Josef Rindsfüßer

Josef Rindsfüßer (born October 7, 1864 in Osterspai ; † August 8, 1927 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German architect . He lived and worked in Frankfurt, from 1896 in a joint architecture office with Martin Kühn (* 1869 in Fechenheim near Frankfurt; † January 11, 1942 in Frankfurt am Main).

buildings

Many of the existing buildings by the Rindsfüßer and Kühn offices are listed .

• Commercial building at Kaiserstraße 57 in Frankfurt; built in 1893; Neo-renaissance
• Commercial building at Kaiserstraße 59 / Elbestraße 26 in Frankfurt; The house, built in 1893, has light natural stone facades in the neo-renaissance style, which are centered by corner bay windows and a domed belvedere .
• Bender & Gattmann company building in Frankfurt, Baseler Strasse 27 (formerly Königstrasse 2); The company was founded in 1873 by August Bender and Bernhard Gattmann and renamed Deutsche Kleidwerke AG in 1933 . The building, erected in 1898, has a generously proportioned natural stone facade in the neo-renaissance style.
• Commercial building at Kaiserstraße 56 / Elbestraße 28 in Frankfurt; The builder was the master tailor Wilhelm Franz. The historicist building with light natural stone facades in rough mixed forms from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was repaired in a simplified manner after war damage in the area of ​​the roofs, gables and corner turrets, and in 1995 it was reconstructed in almost detail .
• Commercial building at Münchener Strasse 4–6 in Frankfurt; built in 1901 for the building contractor and hotelier Heinrich Wilhelm Müller with a monumental natural stone facade in modernized neo-renaissance forms
• Office building for Heinrich Hüttenbach in Worms am Rhein , Kämmererstraße 22; The building was erected between 1901 and 1902 and displayed numerous Art Nouveau decorations , especially on the first floor . Only the corner wing, which is now a listed building, has been preserved from the building. The bay window is almost completely preserved, and the Worms coat of arms can be found on its facade. The original facade of the first floor has not been preserved.
• Office building Roßmarkt 15 in Frankfurt; The building contractor Carl C. Junior from Frankfurt was the owner of the neoclassical house. The house, built between 1903 and 1904, has a natural stone facade with colossal columns, classy decor and preserved original balcony grilles. The building suffered considerable damage in World War II and was then repaired with changes (especially in the roof area).
• Frank & Baer's office building in Frankfurt, Zeil 70; The owners Moses Frank and Nathan Carl Baer sold manufactured goods, women's clothing and jewelery. The commercial building, built in 1904 on the site of the well-known Café Mozart , was expanded in 1912 by the former Weidenhof adjoining it to the east and provided in its entirety with a facade that was committed to the reform architecture of the years.
• Factory building for the Bauersche foundry in Frankfurt, Hamburger Allee 45 (originally Moltkeallee); built in 1904; Industrial architecture in forms of Art Nouveau
• Original building of the Dr. Oskar Kohnstamm in Königstein im Taunus , Ölmühlweg 12; built 1904–1905; Plant later expanded by other architects
• Office building Taunusstrasse 45–47 in Frankfurt; built in 1905, Art Nouveau facade made of light sandstone; Hermes heads as completion of the colossal - pilasters
• Peter Kurtenbach textile department store in Limburg an der Lahn , Bahnhofstrasse 6; built in 1906; The small-scale, rhythmic, but generous stone facade is in the footsteps of big-city models and is unique in Limburg.
• Extension of the Michael Schneider department store in Frankfurt, Zeil #; The department store had been located in the Minerva house on the Zeil since 1899 and was taken over by the businessman Gottlob Beilharz in the same year. The extension was built in 1906–1907 on the corner plot of Stiftstraße, which was widened in 1898, and from 1911 the department store also extended to the neighboring Hessischer Hof .
• Rothschild Brothers Department Store (later Henschel & Ropertz, now Henschel Department Store) in Darmstadt , Marktplatz; Due to its importance for the historical cityscape within sight of the Old Town Hall and the New Palace, the design with partly neo-baroque style elements was created with the advice of the Darmstadt architect and monument conservator Georg Wickop and was carried out in two construction phases from 1908.
• Zeilpalast office and commercial building owned by the Robinsohn brothers' fashion company in Frankfurt, Zeil 123 / Liebfrauenstrasse / Pfandhausgasse; The Zeilpalast, built in 1908–1910 in place of two classicist houses, formed the western entrance to Liebfrauenstrasse and was built in a nine-month construction period at a cost of 600,000 marks . The five-storey corner building was constructed in reinforced concrete and had three exposed fronts with rounded building edges on the Zeil. The ground floor contained large shop window openings, while the upper four floors were structured by continuous pillars. The steep, overhanging, hipped roof carried a roof structure with windows. It showed a square structure above the ridge, crowned by an open belvedere covered with a dome. The facades on the ground floor were covered with ceramic tiles from the Grand Ducal Hessian Ceramic Manufactory in Darmstadt; Shop windows and showcases were made of bronze. The upper four storeys of the facade were made of yellow-white, flamed Palatinate sandstone. The models of the sculptural work on the facade were made by the sculptor William Ohly . The entrance corridor, the front room and the stairwell were clad in marble. On the first floor there were shops and a hallway leading to the stairwell and elevators. The upper floors contained offices that were grouped around an inner atrium. The parent company of the Robinsohn brothers' fashion house was founded in Hamburg. After its commercial success, numerous branches were founded in the German Reich, including Frankfurt am Main. In 1905 a neo-baroque commercial building was built right next to the Katharinenkirche by the Frankfurt architect Julius Lönholdt. A few years later, the Zeilpalast office and commercial building was built in the immediate vicinity by the architect Josef Rindafüßer. In 1927 both houses had to be sold to the Nassauische Landesbank . In 1944 both houses were badly damaged by aerial bombs. Only the former Zeilpalast was rebuilt in a different form (Hako House).
• Commercial building Gutleutstrasse 40 in Frankfurt; built in 1911 for the Anton Hilf construction company in Bornheim with a neoclassical facade made of red sandstone
• Office building of the trimmings and ladies' hat factory Ludwig Gerngroß & Co. in Frankfurt, Gutleutstrasse 42–44; built in 1912
• Administration building for the Lencoryt spinning mill L. Neuberger & Co. in Frankfurt, Osthafenplatz 6/8; The building, erected in 1913, also has a representative neoclassical facade with colossal columns and an imposing portal.
• Double house for the merchants F. Reis and M. Moses in Frankfurt, Wolfsgangstraße 3/5; erected in 1925

