Philipp Hoffmann (23 November 1806 – 3 January 1889) was a German architect and builder, principally known for his work in the Nassau capital in

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Life

Hoffmann was born in

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. In 1830 he was a building assessor in the Nassau Civil Service. As a young architect, his first design for the Neo-Gothic expansion of the Rheingauer Dom in his birthplace of Geisenheim (1834-1838), followed by involvement in the design of the Stadtschloss in Wiesbaden (1837-1841) - he was sent to

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for six months by his architect

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, where he drew Roman paintings later used as the basis for the Stadtschloss's interior. These projects gained the attention of

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, who promoted him to court architect of Nassau in 1850. In that role he designed several buildings in Wiesbaden, including St. Bonifatius (1844-1849), the

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on the Neroberg (1847-1855), the

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(1863-1869, also on the Neroberg) and the Ministerialgebäude which house the Hessian Ministry of Justice (1854). These were followed by the Old Synagogue at Michelsberg (1863-1869), the Waterloo Monument on the Luisenplatz (1865) and the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Heilanstalt (1868-1871, now connected to the Stadtschloss). Outside Wiesbaden, he also designed two buildings in Bad Schwalbach – the Anglican Church for English visitors (1874) and the baths (1879). Hoffmann died, aged 82, in San Remo.

Gallery

File:Wiesbaden Luftbild Luisenplatz St. Bonifatius-Kirche Foto 2008 Wolfgang Pehlemann Wiesbaden IMG 0172.jpg, Aerial view of St. Bonifatius Church on the Luisenplatz in Wiesbaden File:Wiesbaden Landtag Hessen im Stadtschloß Wiesbaden am Schloßplatz - Foto Wolfgang Pehlemann Wiesbaden DSCN1417.jpg, The Stadtschloss in Wiesbaden (now used to house the Hessischen Landtag) File:WI Denkmal mit dem springenden Pferd.jpg, The Waterloo Obelisk in the Luisenplatz in Wiesbaden, with the St. Bonifatius Church in the background File:Gezicht op de synagoge in Wiesbaden Wiesbaden - Synagoge (titel op object) Die Rheinlande (serietitel op object), RP-F-00-780 (cropped).jpg, Wiesbaden's Old Synagogue (1863–1869), destroyed 1938 in the

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File:Wiesbaden Stadtschloss Wilhelmbau.jpg, The Wilhelmbau (Wilhelm's Building) of the Wiesbaden Stadtschloss, built 1868-1871, which is now part of the Hesse state parliament complex.

Sources

* * Manfred Laufs (ed.): Philipp Hoffmann (1806–1889). rbeitshefte des Landesamtes für Denkmalpflege Hessen, Band 12.Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoffmann, Philipp 1806 births 1889 deaths 19th-century German architects