Gustav Schmoll (architect, 1872)

Gustav Schmoll called Eyssenwerth (* 1872 ; † 1946 ) was a German architect and member of the city ​​council in Saarbrücken .

Tomb of the Schmoll family in the old cemetery St. Johann

Life

His father was the Saarbrücken architect Gustav Schmoll (1840–1904) from Saarbrücken . Gustav Schmoll studied architecture in Berlin from 1891 to 1894, then in Munich and later again in Berlin. From 1894 to 1896 he worked as an architect in Karlsruhe, among others together with the important architect and university professor Carl Schäfer . From 1896–1904 Schmoll worked in the office of the contractor Jakob Heilmann and the architect Max Littmann (Heilmann & Littmann) in Munich. In 1904 he returned to St. Johann .

Schmoll wrote the plans for several important and now listed buildings in the Saarbrücken district of St. Johann from the first decade of the 20th century, including the additions as part of the restoration of the Catholic parish church of St. Johann .

Works

Several listed buildings in the Saarbrücken district of St. Johann:

• Schmoll family grave in St. Johann cemetery, 1904
• St. Johanner Markt 24, extension of a residential building from the 18th century, today Saarbrücken City Gallery, 1904
• Lessingstrasse 6, Villa, 1905
• Katholisch-Kirch-Straße 26, as part of the restoration of the Catholic parish church of St. Johann, construction of an octagonal sacristy on the outside of the choir, a lateral gallery and a surrounding wall, all in Art Nouveau style with adaptation of the design language of the existing building, 1906/1907
• Gerberstrasse 31, Catholic rectory and foyer, also around 1907
• Rathausplatz 3, residential and commercial building, 1908

literature

• Edith Ruser: Art Nouveau architecture in Saarbrücken (V): Gustav Schmoll called Eyssenwerth. In: Saarheimat , 25th year 1981, pp. 111–115.

Web links

• Rainer Knauf on Gustav Schmoll in the Saarland biographies