Albert Bosslet

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XIV. Station of the Cross (detail), in Schifferstadt, St. Laurentius by August Weckbecker . In the middle of the picture, the architect Albert Boßlet, to the right, the sculptor Weckbecker (self-portrait) depicted as "witnesses" of the burial of Christ.

Albert Boßlet (born January 23, 1880 in Frankenthal (Palatinate) ; † October 28, 1957 in Würzburg ) was a German architect . Stylistically, he is considered a representative of the so-called Heimatschutz architecture , emerged primarily in the field of Catholic church building and created almost 100 Catholic churches by the Second World War alone.

Life

Herz-Jesu-Kirche and Mariannhiller Pius seminar in Würzburg

Boßlet received his training from 1901–1903 at the private technical center in Strelitz . After various positions as an employee in well-known architectural offices in Cologne , Saarbrücken and Stuttgart , he settled in Landau in the Palatinate in 1909 as a freelance architect. After the First World War, Boßlet worked 1919–1925 as a consultant for housing construction in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior in Munich, most recently in the rank of regional building officer. As part of this activity, he made a name for himself in the early 1920s when rebuilding Oppau, which was destroyed by an explosion at the BASF plant . From 1925 on he practiced his profession again in self-employment, first in Munich and from about 1928 in Würzburg. After the war ended in 1945, he and his nephew Erwin van Aaken founded a working group that lasted until his death.

In 1926, Boßlet became an honorary member of the Trifels Munich Catholic student association, to which Erwin van Aaken was also a member.

Awards

Before 1939 Albert Boßlet was the Commander's Cross of the Gregorius Order by Pius XI. awarded.

Buildings (selection)

Parish Church of St. Mariae Immaculata in Ludwigshafen
Parish Church of St. Hildegard in St. Ingbert
Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Aschaffenburg
Maria-Hilf-Church in Mannheim-Almenhof
St. Pius V in Regensburg
Abbey Church of the Cistercian Abbey of Itaporanga / São Paulo (Brazil)

literature

  • Holger Brülls: New Dome. Resumption of Romanesque building forms and anti-modern cultural criticism in church construction during the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era . Verlag Bauwesen, Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-345-00560-2
  • Ulrich Coenen: The Catholic parish church Herz-Jesu in the Baden-Baden district of Varnhalt. A late work by Albert Boßlet. In: The Ortenau. Journal of the Historical Association for Mittelbaden , vol. 88 (2008), pp. 355–364.
  • Clemens Jöckle: Albert Boßlet (1880–1957). A church builder between historicism and modernity. In: Yearbook of the Association for Christian Art in Munich, 19th vol. (1993), pp. 542–617.
  • Barbara Kahle: German church architecture of the 20th century. Darmstadt 1990.
  • Pascal AM Schmitt:  BOSSLET, Albert Johann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 81-90.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Luigi Monzo: Building churches in the Third Reich. The inversion of the church's renewal dynamics using the example of the St. Canisius Church in Augsburg designed by Fritz Kempf . In: The Minster. Journal for Christian Art and Art History , vol. 68 (2015), issue 1 (April), pp. 74–82.
  • Hugo Schnell : Albert Boßlet. A Franconian church builder. In: Das Münster, Vol. 3 (1950), pp. 86–89.
  • Hugo Schnell: Church construction in Germany in the 20th century. Documentation, representation, interpretation . Schnell and Steiner, Munich and Zurich, 1973, ISBN 3-7954-0400-2 .

Web links

Commons : Albert Boßlet  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vita of Professor Albert Boßlet
  2. ↑ In the meantime demolished: House Benedict
  3. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1238.
  4. ^ Cistercian Santa Cruz Abbey in Itaporanga near São Paulo
  5. ↑ Eberhard Bosslet. Art Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Bosslet, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenthal (Palatinate)
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1957
Place of death Wurzburg