Max Arwed Roßbach (also spelled Rossbach, 24 November 1844 in

Plauen Plauen (; Czech language, Czech: ''Plavno'') is, with around 65,000 inhabitants, the fifth-largest city of Saxony, Germany after Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Zwickau, the second-largest city of the Vogtland after Gera, as well as the larges ...

– 31 December 1902 in

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) was a German historicist architect in the late 19th century.

Buildings

In Leipzig, he built a Gothic Revival styled facade for the Paulinerkirche in 1897. He designed a new building for the

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, the so-called ''Rotes Kolleg'' in 1891/1892. In 1898/1901, he built the new building for the

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and later the Romanesque Revival styled Taborkirche, which was completed posthumously in 1904. Roßbach built the municipal theater in his birthplace

(1889/1899), the court building for the ''Amtsgericht'' in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

(1888/1892), and the ''Volkslesehalle'' (public library) in

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(1898/1902).

Literature

* Robert Bruck: ''Arwed Roßbach und seine Bauten.'' Berlin 1904.

External links

Photographs of the ''Roßbach-Haus''
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