Alexander Cazin

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Villa Terfloth Kreuzschanze Münster
Catholic parish church of St Joseph, Bad Waldliesborn

Alexander Cazin (born July 1, 1857 in Münster , † April 14, 1944 in Weinähr ) was a German architect . He worked in Denver , USA for 15 years and later erected some striking buildings in the cityscape of his hometown Münster.

life and work

Alexander Cazin grew up in Prinzipalmarkt 38 ​​in Münster. His parents were the printer and publisher Franz Friedrich Cazin (* 1827 in Aachen, † 1908 in Upperclair, New Jersey, USA) and his wife Bertha geb. Nasse (* 1830 in Soest; † 1876 in Münster). The father ran a bookstore. In 1864 the Cazin family moved with their six children to the St. Mauritz district . In 1867 the father left his family - presumably for economic reasons - and emigrated to the USA, where his children followed him after his mother's death.

Alexander Cazin, who had learned drawing from an architect in Münster, arrived in Denver (Colorado) in 1880. There he worked for various architects (including Robert S. Roeschlaub ). From 1884 to 1894 he was a freelance architect at a time of rapid economic growth in the city. During this time he carried out a total of around 25 construction projects, including a. In 1887 the Mont's Clair Richthofen Castle, with Henry Dozier the College of sacred hearts (since 1912: Regis College ), and in 1892 the Mount St. Gertrude Academy ( Boulder County ) with Luther Hixon, pictures of which have been preserved. In Denver he got to know the North American Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style and modern hospital construction.

Orthopedic Clinic Hüfferstiftung , today administration of the Münster University of Applied Sciences

In 1895 he returned to Münster, where he later incorporated his experiences in America into his architectural designs. First he worked from 1896 to 1900 in the architecture office of Johann Bernhard Schwarz. From 1901 he was a freelance architect. In the same year he planned the orthopedic clinic of the Hüfferstiftung (1901 to 1903) and in 1911 the St. Josef Hospital in Bochum. In 1904 he was the architect of the castle-like entrepreneurial villa Terfloth on the Kreuzschanze in Münster. This building made North American architecture, especially the famous architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886) and his predilection for the French Romanesque, known in Münster. In 1905 Wilhelm Büning visited Alexander Cazin in Münster and was guided through his buildings.

The spacious residential and commercial building that he built in 1901 in the medieval town center of Münster opposite the Gothic St. Lamberti Church on the Alter Fischmarkt 1 property was a contribution to the dawn of the architectural 20th century in Münster. Similarly, the publishing house Aschendorff east of the main train station (1913–1915) with Alfred Hensen , which he set on the southern corner lot on Bremer Platz as a landmark and gateway to the new suburb, the Hansaviertel .

At the end of his architectural career, Alexander Cazin also worked for housing associations . Cazin's architectural office was initially located in the house at Südstrasse 65, from 1907 in the house at Hermannstrasse 34a and finally, until 1936, in her own house at Jägerstrasse 2 (destroyed by the war).

Buildings and designs

Commercial and residential building on Alter Fischmarkt 1 in the old town of Münster
  • 1887: Villa Richthofen Castle in Denver
  • 1887: Regis College main building in Denver, with Henry Dozier
  • 1892: Mount St. Gertrude Academy (Boulder county), with Luther Hixon
  • 1901: Newspaper publisher Fahle's residential and commercial building in Münster, Alter Fischmarkt 1
  • 1901–1903: Orthopedic Clinic of the Hüfferstiftung in Münster
  • 1904: Villa Terfloth in Münster, at the Kreuzschanze
  • 1911: St. Joseph's Hospital in Bochum
  • 1913–1915: Aschendorff publishing house in Münster (with Alfred Hensen)
  • around 1925: Villa Becher in Münster (broken off)
  • 1930: Catholic parish church St. Joseph in Bad Waldliesborn near Lippstadt (together with Heinrich Lohmann)

literature

  • Ulrich Althöfer: The former Villa Terfloth at the Kreuztor. In: Franz-Josef Jacobi (Ed.): City Society in Transition. Studies on the social history of Münster in the 19th – 20th centuries Century. Regensburg 1995, pp. 395-416.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas J. Noel: Richthofen Castle | SAW ARCHIPEDIA. In: Society of Architectural Historians . Retrieved March 23, 2020 (English).
  2. ^ Frank Dengler: Greetings from Bochum: Change around St. Josef. In: Ruhr news from
  3. ↑ Carl-Heinrich Schmitz residence, Essen wilhelm-buening.de, accessed on August 20, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Cazin, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1944
Place of death Weinähr