Julius Krusewitz

Julius Krusewitz (born May 6, 1850 in Wulsbüttel , † May 25, 1923 in Gotha ) was a German architect , specialist teacher and author.

Life

Grave site of the Krusewitz family in the main cemetery in Gotha

Krusewitz was born as the son of a pastor in Wulsbüttel near Cuxhaven and studied architecture in Zurich and Berlin after completing a commercial apprenticeship . He then deepened his professional knowledge in Zurich and Vienna . From 1876 to 1883 he taught at the Buxtehude building trade school , during these years he was given a semester leave of absence for a study trip to Italy , France and Great Britain . From 1883 to 1920 he was a teacher at the ducal building trade and crafts school in Gotha . His teaching activities focused on technical drawing and building construction . He created the designs for many objects - including in Gotha , Friedrichroda , Zella and Mehlis . Facades decorated with columns are characteristic of his buildings. He created some of his objects together with his teacher colleague Adolf Opderbecke . Krusewitz was also active as a painter, sculptor and wood carver and also wrote specialist books, e.g. T. with his colleague Hans Issel , about facade construction in antiquity and in the Renaissance . On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Gotha Building Trade and Crafts School in 1905, Krusewitz was awarded the title of professor.

In 1920, Krusewitz was shot as a bystander in the Kapp Putsch . He died at the age of 73 in Gotha, his and his family's grave is located in the main cemetery in Gotha .

Krusewitz achieved some prosperity through his work and bequeathed 300,000 marks to the city of Gotha for charitable purposes. Today a street in Gotha-Sundhausen reminds of him.

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Buildings and designs

Image geo-data	designation	address	Dating	Remarks
Location		Ernststrasse 11	1900	The former general director of the Gothaer Waggonfabrik , Albert Kandt, lived here since 1904 . In 1908 he became the owner of the house and lived here until his death in 1926 (according to information from the Gotha City Archives from July 27, 2015)
Location		Ernststrasse 14	1900
Location		Burg Freiheit 23 / Walthershäuser Straße	End of 19th century	Residential and commercial building with drugstore Orschel (today an insurance office) on the ground floor
Location	" Feast of the Sea " restaurant	Ekhofplatz / Schwabhäuser Strasse	End of 19th century	The building was built for the restaurateur Wilhelm Blaase. After 1945 the company was nationalized and Blaase acted as managing director. Later the restaurant was called HO-Gaststätte "Freundlichkeit" . In the 1970s the fish restaurant "Gastmahl des Meeres" was built. After the fall of the Wall, an investor from Gotha was found who had the house renovated and established the Hotel “Sankt Gambrinus” with the restaurant “Fischerstube”, but went bankrupt. Even the successor could not get the proud house out of the red. The city planning office announced that the building was in good condition and they were looking for a user. ( Thüringer Allgemeine , Gotha edition, April 6, 2013, p. 16)
Location	Feldmann department store	Erfurter Strasse 19	End of 19th century	Neo-Renaissance, a listed building
Location	Feldmann department store	Erfurter Strasse 20	End of 19th century	Water bed house, neo-renaissance, under monument protection
Location		Hauptmarkt 2, ground floor	1885	Decorative ground floor of the guild hall at Hauptmarkt 2, redesigned by Krusewitz and Opderbecke in 1885, under monument protection, Bellini restaurant in the Ratskeller
Location	Villa Brand	Oststrasse 47
Location		Cross street 7	End of 19th century	Merkur drug store (now a travel agency); Mercury sculpture on the facade on the 1st floor
Location		Siebleber Strasse 12	1895?	Reconstruction of an arable bourgeois house built around 1780 with a ground floor facade based on a design by Julius Krusewitz; Upper floor and roof with superstructures in baroque appearance preserved; 1866 apartment of court dentist Dr. Meister, furniture shop owned by master joiner Louis Lux in 1895, extensive renovation in 1993
Location		Reinhardsbrunner Strasse 14	1898	Residential building, under monument protection, renovated in 2008; The style of the richly decorated structure corresponds to the Italian palazzo architecture. In the stairwell, in particular, the interior furnishings of the time have been preserved. The solid construction with mezzanine is located in a corner that defines the street scene.
Location	Herzog Ernst School	Reinhardsbrunner Strasse 19	1888	1888 with state teachers' seminar , today the Duke Ernst Cooperative Comprehensive School, under monument protection
Location		Extension at the corner of Marktstrasse 17 / Lutherstrasse 1	1902	Office building of the paper shop JF Thomas Wwe., Today SparDaBank (left part of the building)
Location		Lutherstrasse 4-6	1903	Residential and commercial building with Sparkasse (formerly Kreissparkasse Gotha)
Location		Waltershäuser Strasse 1	1896	Residential and office building of the manufacturer Philipp Harjes ; not received
Location		Waltershäuser Strasse 8	End of 19th century	Facades destroyed in the 1970s by rigorous renovation measures
Location		Waltershauser Strasse 10	Construction period 1895–1898	Spintler bookbindery, now Euchler & Antiquariat bookstore, facades destroyed in the 1970s by rigorous renovation measures
Location		Waltershauser Strasse 24	End of 19th century	Post Office III
Location	"Villa Sylvia" on the Kienberg	Luisenthal, Wölfiser Strasse	1899	Villa for Minna Maelzer (1849–1922; from Suhl), widow of the Ohrdruf entrepreneur August Maelzer (1844–1892) with 745 m² of living space; later a kindergarten, now private apartments

Fonts

• The facade construction of the German Renaissance. A collection of the most beautiful motifs of half-timbered and stone buildings in the 16th century and in our time. Scholtze, Leipzig 1884. ( Portfolio , together with Hans Issel)
• Ornamental sketch sheets. Halle an der Saale 1887.

literature

• Helmut Roob, Günter Scheffler: Gotha personalities. Rhino-Verlag, Arnstadt / Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-932081-37-4 , S. #.

Web links

• Julius Krusewitz (1850–1923) on the website of the City of Gotha, last accessed on April 5, 2016

Other sources

• Documents from the architect Julius Krusewitz at the Museum of Regional History and Folklore in Gotha, inventory no. 20599 (apparently personal writings and photographs from the estate)

Remarks

1. ↑ Research by the author in Friedrichroda and Zella-Mehlis did not provide any confirmation.