Carl Walter (architect)

Carl Walter (born August 29, 1834 in Wimpfen , † April 24, 1906 in Stuttgart ) was a German architect and teacher and director of the Stuttgart building trade school .

Life

Carl Walter attended the Higher Trade School in Darmstadt from 1851 to 1854 , after which he worked in Eduard Knoblauch's architectural office in Berlin in 1855 . From 1856 to 1861 he studied at the Royal Building Academy in Berlin and then worked for Friedrich August Stüler .

From 1861 he lived in Stuttgart and worked there as an architect. 1864/1865 he was a member of the citizens' committee and from 1865 to 1871 the municipal council of the city of Stuttgart. From 1865 he was a teacher for architecture subjects at the Königlich Württembergische Baugewerkschule Stuttgart . In 1869 he was appointed professor. From 1896 he succeeded Joseph von Egle as director of the building trade school. In 1905 he became chairman of the Württemberg Association for Building Studies .

In addition to his teaching activities, he built numerous villas and public buildings in and around Stuttgart.

His son Rudolf Walter was an architect and construction clerk in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

buildings

Stuttgart

• Villa Luise Siegle, Reinsburgstrasse 56 (1865/1866)
• Double tenement house, Reinsburgstrasse 28/30 (1866)
• Schnabel House, Silberburgstrasse 172 (1867)
• Double tenement house (with Carl Eitelbuß), Werastraße 6/8 (1870/1871)
• Middle school for boys and girls (with Heinrich Wagner ), Kasernenstrasse 24–26 (1872–1874)
• Villa Clason, Wagenburgstrasse 13 (1873/74)
• Museum Society House (with Heinrich Wagner), Lindenstrasse 10 / Rotestrasse (1873–1876)
• Villa Jäger und Binder, Marienstraße 33 (1874/1875)
• Knosp house, Feuerseeplatz / Rotebühlstrasse (1881–1883)
• Villa Sieber, Mörikestrasse 21 (1894/1895)

Ludwigsburg

• Villa Franck, Leonberger Strasse 8 (1887–1889)

Tübingen

• Villa Lust (Ludwigslust), Neckarhalde 56 (1888)

Ulm

• Saalbau, Bahnhofstrasse / Mühlengasse (1894–1896)

literature

• Architectural studies. Published by the Architects' Association at the Kgl. Polytechnic in Stuttgart approx. 1881/1891, booklet 58, sheet 8, booklet 66, sheet 5–6 (House of the Museum Society).
• Christine Breig: The construction of villas and country houses in Stuttgart 1830–1930. (= Publications of the Archives of the City of Stuttgart , Volume 84). Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-89850-964-8 , p. 541.

Web link

• Ludwigslust - A forgotten garden in the Tübingen Neckarhalde ( Memento from October 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). A short biography has been entered under the section "The House".