Josef Wentzler

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Josef Wentzler (born October 7, 1884 in Vicht ; † July 14, 1942 in Dortmund ) was a German architect .

biography

Wentzler received his training at the building trade schools in Aachen and Cologne and at the Aachen School of Applied Arts . Study trips to Belgium, Holland, Austria and Hungary followed; afterwards he worked for important architectural offices in Krefeld , Breslau , Hanover , Halle, Cologne, Vienna and Budapest .

During the First World War , Wentzler occupied himself with the planning of cemeteries. There were drafts for war cemeteries in Stolberg and Remagen , as well as for various war memorials . He won first prizes in the competitions for the Zentralfriedhof and Heldenhain in Bad Salzuflen and in the ideas competition for the Südfriedhof (today Saarbrücken Main Cemetery ) with a design written together with the garden architect Gustav Allinger .

The implementation of his design for the main cemetery in Dortmund , which was also created with Allinger, received wide attention . As a result of this major project, Wentzler settled in Dortmund in 1919, where he formed an office community with Heinrich Strunck as the successor to Otto Spenhoff . The office Spenhoff and Strunck had before the war with high-quality office buildings in the reform style, such as the building of the Old Town market in Castrop-Rauxel with uniform sandstone facades or Galeriehaus Carl Utermann, the first reinforced concrete building in Dortmund in the prayer line (destroyed) made a name, and since then has operated on the 6–8 market as Strunck & Wentzler .

The 1920s were Wentzler's most productive creative phase, with most of the design work being done to him, while Strunck, who is well networked locally, was responsible for the implementation of routine projects in cooperative housing and the construction and renovation of commercial buildings in the city of Dortmund.

The office successfully participated in around 180 competitions at home and abroad, it won first prizes for seven cemetery facilities, as well as prizes for the main post office in Essen, town halls in Wiedenbrück and Werne (Lippe), Krefeld city theater, water tower for Barmen, cathedral of Belgrade (1930) and other churches, schools and war memorials.

Among them were those of national importance such as the Cologne high-rise competition, the competition for the anniversary horticultural exhibition in Dresden in 1926 on the occasion of the Wentzler realized a spectacular overgrown wooden tower, the so-called Green Cathedral , and the competition for the redesign of Friedrichstrasse in Berlin, which went down in architectural history.

In 1929, Wentzler achieved international attention when the office competed for the urban expansion of Santo Domingo and the Columbus Lighthouse Memorial; was the only German participant among the ten winners to be invited to a closer competition by the Pan American Union .

The repertoire of forms moved from reform style to moderate modernity . The Luther Church in Datteln occupies a special position , whose strict modern basic forms still have elements of Expressionism , but which at the same time have a strongly archaic character due to their natural stone cladding. The completely demolished colliery buildings resemble the more well-known works by Fritz Schupp and Wilhelm Kreis .

In 1933 Wentzler joined the NSDAP . Around this time, the shared office with Heinrich Strunck also ended, possibly due to his death. In the following years, Wentzler's drafts were published in isolated cases: the Germany Hall for the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 already shows the neoclassicism of the Nazi representative buildings. Apparently, however, little was realized.

He was buried in the Dortmund main cemetery, which he played a key role in shaping and which can be regarded as his main work.

