Carl Moritz (architect)

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Carl Moritz (born April 27, 1863 in Berlin ; † August 23, 1944 in Berg (Starnberger See) ) was a German architect and real estate entrepreneur.

Life

Gravesite of the Mathie family (formerly: Carl Moritz)

Carl Moritz studied architecture at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and passed the second state examination after completing a legal clerkship in public construction. In 1894 he began his career as a freelance architect in Berlin, in the same year he went on a study trip to England, and a year later to Italy. From 1896 to 1898 he was urban planning inspector at the municipal building department in Cologne . From autumn 1898 he worked as a freelance architect in Cologne. Up until the 1930s he founded a total of eight architectural offices and companies in Cologne, working closely with the architects Albert Betten and Werner Stahl. In 1934 he retired and settled at Lake Starnberg , where he died in 1944.

Moritz was buried in Cologne's southern cemetery (hall 24). After the rest period had expired , the Mathie family took over the grave as a sponsorship grave . The old grave inscription on Carl Moritz no longer exists.

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Cologne Opera House, 1902

Bank buildings make up a large part of his work: During his career, Carl Moritz designed around 40, most of them for the Barmer Bankverein , for which he worked as a kind of house architect. Furthermore, no less than about 50 villas and about 15 residential areas are known of him. Moritz also planned around 20 Catholic sacred buildings and seven theaters - both construction projects for which he can be considered a sought-after specialist. In 1908 his plans to build a "sports palace" near the banks of the Rhine in Cologne on the left bank of the Rhine with a cycling track and ice rink failed because there were not enough shareholders. In addition, he was very interested in the education of future generations. He gave many lectures and wrote several publications during his career.

Fonts

  • The development of modern theater construction. (Lecture at the traveling meeting of the Association of German Architects and Engineering Associations (VDAI) in Düsseldorf on September 13, 1904)
In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 38th year 1904
In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 24, 1904, No. 77 (pp. 477–479) and No. 78 (pp. 485–486).
  • New theater culture. From modern theater construction. (= Leaflets for artistic culture , booklets 1–6.) Stuttgart 1906.
  • Houses and villas by Carl Moritz, architect in Cologne. (= 2nd special issue of the magazine Die Architektur des XX. Century .) Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1909.
  • Church buildings and monasteries, educational institutions and hospitals. (= 7th special issue of the magazine Die Architektur des XX. Century .) Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1910.
  • Banks and other administrative buildings. (= 9th special edition of the magazine Die Architektur des XX. Century .) Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1911.

Theater buildings

  • 1900–1902: City Theater (later: Municipal Opera House ) in Cologne, Habsburgerring (destroyed in World War II, ruin demolished in 1958)
  • 1904–1905: Stadttheater in Barmen , Neuer Weg (rebuilt in 1939, destroyed in the Second World War, rebuilt 1954–1956 changed as the Wuppertal Opera House )
  • 1906–1907: City Theater in Kattowitz (Upper Silesia) / Katowice (Poland), today: "Teatr Slaski" ( Silesian Theater )
  • 1905–1907: Stadttheater Düren , Hoeschplatz (destroyed in a bomb attack on November 16, 1944)
  • 1909–1910: "Residenztheater" in Wiesbaden (destroyed in World War II)
  • 1911–1912: Variety theater " Groß-Köln " in Cologne, Friesenstrasse
  • 1913–1916: City Theater in Stralsund , Olof-Palme-Platz (interior modernized in 1968)
  • 1914–1915: Reconstruction of the city theater in Bochum, Königsallee (interior modernized in 1938, destroyed in World War II)

Theater designs

  • Competition 1901: City Theater in Bielefeld (1902–1904 based on a design by Bernhard Sehring )
  • Competition 1901: City Theater in Dortmund (1902–1904 based on a design by Martin Dülfer )
  • Competition 1906: City Theater in Lübeck (1907–1908 based on a design by Martin Dülfer)
  • Competition 1906: City Theater in Posen (today: Poznań, Poland) (1909–1910 based on a design by Max Littmann )
  • Competition 1906: City Theater in Cottbus (1907–1908 based on a design by Bernhard Sehring)
  • Competition 1908: Royal Court Theater in Stuttgart (1909–1912 based on a design by Max Littmann)
  • Competition 1909: City Theater in Duisburg (1911–1912 based on a design by Martin Dülfer)
  • Competition 1909: City Theater in Bremerhaven (1910–1911 based on a design by Oskar Kaufmann )
  • Competition 1909: City Theater in Hagen (1910–1911 based on a design by Ernst Vetterlein )
  • Competition 1911: Large Opera House in (Berlin-) Charlottenburg (not carried out)
  • Competition 1912: New Royal Opera House Berlin (not carried out)
  • Competition 1913: City Theater in Krefeld (not carried out)
  • Competition 1913: City Theater in Bonn (not carried out)
  • Competition 1914: City Theater in Münster (Westphalia) (based on a design by Max Littmann?)
  • Competition 1919: City Theater in Gelsenkirchen (not carried out)

Sacred buildings (selection)

