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Eberhard Westhofen (1820 1892) was a German architect and building official. He worked as a country architect in Cologne until 1847 and then as 'city architect' in Düsseldorf.




Life


In November 1850 he married Johanna, a née von Thenen and moved into a flat on Bolkerstraße. In 1854 he moved to Wasserstraße in Schwanenspiegel. In 1888 Westhofen retired and received the Order of the Red Eagle IV. Class. Last residence at Grabbeplatz 2, Eberhard Westhofen died in 1892.




Realisations



Höhere Bürgerschule (Oberrealschule) at Fürstenwall 100, 1888.
Neues Rathaus, Düsseldorf, 1884
Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf at Burgplatz, 1883
Chapel in the Nordfriedhof, 1883
New gate at Schlossturm Düsseldorf, 1883
Leichenhaus, Golzheimer Friedhof, 1875 (destroyed during the Second World War)
Municipal slaughterhouse in Golzheimer Insel, 1874
Städtisches Lagerhaus, Reuterkaserne 1, 1866.
Alte Tonhalle Düsseldorf, 1863
Departemental-Irrenanstalt zu Düsseldorf, from 1879




References






Further reading


Westhofen, Eberhard (1980). Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres (ed.). Kurzbiographien der Architekten und Baumeister. Vol. Band 2. Architektur: II, Profane Bauten und Städtebau. Düsseldorf: Schwann. p. 554. ISBN 3-590-30252-6. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
Willy Weyres, Albrecht Mann: Handbuch zur Rheinischen Baukunst des 19. Jahrhunderts 1800–1880. Cologne 1968, pp. 109 f.
Eberhard Spohr: Die Befestigungsanlagen von Düsseldorf. Dissertation, RWTH Aachen, p. 313.

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