Franz Schwechten

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Franz Schwechten was a prominent German architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for monumental historicist buildings such as Berlin’s Anhalter Bahnhof and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.

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Franz Heinrich Schwechten 1
Franz Schwechten canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf architect
human
architecturalStyle Neo-Renaissance architecture NERFINISHED
Neo-Romanesque architecture NERFINISHED
Romanesque Revival architecture NERFINISHED
monumental historicism
awardReceived Order of the Crown (Prussia) NERFINISHED
Order of the Red Eagle NERFINISHED
countryOfBirth Kingdom of Prussia NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship German Empire NERFINISHED
Germany
countryOfDeath Germany
educatedAt Bauakademie, Berlin NERFINISHED
Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe NERFINISHED
employer Prussian state railways NERFINISHED
Royal Prussian Ministry of Public Works NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup German
familyName Schwechten NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork architecture
givenName Franz NERFINISHED
movement Wilhelmine architecture NERFINISHED
historicism
name Franz Schwechten NERFINISHED
notableFor design of Protestant churches in historicist style
design of monumental railway stations
influence on Wilhelmine-era Berlin cityscape
notableWork Anhalter Bahnhof NERFINISHED
Cologne Central Station building (original station structures) NERFINISHED
Grunewald Tower NERFINISHED
Hohenzollern Bridge (architectural design elements) NERFINISHED
Imperial Castle in Poznań NERFINISHED
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church NERFINISHED
Potsdamer Bahnhof reconstruction projects NERFINISHED
administrative buildings for the Prussian state railways
occupation architect
placeOfBirth Cologne NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Berlin
positionHeld member of the Prussian Academy of Arts
professor at the Technical University of Berlin
sexOrGender male
studentOf Johann Heinrich Strack NERFINISHED
Karl Bötticher NERFINISHED
workLocation Berlin NERFINISHED
Cologne NERFINISHED

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Imperial Castle in Poznań architect Franz Schwechten
Alte Oper hasArchitect Franz Schwechten
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