August Senz

Evangelical Church Kray

Evangelical Church Gebroth

Evangelical Church Kempfeld

August Senz (born June 16, 1862 in Berlin ; † March 2, 1912 or 1913 in Cologne ; full name: Daniel Eduard August Senz ) was a German architect of historicism who stood out primarily in the field of Protestant sacred buildings.

After studying architecture and a subsequent legal clerkship, Senz passed the second state examination and was then appointed government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration). However, he soon gave up the civil service career he had started. He became head of the building department of the Evangelical Church of the Rhine Province and in this role built numerous Protestant churches in the western Ruhr area , in the Rhineland and in the Principality of Birkenfeld .

Buildings and designs

1897–1900: Evangelical Church Essen-Werden
1902–1903: Evangelical Church in Essen-Kray
1902: Evangelical Church in Oberreidenbach
1903–1904: Evangelical Church in Hottenbach
1904–1905: Guier Mausoleum in the castle cemetery in Bad Godesberg
1906: Evangelical Church in Gebroth
1905–1906: Evangelical Church Am Brandenbusch in Essen-Bredeney
1906–1907: Evangelical Church in Berglangenbach
1907: Evangelical Church in Hunsheim
1907: Evangelical Church in Volkenrath
1910–1911: Conversion and renovation of the Evangelical Church in Niederbrombach
1912: Evangelical parish hall in Großenbaum
1912–1913: Evangelical Church in Kempfeld
1912–1913: Evangelical Church in Seesbach

Web links

Data from August Senz at bildindex.de
historical register of architects archthek , section Sckopp – Seytter , last accessed on January 20, 2017

Individual evidence

↑ Baptismal register New Church Berlin, No. 331/1862

personal data
SURNAME	Senz, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Senz, Daniel Eduard August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect, head of the building department of the Evangelical Church of the Rhine Province
DATE OF BIRTH	June 16, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	March 2, 1912 or 1913
Place of death	Cologne

[1] Baptismal register New Church Berlin, No. 331/1862