Jakob Carl Junior

Jakob Carl Junior (* 1859; † 1946) was a Frankfurt building contractor, owner and founder of a recreation home for Frankfurt children in Vielbach ( Westerwald ).

Today parts of his real estate are still owned and managed by the Junior family.

Activities as a builder

• ENGLISCHER HOF commercial building from 1903, originally built as a hotel by the Frankfurt contractor Jakob Carl (JC) Junior based on designs by the architect Wilhelm Müller the Elder in 1903. In this corner development at 10 Hauptbahnhof / corner of Kaiserstraße 76, the stone facades were plastically structured in the neo-baroque style with corresponding mansard roofs and an imposing corner cupola. Allegorical portal sculptures framed a noble staircase. This hotel building replaced the abandoned old Hotel Englischer Hof (Hotel d'Angleterre) at Roßmarkt 15, which the French architect Salins de Montfort built in 1797 for the then builder Friedrich Lippert and which was also owned by the builder around 1900. This new building had a noticeable locational advantage because of its ideal location directly opposite the new Frankfurt main station and its new building services. The effects of the First World War made it necessary to close the hotel in 1933 and to convert it into an office / commercial building by the architect Willi Beer. The building burned down in the Second World War, was then renovated again, albeit with a different style-alien roof extension. The house is still owned by the owner's family.
• MERKURBAU commercial building built in 1908 based on designs by the architect Wilhelm Müller the Elder with neoclassical stone fronts, mansard roofs, gables and a pronounced corner dome. The portal was framed by allegorical sculptures. This corner development at 12 Hauptbahnhof / corner Taunusstraße 49 became the neighboring building of the ENGLISCHER HOF office building. Because of its proximity to Frankfurt's main train station, the house was named after Mercury, after the Roman god the merchant Mercurius. The building burned down in the Second World War, was then renovated again, albeit with a different style-alien roof extension. At times the US Army installed its Headquarters Command-Chaplain's Service Center on the ground floor. a. The city office of the American airline PANAM is on the ground floor. The house is still owned by the owner's family.
• Investment Dreikaiserbau Kaiserstraße 3-5 1893 by architect Eugene Greiß (1856-1925). Award-winning design. Neo-Baroque style with a light stone facade characterized by red colossal columns with allegorical statues based on a design by J. Keller. Part of a symmetrically designed assembly group, with the house at Kaiserstraße 5a being one axis narrower. As a result of the bomb hits in the Second World War, the formerly rich building sculpture and the centrally domed mansard roof were renovated.
• Office building Roßmarkt 15 / 15a Neoclassicism based on a design by Josef Rindsfüßer & Martin Kühn from 1903. Stone facade with colossal columns, elegant decor, original balcony grilles. Colossal columns extend over several floors of a building and are part of the so-called colossal order. This characterizes a facade structure consisting of columns, which stand directly in front of a multi-storey building front. Architecturally, the colossal order is characteristic of palatial Palladian and baroque buildings . The Roßmarkt 15 / 15a building burned down in the Second World War and was only partially rebuilt according to the original plans, particularly noticeable in the roof extension. The famous Gasthaus / Hotel Englischer Hof (Hotel d'Angleterre), which the French architect Salins de Montfort built for the innkeeper Friedrich Lippert, used to stand here from 1797 to 1903 . Famous guests were u. a. Arthur Schopenhauer and Bismarck. The inn / hotel Englischer Hof (Hotel d'Angleterre) was demolished by the last owner, building contractor Carl C. Junior (also called Jakob Carl Junior) (1859-1946) and replaced by this commercial building. In 1903 the same building contractor Carl C. Junior had a new hotel built, called Englischer Hof, at 10 Hauptbahnhof / corner of Kaiserstraße, based on designs by the architect Wilhelm Müller the Elder. The Roßmarkt 15 / 15a building is still part of the Junior family's property portfolio.
• Commercial building at Kaiserstraße 61 at the corner of Elbestraße 21 from 1895 based on a design by the architect Eugen Greiß with well-designed stone facades in Renaissance and Baroque styles
• Commercial building at Kaiserstraße 67 from 1895 based on designs by the architect Eugen Greiß with a neo-baroque facade made of yellowish sandstone
• Commercial building at Kaiserstraße 72 from 1903 based on designs by the architect Wilhelm Müller the Elder with a neo-baroque gable front made of light sandstone
• Commercial building at Kaiserstraße 74 from 1903 based on a design by the architect Wilhelm Müller the Elder with a neo-baroque gable front made of light sandstone
• Junior-Haus commercial building , Kaiserstraße 19, built in 1951 based on designs by the architect Wilhelm Berentzen (1898–1984) with a glazed rotunda staircase at an angle, symmetrical office wings. The building is considered an architectural icon of the 1950s. Famous construction contract from the Frankfurt company JC Junior, the client was the son of Jakob Carl Junior, Karl Junior. Jakob Carl Junior bought the former property in 1890 and had a café run there. This previous building was destroyed by aerial bombs during the Second World War in 1944. For decades there was a Daimler-Benz sales branch on the ground floor. After they moved out, the Badische Beamtenbank moved in as a tenant.

