Franz Rank

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Company logo of the Gebrüder Rank construction company in front of the company headquarters at Emil-Geis-Straße 1

Franz Rank (born April 7, 1870 in Munich ; † December 27, 1949 ) was a German architect and building contractor . During his almost fifty years of creativity he created over 250 works (projects and completed works added together). These include numerous apartment buildings and villas, commercial buildings, inns, schools, hospitals and churches. Ranks' houses are predominantly art nouveau , while his church buildings were all built in the neo-baroque style.

Life

The father Josef Rank was the owner of a small construction business in Munich- Schwabing . After attending the construction school in Munich, Franz Rank worked as a construction technician in Bregenz in 1889 . He continued his technical training in Augsburg in 1890 . After further stations in Cologne and Hanover , he went to study at the Technical University of Munich in 1892 , where he studied primarily with Friedrich von Thiersch . Martin Dülfer was of particular importance to Rank at this time . In 1893 he was looking for employees for perspective depictions of the Frankfurt clarifier cleaning and the spring water pipe. The collaboration with Dülfer lasted almost five years.

In 1899, Franz Rank went into business for himself. Together with his brothers Josef Rank (1868–1956) and Ludwig Rank (1873–1932), he took over the family business, which from then on operated as the Gebrüder Rank construction company. The young company quickly paved the way for new stylistic trends.

In addition to the construction of residential and commercial buildings, schools, hospitals and churches, technical and industrial structures such as bridges , brewery buildings, water towers , airport structures, gas and electricity plants and silo structures were a specialty of the company.

In the course of the division of tasks in the joint company, Ludwig Rank built up his own branch of the company in Spain. In the Munich office, Josef Rank was responsible for technical development. Franz Rank was responsible for the artistic designs and represented the artistic head of the company.

The Rank Brothers construction company soon became known. Their often significant structural innovations such as the use of reinforced concrete were regularly presented in the trade press. Many of the buildings they carried out were in the public eye because of their function. B. the entrance area to the Munich trade fair .

Franz Rank designed some palace buildings for particularly wealthy families, including Mainberg Palace near Schweinfurt for the industrialist Ernst Sachs. The work also includes less prominent building projects such as B. the extensive multi-family residential building development on the corner property Daiserstraße / Oberländerstraße in Munich- Sendling from 1901.

Important church buildings were built according to designs by Franz Rank in Au near Berchtesgaden , in Munich- Solln , in Bad Griesbach near Passau , in Munich- Großhadern and in Lindenberg in the Allgäu . In Kirchham near Passau he led the reconstruction of the baroque church that had burned down.

Work (selection)

Parish Church of St. Johann Baptist
City parish church of the Holy Family in Bad Griesbach i. Rottal

Churches

Secular buildings

Realgymnasium Würzburg (photo around 1910)

  • Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul in Lindenberg

  • Parish Church of St. Martin in Kirchham

  • Parish church of St. Canisius in Munich-Großhadern

  • Reception room of the district president in Bayreuth

  • Gerber office building in Munich

  • Gebr. Röchling administration building in Munich, photo around 1910

  • Lindwurmhof in Munich

  • Brewhouse of the Humbser brewery in Fürth

  • Third Order Hospital in Munich

  • Count of Moy'sches Hofbrauhaus in Freising

  • Augsburg gas works, photo around 1932

  • Double water tower in Hohenbudberg

  • Kleinvilla, Knorrstrasse 12, Munich

  • Riesenfeldstrasse high bunker

literature

  • Dieter Klein: The Rank brothers. Architecture between Historicism and Heimatstil . In: More beautiful homeland, heritage and mission , ISSN  0931-7864 , 77. Born in 1988, H. 3rd

Web links

Commons : Franz Rank  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data after entry of Franz Rank in the historical register of architects archthek , accessed on June 20, 2010 / January 1, 2018
  2. ^ List of architectural monuments in Pullach
  3. ↑ school chronicle siebold-gymnasium.de
  4. ↑ Würzburg today: magazine for culture and economy, issues 55–58, p. 49 [1]
  5. ↑ cf. List of architectural monuments in Munich's old town
  6. ↑ List of architectural monuments in the Isarvorstadt (Munich)
  7. ↑ cf. List of architectural monuments in Moosach (Munich)
  8. ^ Wolfgang Schneider: Locations. From the airship hangar to the garden city. Kulturring in Berlin eV, Berlin 2015, p. 47ff.
personal data
SURNAME Rank, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and contractor
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1949