Heinrich Jassoy

Heinrich Jassoy (born August 15, 1863 in Hanau ; † September 7, 1939 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German architect of historicism . In 1899 he was appointed full professor at the Technical University of Stuttgart , and in 1904 he was appointed senior building officer.

Career

Jassoy studied at the Technical University of Charlottenburg , where he became the assistant to Johannes Vollmer (1845–1920), with whom he worked from 1896 to 1904 in the Vollmer & Jassoy architectural community. The Vollmer & Jassoy company emerged victorious from numerous public competitions, especially for Protestant churches and town halls, and was awarded the small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1899 . During their nine-year collaboration, other buildings include the Stuttgart City Hall , the Trinity Church in Berlin-Charlottenburg, the Evangelical Reformed St. Jacob's Church in Zurich , the Luther churches in Bonn and Cologne and the ensemble of the Christ Church with the adjoining district building in Koblenz .

Heinrich Jassoy had been a member of the Hilaritas Stuttgart fraternity since 1902 and designed their fraternity house , the Hilarenhaus. In 1904, Jassoy designed the Evangelical Peace Church for his hometown of Hanau .

Catalog raisonné

Fonts

The new town hall in Stuttgart. In: Monthly publication of the Württembg. Association for construction in Stuttgart. F. Weise's Hofbuchhandlung in Stuttgart (until 1900); South German Verl.-Anstalt, Munich (from 1901). Stuttgart 1898-1904, pp. 17-20. ( online )

Heinrich Jassoy / Ernst Spindler / Bruno Möhring (Head): Berlin Architecture World. Magazine for architecture, painting, sculpture and applied arts of the present. Ernst Wasmuth Architektur-Buchhandlung, Berlin, 2nd year, 1900, 464 p .; 12 plates

Chronological overview of the completed buildings (incomplete)

(Planning | execution)

1891 | 1891–1892: Chapel on Luisenfriedhof III in Berlin-Charlottenburg (with Vollmer, undamaged during the war, additions and removal of the ridge turret in the 1970s); Fig .: View 1895
1895 | 1899–1905: Stuttgart City Hall (Vollmer & Jassoy, destroyed in 1944, new building in 1956, parts of the old facade preserved with modern cladding); Fig . : Drafts
1896 | 1896–1897: Wichernkapelle in Berlin-Hakenfelde (Vollmer & Jassoy, changed location several times, well preserved, modern interior)
1896 | 1896–1898: Kurhaus in Westerland ( Sylt ) (Vollmer & Jassoy, some changes to the external structure: enlargement of the windows, removal of the gallery, etc.); Fig .: Exterior views: ~ 1900 / ~ 2010
1896 | 1896–1898: Evangelical Trinity Church in Berlin-Charlottenburg (Vollmer & Jassoy, 1943 and 1945 partly badly damaged, 1951–1955 slightly modified reconstruction, 1960–1970 redesign of the interior); Fig .: Exterior view (1899, 1907) / interior view (1957):
around 1897: Restoration of the old town hall in Heilbronn (Vollmer & Jassoy, destroyed in 1944, only the exterior architecture of the main building restored, adjacent wings replaced by a new building)
around 1897: Villa Carl Knorr in Heilbronn (Vollmer & Jassoy)
1897 | 1899–1901: Evangelical Reformed St. Jakobs Church in Zurich- Aussersihl (Vollmer & Jassoy, outside almost unchanged, inside renovated in 1938)
1898/99: Atelier of the sculptor Otto Lessing in Berlin-Grunewald (Vollmer & Jassoy); Fig .: Partial view:
1899–1900: Renewal of the Nikolaikirche in Heilbronn, built in the 14th century (Vollmer & Jassoy, destroyed in 1944, rebuilt in different ways from 1951); Fig .: Ruin (1944–1951) / reconstruction after 1951
1900 | 1900–1903: Evangelical Uniate Luther Church in Bonn- Popelsdorf (Vollmer & Jassoy, almost undamaged during the war, preserved in almost original condition)
1900 | 1900–1901: Evangelical Peace Church in Grottau (Bohemia) (today: Hrádek nad Nisou , Czech Republic ) (Vollmer & Jassoy, preserved almost unchanged); Fig . : Chrám (Dom) Pokoje
1901 | 1901–1904: Evangelical Christ Church in Koblenz ( Vollmer & Jassoy , destroyed in 1944, rebuilt in 1951–1957 modified); Fig .: Old Church (1933/1944) / Ruin (1950):
1901–1905: District building in Koblenz (Vollmer & Jassoy, demolished in 1978 and replaced by a modern new building); Fig .: View 1905:
1901 | 1904–1906: Evangelical Luther Church in Cologne (Vollmer & Jassoy, destroyed in 1944, remnants of the tower included in the new building)
1902–1903: House of the Hilaritas fraternity , Stuttgart
1904: Friedenskirche in Hanau

The old Stuttgart City Hall (1895–1905)
Wichernkirche in Berlin-Hakenfelde (1896–1897)
Trinity Church in Berlin-Charlottenburg (1896–1898)
St. Jacob's Church in Zurich-Aussersihl (1897–1901)
Christ Church and District House in Koblenz (1901–1905)
Hilarenhaus in Stuttgart (1902–1903)
Peace Church in Hanau (1904)
Draft for a small house

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 363-364.
Dieter Krampf: Johannes Vollmer (1845–1920). An architect of the German Protestant church building in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 1990.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Jassoy - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Works by Heinrich Jassoy in the digital collections of the Stuttgart University Library

Individual evidence

↑ Krampf 1990, pp. 14-17.
^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 230.
↑ The list of buildings carried out in collaboration with Johannes Vollmer (Krampf, 1990) appears to be complete or almost complete.
^ Krampf 1990, p. 17, entry on the Stuttgart City Hall on Wikimedia-commons
↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 16, 1896, No. 20 (from May 18, 1896), p. 220 (communication on the competition result). ( online )
^ Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim Hennze : Stille Zeitzeugen. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture. Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 , p. 11.
↑ not included by Krampf (1990) in his catalog of church buildings
↑ Pictures: website of the municipality , pictures on www.bilderbuch-bonn.de
↑ Figures 78–81 in Krampf (1990) (Sources: Rheinisches Bildarchiv No. 76285, Österreichische Wochenschrift für den Public Baudienst 13, 1907, T. 46, T. 47)

personal data
SURNAME	Jassoy, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect of historicism and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 15, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanau
DATE OF DEATH	September 7, 1939
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Krampf 1990, pp. 14-17.

[2] Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 230.

[3] The list of buildings carried out in collaboration with Johannes Vollmer (Krampf, 1990) appears to be complete or almost complete.

[4] Krampf 1990, p. 17, entry on the Stuttgart City Hall on Wikimedia-commons

[5] Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 16, 1896, No. 20 (from May 18, 1896), p. 220 (communication on the competition result). ( online )

[6] Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim Hennze : Stille Zeitzeugen. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture. Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 , p. 11.

[7] t included by Krampf (1990) in his catalog of church buildings

[8] Pictures: website of the municipality , pictures on www.bilderbuch-bonn.de

[9] Figures 78–81 in Krampf (1990) (Sources: Rheinisches Bildarchiv No. 76285, Österreichische Wochenschrift für den Public Baudienst 13, 1907, T. 46, T. 47)