Bihl & Woltz

Inscription "Bihl & Woltz Architects" on the former administration building of the General German Insurance Company in Stuttgart

Bihl & Woltz was a German architects' firm based in Stuttgart , which existed from the late 1880s to the 1930s and was active throughout Württemberg and especially in the state capital Stuttgart. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the firm was one of the most famous architects' offices in Stuttgart and Württemberg and made a significant contribution to overcoming historicism in Württemberg. A number of Bihl & Woltz buildings that have been preserved are listed .

history

Entrance building of the Feuerbach train station (facade design, 1909)

Business and tenement house with restaurant / café "Reichshof" in Stuttgart-Mitte, Tübinger Straße 17A u. 17B (1897)

Former Hotel Victoria in Stuttgart-Mitte (1894, not preserved)

Double apartment building in Stuttgart-Mitte, Hohenheimer Strasse 85 and 87 (1891)

The partnership was founded in 1891 by the architects Georg Friedrich Bihl (1847–1935) and Alfred Woltz (1861–1935) in Stuttgart. Bihl and Woltz were each later awarded the honorary title of building officer . The law firm was active until the 1930s.

Bihl & Woltz designed and built numerous residential and commercial buildings, as well as z. B. Commercial, hospital, town hall, school and sacred buildings. The office was also active in industrial construction and was therefore in competition with the Stuttgart architectural offices of Philipp Jakob Manz and Ludwig Eisenlohr  & Carl Weigle , but did not appear as a “specialized office”. The office has successfully participated in architectural competitions several times and has also been invited to limited competitions; For example, the contract for the new town hall in Schramberg, completed in 1913, was the result of a competition success. Bihl & Woltz are counted among the architects "who made essential contributions to overcoming historicism in Württemberg".

Several of the office's buildings were included in the Modern New Buildings portfolio , whose aim was to present a “selection of the best architecture by the most important architects”. At least four different buildings by Bihl & Woltz were published here. In the new edition of the Dehio-Handbuch für Baden-Württemberg (Part I) published in 1993, several of Bihl & Woltz's listed buildings are mentioned, including the former Hofbuchdruckerei Greiner & Pfeiffer in Stuttgart , the former administration building of the General German Insurance Association and the former Bachner Brewery (see literature ).

In 1992, the great-grandson of the architect Georg Friedrich Bihl donated a collection of documents from the Bihl & Woltz law firm to the Stuttgart State Archives . These are drawings and files for buildings in Stuttgart and all of Württemberg, which cover a period from around 1889 to 1935. This archive material with a volume of more than 37  meters of shelves is currently being archived.

buildings

• 1891: Double apartment building in Stuttgart-Mitte, Hohenheimer Straße 85 and 87 (in the style of historicism / transition to neo-renaissance)
• 1893: Double tenement house with restaurants in Stuttgart-Mitte, Bopserstraße 18 (in neo -renaissance style )
• 1894: Hotel Victoria (also Hotel Viktoria ) in Stuttgart-Mitte, Friedrichstrasse 28 (in the late classicist - historicist style; the building was destroyed during the Second World War and its ruins torn down after the war)
• 1894: Hofbuchdruckerei Greiner & Pfeiffer (later: Württembergische Gaszählerfabrik J. Braun ) in Stuttgart-Mitte, Christophstraße 40 (1915 extended by No. 38 by Rudolf Schweitzer)
• 1897: Residential and commercial building with restaurant / café "Reichshof" in Stuttgart-Mitte, Tübinger Strasse 17A and 17B
• 1898, 1902, 1913: Administration building for the General German Insurance Association in Stuttgart, Olgastraße 18-20 (realization in 3 construction phases)
• 1900: Machine and brewhouse of the Bachner brewery in Stuttgart-West, Hasenbergstrasse 31
• 1901: Villa Herdweg 59 in Stuttgart; Extension for Dr. med. M. Fischer executed from 1903
• 1902: Tübinger Strasse 92 residential and commercial building in Stuttgart (with Gustav Rath involved )
• 1908: Cemetery chapel in Waiblingen (octagonal central building in neo-romantic shapes)
• 1909: façade of the station building of the station Feuerbach in Feuerbach (in the style of neo-baroque ), on behalf of the Württemberg Royal State Railways
• 1911: Linden Museum (State Museum of Ethnology) on Hegelplatz in Stuttgart (together with the Stuttgart architect Georg Eser; neo-classicism with southern German characteristics)
• 1912: Trade school in Schwäbisch Hall , Gymnasiumstraße 4 (in the style of neo-classicism )
• 1913: Schramberg town hall
• 1913: Villa Wannenstrasse 18 in Stuttgart for the manufacturer Wilhelm Maurer
• 1916: Tropical convalescent home (today the Paul Lechler Hospital Tropical Clinic ) in Tübingen for the German Institute for Medical Mission ( Difäm )

