Hermann Joseph Huerth

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The former Villa Giani, Aachen

Hermann Joseph Hürth (born May 17, 1847 in Cologne , † February 21, 1935 in Aachen ) was a German architect .

Life

Hermann Joseph Hürth was trained as an architect in the Cologne office of the architect Julius Raschdorff and stayed there until around 1870. He then founded his own architecture office in Aachen, which dealt in particular with orders from the Catholic Church. He preferred the neo-Gothic style and the use of exposed masonry.

He was married to Wilhelmine Fleischhauer. His sons Theodor Hürth and Franz Hürth became well-known Catholic theologians. In 1885 he married Maria Margaretha Hubertina Oidtmann from Linnich , the daughter of the entrepreneur Heinrich Oidtmann (1833-1890) and the maternal great-granddaughter of the Merzenhausen landowner Johann Joseph Gottfried Opfergelt (1770-1842). He had three more children with her.

Works

  • Villa Monheim, Aachen

  • Manor high-rise building

  • Priest house of the monastery of the Good Shepherd

  • House of the Good Shepherd Monastery

  • Kloosterstraat Simpelveld

literature

personal data
SURNAME Huerth, Hermann Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1935
Place of death Aachen