Friedrich Mettegang

Friedrich Mettegang (born June 27, 1854 in Frankfurt am Main , † September 28, 1913 in Mainz ; full name: Hyppolyt Karl Dietrich Friedrich Mettegang ) was a German architect and railway construction officer .

Career

Friedrich Mettegang was born as the son of Soest- born Frankfurt merchant Wilhelm Mettegang (authorized signatory in the chemical products factory "C. Zimmer" in 1862) and his wife Adolphine Mettegang, née von Nostitz-Jakowsky. After attending the Städtisches Gymnasium Frankfurt am Main (today Lessing-Gymnasium ), which he left at Easter 1874 when he graduated, he first attended the Polytechnic School in Darmstadt before studying at the Polytechnic for the years 1877/78 to 1879/80 School in Hanover . After a period of practical training, Mettegang then passed the building foreman examination in June 1882 in front of the technical examination committee in Hanover. In the same month he was appointed government site manager. Further years of practical work as a royal construction manager followed before he was appointed royal government master builder (assessor) after passing the second state examination in May 1889 .

Since 1898 at the latest, Mettegang stayed in Cologne, where he initially found employment as an extra-budgetary unskilled worker in the building construction department of the Royal Railway Directorate. By circumventing the shortage of vacant positions in Cologne, Mettegang was formally employed in October 1900 in the service area of ​​the Royal Government of Königsberg (Prussia) as a district building inspector in Wehlau . There he was represented by the government master builder Schroeder, while he himself continued to work for high-rise railway constructions in Cologne. It was not until April 1901 that Mettegang was able to take up a regular unskilled position as an agricultural inspector at the Cologne Railway Directorate. Until his transfer to the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz in March 1908, Mettegang was involved in the planning and execution of larger train stations, particularly in the area of ​​the Cologne railway ring, which was being expanded. This is where Mettegang earned his merit, in particular, because he attached great importance to "artistically flawless furnishings" even for simple functional buildings such as signal boxes. From Mainz he then oversaw the expansion of the railway network in the Grand Ducal Hessian state capital Darmstadt. In May 1911 he was promoted to the government and building councilor at the railway directorate in Mainz, where he worked as a department head for building construction matters.

The last major design work by Friedrich Mettegang was the elaboration of the plans for the train station in Oldenburg, before the completion of which he died unmarried in Mainz.

Competition participation

Friedrich Mettegang took part three times in the monthly competitions organized by the Berlin Architects' Association. But not with sketches of, for example, buildings. In February 1886 he took part with a design for a “ private stage ”, in November 1886 with wine bottle labels for the Franz Wilhelm Langguth winery in Trarbach: “ Zeltinger Burg Auslese ” and finally in October 1889 with the design of a “ dance card for a social evening by the architect -Verein zu Berlin ”.

Honors

• 1906 character as a building officer
• 1912 Awarded the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous
• 1913 Red Eagle Order IV class

Buildings and designs

• 1899–1900 Extension of the Church of the Resurrection in Katowice (transept).
• 1902 Exhibition building of the Royal State Railway Administration at the Düsseldorf trade exhibition (design: Ministry of Public Works; special construction management by Mettegang)
• 1902 State railway station building at the Düsseldorf trade exhibition (design: Ministry of Public Works, government master builder Fritz Klingholz ; local construction management: government and building counselor Adam Stampfer, Düsseldorf with the artistic assistance of the Mettegang agricultural inspectorate).
• 1902–1905 Aachen main station
• 1904–1906 Buildings along the Rheinuferbahn : Rodenkirchen, Sürth, Godorf, Wesseling stations. Urfeld, Hersel, Bonn-Ellerstraße and Bonn terminus (drafts by Mettegang; execution by the government building supervisors Karl Albermann and Hermann Neuhaus)
• 1906–1908 Bonn-Bad Godesberg train station
• 1906–1910 Reconstruction and expansion of the train station in Neuwied
• 1907–1909 train stations Cologne-Mülheim , Kalk-Süd, as well as marshalling yard Kalk-Nord (drafting together with the agricultural inspector Karl Müller and government builder Karl Albermann).
• 1908–1912 Darmstadt main station (design of the railway systems (including the water tower ) and execution of a heavily revised plan, the design by Professor Friedrich Pützer that emerged from the competition for a new reception building as the winner of the 2nd prize )
• 1909–1912 Darmstadt Nord station
• 1910–1912 Darmstadt Süd station
• 1911 Darmstadt , workers' settlement ("Mettegangsiedlung")
• 1912–1914 main station in Oldenburg

