Friedrich Fissler

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Friedrich Fissler (born November 6, 1875 in Pforzheim , citizen of Wettswil ; † February 18, 1964 in Zurich ) was a Swiss architect .

Entlisberg orphanage, the main facade facing south, 1911
Tramdepot Hard, with urban apartments, 1911

Fissler studied at the Polytechnic in Zurich from 1895–99 and was then an architect at the Royal Domain Directorate in Stuttgart until 1906. From 1907 he was Zurich's city architect, an electoral office that he held until he resigned from the city council in 1919. His term of office fell during a period in which - after the city renovations and expansions by city architects Arnold Geiser and Gustav Gull - extensive construction work began in the social field, with school and orphanage construction, the start of municipal housing construction and the renovation of the existing bathing establishments. After his resignation, Fissler was a freelance architect, a creative period from which hardly any works are known. However, he devoted himself to building history studies and current building policy issues.

Works (selection)

  • Limmatstr. , Urban housing estate, Zurich, 1908–09
  • Entlisberg , Municipal Orphanage, Butzenstrasse 49, Zurich, 1909–11
  • Sonnenberg , Municipal Orphanage, Oberer Heuelsteig 15, Zurich, 1909–11
  • Unterer Letten , water, air and sunbathing, Zurich, 1909-10
  • District building 3 , Zurich, 1911
  • Hard tram depot , Zurich, 1911
  • Riedtli settlement , urban housing estate, Zurich, 1912
  • Hans Asper school building , Zurich, 1912
  • Sihlfeld school building , Zurich, 1918
  • Sihlfeld housing estate, urban housing estate, Zurich, 1919–20
  • Limmatstr. , Urban housing estate, Zurich, 1908–09
  • Swiss Research Institute for Epilepsy , Zurich, 1930–31

literature

  • Daniel Kurz: Fissler, Friedrich . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 179

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Finding aid from the Zurich City Archives
  2. ^ NN: Friedrich Fissler (obituary) . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 82 , 1964, pp. 471 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Fissler, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH 18th February 1964
Place of death Zurich