Alois Bohn

Alois Johann Bohn (born November 16, 1879 in Neu-Arad ; † January 7, 1937 in Baden (Lower Austria) ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Alois Bohn was the oldest child of the music teacher and military music bandmaster Johann Bohn. The father came from Lenauheim (Csatád), but then moved to his wife's hometown, Neu-Arad , a place not far away, where his ten children, including the future architect Alois, were born.

Alois Bohn's father was a master of many instruments. Under his influence, the musically talented Alois learned to play the violin as a boy . However, his father Johann Bohn lacked perfect Hungarian language skills, otherwise he could have made a career as an orchestra conductor in Budapest . Alois Bohn, on the other hand, mastered both German and Hungarian and Romanian.

Already in school Alois Bohn excelled in drawing and already won several prizes in this early phase of his life. From 1898 to the end of March 1901 he attended the four winter semesters of the Budapest Royal Hungarian State Higher Building Trade School.

He then worked for some architects. From March 1, 1894 to August 28, 1897, Alois Bohn was employed partly as an intern and partly as a draftsman for the Arad architect Emil Tabakovits. In the Hungarian-speaking area he worked and signed with Alajos Bohn .

From July 1, 1897 to February 15, 1905, Alois Bohn worked for the well-known and renowned Budapest architect Ignác Alpár .

His subsequent employment in the Viennese architecture studio Fellner & Helmer (Vienna IX. District, Servitengasse 7) , which was well known far beyond the borders of the monarchy, was also very fruitful . Here, too, he was significantly involved in the planning of some monumental buildings and also supervised them as construction manager , especially the National Theater of Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár).

In 1910/11 the famous town hall in Szentes was built according to Bohn's plans and under his direction. In 1911 he also built the remarkable building of the hemp factory and a bread factory under the so-called hussar tower in Szentes. In 1914, the eclectic building of the Petöfi Sándor elementary school was built according to his designs.

Alois Bohn moved to Baden near Vienna in 1907 , where he opened an architecture studio in Frauengasse. He soon received numerous orders in the field of private house and villa construction. He was responsible for the construction management of the Baden City Theater .

National Theater in Cluj-Napoca

In January 1910 he married the hotelier's daughter Brigitte Ebruster from the hotel of the same name at Josefsplatz 1 in Baden.

In 1913, Bohn was given responsibility for building the Central-Kínos (Breyerstraße 3; today: 1a).

After the beginning of the First World War he was assigned to the Kuk military construction department of the military command in Temešvár , where, as a royal Hungarian land storm engineer, he was not only responsible for the supervision of the entire Aryan property in Temesvar, but also as a technical advisory board and as a member of the salubrity commission for the military building management of Temesvar headed.

Before and during the First World War, he and his wife bought various properties in Baden, including a farm in Siegenfeld near Baden as a nearby holiday home. On the property at Grabengasse 6a (today: Am Fischertor 5) he built a four-story building for his wife and for himself, at Mozartstraße 6 and 6a (identification addresses: Andreas-Hofer-lines 4a and 5) five residential units for one of his children each.

In 1926 he realized the thermal beach bath in Baden, which had become famous beyond the borders of Austria , a spacious facility, a huge open-air bath with wide sandy areas and a park. At that time, this building could be completed in just three months, and at times 3,000 workers were employed there. The lido is still in full operation today. It was after the Second World War by sulfur pools supplements and a wide parking area was added.

In 1926, the year it was built, this bathroom was considered a worldwide sensation, because there was no such facility anywhere at the time, and experts from many countries visited it.

The architect Alois Bohn was a member of numerous voluntary organizations. He was the bearer of the Golden Cross of Merit with the crown and swords on ribbon, the medal of bravery, the Karl-Troop Cross , the German Iron Cross II . a.

He was buried on January 11, 1937 in the Bohn-Ebruster family cemetery at the municipal cemetery in Baden near Vienna.

Works and drafts

• Royal Hungarian State Museum in Budapest
• National Theater in Cluj-Napoca
• Town hall in Szentes
• Baden lido
• Systems of the trotting arena in Baden
• Palais Musil-Mollenbruck in Baden
• Hotel Ebruster in Baden
• numerous villas and private houses

literature

• Karl Josef Bohn, Gerlinde Bohn: Alois Bohn - a banat architect in the wake of the monarchy. Banat Calendar 2011, p. 186 ff.
• Archive of the Municipal Rollett Museum , Baden near Vienna
• Alois Bohn. G.Hirth Verlag AG, Munich 1931, Baden thermal beach
• Rudolf Maurer: "... no city that has such a pool": Baden's lido 1926-2001. Catalog sheets of the Rollettmuseum Baden, Volume 32, Baden 2001, ISBN 3-901951-32-6
• Private archive Jürgen Leyerer, Salzburg

Web links

• Baden thermal lido on the municipality's website
• Sights of Szentes with information about the town hall on the municipality's website