Carl Anton Meckel

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Carl Anton Meckel (born June 3, 1875 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 2, 1938 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German architect .

Life

Carl Anton Meckel, son of the architect Max Meckel (1847–1910), spent his childhood and youth in his native Frankfurt am Main until his family moved to Freiburg im Breisgau in 1894. Before moving, he graduated from high school. This was followed by military service as a one-year volunteer . In the years 1895–1897 he completed an architecture degree at the Technical University in Karlsruhe with Carl Schäfer and at the Technical University in Munich with Friedrich von Thiersch . In 1897 he joined his father Max Meckel's architectural office in Freiburg, where he was the first to plan and build his parents' house at 2 Stadtstrasse. The collaboration between son and father lasted until Max Meckel's death in 1910. After that, he continued to run the office independently until his death in 1938. From 1908 to 1911 and 1919 to 1921, Meckel was chairman of the Upper Rhine section of Baden Architects and engineers association.

He is the father of the writer Eberhard Meckel (1907–1969; pseudonym Peter Sixt ). The writer and graphic artist Christoph Meckel (1935–2020) is his grandson.

Honors

In the Freiburg district of Betzenhausen , the street Meckelhof near the Seepark is named after Carl Anton Meckel. In the building of the Sparkasse Freiburg , the former cash desk built by Meckel is called Meckelhalle ; exhibitions and cultural events are held here today.

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Southern front of the Herder publishing house in Freiburg
Church of St. Konrad in Freiburg

Meckel designed numerous private and public buildings, many of them in Freiburg im Breisgau and the surrounding area, mostly together with his father until 1910. In addition, he took part in numerous competitions throughout Germany, some of which were awarded prizes. In addition, he was also active artistically, for example with designs for fountains or facade painting. The Rau fountain, one of these artistic works, was donated by the Freiburg councilor Ludwig Rau. The St-Georgs-Brunnen on Münsterplatz, which Meckel later designed, is based on it. This replaced the Leopoldsbrunnen by Franz Sales Glänz , which Leopold von Baden had inaugurated in 1845 on the day after the main station opened . Before that, there was also a St George's fountain from the late Middle Ages in its place.

Stylistically, Meckel's work was motivated by the Gothic style of his father and his teacher Schäfer as well as by Thiersch's Baroque formal language. Gothic forms can be found, for example, in the design for the new college building at Freiburg University; the baroque influences can be seen in the one for the new Dresden town hall . Later he oriented himself towards simpler forms, which are revealed to the viewer in the residential buildings on Tennenbacher Platz and Tullastraße. Together with Karl Gruber and Joseph Schlippe , he shaped the image of Freiburg before the Second World War.

At the Krebs bank
Stonemason's mark
Mother Well Freiburg
Fountain on the potato market, backside of Haus zum Walfisch, Freiburg

His stonemason's mark , which he acquired as a signature based on the example of medieval builders, can be found on several of the buildings in Freiburg that were built according to Meckel's designs . Some of it is clearly recognizable, such as on the house of the whale or under the portal figure of St. Conrad and Elisabeth . In part, it is artistically designed and can be seen linked to the year of construction, for example above the entrances to the buildings on Tennenbacher Platz or a bay window in Poststrasse. It can also be found in an artistic window grille in the house of the "Badische Heimat" in Hansjakob-Straße.

Buildings and designs

Freiburg

  • Banking house JA Krebs , 1904/05
  • Reconstruction of the Großer Meyerhof, 1906/07
  • Department Store zum Geist, 1907
  • Private women's clinic Prof. Bulius, Marienstraße, 1907–1909
  • Reconstruction and expansion of the Stadtsparkasse in Haus zum Walfisch , 1909–1911
  • Rau residential and commercial building, 1909
  • Herder publishing house , 1910–1912
  • Residential complex Lorettostraße 62, 1924
  • Badische Heimat house, Hansjakobstrasse 12, 1925
  • Sacred Heart Convent, 1925
  • Catholic Church of St. Konrad , 1929
  • Housing complex on Tennenbacher-Platz, 1929

