Carl Schäfer
Carl Wilhelm Ernst Schäfer was a German architect and university professor.
Schäfer became the most important representative of the late Gothic Revival in Germany. He created several churches: Modification of the Catholic Propsteikirche St. Gertrude of Brabant in Wattenscheid, Catholic parish church of St. Nikolai in Lippstadt, Protestant church in Bralitz, Catholic parish church of St. John Baptist in Birkung, Old Catholic Church in Karlsruhe.
As a monument conservator, he led the reconstruction of the Friedrichsbaues of Heidelberg Castle, the Romanesque monastery church of St. Gangolf in Münchenlohra in Nordhausen and the Church of Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune in Strasbourg. He added the pair of 81 metre spires to the Meissen Cathedral in a highly convincing neo-Gothic style from 1903 to 1908. This now forms a critical part of the Meissen World Heritage Site.
In 1871, he had built a fountain on the property of his lawyer Carl Grimm in Marburg.
