Julius Rolffs

Julius Rolffs (born September 20, 1868 in Siegburg ; † March 6, 1946 in Herrlingen near Ulm ) was a German architect .

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origin

Rolffs was the son of the manufacturer Christian Gottlieb Ernst Rolffs in Siegburg , owner of a calico printing company also located there . He grew up in a family with seven children, Julius Rolffs was the last to be born, in a villa next to the family's own factory in the so-called Siegfeld .

Career

After attending a secondary school Rolffs studied at the Technical Universities of Braunschweig and Berlin-Charlottenburg architecture . After taking the first state examination and several years of employment as a government building supervisor, the second state examination followed in November 1901, still living in Charlottenburg. Immediately afterwards he was appointed Royal Prussian Government Builder. Shortly afterwards, he asked to be released from the general building administration in order to be able to work exclusively as a private architect . Rolffs moved to Bonn , where he built a double villa on the outskirts of the southern part of the city according to his own plans and settled himself in one half of the house. His first assignment there in 1903 was the execution of the officers 'casino ( officers' dining establishment ) for the new hussar barracks in the north of the city . Around 1907 Rolffs was accepted into the Association of German Architects (BDA). He was also involved as a church master in the evangelical community and helped found a community-owned baby and convalescent home, the planning of which he also took over as an architect.

Together with the architect August Scheidgen, Rolffs initiated the construction of the "Villa Colony Gronau " on what was then the southern edge of the city of Bonn, where he designed 17 houses between 1906 and 1924 - including four double villas on Drachenfelsstrasse from 1906 to 1912 ( today Kurt-Schumacher-Straße) - worked out. Rolffs moved into one of the semi-villas with his office and family himself. After a break caused by the First World War , he was able to implement another project on this street in the 1920s , the execution of which was temporarily in the hands of Rolffs (April 1922 - September 1923 ) Employee Ernst Sagebiel lay. After Bonn became the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , these villas were located in the middle of the new parliament and government district and were henceforth - later partially supplemented by modern extensions - the seat of several state representations and embassies . Rolffs can be regarded as one of the most important protagonists of the reform style in Bonn. Many of the villas designed by him, especially in the roof area, often expressing Art Nouveau style , are listed as historical monuments .

"Rolffs processes historical and new forms in a very independent way and creates very individual, high-quality and picturesque buildings."

- Olga Sunday (1998)

Rolffs, who had participated in the First World War as a cavalry captain , was evacuated with his wife to southern Germany towards the end of the Second World War , where he also died in 1946.

family

Rolff's first marriage to Margarethe Riedel (* 1879) in 1898 resulted in two daughters. After the divorce, in 1906 he married Clarissa Albrecht (* 1881), daughter of the Strasbourg Ministerial Councilor Paul Albrecht. A son and three daughters, one of whom died in childhood, came from this marriage. Through his second wife, Julius Rolffs was related by marriage to the architect and monument conservator Ludwig Arntz .

