Franz Josef Jirka

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Franz Josef Jirka (* in the 19th or 20th century ; † 20th century) was a German engineer and architect .

Life

In the first half of the 20th century, Franz Josef Jirka had his residence, at least temporarily, in Hanover , where the interior designer Augustin Jirka also lived and worked at the time of the German Empire , who in 1911 worked for von der Stadt for all artists in the then province of Hanover the grave monuments competition for row graves advertised for cemeteries in Hanover received a second prize.

During the Weimar Republic , the already qualified engineer Jirka worked for the architect and university professor Paul Kanold , who at the time also lived in Hanover and with whom, after an architectural competition, he jointly developed a design for the development of the then urban area in Kleefeld had delivered.

In 1930 Franz Josef Jirka recommended himself to posterity with the memorial for the field artillery regiment No. 225 ( FAR 225 ), a unit from the time of the First World War, which was erected across from the parking garage in Georgengarten in Hanover

In 1934, the Herrenhausen small housing company, as the client, submitted a building application for a residential building that was to be carried out under the supervision of Kanold and Jirka.

Establishment of the village of Düna

Place name sign of the " Siedlergemeinschaft Düna";
Photography from June 2012

Also at the beginning of the 1930s, the Hannoversche Siedlungsgesellschaft acquired a former state domain near Osterode am Harz and commissioned Franz Josef Jirka with the construction of the "Harzer Neubauersiedlung" Düna : The qualified engineer then worked there until 1936 on an area of ​​350 divided into ten different farms Hectares for a total of 22 farming families "a new home " by building ten farmhouses from scratch as well as creating twelve more farm sites from conversions and additions. He furnished the previously existing manor house for two families and redesigned the former horse stable and carriage shed. He created four peasant apartments from the former barracks for the reapers , to which he added new barns. Jirka also designed the cowshed and the pig breeding barn of the former state domain, each with a farmhouse apartment with a newly built barn.

While the former manor buildings in Daugava continued to be plastered, the settlement architect emphasized the chosen half-timbered construction with the fronts and gables of his new buildings in 1935, when the agrarian blood-and-soil ideology was propagated during the Nazi era . However, the welded compartments were lined with brick and insulated with fibreboard. The woodwork under the pan roof was covered with dark carbolineum . As was customary in the area before, Jirka also designed so-called "Ausluchten" (bay windows) on the ground floors that were used, for example, to expand the kitchen.

For his new buildings, Jirka oriented himself on the traditional construction method for farmhouses "in the Lower Saxony style" with the house, the stable and the barn under a single roof.

For the village, which was conceived as a settlement community, Jirka envisaged the existing facilities such as the old bakery on the estate as a community facility, including the 9.5 meter high tower of the fire engine house on the fire pond, built in half-timbered construction . The grist mill and the threshing shed should also be available to all residents of the new village. Around 2 kilometers from Düna, a natural open spring was dammed in order to lead the water to the elevated tank by means of a natural gradient and finally to feed the pipe network of each house.

Works

Memorial for the field artillery regiment 225 in the Georgengarten
  • 1930, Hanover, Georgengarten: Memorial for the field artillery regiment No. 225
  • around 1935–1936: Establishment of the village of Düna on the site of the former state domain near Osterode am Harz

Fonts

  • A Harzer Neubauersiedlung , with photo prints, view drawings and floor plans of the newly built village of Düna in: Deutsche Bauzeitung . Weekly for national building design, building technology, spatial planning and urban development, building industry, building law , volume 72, issue 38 of September 21, 1938, pp. B 1041 – B 1042; Digital copy (as PDF document ) of the Silesian Technical University (Polish: Politechnika Śląska )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g F. J. Jirka: Eine Harzer Neubauersiedlung. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . Weekly for national building design, building technology, spatial planning and urban development, building industry, building law , volume 72, issue 38 of September 21, 1938, pp. B 1041 – B 1042; Digital copy (as PDF document ) of the Silesian Technical University (Polish: Politechnika Śląska )
  2. ↑ a b Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Vol. 31 (1911), p. 364; Preview over google books
  3. ^ German competitions united with architecture competitions , Vol. 26, Leipzig: Verlag von Seemann & Company, 1911, p. 308; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ n.v .: communications. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung of June 8, 1927, p. 280; As a PDF document  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / digital.zlb.de  
  5. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Georgengarten , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 115–118; here: p. 118 and overview sketch p. 116
  6. ↑ oV : Artillery (WW1) on the wiki of the Association for Computer Genealogy , [no date], as last accessed on July 5, 2017
  7. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Vol. 68, 1934, p. 1060; limited preview in Google Book search
  8. ↑ oV : Daugava / From the history of the place Daugava on the side osterode.de [no date], as last accessed on July 5, 2017
  9. ^ Eva Benz-Rababah : Georgengarten. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 211ff .; here: p. 213; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Jirka, Franz Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and architect
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century