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Ernst Knoblauch (born December 15, 1868 in Essen , † December 9, 1955 there ) was a German architect who contributed to the appearance of the city of Essen with numerous office and commercial buildings.

Life

Ernst Knoblauch had worked in the Berlin architectural office of Heinrich Kayser and Karl von Großheim as well as in their Düsseldorf branch before he came to Essen in 1893 and became a freelance architect. From the beginning, the use of modern reinforced concrete structures was one of his specialties. In the years up to the turn of the century in 1900, Knoblauch realized residential and commercial buildings, villas, restaurants, hotels, factories, ice cellars, etc. In the 1920s, he was a member of the Association of German Architects . After the Second World War he took part in the reconstruction of Essen.

Buildings (selection)

  • 1893: Commercial building of the clothing factory Gebr. Klarbach AG in Essen, Theaterplatz 9
The house later served as a department store for the “Eintracht” consumer association, and in 1928 its structure was at least partially included in the new construction of the Stadtsparkasse.
  • 1905: H. & L. Freudenberg department store in Essen, Limbecker Strasse 20–28 (not preserved)
  • 1906: Hotel zur Post in Essen, Kettwiger Strasse 19 (later Hotel zum Ritter ), a listed building
  • before 1910: Parkhotel in Essen, Huyssenallee 1 (destroyed in World War II)
  • 1910–1912: Overbeck & Weller oHG department store in Gelsenkirchen , Bahnhofstrasse 4 / Ahstrasse (not preserved)
  • 1911: Protestant elementary school in Essen-Bredeney, Graf-Spee-Straße 23 (later Graf-Spee-Schule ), a listed building
  • 1911–1912: Overbeck & Weller oHG department store in Essen, Kopstadtplatz 10–12 / Kasteienstraße (today called Carl-Overbeck-Haus , rebuilt in different ways )
The architecture of the building is reminiscent of Art Nouveau , but was partially damaged in the Second World War and then repaired in a simpler form.
  • before 1914: Office building of the Neumann & Mendel clothing factory in Essen, Bachstrasse 5
  • 1927: Conversion of a commercial building for the Adolf Jonas company in Cologne
  • 1927–1928: Allbau-Haus office and commercial building for the Allgemeine Bauverein Essen AG in Essen, Pferdemarkt 5/7 / Viehofer Straße, (under monument protection since 1997; today used by the Sparkasse Essen among others)
  • 1928: Office and commercial building RoBa-Haus for Rosendahl & Bachrach AG in Essen, Kruppstrasse 30 (later Osram-Haus ), under monument protection

  • 1906: Hotel zur Post (later: zum Ritter)

  • 1911: Bredeney elementary school (later: Graf-Spee-Schule)

  • Rebuilt Carl Overbeck House

  • 1927–1928: Allbauhaus

  • 1928: RoBa House (later: Osram House )

literature

  • Paul Joseph Cremers (introduction): Ernst Knoblauch. (= Neue Werkkunst .) FE Hübsch, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1929.
  • Karl Sabel: They built our city. But who knows your name? We remember Ernst Knoblauch. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of December 13, 1955.
  • Garlic, Ernst . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 71 .
(without biographical data, only brief reproduction of the most important information from the Cremers introduction from 1929)
  • Barbara Fischer: The former Allbauhaus in Essen. (= Rheinische Kunststätten , Volume 433.) Neusser Druckerei und Verlag, Neuss 1998, ISBN 3-88094-838-0 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of December 13, 1955: Obituaries
  2. ^ Paul Joseph Cremers (inlet): Ernst Knoblauch. (= Neue Werkkunst.) Friedrich Ernst Huebsch Verlag, Berlin, 1929.
  3. ^ Advertisement in the Essen address book 1898
  4. ↑ Hotel zum Ritter in Essen's list of monuments ; accessed on November 30, 2017
  5. ^ Graf-Spee-Schule in the list of monuments of the city of Essen ; accessed on November 30, 2017
  6. ^ Allbau-Haus in the list of monuments of the city of Essen ; accessed on November 30, 2017
  7. ↑ Osram house in the list of monuments of the city of Essen ; accessed on November 30, 2017
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DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1868
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DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1955
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