmstadt 1891.

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