Franz Ahrens

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Crypt of the Ahrens family in the Grunewald cemetery

Franz Ahrens (born October 31, 1858 in Danzig ; † December 8, 1937 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ) was a German architect .

From 1902 Ahrens held the title of "imperial building officer". He worked in Berlin and received many larger orders, especially for industrial buildings such as depots for buses (1906–1930) and department stores (1905–1909).

buildings

According to his plans, the main bus workshop of the Allgemeine Berliner Omnibus AG was built in the Berlin district of Alt-Treptow in 1927 . At that time there was a need for a hall in which the buses could be maneuvered quickly and easily so that necessary repairs could be carried out quickly. With a length of 100 meters and a span of 70 meters (7000 m²) it was the largest self-supporting hall in Berlin and one of the largest in Europe. Daylight still comes in through the skylights and the glazed front sides of the hall. The hall is now used as an event location under the name Arena Berlin , the skylights are provided with a photovoltaic system on one side .

More buildings

  • Berlin-Mitte: Postmuseum, Leipziger Straße 16, built 1893–1898 according to plans by Ernst Hake , Otto Techow , implementation planning by Franz Ahrens
  • Berlin-Grunewald: Office building and fire station Grunewald, Wernerstraße 1/3, around 1895 by Franz Ahrens, office building in the style of the German Renaissance designed like a villa
  • Berlin-Kreuzberg: Jandorf department store, Kottbusser Damm 1 / Planufer 96/97 / Graefestrasse 93, built in 1905–1906 according to plans by Franz Ahrens, five-storey house in the style of the beginning modern with neo-Romanesque elements
  • Berlin: Horse and coach depot, Schwedenstrasse 14–15, built 1907–1908 according to plans by Franz Ahrens
  • Berlin-Mitte: Friedrichstrasse Passage, a complex built from 1907 to 1908 according to plans by Franz Ahrens, connected Friedrichstrasse with Oranienburger Strasse, today Kunsthaus Tacheles , Oranienburger Strasse 54–56a / Friedrichstrasse 110–112
  • Cologne: Excelsior Hotel Ernst, 1910, together with Heinrich Müller-Erkelenz
  • Berlin-Kreuzberg: BEHALA's Viktoria-Speicher I , Köpenicker Strasse 22, 1910–1911 as an eight-storey storage building in reinforced concrete skeleton, built according to plans by Franz Ahrens, was one of the early reinforced concrete structures in Berlin
  • Berlin: ABOAG administration building at Usedomer Straße 24 (or Jasmunder Straße 2–2a), 1911–1913 by Franz Ahrens
  • Berlin: Bus depot between Usedomer Strasse 24, Jasmunder Strasse 2–2a, Wattstrasse 22–24 and Stralsunder Strasse; 1929–1930 based on plans by Franz Ahrens with a car hall for 120 buses and an office building with apartments

  • old ABOAG hall

  • Kunsthaus Tacheles

  • Hotel Excelsior in Cologne

  • Viktoriaspeicher I on the Spree

literature

  • Christian Reher: The imperial building officer Franz Ahrens. Departure into the modern age. unpublished master's thesis, TU Cottbus, course building & maintaining, 2003.

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personal data
SURNAME Ahrens, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1937
Place of death Schwäbisch Gmünd