Jakob Krug

Jakob Krug (also Jacob Krug ; born March 26, 1877 in Rheindürkheim near Worms; † January 12, 1965 in Darmstadt ) was a German architect .

Life

Jakob Krug visited the technical center of the miller's school in Worms. Because of his drawing skills, he was introduced to Joseph Maria Olbrich . Olbrich hired Krug in 1901, after which he moved to Darmstadt. At first, Krug was mainly employed as a draftsman for interior furnishings. In 1905 he was included in the planning for the wedding tower and for the exhibition building on Mathildenhöhe , both buildings were completed in 1908. Jakob Krug also designed the pavilion in the garden of the Upper Hessian House in 1908 . This year he was one of the organizers of the state exhibition that was shown at Mathildenhöhe.

After Olbrich's death in August 1908, Krug started his own business as an architect. From 1910 he was in charge of the renovation of the former Parkhotel (Dieburger Straße 241) on the outskirts of Darmstadt, today's Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Haus . Krug decorated the hotel with numerous elements of Art Nouveau and made it a stately home for Prince Otto Heinrich zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1854–1935) and his wife Anna von Köppen, Countess von Hagenburg (1860–1932). Before the First World War, some of Jakob Krug's villas were built on Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt. He built other houses and villas in Mainz that were strongly influenced by Art Nouveau.

Jakob Krug was a member of the artistic advisory board of the Darmstadt artist community. This was a unitary organization founded by Mayor Otto Wamboldt in 1936, which wanted to bring together all local artists under National Socialist leadership. In addition to Krug, this advisory board included Adolf Beyer , Erich Mindner and Hermann Geibel .

After the Second World War, Krug worked on the reconstruction of the heavily destroyed Darmstadt city center and the residential areas of Darmstadt. Here he was given orders in particular by local housing associations and the building association.

Jakob Krug died in Darmstadt in January 1965 at the age of 88.

Honors

• 1962: Bronze plaque of merit for the city of Darmstadt

Works (selection)

• 1909: House at Karlsschanze 16 in Mainz
• 1910/11: Reconstruction of the Parkhotel in Darmstadt, Dieburger Straße 241, today Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Haus
• 1911: Villa at Karlsschanze 10 in Mainz
• 1912: Villa Am Rosengarten 4 in Mainz (together with Georg Finke)
• 1913: Villa Römerwall 51 in Mainz
• 1914: Garage building at Karlsschanze 7 in Mainz (together with Georg Finke)
• 1925: Double villa in Hindenburgstraße 9/11 in Darmstadt (together with Sixtus Grossmann)
• 1953–1954: Group of apartment buildings on the east side of Wilhelminenplatz in Darmstadt (together with Sixtus Grossmann)

literature

• Jakob Krug. In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Stuttgart 2006, p. 527.
• Eckhart G. Franz , Christina Wagner (arrangement): Darmstadt calendar. Data on the history of our city. Darmstadt 1994, p. 156.