Engelbert Knittl

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Engelbert Knittl (born October 18, 1882 in Tutzing ; † June 3, 1963 there ) was a German builder and came from the Tutzing builder dynasty Knittl. He ran his own construction business in Feldafing and, like his oldest brother, the master builder Xaver Knittl , had a decisive influence on the historical architecture on Lake Starnberg .

Life

Engelbert Knittl was the youngest of seven children of master mason Josef Knittl (previously Knittel) from Weißenbach in Tyrol and his wife Maria Greinwald, fisherman's daughter from Garatshausen . His father Josef founded the 115-year-old construction company in Tutzing in 1872, after he was appointed as a construction specialist at Lake Starnberg by Duke Ludwig in Bavaria , the owner of the small Hofmark Palace in Garatshausen and the eldest brother of Empress Elisabeth . His brother Xaver Knittl officially succeeded him in Tutzing in 1894, while Engelbert Knittl took over the construction business of the famous Feldafing master builder Johann Biersack after his death in November 1907. Before that, in February 1907, his brother Xaver Knittl had already joined the construction business Johann Biersack as a partner under the company name “Biersack & Knittl”.

Engelbert Knittl had already successfully graduated from the State Building School in Munich and followed the classic path to becoming a master builder. With the title of master builder he was allowed to realize his own architectural designs himself. Like his brother Xaver Knittl, he developed into an extraordinary master builder who distinguished himself primarily through his artistic and drawing talent. His designs, especially of simple town houses and workers' houses, appear picturesque and graceful in their simplicity. Buildings with a mansard roof and basket arches in the style of the 1920s are typical of him . Its picturesque architectural style is enriched by various architectural elements such as gable and bay windows. The use of half-timbering in the gable area underlines the picturesque nature of the country house.

Pöcking Town Hall, former school building, built in 1912

In addition to his own designs, he also built together with well-known architects and architectural offices such as B. Richard Riemerschmid , Eugen Drollinger , Gebrüder Rank , Campell & Drach, Gustav von Cube , Breuhaus & Rosskotten, Fürstl. Building office Regensburg, Heilmann & Littmann . His successor was to be his son, the already independent architect Engelbert Knittl jun. (1912–1943). However, this fell as a non-commissioned officer in Russia in autumn 1943 . Engelbert Knittl took over the family business in Tutzing again as managing director when his nephew Karl Knittl died early in 1953 and the next generation in Tutzing was not yet legally competent.

Act

Villa Knittl in Feldafing and the seat of the construction business, built in 1909

In 1909, in his adopted home in Feldafing, he built the Villa Knittl , which is now a listed building , where he lived with his family and where his construction office and material store were also housed. The building appears very agitated and painterly dissolved in its structure and thus proves to be a characteristic building of the time. The gable formations, the colorful decorative framework and wide decorative window fronts do not deny the connection to the English country house.

In Pöcking , too, a number of buildings date from his early career , as his direct competitor, Johann Steidle, was still active in Feldafing . There z. B. In 1912 Engelbert Knittl planned and realized the former schoolhouse and today's Pöcking town hall. During this time, in 1910, he realized the well-known Villa Carl in Feldafing together with the architect Richard Riemerschmid. The Knittl construction business in Feldafing undertook a lot of the construction work on the so-called southern "foothills" of the villa colony on the Höhenberg in the 1920s, which the Heilmann'sche Immobilien-Gesellschaft had planned in terms of urban development. These include the Villa Engelhorn (1923; architect: Anton Hatzl jun.), Villa Andreae (1926/1927; architect: Fritz August Breuhaus ) or the Villa Tirpitz (1927 / architect: Richard Riemerschmid).

Feldafing lido, northern section (Herrenbad), built in 1926

Engelbert Knittl realized the listed lido Feldafing in 1927 according to his plans together with the Feldafing carpenter Floßmann. The Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Strandbad Feldafing eV was founded in 2016 to ensure its continued existence

The architectural design and new construction of the Maffei Chapel in 1931 on Tutzinger Strasse in Feldafing came from Engelbert Knittl. He carried out extensions in Feldafing, for example, at the villa of the painter Edward Harrison Compton (1933), the Humpl coffee house (1935), the Villa Siedhoff (1935) or the leather factory Müller & Wilisch (1934). After the Second World War, Engelbert Knittl renovated some villas that had suffered from the American occupation and the use of displaced persons camps. These include B. the artist house Villa Waldberta , which was then owned by the German-American Bertha Koempel.

Exhibitions

  • Bürgersaal in the Feldafing town hall (June 8th - 30th, 2016) and Bavarian Chamber of Architects, House of Architecture (January 30th, 2018 - March 2nd, 2018): Old and new architecture on Lake Starnberg - Feldafing

literature

  • Gerhard Schober: Early villas and country houses on Lake Starnberg . Oreos, Waakirchen-Schaftlach 1998, ISBN 978-3-923657-53-7 .
  • Gerhard Schober: Monuments in Bavaria, district of Starnberg . Pustet, Regensburg 1991, ISBN 3-7954-1005-3 .
  • Eva Maier / Katrin Vogt: Enjoyment with history. Bathing in Bavarian monuments - thermal baths, indoor swimming pools, natural pools . Volk Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86222-206-3 .
  • Art and Museum Association Starnberger See eV and Wessobrunner Kreis eV (ed.): Old and new architecture at Starnberger See - Feldafing. Feldafing , 2016, ISBN 978-3-9816005-2-0
  • Stefanie Knittl: Houses tell stories. The Knittl master builder family on Lake Starnberg (1872–1987). Apelles-Verlag, Starnberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-946375-05-0 .
  • Herbert Lang: The listed lido of Feldafing 1927 to 2017.

Web links

Commons : Villa Knittel (Feldafing)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Gerhard Schober: Early Villas and Country Houses on Lake Starnberg , 1998, p. 489.
  2. ^ Gerhard Schober: Early villas and country houses on Lake Starnberg. 1998, p. 195.