Edmund Bolten

Edmund Bolten (born August 14, 1882 in Cologne , † April 7, 1949 in Burscheid ) was a German architect .

Life

Bolten was the son of the Mönchengladbach architect Gustav Bolten (1850-1910), who worked from the 1880s to 1905 as a teacher and professor at the technical college and state building trade school in Cologne. Edmund Bolten studied architecture there until 1903. This was followed by activities as an employee in the architectural offices of Otto Müller-Jena and Gustav Herbst around 1906 . Around 1910 he settled as a freelance architect in Rodenkirchen , where he lived in a house (Bismarckstrasse 4) that was built according to plans by Müller-Jenas until he moved to Cologne in 1912. His architecture office consisted of a department for architecture and applied arts and one for industrial buildings .

Bolten's work includes in particular numerous private houses in Cologne and the surrounding area, but also public and commercial buildings as well as a few church buildings outside of Cologne. A particular focus of his work was in the community of Rondorf (renamed "Rodenkirchen" in 1975) in what is now the south of Cologne, where he was involved in the planning of over 150 buildings from 1910 to the Second World War and thus one of the most productive architects in this area Territory belongs. One of his main customers there was the Sürth- based company Linde including its predecessor companies, which commissioned him with numerous projects between 1913 and 1943. For reasons that are not known, the city of Burscheid was one of the places where most of the buildings designed by Bolten were located.

“[Bolten] proved to be particularly versatile and imaginative - as if it were his special passion - with the exclusive residential buildings. They are always kept astonishingly simple, very much stuck in the tradition of the respective landscape and designed entirely in the spirit of the 'time around 1800' internalized by many architects at the time, the time of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . "

- Wolfram Hagspiel (2012)

His most important projects include the one and two-family houses in the New Building style that were built in today's Cologne district of Junkersdorf as part of housing developments in the early 1930s , including the "Gartenstadt Stadion" (garden city stadium, which was only partially realized as a residential area for high demands) (1930 –1934), in whose conception he was involved together with the architects Ulrich Pohl, Heinrich Reinhardt (1883–1972) and Walter Reitz (1888–1955). Bolten repeatedly formed working groups with other architects as part of larger construction projects - such as for the "Gartenstadt Stadion" - and was involved in various housing associations , including the "Gemeinnützige Wohnungsbaugesellschaft eGmbH" in Rodenkirchen. He entered into such a collaboration in 1933 with the Bad Godesberg architect Karl Schwarz in the form of the “Bolten & Schwarz” consortium, which designed the “Deichmanns Aue” garden city.

From 1912, Bolten was a member of the local architects and engineers association . For the year 1913 membership in the "Association for Art and Trade and Commerce Cöln", which was close to the Deutscher Werkbund , is known. In the 1920s, Bolten was accepted into the Association of German Architects .

family

Edmund Bolten married Theresia Elfriede Küthe from Düsseldorf around 1912 . The marriage was divorced in 1930. Their son, Werner Bolten, also became an architect and died in Lüdenscheid during the Second World War .

Work (selection)