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Buildings in Bonn

 Map with all coordinates of the buildings in Bonn: OSM

construction time	District	address	image	object	measure	Remarks
1903	Gronau	Buschstrasse 18 location		Julius Rolff's semi-villa	New building	Monument protection
1903	Gronau	Buschstrasse 20 location		Semi-villa	New building	Monument protection
1903 ff.	Bonn-Castell	Graurheindorfer Straße 90 location	more pictures	Officers' dining establishment for the new hussar barracks to be built	New building	Office / residential buildings; Monument protection
1904	Gronau	Schedestraße 13 location		Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1905/1906	Gronau	Buschstrasse 4 location		Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1906-1907	Gronau	Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 4/6 location	more pictures	Double villa Lürken	New building	later State Representation Hesse ; Monument protection
1907-1909	Gronau	Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 18/20 location	more pictures	Double villa basement	New building	later state representation Hamburg with extension; Monument protection
1907	Gronau	Tempelstrasse 10 location	more pictures	Villa Finkler	Conversion of the winter garden (client: Dittmar Finkler )	today university children's clinic; Monument protection
1907	Gronau	Koblenzer Strasse 119a location		Villa Clemen	New building (client: Paul Clemen )	Destroyed in the war in 1944
1909	Gronau	Heinrich-Brüning-Straße 16-20 location	more pictures	Villas group ( 16 / 18 / 20 )	New building	No. 20 with extension ("Press Club"); Monument protection
1909-1910	Gronau	Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 12/14 location	more pictures	Rolffs / Banze double villa	New building	later state representation Saarland; Monument protection
1910	Gronau	Wörthstrasse 5 location	more pictures	Crown Prince Villa	New construction of a winter garden and staircase (client: Wilhelm Girardet )	Canceled in 1952/53
1911	Südstadt	Poppelsdorfer Allee  63 location	more pictures	Villa Mrs. Consul Zuntz	New building	Monument protection
1911-1912	Gronau	Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 2 / Heussallee 40 location	more pictures	Double villa Freudenberg / Blume and Rolffs	New building	Monument protection
1912	Gronau	Heussallee 18/20 location	more pictures	Villa Mrs. Privy Councilor Scheidt	New building	later state representation of Rhineland-Palatinate; Monument protection
1912	Gronau	Joachimstrasse 7 location		villa	New building	later state representation in Berlin; Monument protection
1912	Gronau	Adenauerallee 132a location		Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1913	Südstadt	Koenigstrasse 60 location		Residential building	Conversion / expansion to a doctor's practice	Monument protection
1913	Gronau	Wörthstrasse 5 location	more pictures	Crown Prince Villa	New greenhouse (client: Wilhelm Girardet )	Canceled in 1952/53
1913	Südstadt	Koblenzer Strasse 41 location	more pictures	Villa Prym	Extension / new building	Canceled in 1953 for the university library
1913	Gronau	Raiffeisenstrasse 5 location	more pictures	Villa Ingenohl	Interior remodeling	Monument protection
1913	Gronau	Joachimstrasse 3/5 location		Duplex house	New building	Monument protection
1913	Kessenich	Karl-Barth-Straße 2 location		Evangelical parish hall ("Wichernhaus")	New building	until 1955 center of the Protestant community; Canceled in 2015
1919	Gronau	Arndtstrasse 2 / Adenauerallee 106 location		Residential building	Reconstruction, extension	Monument protection
1921-1922	Gronau	Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße 14/16 location	more pictures	Villa Böker	New building	later residence of the Austrian embassy ; Monument protection
1921-1922	Gronau	Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 8 location	more pictures	villa	New building	1949–2000 State Representation Hesse with extension; Monument protection
1921-1922	Gronau	Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 16 location	more pictures	Villa Wolters	New building	Monument protection
1922	Gronau	Heinrich-Brüning-Straße 14 location		Residential buildings	New building	Monument protection
1922-1923	Gronau	Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 10 location	more pictures	Villa Mrs. Consul Leo	New building	later residence of the embassy in Egypt; Monument protection
1925	Gronau	Adenauerallee 87a location	more pictures	Villa Bungarten	Kitchen extension	Monument protection
1929-1930	Südstadt	Coblenzerstrasse 39		Villa Prym	Conversion (client: Eugen Prym )	1953–55 canceled for the university library
1929 ff.	North city	Perthesanlage location		Parts of the Lievelingsweg settlement	New building
1929 ff.	Gronau	Adenauerallee 160 location	more pictures	Alexander Koenig Museum	Interior construction: execution	Monument protection
1933	Gronau	(last) Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse 6 location		Villa Thilmany / Gruhl	Conversion into an apartment building	Canceled in 1961
1934	Gronau	Koblenzer Strasse 119a location		Villa Clemen (see above)	Conversion into an apartment building	Destroyed in the war in 1944
1933-1935	Gronau	Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 2 / Heussallee 40 location	more pictures	Double villa Freudenberg / Blume and Rolffs	Conversion into three-storey houses	Monument protection
1935	Gronau	Tempelstrasse 8 location	more pictures	Villa Eschbaum	Interior remodeling	today university children's clinic; Monument protection
1935	Beuel district Limperich	Rhenusallee 49 location		Country house	New building
1936	Poppelsdorf	Nachtigallenweg 52 location		Country house	New building

Buildings outside Bonn

construction time	District	address	image	object	measure	Remarks
1936	Essen district of Kettwig	Meistersweg 7 location		Stable building	New building	today residential building; Monument protection

Web links

Commons : Julius Rolffs  - Collection of Images

• Christian Rolffs: Government architect Julius Rolffs in Bonn , homepage of the Rolffs family

References and comments

1. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 21, 1901, No. 95 (from November 30, 1901), p. 577.
2. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 21, 1901, No. 101 (December 21, 1901), p. 617.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} A grandson on the hunt for clues: The villas of Bonn's government architect Julius Rolffs . In: General-Anzeiger . September 5, 1997, ZDB -ID 1096623-7 , p. 7 .
4. ^ Elke Dittrich: Ernst Sagebiel: Leben und Werk , Lukas Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-936-87239-2 , p. 35
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o} Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn. 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 3, Catalog (2). (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
6. ^ City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt : "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4": The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 , pp. 56–57.
7. ↑ The information is taken from the legally binding list of monuments of the city of Bonn. It is managed by the Lower Monument Authority , from which the entries for the individual monuments can be obtained for a fee. (File on Heinrich-Brüning-Straße 14)
8. ^ ^{A b} Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn. 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 1, p. 296.
9. ↑ For buildings that no longer exist - if known - the last valid address.
10. ↑ ^{a b c d} today Adenauerallee
11. ^ Ingeborg Flagge: Architecture in Bonn after 1945: Buildings in the federal capital and its surroundings . Verlag Ludwig Röhrscheid, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-7928-0479-4 , p. 119.
12. ↑ today Tempelstrasse
13. ^ Franz Josef Talbot (with photographs by Achim Bednorz): Bonner Südstadt . Emons Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7408-0468-8 , p. 225.
14. ↑ today Tempelstrasse
15. ^ Wichernhaus will be demolished after 101 years , General-Anzeiger , August 30, 2013
16. ↑ The 102-year-old building is being demolished , General-Anzeiger , June 19, 2015
17. ^ Address book of the city of Bonn 1924
18. ^ Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914. Volume 2, Catalog (1)
19. ^ Andreas Denk , Ingeborg Flagge : Architekturführer Bonn . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , p. 71.
20. ↑ Maria Günther: The Zoological Museum Alexander Koenig and its creator . In: Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Stadtarchiv Bonn (Ed.) Bonner Geschichtsblätter: Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , ISSN  0068-0052 , Volume 67 (2017), Bonn 2017, pp. 267–288 (here: p. 285 ).
21. ↑ List of monuments city of Essen (PDF; 1.3 MB)