  • 1896–1898: St.-Afra-Stift in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen, Graunstraße (under monument protection)
  • 1897: Ceremony hall for the Reinickendorf cemetery in Berlin-Reinickendorf (under monument protection)
  • 1898: Eben Ezer Chapel for the Catholic Apostolic Congregation in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Bismarckstrasse 40, today used by the Friedenskirche Charlottenburg (Baptist Congregation Berlin-Charlottenburg), a listed building
  • 1900–1902: Catholic parish church of St. Mariae Rosenkranz in (Bochum-) Langendreer, Alte Bahnhofstrasse (destroyed except for the tower in the Second World War)
  • 1903: cath. Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Witten-Stockum, demolished in March 1984
  • 1904: "Zum Guten Hirten" monastery with monastery church in Münster-Mauritz (not preserved)
  • 1906-1908: Cath. All Saints Chapel on the St. Hedwig-Friedhof III in Berlin-Reinickendorf
  • 1906-1908: Cath. Parish Church of St. Nikolaus in Essen-Stoppenberg, Gelsenkirchener Strasse
  • 1908-1910: Cath. Parish Church of St. Joseph in Bielefeld, Kaiserstraße (today: August-Bebel-Straße 7)
  • 1910-1911: cath. Parish Church of St. Elisabeth in Essen-Frohnhausen, Spittlerstrasse (heavily modified after war damage)
  • 1910–1911: Expansion of the cath. Parish Church of St. Helena in Mutscheid
  • 1912-1914: Cath. Parish church of St. Josef in Castrop-Rauxel-Habinghorst
  • 1928–1930: cath. Parish church of Christ the King, called Erphokirche , in Münster, Erphokirchplatz (interior changed in 1972)

Other buildings and designs (incomplete)

Stollwerck House in Cologne, 1906
Gereonshaus in Cologne
former Darmstadt and National Bank in Cologne (today social court)
former Carl Peters department store (today Karstadt)
Under Sachsenhausen in Cologne (today "Dominium" of the Generali)
Bank building, Königsallee 4, Düsseldorf, built 1924–1925 by Moritz und Betten (today an office and commercial building, is a listed building)
  • 1895–1899: Gravenreuthstrasse elementary school (today “Geschwister-Scholl-Schule”) in Cologne-Ehrenfeld
  • 1896–1897: Expansion of the Reinickendorf office building
  • 1898: House at Zeughausstrasse 13, Cologne
  • 1904–1905: Josephshaus of the St. Hedwig Hospital in Berlin
  • 1905–1907: Museum for the music history collection of Wilhelm Heyer in Cologne (today: Hotel Viktoria)
  • 1906: Hettlage department store in Cologne
  • 1906: Bank building of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Diskonto-Gesellschaft in Düsseldorf
  • 1906–1907: own house in Cologne-Marienburg (demolished in 1937)
  • 1906–1907: Office and commercial building, so-called " Stollwerck-Haus ", in Cologne, Hohe Straße (completely changed)
  • 1906–1907: Schütte house in Düsseldorf, Lindemannstrasse 34 (under monument protection)
  • 1907: Branch of the Barmer Bankverein in Osnabrück
  • 1907: Thelemann house in Düsseldorf, Nettelbeckstrasse 3
  • 1907: District building in Siegburg
  • 1907: Ballauf house in Düsseldorf, Lindemannstraße 20 (under monument protection)
  • 1907: Building of the Barmer Bankverein in Iserlohn
  • 1907: Realgymnasium in Ahrweiler
  • 1907: Villa Dr. Hubert Junker, later Villa Heuell, in Olpe, Westfälische Straße 85 (under monument protection)
  • 1907–1909: “Volkshaus” in Düsseldorf
  • 1907–1909: District building of the Cologne district in Cologne, St.-Apern-Straße
  • 1907–1909: Town hall in Frechen
  • 1908–1909: Building of the Barmer Bankverein in Bielefeld, Jahnplatz
  • 1909: Extension for the Barmer Bankverein in Barmen , Fischertal
  • 1909: Branch of the Barmer Bankverein in Lippstadt
  • 1909: Branch of the Barmer Bankverein in Soest
  • 1909: Building of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Disconto-Gesellschaft AG in Düsseldorf, Breite Strasse (facade preserved)
  • 1909–1910: Office and commercial building, so-called Gereonshaus , in Cologne
  • 1910: Competition draft for a Bismarck national monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück (not awarded a prize)
  • 1910: Town hall in (Cologne) Porz
  • 1910: Office building of the Pahl company in Düsseldorf-Rath (changed)
  • 1910: Baking factory with colonial goods warehouse and vehicle fleet for the general consumer association "Free Rhineland" in Düsseldorf, Ronsdorfer Straße 77
  • 1910–1911: Simon Hirschland Bank building , Lindenallee 7/9 (facade under monument protection)
  • 1910–1914: Carl Peters GmbH department store in Cologne, Zeppelinstrasse / Breite Strasse 103–135. Rebuilt completely changed after war damage. Today's use by Karstadt
  • 1911: "Getreidehaus", office and commercial building, Bismarckstrasse 44-46 in Düsseldorf (destroyed in World War II)
  • 1911–1912: Town hall in Menden (Sauerland)
  • 1911–1912: Main administration building of the Barmer Bankverein , Breite Strasse 25 in Düsseldorf
  • 1911–1912: Hotel Fürstenhof , Cologne, at the corner of Marzellenstrasse 2–8 / Trankgasse
  • 1911–1912: Office and commercial building with the “ Handelshof ” hotel in Essen, Am Handelshof
  • 1913: Building of the Barmer Bankverein in Cologne, Unter Sachsenhausen 21–27. Today: Generali “Dominium” building complex
  • 1913–1914: "West building" of the spa hotel in Bad Neuenahr
  • 1913–1915: Deutz suspension bridge in Cologne (destroyed in 1945)
  • 1914: Main gate of the German Werkbund exhibition in Cologne 1914
  • 1914–1916: Office and commercial building, so-called "Hansa-Haus", in Krefeld
  • before 1915: Remise / stable building for a stately home in Düsseldorf
  • 1915: Schwanhilden fountain in Essen-Stoppenberg
  • 1916: Mausoleum of the Stollwerck family in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne
  • 1920: Branch of the Barmer Bankverein in Bonn
  • 1920–1921: Housing construction for the occupation troops in Cologne-Riehl, Riehler Gürtel a. a.
  • 1921: Conversion for the Barmer Bankverein in Gelsenkirchen
  • 1922–1924: Extension of the Barmer Bankverein in Düsseldorf
  • 1922–1924: Building of the Darmstädter und Nationalbank AG in Cologne, An den Dominikanern 2. Today: Cologne Social Court
  • 1923: Building of the Barmer Bankverein in Essen (destroyed)
  • 1924–1925: Darmstädter und Nationalbank AG building in Düsseldorf, Königsallee 2/4
  • 1926: Expansion of the St. Barbara Hospital in Gladbeck
  • 1926: Building of the general local health insurance fund in Cologne
  • 1927–1928: Building of the general local health insurance fund in Koblenz, Rizzastraße 9/11
  • 1927–1928: residential buildings in Cologne-Klettenberg, Heisterbachstrasse
  • 1927–1928: Administration building of the Cologne-Bonn Railways in Cologne
  • 1929–1930: Settlement at the “Krieler Dom” in Cologne-Sülz

