August Scheidgen

Bonn, Adenauerallee 91 a (Villa Scheidgen), 2013

Bonn, Dahlmannstrasse 3–5 (Villa Dahm), 1991

Bonn, Dahlmannstraße 3–5 (Villa Dahm), back side, 2006

August Scheidgen (born May 1, 1866 in Solingen ; † January 18, 1951 in Bonn ) was a German architect .

Life

origin

As a descendant of a winemaking family attested since 1613 in Rheinbrohl , August Scheidgen was a son of the bricklayer Jakob Scheidgen (born October 3, 1831 in Rheinbrohl; † June 21, 1885 in Königswinter) and Gertrud, née Heimbach († December 31, 1916 in Cologne). His grandfather Johann Scheidgen († 1876 in Rheinbrohl) was still a winemaker. Since the father Jakob Scheidgen could not have inherited the winery due to an older brother, he learned the mason trade . While he was working on the new building of the local parish church of St. Suitbert (1852–1856, design : Vincenz Statz ) he received his journeyman - and a few years later also his master craftsman's certificate . In 1863 he and his wife Gertrud , who had recently been married, moved to Wülfrath , where he had received a larger contract and from there in 1865 to Solingen . During the period up to the move to Königswinter in 1872, Jakob also carried out assignments as a master bricklayer and site manager in Rheinbrohl. From 1872 to 1885 he then developed a lively construction activity as a building contractor in Königswinter. As one of three site managers under the site manager Franz Langenberg (1842–1895), he was also involved in the construction of the castle-like dragon castle for Baron Stephan von Sarter above Königswinter in 1881ff .

Career

August Scheidgen was 19 years old when his father died. Together with his two years older brother, master bricklayer Johann Scheidgen, he continued his father's construction company. In 1890, August then took the opportunity to move to Bonn on the other side of the Rhine in order to obtain his master craftsman's certificate there in the course of the construction of the Albertinum . While the original design came from Johannes Richter , who died before construction began , it was ultimately carried out by Franz Langenberg, who already knew August Scheidgen from building the Drachenburg. During his stay in Bad Homburg, August married Rosalia called Röschen Römerscheid (* 1867 in Neuwied; † August 5, 1937 in Bonn), the daughter of the Königswinter master carpenter Wilhelm Josef Römerscheid, in Oberdollendorf in May 1892 . After only 16 months, August Scheidgen took up a new job in the office of the future cathedral builder Ludwig Becker in Mainz . For this he took over the construction management at the Marienkirche in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . Becker carried out the draft he had originally worked out for Krefeld there, with slight modifications. After the completion of the Marienkirche, August Scheidgen joined the Westdeutsche Bau-AG in Dortmund as an architect and initially moved there with his family. Obviously, the West German was looking for an employee with good local knowledge of the Bonn area, as she subsequently became more active with new residential buildings in the southern part of Bonn . Therefore, in February 1899, he rented an apartment with an office in the house at Kronprinzenstrasse 7 , which belonged to the newspaper publisher Carl Hauptmann . On behalf of his employer, Scheidgen looked after the Bonn properties, Coblenzer Strasse 129 and 131 , Wörthstrasse 10 and Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse 14. From 1902, he and his family lived in the company's own villa at what later became Adenauerallee 78. From 1907, he took over repeatedly Commissioned work for hotels in his hometown of Königswinter. His last known contract was the renovation of the Marienhospital in Bonn, which was completed with the ceremonial reopening on June 10, 1927. He also took part in various architectural competitions, some of which he worked out in collaboration with his son Otto and his brother Johann.

family

The son Otto (1893–1977) emerged from the marriage of August and Röschen Scheidgen . As a trained architect (studied in Chemnitz and Stuttgart), he worked as a monument conservator in the service of various state institutions from the mid-1930s until his death.

Johann Scheidgen (born July 27, 1864 in Wülfrath, † April 13, 1935 in St. Wendel), August's older brother, took over work on the restoration and preservation of monuments on behalf of the Rhineland State Conservator, who was headed by Paul Clemen at the time held. Examples include work on the choir ruins of Heisterbach Abbey (1897) and the local management of the security work at Nideggen Castle under the supervision of Ludwig Arntz (1901 to 1906). For Ludwig Becker he took over the construction management on his order for the church St. Eligius in Völklingen (1912-1913) and parallel to the extensive restoration of the parish church St. Wendalinus in St. Wendel (1912-1919 and 1923-1929). From 1919 he carried out the construction of an episcopal church in Florianópolis, Brazil, designed by his brother, followed by a similar assignment in Lages . The orders came in 1919 through the bishop of Florianópolis, João Becker, a native of St. Wendel.

