Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves
Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves ( born December 17, 1788 in Uslar, † April 30, 1864 in Hannover ) was a German architect, urban planner and architect, who lived and worked in Hannover. As a leading architect of the Kingdom of Hanover, he had a substantial impact urban development Hanover.
- 2.1 Architecture ( major works )
- 2.2 Sculptural Works (selection)
Life and work
Laves was the youngest son of the Protestant minister Ernst Friedrich Laves and his wife Ernestine Amalie in Uslar am Solling. His uncle was the master builder Johann Friedrich Laves. After the death of his father, he studied 1804-07 at the Art Academy Kassel, who led his uncle Heinrich Christoph Jussow. He lived with his uncle and studied 1807-09 at the University of Göttingen. 1809-14 he was Baueleve at the Royal Building Administration in Kassel. 1814/15 he led study trip to France and Italy and also from 1816 to 1851 frequent trips to England.
Since 1817 employed as a " city planner " in Hannover, located Laves Built Between 1819-1822 his first own house; the property to, located right on the Ihme Bridge in Linden and in that time " the most beautiful village " in the Kingdom of Hanover, he had bought from the manufacturer Georg Egestorff for comparably priced 600 dollars on 3 October 1819. However Laves lived in the building just to the turn of the year 1823/24, sold it to Egestorff, which then leased it to the Minister of Ompteda.
1822 married Laves originating from a wealthy family Wilhelmine Kestner, granddaughter of Johann Christian Kestner and Charlotte Buff. In the same year he left his residence on Friedrichswall 5, Laveshaus build. It was built on a plot of his father, which got the daughter as a dowry. He lived with his family the 3rd floor up to its end of life and let the lower two floors. The marriage produced three sons and one daughter were born. George was a history painter, and remained in Hanover, especially since his father in 1852 only a studio and - for the newlyweds - shortly after a family home, built ( Friedrichswall 5a). Carl fell in 1866 in the Battle of Long Salza. Ernst died as a twenty year old law student, Ernestine at the age of just fourteen.
Since 1814 Laves worked as court architect in Hanover. Following his appointment in 1816 to the court architect, court architect to 1821, 1838 to Baurat Oberhof, Oberhof 1852 Planning Director, he was soon the leading architect in the Kingdom of Hanover. The activity lasted for nearly 50 years. In addition to Karl Friedrich Schinkel ( Berlin) and Leo von Klenze (Munich ), he was a leading exponent of neoclassicism. He proposed in 1822 to the founding of the Royal Construction Committee. At the urban planning for Hanover, he was instrumental since 1816.
As a civil engineer, he designed the use of cast iron structures. He developed a " lens" - or fish belly carrier, the " Laves - bar " for constructing long span, freiaufliegender structures ". This invention he had patented. She was born out of necessity, that he, the City Council, the filling up of the moat is not approved, he then stützenlos bridged with its construction. Laves took twice unsuccessfully participated in architectural competitions. He made designs for the exhibition Palace of the Great Exhibition ( Great Exhibition ) in London in 1851 and for the Foreign and War Office in London in 1856. Middle of the 19th century Laves lost its influence in the design of Hanover. As the successor to certain King George V. Conrad Wilhelm Hase and Christian Heinrich Tramm.
Laves was a member of Hanover Masonic Lodge.
Merits in Hanover
Laves came after his mission to give as a town planner Hannover the splendor of a royal residence. His buildings and plans prepared prior to the step of the medieval residence of the modern city. Due to its urban expansion plans, the building area doubled during his tenure.
Laves created, included in the road system conceived by him Ernst -August- city and with the permission of his king, in ( today's ) city center the great urban spaces Ernst- August-Platz, opera and Georg place as " classical space series of European rank ."
Laves's largest city construction services in Hanover were:
- Axis planning by baroque model (based on the line lock and continuing in Waterloo Place, " Lavesachse " )
- Since 1830 northeastern city expansion Hanover
- 1845 Ernst- August-Platz (name since 1861 ) as " designed reception room outdoors ' in the form of a regular pentagon with five wide streets radiating from designs by GLF Laves and A. Andreae "
- Since 1843 Ernst -August- town ( King Street, George Square)
- In 1828 and in 1850 conception of Goethe and Humboldt Street ( although one could be realized due to difficult land mixture and after filling in the last moats only from 1870)
- In 1851 as chairman of the building committee and the "Ways Commission " for ( today's neighborhoods) Linden -South and in particular Linden-Nord, the "Coordination of Private Road objects and linking them to public roads ", mainly engaged in the almost geometric street pattern in Linden-Nord is expressed ( an absolutist orientation of the streets to the Main Building and the George Palais but did not come off ).
