Albert Pantle

Albert Pantle (born November 5, 1859 in Oberstenfeld , † December 8, 1921 in Stuttgart ) was a German architect .

Life

Schickhardt School Stuttgart. Built in 1912/13, photo 2002

Albert Pantle is one of those architects who have shaped the cityscape of Stuttgart between historicism and modernity with important projects . Most of his buildings are still preserved today. However, Pantle was not a freelance architect, but a municipal building officer who was involved in solving important municipal tasks in a rapidly growing city during his professional life.

Albert Pantle was born on November 5, 1859 in Oberstenfeld, the son of a winegrower, studied at the Royal Polytechnic in Stuttgart and passed the first state examination there. After nine years at the state building administration (then Royal Domain Directorate), he passed the 2nd state examination and in 1891 joined the city building administration of Stuttgart. Until 1908 he held the title of building inspector . On January 3, 1908, he was appointed town planning officer and on May 1, 1914, senior building officer. In 1911 Pantle became head of the municipal building department, in whose function he held the title of municipal building director after the First World War . In 1912 he was awarded the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Frederick by King Wilhelm II of Württemberg .

Albert Pantle's grave monument in the forest cemetery

Pantle died unexpectedly at the age of 63 on December 8, 1921 in Stuttgart. He and his wife Auguste Pantle born Eisele (1871–1960) and his son, the architect Rudolf Pantle (1891–1914), who died in World War I, are buried in Section 4a of the Stuttgart Forest Cemetery. The cemetery buildings were built in 1914 according to his plans. The grave monument was created by Josef Zeitler , who, in collaboration with Pantle, made many sculptural contributions for the Pantle buildings and the forest cemetery.

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The main tasks of the municipal building department around 1900 were above all to accompany the rapid growth of the city through far-sighted planning and to steer it in the right direction, on the other hand to provide the incorporated and other neighboring suburbs with the necessary buildings, which were also rapidly growing due to influx. Pantle's name is therefore mainly used in connection with the construction of new school buildings, but also with other public facilities and buildings.

Like few others, Albert Pantle embodied the change in architecture between historicism and modernity . He began as a representative of the Neo-Gothic and Neo-Renaissance . Early on, he approached the development of a painterly treatment of facades without neglecting the purpose of the respective buildings. He was thus one of the representatives of a Stuttgart Art Nouveau that has left a broad mark on the city's building history. He also enriched the neo-baroque, albeit rather sober and objective phase in the city's architectural development between 1909 and 1915 with independent ideas. And he helped shape the transition to factual, because increasingly factual-related building in the 1920s.

Most important buildings

Bergfriedhof Stuttgart-Ost. Built in 1904, photo 2002

The most important buildings in Stuttgart that were created according to his designs include:

• 1900 the main building of the Prague School in exposed brick and with elements of the German Gothic and Renaissance.
• 1900–1903 workers' residences in the Tunzhofer district in Stuttgart in the Art Nouveau conception: variedly structured in brick and sandstone, plaster and ornamental framework
• 1903 Ostheimer school with neo-baroque elements
• 1904 Overseer's house at the mountain cemetery in a romantic overall appearance
• 1905/06 Heusteigschule based on plans by Theodor Fischer
• 1907 cemetery chapel in Untertürkheim - entirely in line with the modern conception coined by Theodor Fischer
• 1909 Linden School in Untertürkheim as one of the largest and most functional schools of its time in the city
• 1912 Administration building of the slaughterhouse in Stuttgart (today Pig Museum )
• The Schickhardt School in 1912/13 : a "building complex which is the largest of the school building groups in the city of Stuttgart that has been carried out to date, ... remarkable and exemplary in many ways" (Bauzeitung für Württemberg)
• 1914 funeral hall and outbuildings of the forest cemetery in a functional, nonetheless classicistic design
• 1915 Altenburg School Stuttgart-Cannstatt : his last project before the collapse of the Reich, enthroned over the Neckar in a very strict architectural language

Complete directory

Stuttgart-Untertürkheim cemetery. Built in 1907, photo 2002

Administration building of the old slaughterhouse in Stuttgart-Gaisburg. Built in 1912, photo 2010

Complete directory of the main buildings (as of spring 2003)

