# Carl Boos

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**Georg Christian Carl Boos**, also **Karl Boos**, (8 September 1806, in [Weilburg](/source/Weilburg) – 18 July 1883, in [Wiesbaden](/source/Wiesbaden)[1]) 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](/source/Gymnasium_(Germany)) of his hometown. Then he studied in [Karlsruhe](/source/Karlsruhe) with the court architect of Baden, [Friedrich Weinbrenner](/source/Friedrich_Weinbrenner). From 1825 he studied in [Freiburg im Breisgau](/source/Freiburg_im_Breisgau), in statics, mechanics, chemistry, mineralogy and geology.[2] In 1829 he joined the faculty of the [Heidelberg University](/source/Heidelberg_University).

In 1835 he moved to Wiesbaden, where he lived until his death. He worked for the [State of Nassau](/source/Nassau_(state)). In 1838 he presented a draft for the Ministerialgebäude in the Luisenstraße. This Nassau government building was designed in [neo-Renaissance](/source/Neo-Renaissance) style and houses the Hessian Ministry of Justice now. In 1842 he was appointed Baurat by [Duke Adolph](/source/Adolph_I._(Luxemburg)). From 1850 to 1857 he headed the neo-Gothic reconstruction of the castle [Schloss Schaumburg](/source/Schloss_Schaumburg) in [Balduinstein](/source/Balduinstein) 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](/source/Marktkirche,_Wiesbaden), 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 [Mainz Cathedral](/source/Mainz_Cathedral) 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](/source/Order_of_the_Red_Eagle) and retired. At one time, Boos appears to have been accused by the Trinidadian government of espionage.[3] In 1883 he died after a long illness and was buried on the Nordfriedhof.

## References

1. Wiesbaden (Germany). Magistrat (1981). [*Geschichte der Stadt Wiesbaden*](https://books.google.com/books?id=kZggAAAAMAAJ). Steiner. p. 301. ISBN 978-3-515-03405-0. Retrieved 20 March 2012.

1. Historische Kommission für Nassau (1981). [*Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Nassau*](https://books.google.com/books?id=U9ArAQAAIAAJ). J. F. Bergmann. p. 336. Retrieved 20 March 2012.

1. Marshall, Don D. (2001). [*The empowering impulse: the nationalist tradition of Barbados*](https://books.google.com/books?id=E91LnNhI3s4C&pg=PA108). Canoe Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-976-8125-74-3. Retrieved 20 March 2012.

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