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Jan 18, 1844 Kassel, Hesse, Germany Died on 05 May 1908 (aged 64)
German architect
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About Carl Schäfer
- Carl Wilhelm Ernst Schäfer (born 18 January 1844 in Kassel - 5 May 1908 in Carlsfeld, district of Brehna in the former district of Bitterfeld) was a German architect and university professor.Schäfer became the most important representative of the late Gothic Revival in Germany.
- He created several churches: Modification of the Catholic Propsteikirche St.
- Gertrude of Brabant in Wattenscheid (1869-1872), Catholic parish church of St.
- Nikolai in Lippstadt (1873-1875), Protestant church in Bralitz (1889-1890), Catholic parish church of St.
- John Baptist in Birkung (1885-1893), Old Catholic Church in Karlsruhe (1895-1897).As a monument conservator, he led the reconstruction of the Friedrichsbaues of Heidelberg Castle (1890-1900), the Romanesque monastery church of St.
- Gangolf in Münchenlohra in Nordhausen (1882-1885) and the Church of Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune in Strasbourg (1897-1901).
- He added the pair of 81 metre spires to the Meissen Cathedral in a highly convincing neo-Gothic style from 1903 to 1908.
- This now forms a critical part of the Meissen World Heritage Site. In 1871, he had built a fountain on the property of his lawyer Carl Grimm in Marburg.