• 1894 Bürgerhospital, Stuttgart, Tunzhoferstraße
• 1897 own multi-family house, Stuttgart, Sonnenbergstraße 19
• 1900 Prague School, Stuttgart, Friedhofstrasse 74
• 1901 workers' houses, Stuttgart, Türlenstrasse / Tunzhofer Strasse
• 1901 Expansion of the street cleaning depot with police station, Stuttgart, Tübinger Straße 59/61
• 1901 Mortuary Bergfriedhof, Stuttgart, Hackstrasse
• 1903 Ostheim School, Stuttgart, Landhausstrasse
• 1903 gymnasium with riser tower and bathing establishment, Stuttgart-Wangen, Hedelfinger Strasse
• 1904 Toddler School Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, Nebelhornstrasse 23
• 1904 Bergfriedhof keeper's house, Hackstrasse, Stuttgart
• 1906 Heusteigschule, Stuttgart, Heusteigstraße 97 (construction management and operating facilities)
• 1906–1910 New construction of the Stuttgart-Gaisburg municipal gasworks
• 1907 Stuttgart-Untertürkheim cemetery chapel, Gehrenwaldstrasse 40
• 1908 Police and Control Guard Building, Stuttgart, Pragstrasse 180
• 1908 Neckar electricity works Ludwigsburg- Poppenweiler
• 1909 Linden School Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, Lindenschulstrasse 20
• 1911 Extension of the Prague School in Stuttgart
• 1911 Lower School (Primary School) Stuttgart-Gaisburg , Landhausstrasse
• 1911 Extension of the Stadtbad, Stuttgart-Cannstatt
• 1912 Bismarck oak viewing platform with building, Stuttgart, Hasenberg
• 1912 Administration building of the Stuttgart-Gaisburg slaughterhouse
• 1913 Schickhardt School, Stuttgart, Schickhardtstrasse 26–30
• 1913 apartment buildings in Stuttgart, Adlerstrasse 47, Beerstrasse 2/4
• 1913 Falkert School, Stuttgart, Falkertstrasse 24
• 1914 Filderschule, Stuttgart-Degerloch, Leinfeldener Strasse 61
• 1914 Waldfriedhof Stuttgart: building complex
• 1914 Municipal children's home (hospital, asylum) and redemption crèche, Stuttgart, Türlenstrasse 22
• 1914 Planning and arrangement of the exhibition for cemetery art, Stuttgart
• 1915 Altenburg School Stuttgart-Cannstatt, Auf der Altenburg 10
• 1919 Small urban residential buildings, Stuttgart, Eier- / Schreiber- / Böheimstrasse
• 1919 Children's home / children's pool in Bad Rappenau
• 1919/20 Residential house groups in Stuttgart on Rotenbergstrasse, Villastrasse and on Nastplatz
• 1921 Girls Secondary School (now Commercial School South), Stuttgart, Zellerstraße 37

Own writings

• Albert Pantle: The Stuttgart forest cemetery. In: Christian Art Journal for Church, School and House Volume 59, 1917, Pages 210–215, 217–219, 221.

literature

• Bernd Langner: Albert Pantle. Building in the service of the city. In: Elmar Blessing: Ostheim and his schools. 1903-2003. Verlag im Ziegelhaus Gohl, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-925440-29-1 , ( Hefte zum Stuttgarter Osten 9), pp. 74-89.
• Rudolf Pantle: cemetery art . For the exhibition for cemetery art in the Hoppenlau cemetery in Stuttgart. In: Journal of Christian art belt 27, 1914, page 57-69, online: .
• Rudolf Pantle: Tomb sculpture for the exhibition for cemetery art in the Hoppenlaufriedhof in Stuttgart. In: Die Plastik Volume 4, 1914, pp. 60–62, plates 78–80.
• Building director Albert Pantle †. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung [Berlin], Volume 55, 1921, page 444.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shortly before he was called up, Rudolf Pantle had published two essays about an exhibition for cemetery art in the Hoppenlau cemetery in Stuttgart that had taken place in 1914 ( #Pantle 1914.1 , #Pantle 1914.2 ). The later family tomb was exhibited at that time (Figure: #Pantle 1914.1 , page 67) and taken over by Pantle.
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