Caspar Clemens Pimple

Memorial plaque in Kottenheim

Caspar Clemens Pickel (born April 8, 1847 in Kottenheim near Mayen ; † November 7, 1939 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect who was mainly active in the field of Catholic church building in West Germany.

Life

Caspar Clemens Pickel came in 1847 as the son of the basalt mine owner and mayor Caspar Pickel and his wife Catharine nee. Doll was born in Kottenheim. He attended the provincial trade school in Koblenz from 1861 to 1864 and studied from 1865 at the Berlin Building Academy . In 1867 he found a job as an employee in the office of the architect August Rincklake in Düsseldorf. From 1870 to 1876 Pickel worked and lived in Essen , where he supervised the execution of several buildings by Rincklake. In 1876, Pickel took over the Düsseldorf office from Rincklake, who moved to Braunschweig, and successfully continued it.

Pickel was awarded honorary citizenship by his home community of Kottenheim , he had the honorary title of (royal Prussian) building officer and was awarded the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class, and the papal New Year's Order . He was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association “Malkasten” and the Association of German Architects (BDA).

Buildings (selection)

Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Sterkrade

1881–1883: Catholic parish church St. Paulinus in Welling
1881: Chapel of the Marien Hospital in Düsseldorf (with Rincklake), passed away
1883–1886: Reconstruction of the Catholic parish church St. Georg in ( Schwalmtal -) Amern (with Rincklake)
1887–1898: Catholic parish church St. Josef in Krefeld
1888–1890: Catholic Assumption of Mary in Mülheim-Kärlich
1888–1890: Catholic parish church of St. Barbara, Cornelius and Zyprianus in Weibern
1888–1891: Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist in Brohl-Lützing
1890–1892: Catholic Church of St. Mary's Assumption in Düsseldorf- Flingern
1891–1896: New St. Heribert in Cologne-Deutz
1892–1895: Catholic parish church St. Marien in Hagen
1893–1895: Catholic Marienkapelle (branch church) in Adenau (under monument protection)
1894: Catholic chapel St. Maria Virgines in Dedenbach
1895–1898: St. Peter's Catholic parish church in Düsseldorf
1896: Catholic Church of St. Dionisius in Ringen, Grafschaft (Rhineland)
around 1900: Chapel of the Catholic St. Elisabeth Hospital in Bochum
1900–1902: Extension of the Catholic Trinity Church in Weißenthurm
1900–1903: Catholic Church of Our Lady with Capuchin monastery in Oberhausen- Sterkrade
1900–1903: Catholic parish church of St. Johannes Nepomuk in Kripp
1902–1904: Dominican monastery in Cologne
1903–1904: Catholic parish church St. Josef in Oberhausen- Buschhausen
1904: Expansion of the Catholic parish church St. Nikolaus in Kottenheim
1904: Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Kranenburg (Lower Rhine)
1904–1906: Church of the former St. Anna monastery in Remagen
1906–1907: Catholic monastery church and monastery St. Dominikus in Datteln-Meckinghoven
1905–1907: Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Oberhausen- Sterkrade
1908: Catholic parish church St. Lambertus in Kirchdaun ( Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler )
1909–1911: Redesign and expansion of the Catholic parish church of St. Peter in Büderich (Wesel)
1909–1912: Theresienhospital in Düsseldorf, Altestadt 2
1910: Catholic (Dominican) Church of St. Maria Victoria in Berlin (demolished in 1929 due to damage caused by subsidence during underground construction)
1910–1915: Expansion of the Catholic parish church St. Helena in Mönchengladbach - Rheindahlen
1911–1912: Catholic parish church Herz Jesu in Mayen
1911–1915: Extension of the Catholic parish church St. Nikolaus in Königsfeld (or by Peter Marx )
1914–1915: Expansion of the Catholic parish church of St. Michael in Hagen- Wehringhausen

literature

Horst Schmittges: Caspar Clemens Pickel 1847–1939. Prestel, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7913-0339-2 .

Web links

Commons : Caspar Clemens Pickel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural Guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 .
↑ Christel Darmstadt (ed.), Rüdiger Jordan: Sacred architecture in Bochum. Schürmann & Klagges, Bochum 2003, ISBN 3-920612-94-9 , p. 243. (with short biography)
^ Claudius Engelhardt: The parish church in Kottenheim. A tour of the church and its history. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7322-9829-7 .
^ Gertrud Ritter, Theodor Beckmann: To the history of the Dominican monastery Meckinghoven. (= Dattelner Hefte , No. 5.) ISBN 3-9804869-7-4 .

personal data
SURNAME	Pimple, Caspar Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	April 8, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kottenheim near Mayen
DATE OF DEATH	November 7, 1939
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[AFDü-1] Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural Guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 .

[2] Christel Darmstadt (ed.), Rüdiger Jordan: Sacred architecture in Bochum. Schürmann & Klagges, Bochum 2003, ISBN 3-920612-94-9 , p. 243. (with short biography)

[3] Claudius Engelhardt: The parish church in Kottenheim. A tour of the church and its history. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7322-9829-7 .

[4] Gertrud Ritter, Theodor Beckmann: To the history of the Dominican monastery Meckinghoven. (= Dattelner Hefte , No. 5.) ISBN 3-9804869-7-4 .