Carl Deul

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Carl Deul (born January 25, 1855 , † August 17, 1904 in Oberschöneweide near Berlin ) was a German architect and first head of the rural community Oberschöneweide 1898-1904. In his capacity as chairman of a terrestrial company from 1900, he ensured the settlement of large industrial companies in today's Berlin district of Oberschöneweide. His grave at the Oberschöneweide forest cemetery is a Berlin grave of honor .

Life

Carl Deul, a trained master builder , was elected chairman of the Oberschönweide an der Oberspree GmbH terracing company in 1889 . The managing director of this company was Max Hagemann and it was based in Unter den Linden . This company pursued the goal of locating industrial companies and apartments in southeast Berlin along the Spree by developing new areas . The Oberspree terrain and construction company also took care of the practical implementation on site . The small property around the former Wilhelminenhof excursion restaurant and the attempt to develop an excursion area for residents of the capital became an ambitious economic goal.

The company acquired a large piece of land and had it parceled out until 1902. Carl Deul managed to win over important industrialists such as Werner von Siemens or Emil Rathenau to set up their factories in Oberschöneweide. For this it was necessary to develop the infrastructure quickly. The new rural community, founded in 1898, had streets laid out and named, and water, sewage and electrical lines laid. In addition, there were transport options such as building tram routes through the main roads, laying a track network for an industrial railway and making the waterway usable. For the construction of the new factory building, the clients won numerous architects such as Ernst Ziesel , Gottfried Klemm , Johannes Kraaz and Paul Tropp . The members elected Carl Deul as the first head of the new rural community Oberschöneweide. During his tenure, houses, schools, a post office and, towards the end of the 19th century, the new Spree bridges Kaisersteg , Treskowbrücke and Stubenrauchbrücke as well as port facilities for industrial companies were built on the north bank of the Spree. The volunteer fire brigade was also founded.

In 1901, Deul was (for the first time) listed in the Berlin address book with the official designations: community head and deputy head (meaning the office of Ober-Schöneweide, formed in 1853). In recognition of Deul's services to the development of the rural community of Oberschöneweide, a street was given the name Deulstrasse around 1900, i.e. during his lifetime, and still bears it.

Tomb

Tomb

Deul died at the age of just 49. The municipal administration and the family had an artistic tomb erected for him in the Oberschöneweide forest cemetery, which opened in 1903 . A copper medallion with the portrait of Deul was embedded on an upright granite slab . A larger than life female figure was placed in front of the plate. It shows a mourning woman with a light cloak and clasped hands, made of sandstone and probably comes from the workshop of the sculptor Walter Schott .

With the formation of the city of Greater Berlin in 1920, Oberschöneweide became a part of the Treptow administrative district . The grave of Carl Deul was declared an honorary grave of the city of Berlin .

Family home

On plot 7 in what was then just named Edisonstrasse (later with a new numbering), Deul had the building contractor Robert Buntzel from Niederschöneweide build a residential and office building for his family. Buntzel had designed a villa in the Swiss house style. This building, known today as Villa Deul, survived the two world wars and is now a listed building. The two-storey building, symmetrically structured by risalits on the street and courtyard side, had an open framework with artistically carved wood on the gable. The originally rich facade structure was simplified in 1916 when the new owner Paul Girkow had the house converted and plastered for use as a pharmacy . The building is currently being restored, shines with an ocher-colored plaster and still serves as a pharmacy.

The development along the street continued into the 1930s, so that the Villa Deul is flanked on both sides by further residential buildings. It is the oldest surviving residential building in Oberschöneweide.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Terraingesellschaft (s) Oberschönweide and Oberspree . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1901, Part I, p. 1649.
  2. ↑ Ober-Schöneweide: Authorities, institutions, associations . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1901, Part V, p. 139. “Deul, Carl; Master builder, deputy head of office, community head ”.
  3. ↑ Deulstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  4. ↑ Detailed picture of the Deul tomb
  5. ↑ Monument Villa Deul, Edisonstrasse 15
personal data
SURNAME Deul, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and first head of the rural community Oberschöneweide (1898–1904)
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1855
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1904
Place of death Oberschöneweide near Berlin