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  Office building Roßmarkt 15 in Frankfurt

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  Zeilpalast in Frankfurt

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  M. Schneider department store, Zeil 98

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  M. Schneider department store, Zeil 98

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  Commercial building at Kaiserstraße 59 / Elbestraße 26 in Frankfurt

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  Commercial building at Münchener Strasse 4–6 in Frankfurt

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  Commercial building Gutleutstrasse 40 in Frankfurt

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  Commercial building at Gutleutstrasse 42–44 in Frankfurt

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  Commercial building at Kaiserstraße 57 in Frankfurt

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  Office building at Taunusstrasse 45–47 in Frankfurt

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  Double house Wolfsgangstraße 3/5 in Frankfurt

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  Bender & Gattmann office building in Frankfurt

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  Factory building of the Bauer foundry in Frankfurt

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  Building of the Dr. Kohn tribe in Königstein im Taunus

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Frankfurt-Bahnhofsviertel
• List of cultural monuments in Worms-Kernstadt

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 .
• Heinz Schomann, Volker Rödel, Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main. 2nd, revised 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 .
• Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main. Supplements. (= Materials on monument protection in Frankfurt am Main , Volume 1.) Henrich, Frankfurt am Main 2000.
• 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 , p. 211, p. 304-306.
• Folkhard Cremer (edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen II, administrative region Darmstadt. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 .

Web links

Commons : Josef Rindsfüßer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry "Joseph Rindsfüßer" in: "archthek", Historical Register of Architects, Section Riffart - Rix , last accessed on May 17, 2016
2. ^ Entry "Martin Kühn" in: "archthek", Historical Register of Architects, Section Kriebel - Künzel , last accessed on May 17, 2016
3. ↑ Bender & Gattmann Aktiengesellschaft, Frankfurt-M., From 1933 German clothes Werke AG, Royal Route 2, Frankfurt am Main on www.reichsbankaktien.de , last downloaded May 17, 2016
4. ^ Deutsche Kleidwerke Aktiengesellschaft Frankfurt a / M., Königstrasse 2; formerly Bender & Gattmann Aktiengesellschaft Frankfurt a / M. at www.fhw-online.de , last accessed on May 17, 2016
5. ↑ The Architecture of the 20th Century ( portfolio ), year 1912, plate 76 (and description of the building in the text supplement)
6. ↑ Illustration of the building on www.ralfbarthelmes.com , last accessed on May 17, 2016