Hermann mustard

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Hermann Senf (born August 4, 1878 in Naunhof , † May 1, 1979 in Frankfurt am Main ; full name: Hermann Ernst Senf ) was a German architect . He is considered the "master builder of the old Frankfurt am Main".

Life

Senf first attended the building trade school in Leipzig from 1896 to 1900 . In 1902 he began studying at the Technical University of Munich , which he continued after two years at the Technical University of Dresden . As a student he won the competition to redesign Frankfurt's old town . As a result, he moved to Frankfurt am Main to settle there as an independent architect. There he lived in the house on the corner of Römerberg until 1938 , when he moved to the Schopenhauerhaus . After the Second World War he lived in a house in the rebuilt Fahrgasse .

As early as 1924 he suggested the implementation of open-air plays on the Römerberg with a drawing , which were finally held for the first time eight years later as the Römerberg Festival . In 1969, an exhibition was dedicated to his artistic work in Nebbienschen Gartenhaus , which also included paintings and graphics. After the war, Senf campaigned for the reconstruction of the old opera with various designs . He was allowed to experience the start of construction, he died a few months later at the age of one hundred. Today, the Institute for Urban History in Frankfurt am Main houses his estate .

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Between 1906 and 1926, Senf designed numerous residential and commercial buildings in the newly laid out Braubachstrasse , some of which have echoes of Expressionism . Some of these buildings were created in collaboration with Clemens Musch and Franz Roeckle . Today the houses no. 10, 12, 14-16 and 33 are still preserved, the house at Braubachstrasse 15 had to give way in 1972 to the technical town hall .

Senf's other buildings from this time include the administration building of the Nassauische Baugewerks- Berufsgenossenschaft in Weißfrauenstrasse 10 (1908–1909), the beer hall “Zum Riederhof” of the Binding brewery in Hanauer Landstrasse and their residential and commercial building in Ostendstrasse (1912 ).

In 1910, Senf and 46 other Frankfurt architects took part in a competition to design the Molenturm in Frankfurt's Osthafen . The winning design by Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Leonhardt was not carried out, probably because of the First World War, although funds for the detailed planning and construction were approved by the municipal authorities and the city council in 1912.

In 1928, in cooperation with the sculptor Paul Seiler, a memorial was created for the fallen soldiers of the First World War in the Frankfurt main cemetery and in 1937 a memorial for the fallen soldiers of the Frankfurt districts of Höchst and Nied at the confluence of the Niddam in the Main on the Wörthspitze . The memorial on the Wörthspitze was removed in 1965.

The open-air theater Loreley , built in the mid-1930s, is considered to be his most important work . In 1936 he was commissioned to modernize the theater hall on Junghofstrasse.

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  1. ↑ Notwithstanding this, in The Architects and their Building Activities in Frankfurt am Main from 1870 to 1950 Hanover is given as the place of death.
  2. ↑ Frankfurter Biographie , p. 383.
personal data
SURNAME Mustard, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Senf, Hermann Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Naunhof
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1979
Place of death Frankfurt am Main