Foundation, endowment

Junior and his wife Wilhelmine Maria Hartmann laid the foundation stone on June 7, 1914 for a rest home for daughters from middle-class but poorer Frankfurt families. The main building is on the edge of the community of Vielbach and is embedded in a park-like facility. Over the years, other buildings were erected around the historic main building. The JC Junior'sche Kinderkurheim, operated by the City of Frankfurt until 1974, enabled Frankfurt children to relax in the healthy Westerwald climate. In 1977 the establishment of a company of the city of Frankfurt, the Frankfurter Verein, was handed over. Founded in 1910, today's “Frankfurter Verein für Sozial Heimstätten e. V. “has set itself the task of looking after handicapped and socially marginalized people. In addition to the specialist clinic in Vielbach, its facilities include dormitories, factory aids and outpatient services in Frankfurt and the surrounding area. In Vielbach, the association built a specialist hospital for alcoholics. Only homeless, alcoholic men are treated there - unique in Germany.

In recognition of his services, in particular the foundation of a rest home for Frankfurt children in Vielbach (Westerwald), the city of Frankfurt am Main named a street in Frankfurt-Ostend after the Frankfurt building contractor in Jakob-Carl-Junior-Straße.

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  Frankfurt, Am Hauptbahnhof 10

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  Frankfurt, Am Hauptbahnhof 12

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  Frankfurt, Drei-Kaiser-Bau , Kaiserstr. 3-5

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  Frankfurt, Kaiserstr. 61

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  Frankfurt, Kaiserstr. 67

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  Frankfurt, Kaiserstr. 72

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  Frankfurt, Kaiserstr. 74

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  Junior house , Kaiserstraße 19

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  Frankfurt, Roßmarkt 15-15a

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  Vielbach ( Westerwald ) Foundation initiative of the junior couple

literature

• Heinz Schomann: The Frankfurt train station district and Kaiserstraße. A contribution to town planning and the art of historicism. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1988. ISBN 3-421-02876-1 .
• Thomas Zeller: The architects and their building activities in Frankfurt am Main from 1870 to 1950. Henrich, Frankfurt am Main 2004. ISBN 3-921606-51-9 .
• Folkhard Cremer (edit.): Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hesse II. Darmstadt administrative district. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 .
• Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main. Supplements. Limited special edition. Henrich, Frankfurt am Main 2000 (= materials for monument protection in Frankfurt am Main , Volume 1).
• Heinz Schomann, Volker Rödel, Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main. Revised 2nd edition, limited special edition on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the city of Frankfurt am Main. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7973-0576-1 (= materials on monument protection in Frankfurt am Main , Volume 1).
• Albert Dessoff: Monographic Lexicon of Frankfurt Artists in the Nineteenth Century. In: Frankfurter Kunstverein (ed.): Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main in the nineteenth century. Joseph Baer & Co, Carl Jügel's Verlag, Heinrich Keller, FAC Prestel, Moritz Abendroth, Frankfurt am Main 1907–1909.
• Wilhelm Kick (Ed.): Modern new buildings , 2nd year, Stuttgart architecture publishing house Kick, Stuttgart 1898.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Frankfurt-Bahnhofsviertel
2. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Frankfurt-Bahnhofsviertel
3. ↑ ISG Institute for City History, documents and pictures on the development of the commercial buildings of the Frankfurt contractor Jakob Carl Junior Am Hauptbahnhof in Frankfurt am Main.
4. ^ Foundation recreation home Vielbach of the Frankfurt couple junior ( memento of the original from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Fachklinik Vielbach of the Frankfurt Association