Literature and Sources

  • Ralph Berndt: Bernhard Sehring. Dissertation, Technical University Cottbus, 1998.
  • Klaus Winands: The theater in Stralsund. In: Monument protection and preservation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Volume 6 (1999).
  • Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) JP Bachem, Cologne 1996. (2 volumes)
  • Wulf Herzogenrath (Hrsg.): The German Werkbund exhibition Cöln 1914. (= The West German impulse 1900–1914. Art and environmental design in the industrial area. ) (Exhibition catalog) Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne 1984, p. #.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Fritsch, Günter Leitner: Cemeteries in Cologne - in the middle of life. Jürgen Fritsch-Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-936333-01-7 , p. 46.
  2. ^ Kölner Sportstätten GmbH: 20 years Kölner Sporthalle 1958 - 1978. 20 years of sport, 20 years of entertainment, 20 years of meeting places . 1978. o. P.
  3. ^ Hiltrud Kier : List of monuments Cologne old town and Deutz . Ed .: State Conservator Rhineland . tape 12.1 . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0455-2 , p. 130 .
  4. ^ Hiltrud Kier : Reclam's city guide. Architecture and art. Cologne . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-15-018564-3 , p. 110 .
  5. ^ Hiltrud Kier : Reclam's city guide. Architecture and art. Cologne . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-15-018564-3 , p. 170 .
  6. ↑ Max Schmid (ed.): One hundred designs from the competition for the Bismarck National Monument on the Elisenhöhe near Bingerbrück-Bingen. Düsseldorfer Verlagsanstalt, Düsseldorf 1911. (n. Pag.)
  7. ^ Hiltrud Kier : List of monuments Cologne old town and Deutz . Ed .: State Conservator Rhineland . tape 12.1 . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0455-2 , p. 38 .
  8. ^ The grain house in Düsseldorf , in Rhein and Düssel (No. 52) of December 23, 1911
  9. ^ Hiltrud Kier : List of monuments Cologne old town and Deutz . Ed .: State Conservator Rhineland . tape 12.1 . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0455-2 , p. 94 .
  10. ^ Hiltrud Kier : List of monuments Cologne old town and Deutz . Ed .: State Conservator Rhineland . tape 12.1 . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0455-2 , p. 124 .
  11. ^ Hiltrud Kier : List of monuments Cologne old town and Deutz . Ed .: State Conservator Rhineland . tape 12.1 . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0455-2 , p. 23 .
  12. ^ Ataollah Danai: The History of the St. Barbara Hospital Gladbeck, Düsseldorf 1971, p. 78.

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personal data
SURNAME Moritz, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and real estate entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1944
Place of death Berg (Starnberger See)