Skjold Neckelmann

Courthouse Palais de Justice (left) and church Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune catholique (right), two of Neckelmann's most conspicuous buildings

Skjold Neckelmann (born 24.11.1854, Hamburg, died 13.5.1903, Neckargemünd) was a Danish architect, best known for designing four Strasbourg buildings that are landmarks of the Neustadt district - the National University Library, the National Theatre, the Palais de Justice and the Catholic Church of Saint Peter the Younger.

During his most productive years, Neckelmann worked as an associate with the German architect August Hartel, who was ten years his elder. They designed many buildings together, including, in Strasbourg:

• 1888–1892: National Theatre (built to house the legislative assembly of the German Imperial territory of Alsace-Lorraine, of which Strasbourg was the capital from 1871 to 1918)
• 1889–1893: Catholic Church of Saint Peter the Younger
• 1889–1895: the National University Library

When Hartel died in Strasbourg in 1890, Neckelmann was obliged to see through alone all the projects which they had conceived together. He went on to design the Strasbourg Palais de Justice (1894 - 1898) alone, but it was his last major project. In 1901 he ceased all professional activity for health reasons. ^[1]

Neckelmann spent many years in Stuttgart. For many years he ran an architect's cabinet in Stuttgart (where the architect Johann Emil Schaudt once worked). He also taught architecture in Stuttgart. One of his pupils was Georg Stähelin.

He is the author of a number of books in German, mostly on architecture, but also a book on Danish philosophers of the Renaissance (Denkmäler der Renaissance in Dänemark).

Neckelmann and Hartel also designed the Christ Church, Cologne, and the Haus des Wirtschaft (1889-1896) in Stuttgart, which is now a museum.

External links

• 223 Projects by Neckelmann

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