Other cities

Mühlentor Bräunlingen, renovated in 1904
  • Restoration project for St. Nikolaus Minster in Überlingen , 1899
  • Catholic garrison church St. Georg in Ulm , 1899–1904
  • Hospital of the Brothers of Mercy in Montabaur , 1900–1903
  • Electrical center and mill gate in Bräunlingen , 1904/1905
  • Pilgrims' house on the Rochusberg near Bingen, 1905–1909
  • Reconstruction and expansion of the Morosani sports hotel in Davos , 1907
  • Catholic parish church Heiliggeist with parish and sacristan's house in Basel , 1909–1912
  • Reconstruction and expansion of the Schlueter House in Danzig , 1910–1912
  • Elementary school in Ettenheim , 1910
  • Restoration project for Sponeck Castle , 1930

Competitions

Artistic work

  • Heiliggeistspital , Freiburg, 1907
  • Rau-Brunnen on the potato market (together with plasterer Ludwig Kubanek ), Freiburg, 1908
  • Facade painting at the Kleiner Meyerhof, Freiburg, 1908
  • Reconstruction of the market fountain, Rottenburg am Neckar , 1910/1911
  • Figure cycle on the Ochsenbrücke / Eschholzbrücke, Freiburg, 1912 (bridge construction and design, executed by Ludwig Kubanek)
  • Draft of a memorial for Obristwachtmeister von Rehling, Freiburg, 1911 (together with Ludwig Kubanek)
  • Memorial for the fallen soldiers of the Badischer Schwarzwaldverein (together with Arnold Rickert ), at the Allerheiligen monastery , Oppenau
  • Art book for the 25th anniversary of Brenzinger & Cie. , 1922
  • Grave field of the Brenzinger family , Freiburg, 1923
  • Memorial to the fallen of the 5th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 113 , Freiburg, 1925
  • Mother well at the Maria-Hilf-Kirche (together with Helmut Hopp ), Freiburg, 1934
  • St. George's Fountain, Freiburg, 1930s, copy based on documents and fountain parts that have been preserved

Fonts

  • A Romanesque house in Freiburg im Breisgau. In: Journal of the Breisgau-Geschichtsverein (Schau-ins-Land) , 104th year 1985, pp. 247-258 (originally from January 1910)
  • New buildings on Münsterplatz in Freiburg im Breisgau. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, 1908, No. 103 (from December 26, 1908), pp. 682–635 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • "L.": Construction Director Meckel in Freiburg i. Br. †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 31, 1911, No. 1/2 (from January 4, 1911), p. 8 ( digitized version ).
  • Joseph Schlippe : The house of the Badische Heimat and its architect CA Meckel . In: Badische Heimat 1951, pp. 194–199 ( digitized version ).
  • Leo Schmidt : Max and Carl Anton Meckel and the conversion of the "Zum Walfisch" house into a savings bank in the years 1909–1911. In: Journal of the Breisgau-Geschichtsverein (Schau-ins-Land) , 104, 1985, pp. 269-280 ( digitized ).
  • Saskia Durian-Ress (Ed.): 100 Years of Freiburg Architects' Book. Building at the end of the century 1898–1998 (book accompanying the exhibition at the Augustinermuseum Freiburg, Wentzingerhaus Department - Museum of City History, from November 27, 1998 to January 17, 1999). Poppen & Ortmann, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, ISBN 3-7930-9206-2 , p. 22f.
  • Michael Klant (Ed.): Sculpture in Freiburg. Vol. 1, Modo, Freiburg i. Br. 1998, ISBN 3-922675-76-X .
  • Werner Wolf-Holzäpfel : The architect Max Meckel (1847–1910). Studies on the architecture and church building of historicism in Germany . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2000, ISBN 3-933784-62-X , pp. 253–327