plant

Buildings in Bonn and the surrounding area

Start of planning ; construction time	Community district	address	image	object	measure	Remarks
1899-1903	Bonn district of Gronau	Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse 20 location	more pictures	Professor Kocks villa	New building	Canceled in 1936
1899-1900	Bonn district of Gronau	Adenauerallee 129 location	more pictures	Villa Witwe Ermekeil (before completion, acquisition by lawyer Jakob Biesenbach)	New building	Monument protection
1900	Bonn district of Gronau	Tempelstrasse 10 location	more pictures	Villa Finkler	New building (execution only up to the height of the base , as Westdeutsche Bau AG canceled the order)	Monument protection
1900-1901	Bonn district of Gronau	Adenauerallee 131 formerly Coblenzer Straße 131 location	more pictures	Villa widow Ermekeil	New building	Monument protection
1903	Bonn district of Südstadt	At the Elisabethkirche 3 formerly Helmholtzstraße 3 location		Apartment building	New building	Monument protection
1903	Bonn district of Südstadt	Argelanderstraße 83 location		Apartment building	New building	Monument protection
1903-1905	Bonn district of Gronau	Dahlmannstrasse 3–5 location	more pictures	Villa factory owner Wilhelm Zimmerstaedt	Cultivation	Canceled in 2006
1905 ; 1906-1907	Bonn district of Gronau	Adenauerallee 91a formerly Coblenzer Straße 91a location	more pictures	Private house with Scheidgen architecture studio	New building	Monument protection; in future part of the Federal Office of Justice
1907	Bonn district of Mehlem	Mainzer Straße 229 location	more pictures	Villa Arthur Camphausen	Facade renewal and renovations	Monument protection
1907	Koenigswinter	Rheinallee location		Hotel Berliner Hof	Reconstruction due to the installation of an elevator	Destroyed in the war in 1944
1908	Bonn district of Mehlem	Mainzer Straße 229 location	more pictures	Villa Arthur Camphausen	Increase	Monument protection
1909	Königswinter Rheinallee 9	Rheinallee 9 location		Hotel Europaeischer Hof	Car garage and new sewer	Canceled in 1979
1909	Koenigswinter	Rheinallee location		Hotel Berliner Hof	Glass veranda	Destroyed in the war in 1944
1910	Koenigswinter	Rheinallee location		Hotel Berliner Hof	Bandstand	Destroyed in the war in 1944
1911	Koenigswinter	Rheinallee 12 location	more pictures	Hotel Monopol (later Loreley)	garage
1911-1912	Koenigswinter	Rheinallee location		Hotel Berliner Hof	Installation of a buffet in the basement of the tower and expansion of the main entrance	Destroyed in the war in 1944
1914	Bonn district Poppelsdorf	Robert-Koch-Strasse 1 location		Marienhospital	Chapel (neo-Gothic)
1916	Bonn district of Gronau	Adenauerallee 131 formerly Coblenzer Straße 131 location	more pictures	Villa Kommerzienrat A. J. Eschbaum	modification	Monument protection
1920	Königswinter Rheinallee 9	Rheinallee 9 location		Hotel Europaeischer Hof	Conversion of the basement to a taproom	Canceled in 1979
1922	Koenigswinter	Rheinallee location		Hotel Berliner Hof	Redesign of the Rhine front and adding one floor (attic)	Destroyed in the war in 1944
1920-1922	Bonn district of Gronau	Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse 20 location		Villa Engelbert-Maria von Arenberg (formerly Professor Kocks)	Attachments, conversions and extensions	Canceled in 1936
1925	Koenigswinter	Rheinallee 12 location	more pictures	Hotel Monopol (later Loreley)	Redesign of the Rhine front
1926-1927	Bonn district Poppelsdorf	Robert-Koch-Strasse 1 location		Marienhospital	Reconstruction and expansion
1929	Bonn district of Dransdorf			Competition for a church (St. Antonius)		Erected in 1929/30 based on a design by Jakob Stumpf

Buildings outside

• 1892–1895: Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , St. Marienkirche , construction management based on designs by Ludwig Becker
• 1912–1913: Heimbach-Vlatten , St. Michaelskapelle (with Johann Scheidgen)
• 1919: Florianópolis , State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, design for a bishop's church (executed by Johann Scheidgen)-9999
• around 1919: Lages , State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, design for a bishop's church (executed by Johann Scheidgen)–9
• 1927: Fortaleza , State of Ceará, Brazil, competition for a church building (with Otto Scheidgen)-9999
• 1928: Hermeskeil , Franciscan monastery, competition (with Johann Scheidgen)-9999
• 1929: -9999Krefeld- Bockum , competition for a church

literature

• North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation (ed.): Schloss Drachenburg. Historicistic castle romance on the Rhine . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-02241-6 .
• Helmut Scheidgen: A Rhenish family of architects. Rheinbrohl-Koenigswinter-Bonn. 1822-1977. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-416-03129-5 .
• Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914. The villas of the picturesque style in Bonn-Bad Godesberg and the second development phase in Bonn, Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , volume 3, catalog (2). (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994).
• Angelika Schyma: City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 23.5.) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 .

Web links

Commons : August Scheidgen  - Collection of Images

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd} Helmut Scheidgen: A Rhenish family of architects. Rheinbrohl-Koenigswinter-Bonn. 1822-1977.
2. ^ North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation (ed.): Schloss Drachenburg. Historicistic castle romance on the Rhine. P. 62
3. ↑ Eva Rowedder: cultural monuments in Hesse. City of Bad Homburg vdH Theiss, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1597-9 , p. 181 f.
4. ↑ today Prinz-Albert-Straße 7
5. ↑ today Adenauerallee 129 and 131
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn. 1819-1914.
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Elmar Heinen: Königswinter in old views. Volume 1, European Library, Zaltbommel 1976/1981 , DNB 997748389 , Fig. 19.
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Angelika Schyma: City of Königswinter.
9. ↑ ^{a b} The Hotel Europäische Hof in Königswinter on the website “The Ittenbach Virtual Local History Museum”, accessed on January 28, 2018.
10. ↑ Elmar Heinen: Königswinter in old views. Volume 1, European Library, Zaltbommel 1976/1981 , DNB 997748389 , Fig. 20.
11. ↑ Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne, 26th edition. 1966, Volume II, p. 109.