Georg Christian Carl Boos, also Karl Boos, (8 September 1806, in Weilburg – 18 July 1883, in

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) was a German architect and court architect.

Biography

Boos was born in 1806 the son of Johann Andreas Boos in Weilburg. He attended the Phillipinum, the Gymnasium of his hometown. Then he studied in

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with the court architect of Baden,

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. From 1825 he studied in

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, in statics, mechanics, chemistry, mineralogy and geology. In 1829 he joined the faculty of the

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. In 1835 he moved to Wiesbaden, where he lived until his death. He worked for the State of Nassau. In 1838 he presented a draft for the Ministerialgebäude in the Luisenstraße. This Nassau government building was designed in

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style and houses the Hessian Ministry of Justice now. In 1842 he was appointed Baurat by Duke Adolph. From 1850 to 1857 he headed the neo-Gothic reconstruction of the castle

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for Archduke Stefan of Austria. In 1856 he was appointed Oberbaurat. During this time he created a general plan for the Wiesbaden as a residential city. It suggested villas in the north (Nerotal) and east, denser building in the west and south. Boos designed the

Marktkirche, Wiesbaden Marktkirche (Market Church) is the main Protestant church in Wiesbaden, the state capital of Hesse, Germany. The neo-Gothic church on the central Schlossplatz ( en, Palace Square) was designed by Carl Boos and built between 1853 and 1862. At t ...

, built between 1853 and 1862, a neo-Gothic church on the Schlossplatz in the heart of the city. The Protestant church was known as the "Nassau Cathedral", responding to the Catholic

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across the river Rhine. The church is at 98 m still the tallest building in the city. when Prussia annexed Nassau in 1866, Boos was encouraged to retire. Two years later, he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle and retired. At one time, Boos appears to have been accused by the Trinidadian government of espionage. In 1883 he died after a long illness and was buried on the Nordfriedhof.

References

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