Hans Peter Weszkalnys

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Hans Peter Weszkalnys (born September 1, 1867 in Heinrichswalde (Niederung district, East Prussia) ; † March 13, 1946 in Rosenthal (Pirna district) ) was a German architect . He created numerous public and private buildings , especially in Saarbrücken and other cities in what is now Saarland as well as in the Palatinate .

Life

Youth and education

Hans Peter Weszkalnys was born the son of the Preceptor Julius Weszkalnys (1832–1867), who died in the year of his birth. He spent the first years of his life with his mother Anna (née Stillger, 1850-1883) in Tilsit (now Sowetsk).

From October 1871, at the age of four, Weszkalnys was entrusted with the education of the Protestant superintendent Emil Hundertmarck in Schwarzort on the Curonian Spit (today Juodkrantė in Lithuania ). There the foster child initially received home schooling and from 1874 attended the local elementary school . From September 1876 he attended the grammar school in Insterburg (today Chernyachovsk), but that he left a year before the Abitur after the secondary with the Mittleren Reife (secondary school leaving certificate).

Instead, he began as an apprentice to a mason and carpenter in Tilsit in 1885 . At Pentecost 1886 he passed his journeyman's examination as a bricklayer and a year later the journeyman's examination as a carpenter.

In October 1887 Hans Peter Weszkalnys began studying at the state building trade school in Cologne , where he passed his exam with distinction in March 1889 after five semesters . In April 1889 he joined the office of the renowned Cologne architect Hermann Otto Pflaume and worked there until September 1890 on the construction of several villas on the Kölner Ringen .

Military service and first years of architecture

From autumn 1890 Weszkalnys did his military service as a one-year volunteer with the Infantry Regiment "von Boyen" (5th East Prussian) No. 41 , which at that time had locations in Tilsit, Insterburg and Memel (now Klaipėda in Lithuania). He ended the service after one year as a non-commissioned officer , graduated beyond 1892 but still an officer training , which he described as second lieutenant of the Reserve completed.

In the meantime, Hans Peter Weszkalnys studied from October 1891 to March 1892 in the master workshop of Prof. Hermann Ende at the Berlin Bauakademie . He also made designs for the architecture office von Ende and his partner Wilhelm Böckmann ( Ende & Böckmann ). In 1892/1893 Weszkalnys worked as an architect at the Garrison Building Office in Hagenau (now Haguenau ) in Alsace . In 1893/1894 he was the leading architect in the construction of the Luisenthaler Bridge near Völklingen in Saarland.

Freelance architect in Saarbrücken

Hans Peter Weszkalnys decided to stay in Saarland and opened his own architectural office in Saarbrücken on July 1, 1894. He was involved in the construction of numerous public buildings in Saarbrücken and other cities in Saarland and the Palatinate. This also included several company and municipal hospitals, namely the hut hospitals in Brebach and Burbach (both today Saarbrücken), the municipal community hospital in Saarbrücken, the hut hospital in Völklingen and the municipal hospital in Oberstein (today Idar-Oberstein ).

Private life

On August 5, 1898, Hans Peter Weszkalnys married Helene Christine (born Schulz, 1875-1959) in Insterburg. The couple had five sons, of whom the two firstborns died in 1902 as small children : Gero (1899–1902), Bodo (1901–1902), Ulrich (1903–1941), Hako (1905–1943), Hans (1912 -1969).

In addition to his job, Weszkalnys was also involved in society and was a member of various societies and associations . He belonged to the Saarbrücker Civil Casino Society and the Historical Association for the Saar region . He was also one of the founding members of the art and trade association for the Saar region and the Saarbrücken local group of the Association of German Architects (BDA). In addition, he was accepted into the Freemason Lodge Bruderkette on the Saar , founded in 1903 .

Military service and last years

During the First World War , Hans Peter Weszkalnys was commandant of the mobile station commandantur 3 in the Lille area of the XXI from 1914 to 1918 . Army Corps (also called Saarbrücker Corps).

After the war he resumed his work as an architect in Saarbrücken and built, among other things, the new movie theater in Neunkirchen (Saar) . He was also politically involved in the Association of Home Ownership and Agriculture (VHL) and the Economic Party of the German Mittelstand , the Saarland forerunners of the later Reich Party of German Mittelstand . Weszkalnys was in the city council elected by Saarbrücken.

At the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, the now 72-year-old Weszkalnys and his wife were evacuated from Saarbrücken to Bad Sachsa on the southern edge of the Harz Mountains . In 1940 they stayed with relatives in Königsberg (Prussia) in East Prussia . In 1941 their son Ulrich died and in 1943 their son Hako died.

In 1944 Weszkalnys and his wife fled from the chaos of war to Rosenthal (Pirna district) , where both saw the end of the war. Weszkalnys died there on March 13, 1946 at the age of 78 and was buried on March 22, 1946 in the cemetery in the Dresden district of Tolkewitz .

plant

Until the outbreak of the First World War , Hans Peter Weszkalnys was involved in the planning of the following structures:

Völklingen :

  • Luisenthaler Bridge (1893/1894)
  • Cottage hospital

Saarbrücken :

  • Hut hospitals in Brebach and Burbach
  • Municipal citizen hospital
  • Municipal hall building and market hall on Neumarkt
  • Development of Winterbergstrasse and Petersbergstrasse
  • Farm building of Villa Röchling (1897/98)
  • Garden house on Narzissenstrasse (1898)
  • House ensemble on Kamekestrasse (1899)
  • Residential house with restaurant and shop in Spichererbergstrasse 78 (1899/1900)
  • Saarbrücken: Double house in Spichererbergstrasse 23 / 23a (1900)
  • Saarbrücken: Double house Waterloostraße 8/10

St. Wendel :

  • District Hall and District Office (1899/1900)

Idar-Oberstein :

Bad Kreuznach :

  • Villa at Rheingrafenstrasse 37 (1905/06)

Saarlouis :

  • Villa at Gymnasiumstrasse 1 (1906)

Sulzbach / Saar :

After the end of the First World War, Weszkalnys planned, among other things, the following buildings:

Saarbrücken :

  • Evangelical parish hall in Sankt Arnual
  • Vehicle hall of the "Saargarage" in Großherzog-Friedrich-Strasse 16 to 22 in St. Johann
  • Entrance pavilions of the Jewish cemetery (1929)

Neunkirchen (Saar) :

  • Movie theater

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Best, Willi: The citizens' boxes of the 19th and 20th centuries in Saarbrücken . Ed .: Dr. Günter Scharwath and Dr. Christof Trepesch. Edition Europa, Blieskastel 2002, ISBN 3-931773-40-X , p. 80 .