Buildings in Cologne

Map with all coordinates of the buildings in Cologne: OSM

construction time	district	address	object	measure	Remarks
1909	Lindenthal	Virchowstrasse 19	villa	New building
1912-1913	Marienburg	Marienburger Strasse 48 location50.902054 6.977308	Villa ("House Ispert")	New building	Monument protection
1914	Lindenthal	Heinestrasse 28	Residential building	New building
1914	Immendorf	Godorfer Strasse 2 location50.858741 6.958853	Immendorfer School	Reconstruction and expansion	today clubhouse; Monument protection
1914!around 1914	Rodenkirchen	Maternusstrasse 39 location50.891405 6.990777	Residential and commercial building	New building	Monument protection
1916	Sürth	Carl-von-Linde-Straße 4 location50.867029 7.018281	villa	New building	Monument protection
1919	Marienburg	Tiberiusstrasse 14	Villa (built 1895–86)	Redevelopment	Canceled in 1932
1919-1921	Rodenkirchen	Hombergstrasse 7 / Hauptstrasse 25	Villa, garage house	New building	canceled
1920	Rodenkirchen	Uferstrasse 20 location50.892075 7.003319	Semi-villa (built 1910-13)	modification	just received changed
1921-1925	Rodenkirchen	Uferstrasse 47 location50.890968 7.015559	villa	New building	Monument protection
1922	Rodenkirchen	Sürther Strasse / Moselstrasse / Weißer Strasse	Small apartment colony of the private home construction company	New building	only partially executed
1923!around 1923	Rodenkirchen	Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse	Small apartment colony of the private home construction company	New building
1924	Rodenkirchen	Brückenstrasse 21 location50.894295 6.990199	Villa ("Albertinenhof", later "Albertinenstift")	New building	Greatly changed around 2000 and integrated into the new building of the “Caritas Elderly Center St. Maternus”
1924	Rodenkirchen	Brückenstrasse 42 location50.894295 6.989402	villa	New building	Monument protection
1924	Mülheim	Sachsenbergstrasse 3	Gebr. Meyer shipyard: extension buildings	New building	receive
1925	Rodenkirchen	Maternusstrasse 5	AOK residential and commercial building	New building	not received
1925!around 1925	Rodenkirchen	Mönchsgüterweg 4 location50.860271 7.002649	Sürther Metallwerk Ludwig Stöckelhuber: Administration building	New building	with changes received
1927	Sürth	Sürther Hauptstrasse 178 Location50.866946 7.01687	Administration building of the Linde company	New building	Monument protection; 1999–2003 converted into a residential and office complex
1929	Marienburg	Lindenallee 62 location50.895635 6.974123	Semi-villa (built 1906-07)	Conversion: extension of a winter garden	Monument protection
1930-1934	Junkersdorf	Frankenstrasse / Paul-Finger-Strasse / Statthalterhofallee location50.938827 6.853966	"Garden City Stadium"	New building (with Ulrich Pohl, Heinrich Reinhardt and Walter Reitz)
1932-1934	Junkersdorf / Müngersdorf	Drosselstraße / Vogelsanger Weg location50.938827 6.853966	"Am Vogelsang" housing estate	New building
1933/1934	Lindenthal	Lortzingstrasse 44-46 location50.934175 6.911738	Residential houses	New building
1935	Marienburg	Tiberiusstrasse 8 location50.900516 6.976906	detached house	New building (client: Otto Osterkamp, first public prosecutor)
1939-1941	Old town north	Cathedral monastery 2a location50.940417 6.957083	Cathedral Hotel	modification
1948	Marienburg	Tiberiusstrasse 8 location50.900516 6.976906	detached house	Restoration

Buildings outside of Cologne

Map with all coordinates of the buildings outside of Cologne: OSM

Start of planning; construction time	Community district	address	object	measure	Remarks
1912!around 1912/1913	Burscheid	Bismarckstrasse 8 location51.0813 7.111366	Villa Dr. Ispert	New building	1929–1998 City Hall of the City of Burscheid
1927; 1929-1930	Übach-Palenberg district Boscheln	Roermonder Straße 130 Location50.907421 6.136892	Catholic Church of St. Fidelis ( Emergency Church )	New building
1929-1930	Burscheid	Ewald-Strässer-Weg 6 location51.082938 7.119781	Vocational and commercial school ("Rhein-Wupper-Handelsschule")	New building	today town hall of the city of Burscheid (old building)
1932	Bonn district Rüngsdorf	Rolandstrasse 48 location50.680786 7.174611	villa	New building (client: Heinrich Oettinger)	Monument protection; until 2001 residence of the Malagasy ambassador