Commemoration
Laves's grave is located at the city cemetery Engesohde in Hannover ( the portrait medallion made the son of George Laves ). According to him, two streets in Hanover are named: The Lavesallee that far from his former residence at the conceived by him Waterloosäule ( at her feet Laves had had to create the parade ground Waterloo Square ) passes by, and the Lavesstraße. The Lavesstraße connects (via Joachimstraße ) Hanover Main Station in the east to the City Ring (Berliner Allee). At the Lavesstraße a small town square was designed in height hot Büchenberg road in September 2007, named as " Lavesplatz ". In his native city Uslar a street is named after him. In Heinde a street in the development area " Lavesring " was given the proximity of good Walshausen, the architecturally bears the signature of Laves named.
Works
Architecture ( major works )
- After 1815, reconstruction of the line buckle in Hannover ( Leinstraßenflügel with guard and portico, winter garden leash page; Interior: Castle Church, throne room, some with Justus Heinrich Jakob Molthan )
- 1816 conversion Monbrillant Castle, Hanover, Welfengarten; 1857 built in Georgsmarienhütte again, there demolished in 1925
- 1817 Garden House of maid of Beckedorf, George Garden ( Hanover ) ( street fighter ) ( converted to Limmer wells)
- 1817 Palace of General Carl ( later called Friederike castle ) of the elderly, Hannover, Friederike Place (1963 demolished for the construction of the State Chancellery, which was never realized)
- 1817-20 Garden 's house (later library Pavilion) in the mountain garden, Herrenhausen
- From 1827 summer palace Rotenkirchen in Einbeck
- From 1820/21 Neo-classical facade of the Castle Lord Hausen ( destroyed in 1943, reconstructed in 2013 ), transformation of the Orangerie in the big garden, Herrenhausen
- Since 1822 the newly created apartment buildings in George Street, Hanover (not included )
- 1822-24 Private residence ( Laveshaus ) in Hannover ( Friedrichswall ) (now the Chamber of Architects )
- From 1822 Freiherr Knigge buildings for the Brede Beck ( courtyard )
- 1824 Garden House Bella Vista, Hannover ( Ohemasch ) (not included )
- 1825/26 Mountain Inn Linden (not included )
- 1826 Two gatehouses ( Kavalierhäuser ) of Wangenheim 's garden, Hanover George Garden ( Hunter Street )
- 1826/27 Conversion of Aegidienkirche, Hannover (interior not preserved)
- 1826-32 Waterloo Square in Hannover with the Waterloosäule
- 1827 home of the receding of Arnswaldt, Hanover, Shepherd dam (before Aegidientor ) (not included )
- From 1827 buildings for Ernst Graf zu Münster in Derneburg ( reconstruction of the castle, Teetempelchen, greenhouse, bridges, carriage house )
- 1828 Hotel "Stadt Hamburg " in Uelzen (only facade preserved)
- After 1828 Kestner cal Garden House, Hanover " Bult " ( Lavesstraße ) (not included )
- 1829 Manor House for the Countess Schwiecheldt in Walshausen ( near Hildesheim )
- 1829-32 palace for Count Georg von Wangenheim ( Wangenheimpalais ), Hanover ( Friedrichswall ) (now Lower Saxony Ministry of Economy)
- 1830 Villa Rosa in Hanover
- 1832 Loccumer yard, farmyard in Hanover from Loccum monastery
- In 1837 bridges in Hanover; received: August Bridge ( 1840) and iron bridge plate (1837 ) in George Garden, Friederike bridge over the graft at the Great Garden (1839 ), the Lavesbrücke in Welfengarten (1844 )
- Indoor riding arena at the State Stud Celle
- 1838 House " worry free " for the widow of Count von dem Bussche in Bad Essen
- 1838-42 Hunting Lodge Springe in the Saupark
- 1839 Stables and Kavaliershaus the hunting lodge Goehrde in Lüneburg (now Heimvolkshochschule )
- 1839-40 alterations in Celle Castle
- 1840 right of way and candelabra in front of the George Palace ( today Wilhelm -Busch- Museum )
- 1842 Mausoleum (drafts ) for Count Carl von Alten in Wilkenburg ( Sundern ), detailing the first building of Conrad Wilhelm Hase, now a ruin
- 1842-47: Welfenmausoleum in the mountain garden Herrenhausen
- 1843 pillared hall in Staatsbad Rehburg
- 1843 reorganization of the Church in Uslar
- 1844 Widdergut Four Oaks
- 1845-52 the Court Theatre (later the Opera House ) in Hannover
- 1846-49 Palm House in the mountain garden Herrenhausen (not included )
- 1854 Bridge on Good Lenthe, near Hanover
- 1855 grave pyramid for the family of Klencke in Hämelschenburg in Hameln
- 1859 Freese house in Loppersum