Felix Kreusch

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Felix Kreusch (born May 12, 1904 in Breinig , † November 4, 1985 ) was a German architect and Aachen cathedral master builder .

Life

Felix Kreusch studied architecture and art history, among others with Hans Karlinger at RWTH Aachen . He then decided to pursue a career in the public service and worked as a government master builder in Paderborn for several years . In 1947 he returned to Aachen and in 1949 was appointed to succeed Josef Buchkremer as master builder at Aachen Cathedral and appointed to the diocesan building council. One of his site managers there was Leo Hugot , who succeeded him as Aachen cathedral builder after Kreusch's retirement in 1974. In the meantime, Kreusch received his doctorate in 1963 at the advanced age of 59 at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at RWTH Aachen University with a dissertation on "Observations on the western structure of the Corvey church".

The focus of Felix Kreusch's tasks in Aachen after the effects of the Second World War was primarily the reconstruction of the Aachen Cathedral. In addition, between 1949 and 1951, under his leadership, the war damage, especially to the choir room of St. Josef in Aachen, was repaired, as well as the new building of St. Cornelius in Alsdorf- Hoengen and, by 1954, the reconstruction of the St. Willibrord church in Euchen . In addition, according to Kreusch's plans, the August Pieper House was built as a meeting and conference center for the Episcopal Academy of the Diocese of Aachen and put into operation in 1953.

The construction of the Erlöserkapellchen at the Belgenbacher Mühle near Eicherscheid , which was built according to plans by Felix Kreusch and inaugurated on August 12, 1934, dates from the time before the Second World War . After the war, however, this was converted into a living bunker and later used for private residential purposes.

Kreusch was married to Else, née Kranz (1908–1988), and both found their final resting place in Aachen's Ostfriedhof .

Fonts

  • The Catholic Churches , In: Albert Huyskens , Bernhard Poll (Ed.): The old Aachen, its destruction and its reconstruction , Verlag des Aachener Geschichtsverein, Aachen 1953, pp. 9–54 ( PDF )
  • The new bishop's crypt at Aachen Cathedral. 1. The new system , in: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein 68, 1956, pp. 413–419
  • Above the Palatine Chapel and atrium at the time of Charlemagne , Karlsverein for the restoration of Aachen Cathedral, Aachen 1958
  • New observations on three sanctuaries of the Aachen Cathedral and the former abbey church in Kornelimünster , in: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein 71, 1959, pp. 105–116
  • New churches in the Diocese of Aachen 1930–1960 , Verlag Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 1961
  • Observations on the western section of the Corvey monastery church , Böhlau, Cologne 1963 (= dissertation, Faculty of Civil Engineering, RWTH Aachen University)
  • Church, atrium and portico of the Aachen Palatinate , Schwann, Düsseldorf 1965

literature

  • Ahmed Peter Kreusch: Obituary for Dr. Felix Kreusch on the 25th anniversary of his death on November 4, 2010 . In: History in the Diocese of Aachen 10, 2009/10, pp. 309–322.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felix Kreusch's work on St. Josef, Aachen ( Memento from June 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ The parish of St. Cornelius in Alsdorf
  3. ↑ St. Willibrord Euchen, p. 9/10 ( Memento from April 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ History of the Belgenbacher Mühle and Chapel on the tourist pages of Eicherscheid ( Memento from April 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kreusch, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and master builder from Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Breinig
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 1985