Josef Rings

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Josef Heinrich Rings (born December 20, 1878 in Bad Honnef ; † August 7, 1957 there ) was a German architect , urban planner , university professor and author .

family

Josef Rings was born to Roman Catholic parents. In 1909 he married Mathilde called "Tilly" Menkel (1886–1942), who was of Jewish origin, and from then on was listed as non-denominational. Their son Werner (1910–1998) was born in 1910  . Tilly Rings, who had been refused entry visa to the British Mandate Palestine during the Nazi era because of a serious illness , died in the Jewish hospital in Cologne.

Life

Rings studied at the Buxtehude building trade school from 1895 to 1897 and as a guest student at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 1903 to 1906 . There he became assistant to Friedrich Pützer's chair and from 1908 also taught at the technical colleges in Offenbach am Main (today the University of Design ). From 1912 to 1919 he worked as a department head in the construction department of Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen , where he worked in industrial and residential construction. So he planned u. a. for the extension of the Margarethenhöhe and the Alfredshof settlement . In 1919 he opened his architecture office in Essen.

In the 1920s he designed the urban forest settlement (also called Eyhof settlement ), the Spinnstuhl settlement in Gelsenkirchen and some settlements in Bochum as an independent architect in Essen . In addition, between 1926 and 1929 he oversaw the development and expansion of the educational reform home for rural education, which was founded and managed by Martin Luserke , Schule am Meer im Loog on the East Frisian North Sea island of Juist , which his son Werner visited during this time. The Berlin architect Bruno Ahrends was also involved there between 1929 and 1931.

As an active SPD member, Rings emigrated to Palestine in 1934 , where he received British citizenship. There he worked between 1934 and 1948 as an urban and settlement planner for the Rassco settlement company in Tel Aviv . In 1939 he was stripped of his German citizenship. In 1948 he returned to Germany and taught as a professor for urban planning at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.

Work (selection)

Buildings and designs

Urban forest settlement / Eyhof settlement in Essen, 1928
Exhibition and festival hall in Essen, 1927 (predecessor of today's Grugahalle )
Kiryat Amal settlement near Haifa, 1946
  • 1905: Design for a country house in Honnef am Rhein
  • 1908: Model house "Arbeiterhaus Merkel" at the Hessian State Exhibition for Fine and Applied Arts Darmstadt 1908
  • 1911: Design for the Weidenhausen colony
  • 1912: Design for a country house in Marburg
  • 1914: Design for a Protestant church in Barmen
  • 1919: Feldhaushof settlement in Essen - Huttrop (with A. Farmers)
  • 1920–1924: "Stadtwaldsiedlung" (also "Siedlung Eyhof") in Essen-Stadtwald
  • 1922–1923: Apartment buildings on Ottostraße (today Oskar-Hoffmann-Straße) 77 bc in Bochum for the building cooperative Bochum und Umgebung eGmbH
  • 1923–1924: Housing estate on Hunscheidtstrasse in Bochum
  • 1924: 1st and 2nd construction phase of the Weitmar housing estate in (Bochum-) Weitmar , Hattinger Straße 297–311
  • 1925: Sifting and coal washing of the Dahlbusch II / V / VIII colliery in Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen (not preserved)
  • 1926–1927: Partial demolition and enlarged new building of the Doyen House ("Do") as well as new construction of the teacher and primary school house "Arche" of the Schule am Meer in Loog on Juist ("Arche" today part of the Juist Youth Hostel, "Do") today in community ownership and privately inhabited)
  • before 1928: Group of multi-family houses in Duisburg , Grabenstrasse
  • before 1928: Oil distillation of the society for tar utilization in Castrop-Rauxel
  • 1927: Exhibition Hall V in Essen (demolished before 1958, today's location of the Grugahalle )
  • 1930–1931: Spinnstuhl settlement in Gelsenkirchen-Hassel
  • from 1937: Kiryat Amal settlement near Haifa

Fonts

  • Small apartments. Darmstadt 1910.
  • The practice of housing reform. Darmstadt 1912.
  • Want and ability. House units. Drafts and explanations. o. O. 1923.
  • Settlement reform. Laws, building ideas, goals. Girardet Verlag, Essen 1922/1923.
  • Building as an expression of community awareness. In: Bauwarte , issue 9/1928.
  • The urban forest settlement Eyhof in Essen. In: Bauamt und Gemeindebau , year 1930, issue 12, p. 34 f.
  • Town Planning Schemes for Kirjat Amal. In: Habinjan Bamisrach Hakarov , born 1937, p. 26 f.

Memberships

Rings was a member of the German Werkbund (DWB) since 1913 and later also of the Association of German Architects (BDA).

Honors

In Gelsenkirchen-Hassel, the Josef-Rings-Schule (elementary school) was named after him and is part of the Im Spinnstuhl estate that he had planned at the end of the 1920s . The settlement has been a listed building since 2006.

estate

Some of his estate is kept at the Technion in Haifa and in the Archives for Contemporary History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich .

literature

Web links

Commons : Josef Rings  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emigration of Josef Rings to Palestine in 1934, acceptance of British citizenship; Refusal of entry visa for Mathilde Menkel due to serious illness, natural death in Germany in 1942 . In: ETH Zurich, AfZ - Archive for Contemporary History. On: ethz.ch
  2. ↑ a b c d Rings, Josef Heinrich . On: kit.edu
  3. ^ Reports from the Schule am Meer Juist (North Sea) - a summary report on the first two years of the school, 1925–1927 . No. 7, p. 29.
  4. ↑ Materials on (Heinrich) Josef (Joseph, Jupp) Rings (1878-1957) . In: Archives for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich. On: ethz.ch
  5. ^ German art and decoration , issue 11/1905
  6. ^ German art and decoration , issue 11/1908
  7. ↑ Marburg / Lahn, Colony Weidenhausen (architect Josef Rings, Offenbach) ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de
  8. ↑ J. Rings: Persistence. In: German art and decoration , issue 11/1911
  9. ^ German art and decoration , issue 11/1912
  10. ↑ Deutscher Werkbund NRW: Housing estates ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutscherwerkbund-nw.de
  11. ↑ Photo: Eyhof housing estate, Essen-Stadtwald, 1920-25 . On: kit.edu
  12. ↑ Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture , issue 5/1925
  13. ↑ a b c online architecture guide for the Ruhr area
  14. ↑ a b c J. Rings: Building as an expression of community consciousness. In: Bauwarte , issue 9/1928
  15. ^ Josef Rings School, Im Spinnstuhl settlement , Gelsenkirchen . On: gelsenkirchen.de
  16. ↑ Materials on (Heinrich) Josef (Joseph, Jupp) Rings (1878-1957) . On: ethz.ch
personal data
SURNAME Rings, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rings, Josef Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban planner and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Honnef
DATE OF DEATH 7th August 1957
Place of death Bad Honnef