Adalbert Kelm

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Street sign in Flensburg, the street to the naval school named in his honor
The fire station in Gleiwitz
Water tower Kiel-Wik behind the final stop Kiel-Wik
Sønderborg barracks
Access to the “castle complex” of the Mürwik Naval School

Adalbert Kelm (born January 4, 1856 in Landsberg an der Warthe , † February 28, 1939 in Kiel ) was a German architect and naval construction officer who became famous for building the Mürwik naval school .

Life and work

Adalbert Kelm was born in Landsberg an der Warthe in 1856 as the son of a master mason . He attended the Realgymnasium and obtained the upper secondary qualification . He then did an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and, at the same time, attended a building trade school , where he graduated from high school in 1875 . After his father died and his father's construction business was given up, Adalbert Kelm studied construction. During this time he also worked on the editorial team of the Bauwerkszeitung . He also taught at the Sunday School of the Association of Builders, Masons and Carpenters in Berlin . In 1880 he finally passed the first state examination (construction manager examination). As a government building supervisor ( trainee lawyer ) he was employed by the military building administration in Aurich , where he was responsible for managing barracks conversions. He then took on a teaching position at the Holzminden building trade school . From 1882 to 1884 he supervised the expansion work at the state high school in Wilhelmshaven . This was followed by a job with the municipal authorities of the city of Mühlhausen in Thuringia until 1887 . In the same year he passed the second state examination and was then appointed government master builder ( assessor ) for building construction. In the following years he worked again in the field of the Prussian military building administration.

In 1891 he left the Prussian civil service and became a town planning officer in Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia. The city owes him significant urban expansion during this time.

In 1904 he successfully applied to the building administration of the imperial navy and was hired by the naval construction authority in Kiel. Until at least 1910 he worked there with the rank of garrison construction inspector , but in 1910 he also held the honorary title of building officer . Later he rose in the hierarchy of civil servants apparently up to the (naval) directorate and building officer .

The water tower Kiel-Wik was built in 1904 with Kelm's participation . It was at his suggestion that the evangelical naval garrison church, the Petruskirche in Kiel , built between 1905 and 1907 , was not geosted , but was oriented with the altar area to the north for urban planning reasons. Shortly before or after his employment, the decision was made to relocate the Naval Academy and School from the Kiel Fjord to the Flensburg Fjord . So in the years 1905–1907 the system of the ship artillery school and rifle barracks (today Sønderborg barracks ) in Sonderburg was built according to his plans (in cooperation with Eugen Fink ) and almost simultaneously from 1907 to 1910 his main work, the naval school in Flensburg - Mürwik . The style of the building based on medieval brick Gothic was inspired in particular by the Marienburg . Paul Ziegler , who joined the municipal building administration of the city of Flensburg in 1905 and played an important role in urban and architectural development, was also involved in the draft planning of the Mürwik naval school as an employee of the Kiel naval construction authority. Simultaneously with the Naval Academy was created in the " front castle area" the Navy hospital Flensburg-Mürwik that was indeed part of Kelm's overall planning, but by the specialized hospital buildings Berlin architect Heino Schmieden and Julius Boethke was designed in coordination with the naval construction management. Other buildings that are used by the naval school today (e.g. the sports school and the building of the staff unit of the Mürwik naval school ) came much later and were not designed by Adalbert Kelm. The “castle building” complex of the naval school that was built under Kelm is now considered a major work of the Wilhelmine era (cf. Wilhelminism ).

In a speech at a celebratory dinner organized by the city, Mayor Dr. Löhmann: “ (...) that during these days the hearts of all those who would love the city of Flensburg and its beautiful fjord are beating against him, Mr. Kelm. Never has a building in this city aroused such general interest as the one created by Building Councilor Kelm, and rightly so! (...) it was not a barracks. Everyone has to look up to the building in admiration, because great things can be achieved with simple means. Mr. Baurat Kelm has erected a monument that the speaker hopes will last for centuries. But as long as it stands, the builder will be gratefully remembered. (...) "At the end of the speech the mayor rhymed:" [...] Who built the building so proudly from the base to the tower and helmet ? - Kelm. "

Adalbert Kelm also published several writings on housing and settlement construction, but a corresponding building project by him can only be verified for the second half of the 1920s - when Kelm was already retired.

Under the direction of Adalbert Kelm's son, Walter Kelm (1883-1954), the marine settlement in Kiel was built in 1925-1930 . The Niebuhrstrasse / Kleiststrasse housing estate is now and then wrongly ascribed to Adalbert Kelm.

Awards

Kelm was awarded the papal Cross of Honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice in 1910 . This award may refer to the construction of the Catholic garrison church St. Heinrich in Kiel.

He was also awarded a street name by the city of Flensburg on November 11, 1911, the street leading to the Naval School has since been called Kelmstraße , a local court Kelmhof .

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buildings

Fonts

  • Contributions to housing reform with special consideration of small apartment construction. Fischer, Jena 1911.
  • The economic superiority of a single-family house with a garden over the multi-storey house. In: Gartenstadt, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gartenstadt-Gesellschaft , 7th year 1913, issue 7, p. 126.
  • The cheaper construction of small apartments. A contribution to the question of the warrior home settlements. Kiel 1919.
  • The earth building. A means of combating the housing shortage. Leipzig 1920.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Kelmhof, Kelmstrasse. In: Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburger street names. Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 . (with misprint Gleinitz )
  2. ↑ a b Jolanta Rusinowska-Trojca: Urban planning and residential architecture of the 19th century in Gleiwitz (Gliwice). Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 1995.
  3. ↑ Jolanta Rusinowska –Trojca: Urban planning and residential architecture of the 19th century in Gleiwitz (Gliwice) . Bonn, 2005. p. 48; alternative link to PDF: there ; Retrieved on: September 18, 2017
  4. ↑ a b Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 30, 1910, No. 19 (from March 5, 1910), p. 125.
  5. ↑ Maritimes Viertel, Wasserturm Kiel-Wik - site of the Kiel sailors' uprising , accessed on December 26, 2014
  6. ^ Petrus Church in Kiel-Wik, History of the Petrus Church in Kiel-Wik , accessed on December 26, 2014
  7. ↑ a b The German naval station and Sønderborg Barracks , accessed December 27, 2014
  8. ↑ Mürwik Naval School. In: Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! Flensburg 2009.
  9. ^ Rüdiger Kremer: Coastal State of Schleswig-Holstein: Life on and with the sea . Husum 2015, p. 68
  10. ↑ See Dieter-J. Mehlhorn: Architecture Guide Kiel. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01165-3 , p. 83.
  11. ↑ Peter Dragsbo: En fælles Kulturarv. Tyske og danske bygninger i Sønderjylland 1864-1920 ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 62 f .; Retrieved on: August 29, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-sonderjylland.dk
  12. ↑ Dieter-J. Mehlhorn: Architecture Guide Kiel. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01165-3 , p. 85.
  13. ↑ The topic of single-family houses was a popular topic in the magazines of the Garden City Movement. A year before Adalbert Kelm appeared in one of the editions of the Gartenstadt, an article by Bernhard Kampffmeyer , in which Bernhard Kampffmeyer looked at row houses very extensively from an economic point of view and spoke out against multi-storey buildings on the basis of hygienic arguments. Cf. Teresa Harris: The German Garden City Movement: Architecture, Politics and Urban Transformation, 102-1931 , p. 181 (PDF; 55 MB)

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SURNAME Kelm, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and naval construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg on the Warta
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1939