Franz Josef Krings

Franz Josef Krings (* 1886 ; † 1968 ) was a German architect and sculptor who worked particularly in his hometown of Königswinter .

Life

Krings contributed drafts to the artistic design of the emergency money vouchers issued by the local tourist office from 1921 due to the hyperinflation after the First World War . In 1925, as the head of a festival committee of the local associations, he organized the local parade to celebrate the millennium of the Rhineland . Krings worked as a board member and art warden in the “ Working Group for the Care of Homeland ” (today “Heimatverein Siebengebirge eV”) founded by the initiators of this celebration .

Work (selection)

1913: Königswinter , Drachenfelsstraße 107, Nibelungenhalle , sculptural work (including half-reliefs of gods and giants)-9999

1915: -9999Königswinter, Drachenfelsstrasse 5–7, town hall , Siegfried monument (donor: Fatherland Women's Association )

1920: -9999Königswinter, Hotel Union, dragon sculpture (today in the Siebengebirgsmuseum )

1929: -9999Königswinter, Am Palastweiher cemetery , war memorial (supplemented as a result of the Second World War)

1933: -9999Königswinter, Drachenfelsstrasse 107, Nibelungenhalle , Drachenhöhle

around 1935: Honnef , Grafenwerth Island , design for a courtyard of honor for the fallen soldiers of the First World War (not executed)-

1937: -9999Königswinter, draft for a country rest home for the NS community Kraft durch Freude (not executed)

1937–1938: Bad Godesberg , Mehlem district , Am Glückshaus 18–20, villa with gatehouse , relocation from Königswinter (client: German Labor Front )

1937–1938: Königswinter, Hauptstrasse 330, Villa Leonhart , conversion and extension (client: German Labor Front)

1938: -9999Königswinter, Drachenfelsstrasse, Weinbrunnen

after 1945: -Königswinter, Hauptstrasse 357, Hotel "Haus Hindenburg", renovation

1949: -9999Königswinter, Nachtigallental , Willi-Ostermann monument (artistic design)

Siegfried monument at the town hall (1915)
War memorial in the Am Palastweiher cemetery (1929)
Drachenhöhle at the Nibelungenhalle (1933)
Wine fountain on the market square (1938)
Villa Leonhart (1938)
Willi Ostermann monument in the Nachtigallental (1949)

Web links

Commons : Franz Josef Krings - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ Angelika Schyma : Blow by Blow - The Iron Siegfried von Königswinter: A Contribution to the First World War. In: Denkmalpflege im Rheinland , ISSN 0177-2619 , Volume 31, 2014, No. 3, pp. 101–105 (see p. 105).
↑ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Königswinterer Notgeld , 1999 (first print in: Königswinter in Zeit und Bild II , 12th part delivery, 2000)
↑ Heimatverein Siebengebirge e. V. - Archive
↑ ^a ^b Secrets of an old Rhine villa - a film by Gabriele Rose , Westdeutscher Rundfunk , 2014 (from minute 23:57)
↑ Much more than an open house , General-Anzeiger , July 6, 2009
^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 114 . (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007)
↑ Angelika Schyma : City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , Monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 23.5.) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 , p. 111.
↑ Nibelungenhalle, Drachenhöhle and reptile zoo
^ Frieder Berres: The regulation of the Rhine on the Bad Honnef – Königswinter section of the river . In: Yearbook of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis 1996 , ISSN 0932-0377 , Rheinlandia Verlag Klaus Walterscheid, Siegburg 1995, ISBN 3-925551-94-8 , pp. 60–74 (here: p. 65)
^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 494 . (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007)
↑ Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 2, Catalog (1), pp. 86–88. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
^ First Krone, then Kaiser and finally President , General-Anzeiger , December 31, 2004
↑ Drachenfels - Ways of the Cultural Landscape ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Tourismus Siebengebirge GmbH

personal data
SURNAME	Krings, Franz Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	1886
DATE OF DEATH	1968

[1] Angelika Schyma : Blow by Blow - The Iron Siegfried von Königswinter: A Contribution to the First World War. In: Denkmalpflege im Rheinland , ISSN 0177-2619 , Volume 31, 2014, No. 3, pp. 101–105 (see p. 105).

[2] Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Königswinterer Notgeld , 1999 (first print in: Königswinter in Zeit und Bild II , 12th part delivery, 2000)

[3] Heimatverein Siebengebirge e. V. - Archive

[Film-4] Secrets of an old Rhine villa - a film by Gabriele Rose , Westdeutscher Rundfunk , 2014 (from minute 23:57)

[5] Much more than an open house , General-Anzeiger , July 6, 2009

[6] Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 114 . (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007)

[7] Angelika Schyma : City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , Monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 23.5.) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 , p. 111.

[8] Nibelungenhalle, Drachenhöhle and reptile zoo

[9] Frieder Berres: The regulation of the Rhine on the Bad Honnef – Königswinter section of the river . In: Yearbook of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis 1996 , ISSN 0932-0377 , Rheinlandia Verlag Klaus Walterscheid, Siegburg 1995, ISBN 3-925551-94-8 , pp. 60–74 (here: p. 65)

[10] Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 494 . (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007)

[Sonntag2-11] Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 2, Catalog (1), pp. 86–88. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)

[12] First Krone, then Kaiser and finally President , General-Anzeiger , December 31, 2004

[13] Drachenfels - Ways of the Cultural Landscape ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Tourismus Siebengebirge GmbH