Gustav Mucke

Gustav Mucke (born September 20, 1861 in Zittau ; † January 13, 1940 in Wuppertal - Barmen ) was a German architect and church builder . Its architecture is shaped by historicism .

Life

Gustav Mucke's parents were Friedrich Wilhelm Mucke and his wife Maria Mathilda nee Pätzold. The father was a caretaker at the municipal high school in Zittau. Gustav was the second of three children.

His work as a site manager at the Luther Church in Leipzig , which was built by the architect Julius Zeißig from 1884 to 1886, is Gustav Mucke's first known professional position. He then went to the Westphalian town of Hagen with Zeißig and took over the construction management of the new church, also named after Martin Luther, near the main train station. He settled in Hagen for this task. In November 1887 he married Anna Dietz from Leipzig, with whom he had three children.

From 1891 Mucke was an independent architect. His oldest known building is the observation tower built for the Sauerland Mountain Association on Karlshöhe in Halver and inaugurated in July 1893. From 1895 to 1914 he was responsible for numerous church building projects between Siegerland and the eastern Ruhr area. He found a field of activity especially in Dortmund, as the need for new church buildings and reconstructions with new parish and community houses was very great due to the explosive increase in population in the course of industrialization.

In the 1920s he relocated his construction activities to Wuppertal-Barmen, where he also moved in 1934. There the cemetery chapel on the old cemetery in Heckinghauser Strasse was built in 1937 and the community hall on the cliff in 1939 according to Muckes plans.

Work (selection)

• 1892–1893: Karlshöhe observation tower in Halver
• 1896: Evangelical Church in Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen
• 1898–1899: Evangelical Blessed Church in Dortmund - Eving
• 1902: Evangelical Trinity Church in Dortmund - Wellinghofen
• 1906: Further construction of the valley church in Siegen - Geisweid
• 1904–1906: Reconstruction of the Evangelical Luther Church in Dortmund - Asseln
• 1903–1907: Extension of the old church in Dortmund - Wellinghofen
• 1908: Evangelical Church in Dortmund - Husen with rectory
• 1908: Evangelical Church in Lünen-Süd
• 1907–1909: Evangelical Martin Luther Church in Lünen - Brambauer
• 1909: Evangelical Church in Netphen - Deuz
• 1911: Evangelical St. Petri Church in Castrop-Rauxel - Habinghorst
• 1911–1913: Evangelical Luther Church in Dortmund - Barop
• 1911–1913: Reconstruction of the Evangelical Johanneskirche and new construction of the parish hall in Dortmund - Lindenhorst
• 1911–1913: Evangelical Church in Wilnsdorf
• 1911–1914: Church of the Redeemer in Attendorn
• 1914: Evangelical Johanneskirche in Plettenberg - Eiringhausen
• 1925: Parsonage in Freiligrathstrasse in ( Wuppertal -) Barmen
• 1925: Pfarrhaus Kielstrasse in (Wuppertal-) Barmen
• 1928: Repair of the Protestant Peace Church in (Wuppertal-) Barmen
• 1929: Chapel at the Norrenberg cemetery in (Wuppertal-) Barmen
• 1937: Chapel in the old cemetery in Wuppertal-Barmen
• 1939: Community hall on the cliff in Wuppertal-Barmen

literature

• Matthias Dudde: The Protestant church building in the newly founded industrial communities. Gustav Mucke, a well-known architect of the Protestant church building in Westphalia. In: Traugott Jähnichen , Franz-Josef Jelich (ed.): Sunday church and everyday world. Contributions to the history of Protestantism in the Ruhr area (= forum for the preservation of industrial monuments and history culture . Special issue 2009, ISSN  1436-7661 ). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2009, pp. 83–86.

Web links

• http://www.kirche-do-suedwest.de/cms/index.php/portraet/60-kirchen-in-barop/113-gustav-mucke
• 100 years of Luther Church Dortmund-Asseln. (PDF) Anniversary publication 2006. Ev.-luth. Parish Asseln, accessed October 6, 2012 .