Georg Düssel

Georg Wilhelm Hubert Appolinaris Düssel (born October 8, 1849 in Cologne ; † July 2, 1907 there ) was a German architect .

Life and Buildings

Georg Düssel was a son of the optician and glazier Josef Ferdinand Düssel and his wife Agnes, nee. Lempertz. He attended the elementary boys' school in the parish of St. Maria Himmelfahrt and St. Andreas. Düssel studied from 1863 to 1865 at the Provinzial-Gewerbeschule in Cologne and then completed an apprenticeship with Isaak Auerbach . At the same time he completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, which he completed as a journeyman in 1866. To avoid military service, he applied to the Royal Trade Academy in Berlin in 1867, but never began his studies there. Instead, he became a Baueleve with Hermann Otto Pflaume after receiving a good report from Auerbach on November 2, 1868. He later worked for a short time as a building authority assistant for the city of Cologne before setting up as a freelance architect.

Düssel created numerous villas, apartment buildings as well as residential and commercial buildings. The Domhotel in Cologne, built in 1885/86 together with Heinrich Siegert , was his most famous building. The Wilhelmine building with its 66 guest rooms only existed for four years and then had to give way to the new cathedral hotel. The background to this short lifespan of the building was the fact that the hotel, which was expanded several times, was actually no longer supposed to stand at the point where Düssel built its building: the old "Gasthof zum Dom" was due to the continued construction of the Cologne one Doms , which was a tourist attraction, expanded from the middle of the 19th century. Among other things, under the direction of Düssels, the dining room was to be enlarged in 1885, but this led to the collapse of the central section of the hotel due to incorrect static calculations. Actually, according to the wishes of the Central Cathedral Building Association, the entire hotel should then be moved a bit to the rear. However, since the lotteries, the proceeds of which were to be used to finance this relocation, were not approved in time, Düssel received the order to build a new hotel at the old location. As soon as Düsseldorf's hotel was built, the lotteries were approved in 1887. From 1890 a new cathedral hotel was built to replace Düsseldorf's cathedral hotel.

Under monument protection the house is Adenauerallee 113 in Bonn , designed the Düssel in the 1860s for C. Becker. In 1958/59 it was converted into the parish hall of the synagogue community .

literature

• Wolfram Hagspiel, Cologne and his Jewish architects , Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2294-0 , pp. 31–34.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julien Reitzenstein, Domhof No. 1 , in: immobilienmanager 05, 2008, p. 84, www.text-kontor.de ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 12, 2016. 
2. ↑ Entry on residential building, Adenauerallee 113 in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on August 11, 2017.