Görz, Richard

Architect, Chief Building Officer, Privy Councillor

Born: 06.03.1811 in Bleidenstadt

died: 26.11.1880 in Wiesbaden

After studying architecture, Görz was a building assessor from 1835-40, from 1840 until his retirement in 1868 he was a master builder and court architect, and from 1864 a senior building officer. In 1866, Görz was accepted into the Prussian civil service.

From 1837-41, he was in charge of the construction of the Wiesbaden City Palace, which was built according to the designs of Georg Moller. The Nassauische Landesbank in Rheinstraße and the former court building in Friedrichstraße were built according to his architectural specifications and under his supervision. His design for a reading room in the Kuranlagen remained unrealized.

He was active as a monument conservator and campaigned, for example, for the renovation of St. Michael's Chapel in Kiedrich and the monastery church in Lahnstein.

Görz devoted himself intensively to the study of architectural history and published articles on architectural monuments in Nassau, such as Arnstein Monastery (1881) and Marienstatt Monastery (1866). As part of his research into medieval architecture in the Rhine region, the extensive work "Denkmale romanischer Baukunst am Rhein" (Monuments of Romanesque Architecture on the Rhine), which he compiled together with Franz Xaver Geier, was published in 1846.