Heinrich Krings

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Heinrich Krings (born August 2, 1857 in Cologne ; † January 8, 1925 there ) was a German architect . His buildings can be attributed to historicism . He worked mainly in the Rhineland . His work included both sacred and secular buildings .

education

Heinrich Krings studied from 1875 at the Technical University of Aachen , from 1878 at the Technical University of Stuttgart and finally at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . During his time in Aachen, he was a co-founder of the Carolingia Catholic Student Union in KV . He presumably completed his two-year legal traineeship , followed by the second state examination to become a government architect ( assessor ), as part of the construction of Frankfurt Central Station. He was probably also a student of Vincenz Statz and Heinrich Nagelschmidt .

Family grave

Private

The writer Helma Cardauns was his granddaughter and grew up in 1915 with Heinrich Krings and his wife. Krings died in 1925 at the age of 67. The family burial site is located in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 55).

buildings

Church buildings u. a.
year image place object state comment
1890-1893 Sankt-Clemens-Herrig.jpg Great Catholic parish church:

St. Clement

North Rhine-Westphalia Destroyed apart from a few remains in the Second World War.
1891-1893 Jakobwüllesheim parish church.jpg Jakobwüllesheim Catholic branch church:

St. James

North Rhine-Westphalia
1893-1895 Tuernich3.jpg Türnich Castle St. Elisabeth Castle Chapel North Rhine-Westphalia
1894-1895 Remscheid, Catholic Church.jpg Remscheid St. Suitbertus North Rhine-Westphalia Extension of the bell tower.
1895-1897 Düren Joachimskirche.jpg Düren Catholic branch church:

St. Joachim

North Rhine-Westphalia
1895-1897 Sankt Pantaleon Brühl-Badorf.JPG Badorf Catholic parish church:

St. Pantaleon

North Rhine-Westphalia
1895-1901 Müggenhausen St. Laurentius5588.JPG Müggenhausen Catholic parish church:

St. Laurence

North Rhine-Westphalia
1896 Essen, St. Engelbert, around 1898.jpg eat Catholic parish church:

St. Engelbert

North Rhine-Westphalia Emergency church. Was demolished before 1934.
1897 Riehl Catholic parish church:

St. Engelbert

North Rhine-Westphalia Emergency church. Desecrated in 1932 and used as a secular building. Destroyed in 1944.
1898-1899 Rövenich1.JPG Rövenich Catholic parish church:

St. Pancras

North Rhine-Westphalia
1898-1901 St. Matthias 3.jpg Neuwied Catholic parish church:

St. Matthias

Rhineland-Palatinate
1902-1904 Horhausen Catholic parish church:

St. Mary Magdalene

Rhineland-Palatinate
1898-1899 Niederbieber Catholic parish church:

St. Boniface

Rhineland-Palatinate Destroyed in World War II.
1908-1909 St. Audomar Frechen.jpg Cheeky Catholic parish church:

St. Audomar

North Rhine-Westphalia Extension of the nave and construction of the bell tower.
1908-1909 StSebastianBonn.JPG Poppelsdorf Catholic parish church:

St. Sebastian

North Rhine-Westphalia Extension to the west.
1911-1913 Cheeky Catholic parish church:

St. Severin

North Rhine-Westphalia Greatly changed in the 1950s due to renovations.

Church profane structures and a.

  • Kreitz Monastery, Neuss-Holzheim

Public buildings, commercial buildings and residential buildings
  • Railway settlement in Cologne-Riehl (?)
  • From 1895 residential buildings, especially for the Cologne-Nippeser Bau- und Spargenossenschaft : 193 private homes and 15 apartment buildings, including in Eisenachstrasse (1903/1905) and Nievenheimer Strasse
  • Seven better two-family houses with front gardens on Wartburgplatz (from 1910)
  • Early 1920s: Five multi-storey residential buildings in Cologne-Klettenberg for the Deutsches Heim cooperative
  • own house in Cologne, Riehler Straße 13 (destroyed by the war) (described by his granddaughter Helma Cardauns in her book Riehler Straße 13 published in 1985 )
  • 1903–1905: former Kleve agricultural school , Hofmannallee (today secondary school)
  • 1905–1907: Kaiserin-Auguste-Viktoria-Gymnasium (since 1937: Emil-Fischer-Gymnasium , today Matthias-Hagen-Förderschule), Billiger Straße in Euskirchen

In the 1880s, Krings built splendid residences in the neo-renaissance style on the Salierring and the Hohenzollernring in Cologne. Only house no. 41 on the Salierring has been preserved.

literature

  • Sabine Heuser-Hauck: The architect Heinrich Krings (1875-1925). Dissertation, Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 2005. ( online on the website of ULB Bonn )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sabine Heuser-Hauck: The architect Heinrich Krings (1875-1925). on this: pp. 24–26.
  2. ^ Parish archives St. Kilian Lechenich Part I, Division 1, Volume 6
  3. ↑ Tony Kellen: The industrial city of Essen in words and pictures. History and description of the city of Essen. At the same time a guide through Essen and the surrounding area. Publisher = Fredebeul & Koenen . Essen 1902, p. 145 .
  4. ↑ Sabine Heuser-Hauck: The architect Heinrich Krings (1857-1925) , Bonn 2005, p. 210, Joachim Brokmeier: Köln-Riehl, Geschichte (n) aus dem Veedel , Erfurt 2013, p. 21.
  5. ^ Sabine Heuser-Hauck: The architect Heinrich Krings (1857–1925). Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, Bonn 2005, p. 4.
  6. ↑ Heuser-Hauk, p. 141.
personal data
SURNAME Krings, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1925
Place of death Cologne