Drafts not executed

around 1914: Cologne , district of Weiß , competition design for a Catholic church–9

around 1925: Marl , competition design for a rectory–9

around 1925: Übach , competition design for an elementary school (1st prize)–9

1939: Cologne , Rodenkirchen district , competition design for a school-9999

Own work volumes

Edmund Bolten, architect BDA Cologne , Berlin undated (around 1923).
Edmund Bolten, architect BDA Cologne , Berlin undated (around 1927).

literature

Wolfram Hagspiel : Well-known architects and their buildings in the south of Cologne: Edmund Bolten (1882–1949), one of the most productive architects in the south of Cologne . In: stadtMagazin Köln-Süd, Volume 23, June / July 2012 , pp. 22–25.

References and comments

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae Wolfram Hagspiel : Köln. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2, p. 802.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z Wolfram Hagspiel: Well-known architects and their buildings in the south of Cologne: Edmund Bolten (1882–1949), one of the most productive Architects in the south of Cologne

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s Wolfram Hagspiel : Villas in the south of Cologne. Rodenkirchen, Sürth, Weiss and Hahnwald. (with photographs by Hans-Georg Esch) JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-7616-2488-3 .

↑ Birgit Bernard, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle Köln (ed.): Contemporaries: August Sander and the art scene of the 20s in the Rhineland , Steidl, 2000, ISBN 3-88243-750-2 , p. 232.

^ Garden City Stadium , City of Cologne

^ Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2, p. 922.

^ Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2, p. 923.

↑ For buildings that no longer exist, the last known address.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2.

^ TSV Immendorf 1968 eV

^ Walter Buschmann: Cologne Gebr. Mayer , Rheinische Industriekultur

^ Monument of Industrialization , Kölner Stadtanzeiger , April 7, 2003

↑ ^a ^b Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 1.

↑ For buildings that no longer exist, the last known address.

^ "Villa BIZ" , City of Burscheid, January 28, 2018

↑ Chronicle of the Boscheln Church ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Catholic parish of St. Fidelis, Übach-Palenberg-Boscheln @1@ 2

↑ Dieter Breuer, Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann: "German Rhine, foreign horse potions?": Symbolic battles for the Rhineland after the First World War. In: Düsseldorfer Schriften zur recent regional history and the history of North Rhine-Westphalia , Volume 70, Klartext, 2005, ISBN 3-89861-442-5 , p. 233.

↑ ^a ^b Raten und Erinnern , Kölner Stadtanzeiger , August 18, 2002

^ Cityscape: Last Witnesses to a Magnificent Avenue , Westdeutsche Zeitung , September 18, 2007

personal data
SURNAME	Bolten, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	architect
DATE OF BIRTH	August 14, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	April 7, 1949
Place of death	Burscheid

[Hagspiel-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae Wolfram Hagspiel : Köln. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2, p. 802.

[Hagspiel3-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z Wolfram Hagspiel: Well-known architects and their buildings in the south of Cologne: Edmund Bolten (1882–1949), one of the most productive Architects in the south of Cologne

[Hagspiel2012-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s Wolfram Hagspiel : Villas in the south of Cologne. Rodenkirchen, Sürth, Weiss and Hahnwald. (with photographs by Hans-Georg Esch) JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-7616-2488-3 .

[4] Birgit Bernard, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle Köln (ed.): Contemporaries: August Sander and the art scene of the 20s in the Rhineland , Steidl, 2000, ISBN 3-88243-750-2 , p. 232.

[5] Garden City Stadium , City of Cologne

[6] Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2, p. 922.

[7] Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2, p. 923.

[8] For buildings that no longer exist, the last known address.

[Hagspiel2-9] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2.

[10] TSV Immendorf 1968 eV

[11] Walter Buschmann: Cologne Gebr. Mayer , Rheinische Industriekultur

[12] Monument of Industrialization , Kölner Stadtanzeiger , April 7, 2003

[Hagspiel1-13] Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 1.

[14] For buildings that no longer exist, the last known address.

[15] "Villa BIZ" , City of Burscheid, January 28, 2018