buildings

Dortmund main cemetery (1919–1921)
Municipal high school Herten (1927–1928)
Rheydt cemetery chapel (1928)
Chamber of Crafts Dortmund (1929–1930)
  • 1919-1921: urban central cemetery in Dortmund Wambel (with city architect Hans Strobel and garden architect Gustav Allinger ) location
  • 1919–1923: three-, four- and six-storey apartment buildings for the Dortmund housing association, "in the outskirts of the city"
  • 1920–1923: Miners' settlement in Hamm- Bockum-Hövel
  • 1922–1923: Country house for the Judenberg & Co. company in Dortmund- Aplerbeck
  • 1922–1923: Office and commercial building for the Jungmann & Schmidt KG company in Dortmund, Heiliger Weg 5
  • 1923: Dönnhoff / Bellwinkel double house in Dortmund, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee
  • 1924: Kötterbergsiedlung for the Bergmanns-Siedlung Hamm GmbH in Hamm-Heessen , Münsterstrasse, Höveler Strasse, Max-Heinhold-Strasse, Zum Sachsenhof, Am Kötterberg Lage
  • before August 1924: Kipper house in Dortmund
  • before August 1924: Strunck house in Dortmund, "small country house", "in the middle of a huge orchard"
  • before 1925: Knust house in Dortmund, Westfalendamm
  • Facade renovation of the Eick & Co. office building in Dortmund, Westenhellweg 35
  • 1925: Moselle bridge in Treis-Karden (destroyed in 1945, rebuilt in 1946)
  • 1925: Multi-family house development in Dortmund, Bäumerstraße 1–3, Märkische Straße 173–175 (heavily changed) location
  • 1926: Wooden tower of the Green Cathedral at the 5th Annual German Labor Exhibition in Dresden
  • 1926: Restaurant and ballroom of the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund (destroyed)
  • 1927–1928: Luther Church in Datteln , Martin-Luther-Straße 12 (with Hugo Pfarre ) location
  • 1927–1928: Municipal high school Herten Lage
  • 1927-1929: surface installations for Zeche Robert Müser the Harpen Mining AG in Bochum-Werne, Werner Hellweg, Von-Waldthausen Street (demolished) location
  • 1928: Cemetery chapel in (Mönchengladbach-) Rheydt location
  • 1929: Reconstruction and expansion of the building at Hansastraße 59 in Dortmund
  • 1929: Multi-family house at Kampstrasse 15 in Dortmund
  • 1929: Oskar Sommer's residential and commercial building in Dortmund, Wißstrasse 22
  • 1929: Renovation of the house at Münsterstrasse 15 in Dortmund
  • 1929: Evangelical Church in Castrop-Rauxel- Ickern , Friedhofstraße (destroyed)
  • 1930: Conversion of the Nordheimer shoe store in Dortmund
  • 1929–1930: Office building of the Dortmund Chamber of Crafts , Reinoldistraße 7/9 (changed) location
  • 1930-1931: common central processing plant for the mine Julia and the mine Recklinghausen II Harpener mining AG in Recklinghausen-South, while port Julia am Rhein Herne channel (torn down) position
  • 1935–1939: Cemetery chapel in the municipal cemetery in Iserlohn Lage
  • around 1937: Urban planning for the Rudolf-Heß-Siedlung in Dortmund- Renninghausen Lage

literature

  • Newer buildings by Strunck & Wentzler, Architects BDA in Dortmund. In: Der Baumeister , year 1924, issue 8.
  • Kurt Wilhelm-Kästner : Dortmund architects. In: Moderne Baufformen , year 1925, issue 5.
  • Buildings and designs by architects BDA Strunck & Wentzler, Dortmund. In: Bauwarte , year 1928, issue 35/36.
  • Wilhelm Busch: The architecture of the 20s on the Rhine and Ruhr. Architecture as a means of expression. (= Contributions to architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 32.) JP Bachem, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7616-1089-0 , p. 275.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ›Reform style‹ characterizes the old town market
  2. ^ Utermann Gallery: Care and Intuition
  3. ^ Albrecht Geck (ed.): Church, art, culture: Recklinghausen and beyond
  4. ↑ a b Reinhard Buskies, Stefan Iseke, Thomas Mämecke: Luther Church Datteln. (= Schnell Art Guide , No. 2509.) Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2003, ISBN 3-7954-6420-X .
  5. ↑ The building control room 1930
  6. ↑ The Bauwarte 1934
  7. ↑ a b c d e Moderne Baufformen , Volume 24, 1925, Issue 5.
  8. ↑ a b c d e f Der Baumeister , 22nd year 1924, issue 8, pp. 45–48.
  9. ↑ Entry on ruhr-bauten.de
  10. ↑ Wasmuths monthly booklet for architecture , 10th year 1926, issue 10, p. 417 f.
  11. ↑ a b The building control room , 3rd year 1927 (building certificate)
  12. ↑ a b c d e Die Bauwarte , 5th year 1929 (building certificate)
  13. ^ The "Rudolf-Heß Siedlung" in Dortmund-Renninghausen.
personal data
SURNAME Wentzler, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Vicht
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1942
Place of death Dortmund