Adolf Rauchheld

Carl Ferdinand Adolf Rauchheld (born November 13, 1868 in Bochum , † November 28, 1932 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was a German architect , Oldenburg construction officer and monument curator .

Life

Gravestone at the Gertrudenfriedhof (Oldenburg)

Adolf Rauchheld was a son of the castellan Diedrich Rauchheld and studied architecture at the Technical University of Dresden and the Technical University of (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . In Berlin he became a member of the Corps Pomerania-Silesia. In 1893 he passed the first state examination in building construction. After his military service as a one-year volunteer , he worked as a government building manager ( trainee lawyer in the public building administration) in Hanover and Düsseldorf. In 1895 he switched to the Oldenburg civil service as an assistant civil servant in the structural engineering department. In 1898 he became a building inspector . In 1903 Rauchheld was appointed district master builder for the building construction of the Northern District and worked as one of the editors on the multi-volume work on the architectural and art monuments of the Duchy of Oldenburg , for which he had drawn precise building recordings and sketches of sacred and profane buildings as early as 1898. In 1905 he became a member of the building committee of the Oldenburg State, Industry and Trade Exhibition. In 1908 he became a building officer and in 1924 he was appointed Ministerialrat and Lecturing Council in the Oldenburg Ministry of Finance.

As a construction clerk, he shaped the building industry in Oldenburg for almost four decades. Beginning in the style of historicism , from 1905 onwards, through contact with Peter Behrens , he approached the Art Nouveau style of Darmstadt and finally the architectural expressionism . He was also active in the preservation of monuments. In 1924 he bequeathed his collection of applied prints from around 1900 to the Landesmuseum Oldenburg. He was also the initiator and chairman of the Oldenburger Werkkünstler Association , founded in 1913 , which took part in the Cologne Werkbund exhibition in 1914 .

At the First World War Smoke hero participated as a combat officer.

His research into the history of bells in Oldenburg and East Frisia made an important contribution to the German Bell Atlas . His work as a construction clerk and monument conservator as well as his commitment to the arts gave him a central position in public life in the Grand Duchy and Free State of Oldenburg between 1900 and his death in 1932.

Awards

The Adolf-Rauchheld-Strasse in Oldenburg was named in his honor.

Buildings

• 1900: Savings Fund Oldenburg (later State Savings Bank in Oldenburg )
• 1901–1902: Oldenburg District Court
• 1905: Main hall, wine tavern, fountain and restaurant at the Oldenburg State Exhibition 1905 in Oldenburg
• 1905: House Mutzenbecher (private house)
• 1906: Gatehouse of the State Insurance Institute (demolished)
• 1907: Redesign of the Alexander Church in Wildeshausen (Art Nouveau)
• 1907: Building of the Staatliche Kreditanstalt in Gottorpstrasse
• 1911: Rüstringen District Court
• 1911–1912: Nordenham District Court
• 1913: Stalling printing and publishing house in Oldenburg
• 1913: Villa Stalling (private house)
• 1914: Reform Realgymnasium Rüstringen
• 1919–1923: Conversion of the Oldenburg Palace into a state museum
• 1925–1927: Amalienbrücke in Oldenburg (demolished in 1980)
• 1925–1927: Cäcilienbrücke in Oldenburg (planned for demolition in 2020)
• 1925–1927: Achterdiek hydropower plant in Oldenburg

Fonts

• Bell history of Oldenburg. In: Oldenburger Jahrbuch des Verein für Altertumskunde und Landesgeschichte, Volume 29, printed and published by Gerhard Stalling , Oldenburg i. O. 1925, p. 5 ff. ( Digital library , accessed on November 1, 2015)

literature

• Kurt Asche: Rauchheld, Carl Ferdinand Adolf. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 584-586 ( online ).
• Adolf Rauchheld - the link between the state administration and the homeland security movement. In: Michael Schimek: Between Claims and Reality - State Influence on Rural Building: The State of Oldenburg between 1880 and 1930. Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 978-3830912934 , pp. 117 ff.

References and footnotes

1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 34.
2. ↑ Posters around 1900. The Rauchheld Collection (January 31 to March 7, 2010) ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Streets with the first letter A in Oldenburg
4. ↑ Ersparungskasse - Landessparkasse , accessed on November 2, 2015.
5. ↑ State Exhibition 1905 , accessed on November 1, 2015.
6. ↑ Ingo Sommer: Architecture for a Sea Fortress 1933-45. Between tradition and megalomania. In: Heimat am Meer , supplement to the Wilhelmshavener Zeitung , year 1996, No. 3, p. 9 ff. (2 images)
7. ↑ 1966 the company was moved to Ammergaustraße; After the building was demolished, today's parking garage was built there on Ritterstrasse.
8. ^ Gerhard Stalling - Printing and Publishing House , accessed on November 2, 2015.
9. ↑ In the 1950s, the school building, which was badly damaged in World War II, was demolished and today's main post office was built on the site at Rathausplatz.
10. ↑ Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon. Volume 2: K-R. Brune Druck- und Verlags-GmbH, Wilhelmshaven 1987, pp. 570, 654 f.
11. ↑ 85 Years of Technical Monument , accessed on November 2, 2015.
12. ↑ Electricity for 570 households , accessed on November 2, 2015.