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  Church of the Resurrection in Katowice

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  Düsseldorf industrial exhibition 1902: State railway exhibition building

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  Düsseldorf trade exhibition 1902: State railway station building

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  Forecourt and reception building of Aachen Central Station

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  Bad Godesberg train station

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  Cologne-Mülheim train station

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  Cologne-Mülheim train station, section through the entrance hall

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  Kalk-Süd station around 1910

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  Darmstadt Central Station 1915

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  Darmstadt Nord train station

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  Darmstadt, water tower from the west

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  Oldenburg Central Station

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  Oldenburg main station: dining room 1st and 2nd class

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  Oldenburg Central Station: View of the ticket hall

Sources and literature

• Herbert Mundhenke: The register of the higher trade school, the polytechnic school and the technical university in Hanover , Volume 1 (1831–1881), Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1988.
• Annette Roggatz: The Oldenburg Central Station . In: Oldenburg Yearbook. -History, archeology, natural history- , Volume 99, Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1996, ISSN  0340-4447 .
• Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, 3 volumes, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 .

Web links

• Friedrich Mettegang on architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902)

References and comments

1. ↑ Program of the municipal high school in Frankfurt aM , Frankfurt 1874, p. 48.
2. ↑ Herbert Mundhenke: The matriculation of the higher commercial school, the polytechnic school and the technical university in Hanover , Volume 1 (1831–1881), Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1988. p. 254, no. 6963.
3. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 16, 1882, No. 48 (from June 17, 1882), p. 286.
4. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 2nd year 1882, No. 25 (from June 24, 1882), p. 217.
5. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 16, 1882, No. 51 (from June 28, 1882), p. 302.
6. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 9, 1889, No. 19 (from May 11, 1889), p. 171.
7. ^ Greven's address book for the municipality of Cöln , 45th year 1899, Part I, p. 12.
8. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 20, 1900, No. 81 (from October 18, 1900), p. 490.
9. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 21, 1901, No. 27 (April 6, 1901), p. 165.
10. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, 1908, No. 19 (of March 7, 1908), p. 133.
11. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger , issue No. 93 III of February 25, 1908.
12. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger , issue No. 93 III of February 25, 1908.
13. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 31, 1911, No. 37 (from May 6, 1911), p. 225.
14. ^ TU Berlin, Architecture Museum in the University Library, inventory no. MK 59-017.
15. ^ TU Berlin, Architecture Museum in the University Library, inventory no. MK 59-053 to -055.
16. ^ TU Berlin, Architecture Museum in the University Library, inventory no. MK 59-064.
17. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 26, 1906, No. 59 (from July 21, 1906), p. 371.
18. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 32, 1912, No. 51 (from June 22, 1912), p. 321.
19. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 33rd year 1913, No. 5 (from January 18, 1913), p. 33.
20. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 22nd year 1902, No. 49 (from June 21, 1902), pp. 299-300.
21. ↑ TU Berlin, Architecture Museum in the University Library, Inv.-No. 19,560. http://architekturmuseum.ub.tu-berlin.de/index.php?set=1&p=79&Daten=137096
22. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 22nd year 1902, No. 49 (of June 21, 1902), pp. 300–301.
23. ↑ Edmund Höck: In memory of the opening of the Rheinuferbahn on January 11, 1906 . In: Köln-Bonner Verkehrsmagazin, Volume 6 2012, Issue 24, Hürth 2012, pp. 70–77.
24. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger , issue No. 93 III of February 25, 1908.
25. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 30, 1910, No. 31 (from April 16, 1910), pp. 210–214; No. 33 (dated April 23, 1910), pp. 221-223; and No. 34 (dated April 23, 1910), pp. 229-231.
26. ^ Eisenbahn in Hessen , Volume 2.1, pp. 63, 64, 69, 210, 241f and 462.
27. ^ Railway in Hessen , Volume 2.1, pp. 244, 462 and 463.
28. ↑ http://www.glass-portal.privat.t-online.de/hs/mr/mettegang_friedrich.htm
29. ↑ http://waldkolonie-darmstadt.de/home/kultur-sehenswuerdheiten.html
30. ↑ http://www.ag5-architekten.de/staedtebau/bauleitplanung.html
31. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 36th year 1916, No. 13 (from February 12, 1916), pp. 89–94 and No. 15 (from February 19, 1916), pp. 108–111.
32. ^ Annette Roggatz: The Oldenburg Central Station . In: Oldenburg Yearbook. -History, archeology, natural history-, Volume 99, Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1996, ISSN  0340-4447 . Pp. 141-175.