Hans Grässel

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Hans Grässel

Hans Grässel (born August 8, 1860 in Rehau ; † March 10 or March 11, 1939 in Munich ) was a German architect and construction clerk in Munich. Among other things, he was considered an important cemetery and school architect.

life and work

Funeral hall of the Munich North Cemetery

From 1877 to 1881 Grässel studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich . In 1877 he became a member of the Corps Rheno-Palatia Munich , which still honors him today.

After completing his studies, he initially worked as a state construction intern in Nuremberg and Bad Kissingen from 1881 to 1885 , before taking the examination for the Bavarian State Construction Service in 1885. Then he worked in Georg von Hauberrisser's office until 1886 . From 1886 to 1888 he was employed in the state building service at the Royal Land Building Office in Munich, in 1888 he became district engineer for the local building commission , in 1890 building officer for building construction and in 1900 town building officer at the Munich city building authority, from 1920 to 1928 then city planning director of Munich. In 1902 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . From 1912 to 1930 Grässel was also a lecturer at the Technical University of Munich.

For Munich he developed a completely new cemetery concept. From 1890 he planned four large cemeteries ( Nordfriedhof , Ostfriedhof , Westfriedhof and Waldfriedhof ), each of them as a total work of art: decentralized and one in each direction. Among other things, from 1896 he designed the mortuary and mourning hall of the Munich North Cemetery . In addition, the New Israelite Cemetery was built in 1904–1908 .

He also wrote numerous papers on Munich architecture and cemetery design. As early as 1914 he had his first plans to build a subway in Munich. As City Planning Director, he had photographs taken of buildings that were to be demolished in order to document the old structures of Munich. In 1999 a collection of these pictures was published in book form.

His body was buried in the old part of the forest cemetery (Munich) in a grave of honor opposite the funeral hall.

Honors

In 1914 Grässel was awarded the Order Pour le mérite for Science and the Arts ; The Hans-Grässel-Weg at the Munich forest cemetery is also named after him. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr.-Ing. E. h.). The Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art was awarded to him in 1907.

Work (selection)

Cemetery building of the Ostfriedhof in Munich

literature

  • Lioba Betten - Thomas Multhaup: Die Münchner Friedhöfe - Guide to Places of Remembrance , MünchenVerlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-7630-4056-8
  • Hans Grässel: The new municipal savings bank and municipal building office building on Sparkassenstrasse in Munich. Kastner & Callwey, Munich 1911.
  • Hans Grässel, Peter M. Bode: Views and Insights. Hans Grässel's photo collection on the architectural history of Munich 1860–1945. Edited by Richard Bauer . Hugendubel, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-88034-749-2 .
  • Nina A. Krieg: “Order is beauty.” Hans Grässel's Munich cemetery architecture (1894–1929), a 'German' model? (= Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia. Vol. 136). Stadtarchiv München, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-87821-286-0 (also dissertation, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, 1989).
  • Rudolf Pfister:  Grässel, Hans Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 716 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Heinz Thiersch (Ed.): Hans Grässel. 100 years. Reithmeier, Munich 1960.
  • Edelgard Vogelmaier: Hans Grässel. Architect and municipal building officer in Munich. Herbert Utz, Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3-87821-292-8 (also dissertation, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, 1993).
  • Hans Grässel: Volume I - Buildings and Drafts . Seyfried & Comp., Munich 1917.

Web links

Commons : Hans Grässel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 113 , 149
  2. ^ Lioba beds - Thomas Multhaup: Die Münchner Friedhöfe - Guide to places of remembrance , section "A stroke of luck for Munich", pp. 24-29
  3. ^ Munich Northeast Culture, Section Customs Houses.
  4. Heights fixed point network, Hochbauamt, Munich 1929, p. 262.
  5. In Hans Grässel, Buildings and Drafts , Zollstationsgebäude, sheet 3, p. 9, Zollhaus at Engelschalkingerstrasse 161 , built in 1893, photo and plan.