literature

• Christine Breig: The construction of villas and country houses in Stuttgart 1830–1930. 4th, revised edition, Hohenheim Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-89850-964-8 (= Publications of the Archive of the City of Stuttgart , Volume 84.) (also dissertation , University of Stuttgart 1998.)
• Dagmar Zimdars and others (edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Baden-Württemberg I: The administrative districts of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 .

Web links

Commons : Bihl & Woltz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bihl & Woltz: Projects in the holdings of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin
• Archives of the architecture office Bihl & Woltz, Stuttgart in the holdings of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives

Individual evidence

1. ^ State capital Stuttgart (Ed.): List of cultural monuments. Immovable architectural and art monuments. (As of April 25, 2008; PDF file, 490 kB, accessed on May 17, 2011)
2. ↑ State capital Stuttgart (ed.), Titus Häussermann (arrangement): The Stuttgart street names. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-87407-549-4 , p. 91 ( online at Google books ).
3. ^ Kerstin Renz: Industrial architecture in the early 20th century. The office of Philipp Jakob Manz. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-421-03492-3 , p. 39. (also dissertation , University of Stuttgart 2003.)
4. ^ ^{A b} Franz Fehrenbacher: Rathausbau 1907–1913 on the website of the city of Schramberg, accessed on May 17, 2011
5. ^ Stadtarchiv Schwäbisch Hall (ed.): List of cultural monuments in the city of Schwäbisch Hall. Schwäbisch Hall o. J., p. 202. (quoted in: building directory. Gymnasiumstraße 4 - Former industrial school → Descriptions ; accessed on May 17, 2011).
6. ^ Rolf Fuhlrott: German-language architecture magazines. Origin and development of the architecture journals in the period from 1789–1918. With list of titles and records of holdings. Verlag Documentation, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7940-3653-0 , p. 136.
7. ^ Holdings on Bihl & Woltz at the Architekturmuseum der Technische Universität Berlin , accessed on May 17, 2011
8. ^ Architectural office Bihl & Woltz, Stuttgart . In: Inventory overview of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives , inventory no. Q 3/41; Retrieved May 17, 2011.
9. ↑ Bopserstraße 18 ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: www.schoenes-stuttgart.de; Retrieved May 17, 2011.  
10. ^ Wilhelm Kick (ed.): Modern new buildings. Continuously published illustrated sheets for architecture. 2nd year. Stuttgarter Architektur-Verlag Kick, Stuttgart 1895, plate 26 ( Hotel Viktoria in Stuttgart ).
11. ^ Wilhelm Kick (ed.): Modern new buildings. Continuously published illustrated sheets for architecture. 4th year, Stuttgart architecture publisher Kick, Stuttgart 1898, plates: 7, 8, 14, 20 (including: The Reichshof in Stuttgart ).
12. ↑ Olgastraße 18-20 ( Memento from July 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). On: www.schoenes-stuttgart.de; Retrieved May 17, 2011.
13. ↑ Tübinger Strasse 92 in Stuttgart  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 4, 2012  
14. ^ Klaus J. Loderer: Christian Gottfried Hämmerle (1843 to 1916) and the Backnang cemetery chapel. In: Stadtarchiv Backnang (ed.): Backnanger Jahrbuch 2009. Volume 17. Stadt Backnang, Backnang 2009, p. 135. ( online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF; 809 kB)  
15. ↑ Immovable architectural and art monuments in the Feuerbach district → Bahnhof 1 . In: List of cultural monuments , state capital Stuttgart ; Retrieved May 17, 2011.
16. ^ Linden Museum Stuttgart - State. Museum of Ethnology . On: www.stuttgart.de; accessed on June 1, 2015.
17. ^ Gymnasiumstrasse 4 - Former Trade school . On: building directory of the city of Schwäbisch Hall ; Retrieved May 17, 2011.