Albert Schneider

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Carl Albert Schneiders (born May 1, 1871 in Aachen ; † October 24, 1922 there ) was a German architect who mainly worked in Aachen.

Life

Albert Schneiders completed an apprenticeship in drawing from the age of 17 and was enrolled as a guest student at the Technical University of Aachen three years later . His earliest known buildings were built from 1894 onwards. Schneiders and his wife Adele nee. Gereke (1878–1949) had nine children, including the painter Carl Schneiders . The Schneiders family were close friends with the family of the architect Arnold Königs .

As the owner of a busy architecture and engineering office, Schneiders worked at times with his brother Gottfried and with many young employees. Some of them later became very successful themselves, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1904 to 1905 and Emil Fahrenkamp from 1908 to 1909. Other employees were Franz de Lamotte, Josef Bachmann, Ferdinand Goebbels and Franz Dominick. Together with many of his clients, Schneiders was a member of the Aachen Museum Association for many years . B. also chocolate manufacturer Hermann Josef Monheim, art historian Max Schmid-Burgk and his own brother Gottfried Schneiders.

Schneider died of a heart condition when he was only 51. The family grave is located in the Aachen Ostfriedhof .

plant

Schneider's activity as an architect is characterized by great entrepreneurial skills and his talent as a building artist. In the first years up to the turn of the century, Schneiders designed numerous buildings, especially in the Frankenberg district , whose facades show eclectic mixes of historicist styles and their own ornamentation typical of the time . His buildings stand out from the average of the houses in the Frankenberg district because of this, and in many cases because of their well thought-out floor plans.

Tietz department store in Aachen

Around 1904, Schneider's office received the order to plan the Aachen branch for the Leonhard Tietz department store chain . The building was initially designed in Art Nouveau style, but then with a historic facade from 1905, taking into account the Aachen Town Hall opposite, and opened at the end of 1906. The department store was demolished in 1965. The young Ludwig Mies was employed in Schneider's office for the drawings of the ornamental facade. Mies also played a key role in the socialist people's house “Zur Neuen Welt” built by Schneider for the Aachen social democrat Joseph Oeben, which opened in 1905 on Alexanderstrasse and served as a restaurant for the labor movement and the trade unions. The house shows influences of the reform style in its simple granite facade .

From 1906 onwards, Schneiders founded several companies for the development of building projects and property speculation . As a result, "Villenbau Aachen" built many larger residential buildings in the north of Aachen. Until his death, Schneiders himself used two of these houses on today's Elsa-Brändström-Straße with his family as a residence and for his architecture office. The group of seven single-family houses built there with the house numbers 2–12 is formally based on the “ English country house ”, while buildings erected shortly afterwards such as the stately row of houses at Rolandstrasse 26–34 or the simpler row houses Soerser Weg 45–53 show simple neoclassical forms. This makes it clear that Schneiders always reacted to current trends and style preferences in architecture.

In his last years, Schneiders worked intensively on the project of a Rhine-Maas Canal , from which a tributary Aachen was to connect to the European canal network. Schneiders published his thoughts on the route and on technical concepts for lock stairs without water consumption in a book in 1917.

buildings

  • 1894: Own house at Adalbertsteinweg 178
  • 1894: House and restaurant at Schlossstrasse 2
  • 1894: House at Oppenhoffallee 76
  • 1895: Houses at Adalbertsteinweg 180–182
  • 1896: House at Oppenhoffallee 98
  • 1897: Houses at Roonstrasse 4 and 6 (not preserved)
  • 1897: Residential house group Viktoriaallee 8–16 (No. 12 preserved, No. 10 was the house of the art historian Max Schmid-Burgk)
  • 1898: Group of residential buildings at Oppenhoffallee 116–120 and 106–110
  • 1899: Houses at Bismarckstrasse 104 and 106
  • 1904–1905: Volkshaus "Zur Neuen Welt", Alexanderstraße 109 (employee: Ludwig Mies)
  • 1904–1906: Leonhard Tietz department store, Markt 45–47 (employees: Ludwig Mies, construction work by the construction companies Nikolaus Rueben and Boswau & Knauer , not preserved)
  • 1905: Winter garden of the Karlshaus wine bar, Theaterplatz 6–8 (not preserved)
  • 1904–1906: Philipp Lewy house, Ludwigsplatz (today Veltmannplatz) 14 (not preserved)
  • 1906: Hermann Josef Krapoll's house, Zollernstrasse 24
  • 1907–1909: Liebfrauenstrasse residential group (today Elsa-Brändström-Strasse) 2–12 (heavily changed)
  • 1910–1912: Group of houses at Rolandstrasse 26–34
  • around 1910: Sammeck house, Linderner Bahn 40, Lindern (Geilenkirchen)
  • 1912–1915: Soerser Weg 45–53 residential group
  • 1912–1915: Villa Purweider Weg 27
  • 1914: Villa Margratenstrasse 2

Planning not carried out

  • 1898: Draft for the residential buildings Oppenhoffallee 112–114 (later built by other architects)
  • 1913: Counter-design for the new spa facilities of the city of Aachen (not executed, instead built by Karl Stöhr 1914–1916 )
  • 1913: Development plan for 430 residential houses on Krefelder Straße, Margratenstraße and Emmastraße (today Passstraße)
  • 1911–1917: Planning for the Rhine-Maas Canal

literature

  • Daniel Lohmann, Maike Scholz: The architect Albert Schneider. A pioneer of Aachen modernism . In: Denkmalpflege im Rheinland , issue 1/2019, pp. 1–15.
  • Peter Ruhnau: The Frankenberg Quarter in Aachen. (= Workbooks of the Landeskonservator Rheinland , issue 11.) Cologne 1976.
  • Daniel Lohmann, Maike Scholz: coming years. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's earliest career steps and later connections in his hometown Aachen . In: INSITU, Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte , issue 2/2019, pp. 273–290.
  • Christoph Heuter: Emil Fahrenkamp 1885–1966. Architect in the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2002.
  • Franz Schulze, Edward Windhorst: Mies van der Rohe. A Critical Biography . Chicago 2012, p. 12 f.
  • Albert Schneiders: The waterway Antwerp - Aachen - Cöln and the lock staircase without water consumption. Aachen 1917.

Individual evidence

  1. Here you can find Ludwig Mies' handwriting. In: Aachener Zeitung . November 8, 2017. From Aachener-Zeitung.de, accessed on September 29, 2019.
  2. Alexanderstraße 109 , in: Archives of the Month , November 2017 of the City Archives Aachen