Anton Becker (architect)

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Anton Becker; Tomb at the Poppelsdorf cemetery (Bonn)
Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Meckenheim-Lüftelberg
St. Cosmas and St. Damian, Grafschaft-Eckendorf

Anton Becker (born April 14, 1853 in Lüftelberg , † August 10, 1899 in Bonn ) was a German architect , builder and contractor .

Life

Becker came on April 14, 1853 as the son of the master bricklayer Cornelius Becker and his wife Agnes Becker nee. Wimmer in Lüftelberg, today part of the city of Meckenheim, to the world. Shortly before he was born, Merl's parents moved to Lüftelberg, where his mother's ancestors had been potters and roofing tiles for several generations. Here he attended elementary school , where he made friends with the later organ builder Johannes Klais (1852–1925), with whom he lived at times at Breitestrasse 80 in Bonn at the beginning of the 1880s. In 1885 he married Maria Helene Dewald (* 1857) from Altenkirchen (Westerwald) . The Becker couple had lived in Bornheimer Strasse 20 in Bonn since 1886. The marriage remained childless.

Becker died on August 10, 1899 after a long illness in his house in Bonn and was buried on August 13, 1899 in the Poppelsdorf cemetery in Bonn. His grave (enclosure, stele and portrait relief) is a listed building .

Professional activity

In 1881 Anton Becker opened an architecture office in Bonn. Shortly afterwards he founded the construction company Becker & Böhm with Johann Böhm (1855–1923) . Between 1881 and 1899, he was involved as a planner and building contractor in the construction of numerous residential and church buildings in Bonn, in the southern part of what would later become the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and in the northern part of what would later become the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The houses he built around 1890 and are now under monument protection are mainly in the southern part of Bonn , where, for example, he built numerous houses for the coffee roasting and trading company A. Zuntz sel. Wwe. On Argelanderstraße. With his help, churches were built, including in Bonn (Neu St. Martin, Muffendorf, 1894–1895), Meckenheim (St. Johannes 1889–1890), Grafschaft-Eckendorf (St. Cosmas and St. Damian, 1893–1894) and Andernach -Eich (Mary's Birth, 1896–1897) and chapels in Meckenheim-Lüftelberg (1884), Meckenheim-Merl (1899–1900) and the former chapels in Alfter-Impekoven (1884) and at the Petrus Hospital (1898–1899, today: community hospital , St. Petrus House) in Bonn. As a church builder Anton Becker is attributed to the "Cologne School" by art historians such as Herzog and Nussbaum, such as Carl Rüdell (1855–1939), Richard Odenthal (1855–1919) and Theodor Kremer (1845–1927). In addition, he built commercial buildings, e.g. E.g. in Alfter - Witterschlick a production hall of the Servais works for the production of wall and floor tiles (1890), in Bonn the extension of the municipal gas works (1893) and in Meckenheim - Lüftelberg the production hall of the roof tile Johann Hötgen (1899).

As a building contractor, he was also involved in the construction of the Bonn town hall in the Gronau district from 1899–1901, which was destroyed in the Second World War .

He represented the interests of his profession in the Building Technology Association and in the Architects and Engineers Association in Bonn , of which he was a founding member and chairman for many years.

literature

  • Volker Osteneck, Eberhard Grunsky : The Bonn south city. (= Workbooks of the Landeskonservator Rheinland , Volume 6.) Bonn 1973.
  • City of Bonn, Lower Monument Authority (publisher): List of monuments of the city of Bonn, as of May 1, 2017.
  • Willy Weyres , Albrecht Mann : Handbook of the Rhenish architecture of the 19th century. Cologne 1968.
  • Horst Hodick: Johannes Klais (1852-1925). A Rhenish organ builder and his work. Munich / Salzburg 2001.
  • Walter J. Dick: Anton Becker - Architect, Builder and Contractor , Rheinbach 2019.
  • Träupmann, Susanne: Anton Becker's architectural traces , in: General-Anzeiger v. 10/11 August 2019, p. 23.

Web links

Commons : Anton Becker  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Hodick: Johannes Klais (1852-1925). A Rhenish organ builder and his work . Munich / Salzburg 2001, p. 24, p. 126 .
  2. ↑ Walter J. Dick: Anton Becker - architect, builder and building contractor, Rheinbach 2019, p. 13f.
  3. ↑ Willy Weyres, Albrecht Mann: Handbook of the Rhenish architecture of the 19th century . Cologne 1968, p. 32 .
  4. ^ Volker Osteneck, Eberhard Grunsky: The Bonn south city. (= Workbooks of the Rhineland State Conservatory , Volume 6.) Bonn 1973, page 15.
  5. ↑ Harald Herzog, Norbert Nussbaum: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Monuments in the Rhineland. 9.5 City of Zülpich . Cologne / Bonn 1988, p. 87 .
  6. ^ Walter J. Dick: Anton Becker - architect, builder and building contractor, Rheinbach 2019, p. 35f.
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüftelberg
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1899
Place of death Bonn