Curt Karl Rüschhoff

The Schlosshotel Bühlerhöhe in the Black Forest

Bühlerhöhe at 800 meters above sea ​​level

Curt Karl Rüschhoff (born October 15, 1887 in Neuwied ; † May 3, 1969 in Rengsdorf ) was a German architect and is considered a representative of reform architecture .

Life

Born as the son of a Neuwied master painter, Curt Karl Rüschhoff grew up with nine siblings. Before the First World War he studied at the Crafts and Applied Arts School in Barmen-Elberfeld . There he was a student of Wilhelm Werdelmann .

He later worked for Wilhelm Kreis . He built the Schlosshotel Bühlerhöhe near Bühl in the Black Forest , designed by Kreis, together with the architect Hans Woltmann, based on revised plans. Rüschhoff was particularly responsible for the interior design .

Then Rüschhoff successfully set up his own business as an architect in Neuwied . The office and apartment were initially in a villa he himself planned on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße. In later years he lived and worked in the house at Bürgermeister-Wink-Straße 10 in Rengsdorf, which he also designed .

Curt Karl Rüschhoff was the brother of the Neuwied landscape and still life painter Gustav Bernhard Rüschhoff .

buildings

Villa Winkler in Rengsdorf

• 1912–1914: Collaboration at the officer's rest home, later at the Schlosshotel Bühlerhöhe in the Black Forest
• 1919: Award-winning competition design for the "Sonnen- und Mondland" estates of the non-profit building association Neuwied in Neuwied, Engerser Landstrasse (carried out by Rüschhoff; under monument protection , monument zone )
• 1920s: four villas in Neuwied, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße
• 1920s: Housing development for the municipal settlement company (GSG) in Neuwied, Langendorfer Straße
• 1926–1927: House in Neuwied, Wirtgenstrasse 7
• 1928: Main administration building of the Stadtsparkasse Neuwied in Neuwied, Hermannstraße (today a branch of Deutsche Bank AG )
• 1930–1932: representative wheelhouse for the high school gymnastics and rowing club Neuwied 1882 (GTRVN) in Neuwied, Rheinstrasse 54
• 1930s: Residential houses for the directors of the Dyckerhoff AG plant in Neuwied- Oberbieber , on the Wingertsberg
• 1930s: Directors' houses in Rengsdorf , at that time “Hermann-Göring-Straße”, renamed “Bürgermeister-Wink-Straße” after the end of the Second World War , for the Dahmen, Böker families (Böker Solingen company , later Richard Winkler's villa ) and Kiefer (Hobraeck Neuwied)

literature

• Management of the Kurhaus and Sanatorium Bühlerhöhe (Ed.): How Bühlerhöhe was built. A contribution to the history of the Kurhaus Bühlerhöhe by Curt Rüschhoff. Strüder KG , Neuwied 1964.

Web links

• How the Bühlerhöhe was built. A contribution to the history of the Kurhaus Bühlerhöhe by Curt Rüschhoff.