Fritz Dunkel

Koch & Bergfeld

Herderstrasse 92

Villa Müller-Schall

Wachsmuth office building

Fritz (Carl Friedrich) Dunkel (* 19th century ; † 20th century in Bremen ) was a German architect and master bricklayer.

biography

Fritz Dunkel worked as an architect in Bremen between 1883 and the beginning of the 1940s . He was the son of Johann Diedrich Dunkel (died around 1889), also an architect, whose father of the same name ran a construction company as a master mason. The family lived at Humboldtstrasse  34b; Fritz Dunkel moved to Keplerstrasse 10 (formerly No. 60) in 1889, a house that his father had built in 1872. Dunkel was particularly active in private residential construction. In addition, he managed two major projects for his much more famous colleague Johann Georg Poppe , the administrative building of the North German Lloyds at Ansgarikirchhof and the rice exchange in Langenstrasse , as well as working as a works architect for the Bremen silverware factory Koch & Bergfeld am Kirchweg between 1889 and a name in 1931. His buildings identify him as an academically trained architect, i.e. an architect trained at one of the polytechnic universities , a job title that is already recorded in the oldest entry in the Bremen address book. In terms of style, Dunkel preferred the Neo-Renaissance . The influence of modern architectural endeavors before the First World War only becomes apparent at the Wachsmuth Auf den Häfen office building . Some of Fritz Dunkel's buildings are now listed as historical monuments .

List of works (selection)

• 1892–1895: Reconstruction of the Bremen silver goods factory Koch & Bergfeld , in particular the establishment of a uniform factory front (also: storage warehouse, extension, coach house ), Kirchweg 190/200
• 1889–1890: (Darkly awarded) Construction of company apartments, so-called master houses, for employees of Bremer Woll-Kämmerei AG in Bremen-Blumenthal , Emmalene-Bulling-Strasse 1–4 and 17–20 (previously: Meisterstrasse, later: George-Albrecht -Street)
• 1891: Design of a house for the building contractor D. Böttcher at Sedanstraße 44
• 1892–1893: Reconstruction of an old Bremen gabled house (Wilkensches Haus) and addition of a new building to a residential and commercial building with a uniform facade for the Lower Saxon Bank, later a mortgage bank, today Bankhaus Neelmeyer together with Hermann Meyer, Am Markt No. 15-16. Later heavily changed by further modifications and the rebuilding after the end of the war
• 1893: Residential house at Besselstrasse No. 91 at the corner of Bismarckstrasse , first inhabited by Heinrich Koch, a manager of Koch & Bergfeld
• 1893: House at Herderstrasse 92 at the corner of Bismarckstrasse
• 1894: Conversion of a Bremen city villa for Caspar Gottlieb Kulenkampff, Contrescarpe 18
• 1896: Villa Lahusen, Osterdeich 70, corner of Lüneburger Strasse, for the "Engel" pharmacist Wilhelm Heinrich Lahusen (junior)
• around 1900: Villa Henoch, Parkallee 109, for the merchant Johann Carl Gottlieb Henoch (junior) (not preserved)
• Around 1900: Villa Albrecht, Parkallee 111 at the Bremer Bürgerpark in the style of Anglo-Saxon country houses, inhabited in 1901 by the merchant Ludwig Albrecht
• 1900–1903: Villa Müller-Schall, Hollerallee No. 75 and Parkstrasse 107, for the banker Johann Friedrich Müller-Schall,
• 1904–1905: Villa for the painter Otto Bollhagen , Parkallee 205
• 1901–1910: Construction management of the administrative building of the North German Lloyd for Johann Georg Poppe , Papenstrasse / Bonehauerstrasse (not preserved)
• 1905: Construction management of the office and administration building for the "Reis- und Handels-AG", the so-called rice exchange based on plans by Johann Georg Poppe , Schlachte 23–26 / Langenstrasse 38–42
• 1908: Design and construction management of a representative residential and commercial building for the wall and flooring company Friedrich Wachsmuth , Auf den Häfen 12–15
• 1910: Conversion of a residential building on behalf of Alfred Lohmann , Kohlhökerstraße 52
• 1905 and 1919: Conversions at the " Villa Ichon " for Johann Georg Poppe and later for his family, Goetheplatz 4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bremen's historical address books: http://brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/periodical/titleinfo/928434 ; accessed on March 21, 2018.
2. ↑ Architects and Engineers Association (ed.): Bremen and his buildings 1900 , p. 444.
3. ↑ Expert opinion on protection, State Office for Monument Preservation Bremen, 2012.
4. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
5. ^ Georg Dehio (original) / Ernst Gall (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler - Bremen / Lower Saxony , greatly expanded edition 1992, p. 56
6. ↑ Ulf Fiedler / Bernhard Havighorst: Das alten Blumenthal in Bilder , 1982, p. 113
7. ↑ Friedrich Jerchow: The history of the Bremen cotton combing to Blumenthal - 1883-1983 , 1983, pp. 42–44
8. ↑ Construction file Sedanstrasse 44
9. ↑ Architects and Engineers Association (ed.): Bremen and its buildings 1900 , p. 378
10. ^ Monument database of the LfD
11. ^ Monument database of the LfD
12. ^ Monument database of the LfD
13. ↑ Bremen Chamber of Architects (ed.): Architecture in Bremen and Bremerhaven , 1988, No. 15
14. ^ Monument database of the LfD
15. ^ Architects and Engineers Association (ed.): Bremen and its buildings 1900 , p. 469
16. ^ Architects and Engineers Association (ed.): Bremen and its buildings 1900 , p. 469
17. ^ Architects and Engineers Association (ed.): Bremen and its buildings 1900 , p. 469
18. ^ Monument database of the LfD
19. ^ Herbert Schwarzwälder : Postcard Album - Oberneuland, Horn, Schwachhausen, Parkviertel , 1981, p. 82
20. ↑ Ralf Habben: Hundert Jahre Parkviertel , 1999, p. 65
21. ↑ Construction file Parkallee 205, State Office for Monument Preservation
22. ^ W. Ehlers: The administrative building of the North German Lloyd in Bremen , 1913, p. 13
23. ^ Monument database of the LfD
24. ^ Monument database of the LfD
25. ^ Building files at Kohlhökerstraße 52, State Office for Monument Preservation
26. ↑ Villa Ichon / Hübotter (eds.): Goetheplatz 4 , 1982, p. 22
27. ^ Monument database of the LfD