Johann Anton Wallé

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Tomb of PH Merkens on Melaten
House Groote in Bad Godesberg

Johann Anton Wallé (born October 23, 1807 in Cologne ; † September 13, 1876 ibid) was a German architect and teacher at the Royal Provincial Trade School in Cologne .

Life

Wallé first attended the elementary drawing school founded by Egidius Mengelberg in Cologne in 1822. From 1826 to 1829 he studied on the recommendation of the Prussian ministerial official Beuth at the industrial academy in Berlin . In 1830 he continued his studies at the art academy in Munich . A few years later he received approval as a private master builder or “commissioned master builder”. From 1833 to 1876 he worked as a teacher for building construction, drawing and modeling at the Royal Provincial Trade School in Cologne. On September 23, 1838 he married Anna Maria Baer, ​​with whom he had seven sons and two daughters. According to the Cologne address books of 1846 and 1858, Wallé lived with his family at Severinstrasse 227 or Pantaleonstrasse 2. He died of a heart attack at the age of 69. Josephstrasse 37 in Cologne is noted as the house where he died.

Designs and buildings (selection)

  • 1837/39: New mansion of Hemmersbach Castle, Kerpen.
  • 1840: "Königliche Hof" inn, Cologne on Thurnmarkt
  • 1848: Design for a security port at Werthchen in Cologne.
  • 1850–1853: The manor house of Gracht Castle near Liblar was added
  • 1860: New building of the "Hôtel du Nord" Cologne, Frankenplatz
  • 1862/63: Groote House in Bad Godesberg
  • Gasthaus Harperath, Cologne, Thurnmarkt 32-34. Destroyed in World War II
  • Jost residential building, Cologne on the Holzmarkt
  • Weinstube Bettger, Cologne, Kleine Budengasse
  • Verhagen residential building, Cologne, Hohestrasse
  • Feist house, Cologne, Schildergasse
  • Former Bandfabrik Braubach, Cologne, Laurenzplatz 2

At the Melaten cemetery in Cologne , he designed the tomb for the banker Peter Heinrich Merkens (HWG - NS, no. 93–95).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Michael Werling : Architecture teacher at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences Part I / The alumni. Published on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the department or faculty for architecture at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Cologne 2006, p. 201 ff.
  2. ↑ Master builders approved by the Prussian government and approved to manage public construction work (cf. Vogt, vol. 2, p. 740)
  3. ↑ a b Death Note , accessed on March 23, 2013.
  4. ^ Cologne address book from 1846 , accessed on March 23, 2013.
  5. ^ Cologne address book from 1858 , accessed on March 23, 2013.
  6. ↑ Susanne Harke-Schmidt, Frank Kretzschmar: Hemmersbach Castle - Knight's seat, manor, Byteburg. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-7616-1515-9 .
  7. ^ Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln , accessed on March 23, 2013.
  8. ^ Picture book Cologne , accessed on March 23, 2013.
  9. ↑ Bad Godesberg picture book tour , accessed on March 23, 2013.
  10. ↑ Klara van Eyll :  Merkens, Peter Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 153-155 ( digitized version ).
  11. ^ Marianne Vogt-Werling / Michael Werling: The Melaten cemetery in Cologne . All monuments and their future, edited by the city curator of the city of Cologne, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7743-0471-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Wallé, Johann Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1876
Place of death Cologne