Fritz von Niederhäuser
Fritz von Niederhäusern (born August 19, 1876 in Oberhofen am Thunersee , † October 28, 1955 ) was a Swiss builder and architect .
Life
He studied construction at the Strelitz Technical Center and at the Technical University of Munich. First he worked for the construction company in Basel and from 1902 in the construction business of the architect Walther Belart in Olten .
In 1905 von Niederhäusern founded his own construction business in Olten, with which, among other things, he built the Lostorf Bad in Lostorf .
In 1912 he became a member of the Association of Swiss Architects BSA, founded in 1908 . After his military service during the First World War, von Niederhäusern founded an architecture office in Olten, where the well-known Basel architect Hermann Baur did his apprenticeship from 1918 to 1919 .
Buildings (selection)
- Evangelical Reformed Peace Church , Olten
- Usego administration and warehouse , Olten
- Usego warehouse, Winterthur
- Usego warehouse, Lausanne
- Hotel Schweizerhof, Olten
- Museum building and fire department store, Olten
- Reformed Church, Däniken
- Warehouse of the colonial purchasing company, Burgdorf BE
- Savings Fund, Schönenwerd
- Old school building Starrkirch-Wil
literature
- WF: Arch. BSA / SIA Fritz von Niederhäusern †. Obituary in: Das Werk 43, 1956, pp. 15–16. on-line
- Roland Wälchli: The Olten architect Fritz von Niederhäusern . In: Oltner Neujahrsblätter , Vol. 54, 1996, pp. 73-77.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Niederhäuser, Fritz von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss builder and architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberhofen am Thunersee |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1955 |