Adolf Cornehls

Friedrich Adolf Cornehls (born January 28, 1864 in Kükels ; † March 27, 1916 in Lüttringhausen ) was a German architect .

Cornehls came from a farming family. After elementary school he learned the carpentry trade and studied from 1881 to 1883 at the building trade school in Holzminden . More details about his further career are not certain. In the first half of the 1890s he worked in Apolda as the construction manager of the Luther Church for the renowned architect Johannes Otzen , for whom he also directed the construction of the Elberfeld cemetery church . As a result, Cornehls received so many orders that he teamed up with the architect Arno Eugen Fritsche to form the Cornehls & Fritsche office , which erected numerous buildings, especially in Elberfeld and Barmen , until the separation in 1901 .

Even after the separation, the Cornehls and Fritsche still worked together occasionally. Cornehls planned the Jagdhaus Grenz on the northern heights above the Wuppertal, near the road from Elberfeld to Neviges , with which he took over financially and had to file for bankruptcy. He designed a few church buildings in Elberfeld, but was so badly hit by bankruptcy and ongoing financial difficulties that he was admitted to the Tannenhof mental hospital near Lüttringhausen, where he also died.

buildings

The former parish hall on Platz der Republik, Wuppertal-Elberfeld; The original, baroque gable with turret tower fell victim to a fire in 1975.

together with Fritsche

• 1898–1901: Luther Church in Solingen , Kölner Strasse
• 1898–1901: Luther Church in Görlitz , Lutherplatz
• 1899: Protestant parish hall in Wetter (Ruhr) , Theodor-Heuss-Straße 13

independent drafts

• 1899–1902: Protestant church and parsonage in Todesfelde
• 1900: Nursing home in (Wuppertal-) Elberfeld
• 1900–1901 Buildings on the cemetery of the Evangelical Reformed parish (Wuppertal-) Elberfeld, Krummacherstraße
• 1900–1902: Protestant church in ( Solingen -) Merscheid
• 1901–1903: Protestant Johanneskirche in Troisdorf
• 1909–1910: Evangelical-Lutheran parish hall on Engelnberg (so-called " Thomaskirche ") in (Wuppertal-) Elberfeld- Ostersbaum (under monument protection)
• 1911–1912: Protestant parish hall on Platz der Republik in (Wuppertal-) Elberfeld
• 1912–1913: Evangelical Reformed parish hall in (Wuppertal-) Elberfeld, Schusterstraße
• 1913: Roeder house in (Wuppertal-) Elberfeld-Katernberg
• 1913: Evangelical Luther Church in Oberhausen -Buschhausen, Thüringer Strasse / Lehmbachstrasse

literature

• Werner Keyl: Cornehls & Fritsche. Architects in Elberfeld around 1900. In: Hans Joachim de Bruyn-Ouboter (Hrsg.): Wuppertaler Biographien, 17th episode. Born, Wuppertal 1993, ISBN 3-87093-065-9 .
• Werner Franzen: Worship sites in transition. Protestant church building in the Rhineland 1860–1914. Dissertation, University of Duisburg 2002.
• Dieter Ullmann: From the tower button of the Luther Church. A photo by the architect Friedrich Adolf Cornehls. In: Apoldaer Heimat , Volume 32 (2014), pp. 26–28.