Web links

Commons : Carl Anton Meckel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Steinmetzzeichen Carl Anton Meckel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf-Holzäpfel, p. 385
  2. ↑ Freiburg newspaper of August 1, 1845
  3. ↑ Hans Schadek: Freiburg, formerly - yesterday - today, The city in the course of the last 100 years , Steinkopf Verlag , 2004, p. 64
  4. ^ A b c d e Bernhard Vedral: Max Meckel 1847–1910 Carl Anton Meckel 1875–1938 in: Peter Kalchthaler, Walter Preker: Freiburg Biographies , Promo, Freiburg im Breisgau 2002, ISBN 3-923288-33-6
  5. ↑ cf. Examples of stonemason marks at Wikimedia Commons
  6. ↑ Poststrasse 3, 5, 7.
  7. ↑ Badischen Heimat office, Hansjakobstrasse 12, 79117 Freiburg.
  8. ↑ with his father Max Meckel. Carl Anton Meckel: New buildings on Münsterplatz in Freiburg im Breisgau . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 28, 1908, Nr. 103, S. 684–685 ( digitized version ( memento of the original from March 11, 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 instructions and then remove this note. , With floor plans and interior views). Burned out on November 27, 1944 during an air raid on Freiburg and restored from 1948 to 1952. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / digital.zlb.de
  9. ↑ The new administration building of the Sparkasse. In: Freiburger Zeitung of October 9, 1911, 1st and 2nd evening edition; Leo Schmidt: Max and Carl Anton Meckel and the conversion of the "Zum Walfisch" house into a savings bank in the years 1909–1911. In: Journal of the Breisgau History Association (Schau-ins-Land) 104, 1985, pp. 269–280.
  10. ^ Josef Schlippe: The house of the Baden homeland and its architect CA Meckel . In: Badische Heimat 1951, pp. 194–199.
  11. ↑ Baden Biographies, VI. P.818
  12. ↑ Sponeck Castle near Jechtingen am Kaiserstuhl , the Freiburg construction company Brenzinger & Cie. involved, Burg Sponeck near Jechtingen ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed February 25, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kaiserstuhl.live
  13. ^ Badische Seiten , accessed November 9, 2010
  14. ↑ Ute Scherb: We get the monuments we deserve. Freiburg monuments in the 19th and 20th centuries. Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-923272-31-6 , p. 52f. In memory of October 14, 1713 when Freiburg grenadiers fought against the French, title of the design Decorum pro patria mori , 3rd place in the competition, but no realization after revision.
  15. ↑ denkmalprojekt.org: Oppenau, Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg: All Saints Memorial , accessed on March 24, 2010
  16. ↑ Wolf-Holzäpfel, p. 257.
  17. ↑ Ute Scherb: We get the monuments we deserve. Freiburg monuments in the 19th and 20th centuries. Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-923272-31-6 , pp. 100f. The memorial consists of ten circularly arranged columns with a roof architecture and the inscription We say you hope! . Inside is a figure by Arnold Rickert, which shows a seated, naked male figure with a broken sword.
  18. ↑ Ute Scherb: We get the monuments we deserve. Freiburg monuments in the 19th and 20th centuries. Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-923272-31-6 , p. 114.
  19. ↑ The monument originally stood roughly at the point where the Leopoldring is spanned by the Charles Bridge today. In 1970 it was moved to the current location in the Stadtgarten, cf. in addition : A war memorial had to give way again! To mark the 850th anniversary of the city of Freiburg, the northern inner city ring was opened in 1970. In: Badische Zeitung of September 30, 2009.
  20. ↑ Hopp on the wish to want to meet the expectations placed in him: I want to use all my strength to create a monument that is close to the people and German and should become a symbol of the German woman and mother. - quoted from: Ute Scherb: We get the monuments that we deserve. Freiburg monuments in the 19th and 20th centuries. Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-923272-31-6 , p. 147.
  21. ↑ Ute Scherb: We get the monuments we deserve. Freiburg monuments in the 19th and 20th centuries. Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-923272-31-6 , p. 26, footnote 17.
personal data
SURNAME Meckel, Carl Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1938
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau