Ernst Friedrich Zwirner

Ernst Friedrich Zwirner ( born February 28, 1802 in Jacob Walde, County Cosel ( Upper Silesia ), † September 22, 1861 in Cologne ) was a German architect and architect of the Cathedral of Cologne.

Life

Zwirner attended the building school at Breslau until 1821, then to 1828 the Royal Academy of Architecture and the University of Berlin. Soon after, the student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel joined as a laborer in the royal Oberbaudeputation. In 1830, when Schinkel took over as head of the Oberbaudeputation, Zwirner was the state architect exam. With this formal qualification he was hired by Schinkel in the Oberbaudeputation. In the years 1829-1831 Zwirner built in Kolberg after Schinkel design the City Hall and in its plan, the 1834 completed Reformed Church.

On August 14, 1833, he took over - after the death of his predecessor Adolf Friedrich Ahlert - as Dombaumeister the management of the construction work at the Cologne Cathedral. At this position, the government works department in Berlin had provided him. As a Protestant, he initially had fears to encounter local concerns. Through his leadership of the Cathedral building quickly took a new lease. Its particular merit is the organization of the Fabric of the cathedral, emerged from the many capable, with the principles of Gothic thoroughly familiar younger builders. In 1841, after the completion of the restoration work, put Zwirner King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, the plans for the completion of the cathedral before that accepted this. In 1842, he was the founding of the Central Cathedral Association in Cologne a born member of the board of the association. The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913 Zwirner called " one of the finest connoisseurs of medieval style"; yet they complained that " monotony of the draft " is visible in his work on the cathedral.

1853 Zwirner was appointed to the Privy government and building officer. After his death on 22 September 1861, the Domblatt, the club magazine of Dombauverein appeared, with a black border of the title page, an honor that had Zwirner except so far received only the previously died in the same year, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.

Until his death Zwirner was Dombaumeister. He was buried on the Melaten Cemetery ( Location: HWG between ref and ref K L). This Gothic structure was completed according to his plans by his former deputy and successor, Charles Edward Richard Voigtel. Initially, the classical style feeling still standing near, he showed himself in his own buildings then as representative of a neo-gothic historicism.

Work

Posthumously, the drafts have been performed: