Emil Dettwiler

Emil Dettwiler (born March 9, 1865 in Bretzwil ; † August 24, 1932 in Basel ) was a Swiss builder and architect who lived in Basel and mainly worked in north-western Switzerland.

Buildings and projects

Dettwiler mostly worked as a sole proprietorship. Various company partners have been identified for a few years; The address books of the city of Basel have the entries Gschwind, Dettwiler & Cie. (1906), Dettwiler & Noth (1913) and Dettwiler & Schöni (1925).

Dettwiler's most important and at the same time most extensive building project was the garden city of Münchenstein in the canton of Basel-Landschaft , for which he provided the overall development plan in 1912 and the designs for around a dozen terraced houses by 1914/15. In 1912 he also published an extensive publication with numerous plans, views and floor plans (see below) about these 300 residential buildings in the local style . Until at least 1914 Dettwiler was Vice President of the Garden City Construction Cooperative Basel and Surroundings, which initiated the Garden City Project. After he withdrew from this project, which remained unfinished, mainly private residential buildings followed in Basel and the surrounding area in the 1920s, for example in Reinach BL and Oberwil BL . The Bruderholz restaurant, designed according to Dettwiler's plans, today Stucki , in the Bruderholz residential area , Bruderholzallee 42 in Basel, which opened in 1924, is known nationwide.

literature

• Emil Dettwiler: The garden city of Neu-Mönchenstein. A contribution to solving the housing issue in Basel with special consideration of medium-sized apartments. Basel 1912.
• Tilo Richter: Light, air and calm in the country. The Gartenstadt-Bau-Genossenschaft Basel and the surrounding area was founded 100 years ago. , in: Basler Zeitung of March 27, 2012, pp. 31–33.