Karl Ross (architect)

Karl Hubert Ross (also: Karl Roß and Karl Hubert Roß ; born January 28, 1867 in Aachen , † after 1938) was a German architect .

Life

1898 "residential building Emilienstraße 10" in Hanover;
Sheets for architecture and handicrafts , photo: Georg Alpers

Karl Ross studied architecture in Hanover from 1884 to 1886 under matriculation number 8044 at the Technical University there as a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase and others.

Ross worked in Hanover until 1938, where he left behind several buildings, some of which were listed .

In 1938 Karl Ross moved to Berlin at Olympische Strasse 16 in the Charlottenburg district .

Works (selection)

buildings

in Hannover:

• 1903: Engesohde town cemetery : tomb for Ferdinand Peretz , preserved
• 1908: Eichendorffstraße 5 : house for Karl Ross ; the series of villa is preserved at the same address and was the banker and secretly Fiscal 1913 Julius Rothschild sold
• 1909: Rudolf-von-Bennigsenstraße , competition design for the development of the project planned there, not carried out
• around 1911:
  • Adenauerallee 10 (formerly Am Zoologischer Garten 4 ); Villa for the opera singer Anton Hummelsheim , preserved in parts
  • Zeppelinstraße 3 , villa for Heinrich Grotehöver , not preserved
• around 1912: Walderseestrasse 22 (formerly house number 19 ); Villa for Professor Hommel , which has been well preserved

Fonts

• Karl Hubert Ross (ed.): Picturesque monumental architecture and folk art from Hanover and Braunschweig , with 12 pages of text and 339 illustrations on 112 plates, Eszlingen: Neff, 1913; contents

literature

• German construction hut . Central sheet for the German construction industry . 18th year. 1914, pp. 58-60 and pp. 240ff.
• German construction hut. Central sheet for the German construction industry . 19th year. 1915, pp. 337-338
• Herbert Mundhenke : The matriculation of the higher trade school, the polytechnic school and the technical university of Hanover . Hildesheim 1988–1992 (3 volumes)
• Horst Kruse: Settlement of the Kleine Bult and directory of the house owners in the Hanover Zoo district. Proof of architects, builders and homeowners in the Hanover Zoo district according to the Hanover address books until 1979 . Everloh 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Helmut Zimmermann : The “Kleine Bult” became the “Zoo” district , in which: Between Maschsee and Eilenriede … Harenberg, Hanover 1985, ISBN 3-89042-015-X , pp. 60–64; here: p. 62
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Reinhard Glaß: Ross, Karl Hubert in his database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , last accessed on November 22, 2016