Karl Thoma (architect)

Karl Thoma (* 1857 in Aachen ; † 1923 ) was a German architect and government builder who worked mainly in his hometown of Bonn .

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Thoma attended elementary school and grammar school in his native Aachen. Then he began there at the Technical University ( Polytechnic School until 1880 ) to study architecture and technology. From Easter 1883 he worked as a government building supervisor at the Bonn District Building Inspectorate and in this capacity was involved in the expansion of the Academic Art Museum (1883–1884), the reconstruction of the Physical Institute and a design for the Pathological Institute. For the provincial administration of the Rhine province in Düsseldorf, he took over the drafting and construction management of the provincial museum in Trier . In 1888, Thoma passed the master builder examination in Berlin and was subsequently appointed Royal Prussian government master builder . Thomas' subsequent positions were at the Foreign Office in Berlin , for which he worked out drafts for colonial buildings, the city of Berlin under city planning officer James Hobrecht and representing the Marienwerder district building inspection . From 1889 to 1892 Thoma - again for the provincial administration in Düsseldorf - worked as the construction manager of the new building for the provincial museum in Bonn (destroyed in the war in 1944). With the completion of this project, Thoma ended his civil service career and founded an architectural office in Cologne together with Ferdinand Schmitz . In 1899 he set up his own office in Bonn.

Thomas Werk from his time as a freelance architect up to the First World War includes private houses, industrial and commercial buildings as well as public and sacred buildings. His most important projects include the repair of the cloister and the east towers of the Bonn Minster (from 1897), the Bonn Citizens' Association (1909), the Minster House (1912), the Minster Chaplaincy (no longer existent today), the Tietz department store on Münsterplatz and the connection of the rectory to the Gangolfshaus apply.

“Thoma belonged to a generation of architects who tried to overcome the historicism prevalent in architecture at the time. He largely dispensed with historicizing decorative elements and provided his buildings with a lively and richly structured, almost picturesque facade. "

- Franz Josef Talbot (2018)

Thoma was a longstanding member of the Association of German Architects . Around 1903 he was elected chairman of the "Architects and Engineers Association" in Bonn, which after resigning as chairman in 1920 made him an honorary member. In terms of local politics, Thoma was involved in the Center Party as a member of Bonn's city council. For a time he was also chairman of the “AG für Thonindustrie zu Niederpleis ”. He was also a member of a design commission set up by the city of Bonn to assess special building projects to monitor the “Local Statute for the Protection of the City of Bonn against Defect” published in 1909.

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Buildings in Bonn

construction time	District	address	image	object	measure	Remarks
1900	Gronau	Coblenzerstrasse 99		Villa (built 1853)	Extension (client: Jean Balthazar )	canceled around 1952 for the Foreign Office
1901/1902	Bonn center	Friedensplatz  12 location		Residential and commercial building	New building	Monument protection
1902/1903	Südstadt	Kaiserstraße 69 location		Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1902/1903	Südstadt	Kaiserstraße 71 location		Residential building	New building (client: Karl Thoma)	Monument protection
1903	Südstadt	Goebenstrasse 35 location		Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1903	Südstadt	Goebenstrasse 37 location		Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1903	Südstadt	Goebenstrasse 41/43 location		Duplex house	New building	Monument protection
1903	Südstadt	Goebenstrasse 45 location		Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1904	West town	Kaufmannstrasse 45 location		Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1905	Südstadt	Bonner Talweg 60 location		Fraternity house	New building (client: AMV Makaria Bonn )	Monument protection
1906	Bonn center	Remigiusstrasse 1 location	more pictures	Residential and commercial building	New building (with Josef Steinkrüger)	Monument protection
1906	Gronau	Buschstrasse 22 location		Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1908	Südstadt	Koenigstrasse 17a location		Residential building	New building	Monument protection
1909	Poppelsdorf	Jagdweg 16 location		Remise of the Soennecken stationery factory	New building	Monument protection; Completely renovated in 1986
1909	Südstadt	Poppelsdorfer Allee / Prinz-Albert-Straße location		Society house of the Bonn Citizens' Association	New building	canceled around 1970
1909-1910	Bonn center	Tempelstrasse 10-12		Jewish community center	New building	Destroyed in 1938
1911-1912	Bonn center	In the Sürst 2-6 position	more pictures	"Münsterhaus"	New building	Monument protection; later Dresdner Bank
1913/1914	Südstadt	Poppelsdorfer Allee 45 location		Residential building	Conversion / expansion, pre-glare facade	Monument protection; formerly the Danish embassy , today the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics
1914/1915	Südstadt	Venusbergweg 17 / 17a location		Double villa	New building	Monument protection

Buildings outside Bonn

construction time	District	address	image	object	measure	Remarks
1910-1911	Kesseling	Steinerbergstrasse 1 location		Hiking hut ("Steinerberghaus")	New building (client: Eifelverein )	today "Landgasthof Steinerberghaus"

Web links

Commons : Karl Thoma  - Collection of Images

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Landeskonservator Rheinland (Ed.): Die Bonner Südstadt , workbook 6, second, modified edition, Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1976, ISBN 3-7927-0265-7 , p. 21.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Deutsche Bauzeitung , 57th year. No. 72/73, Berlin, September 8, 1923. ( online )
3. ^ Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the city and the district of Bonn . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1905, p. 181 (= Provinzialverband der Rheinprovinz : Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 5, Section 3, p. 477). (Unchanged reprint Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-590-32113-X ) ( Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Puetz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and the Rhine-Sieg district , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , S. 148th
5. ^ Franz Josef Talbot (with photographs by Achim Bednorz): Bonner Südstadt . Emons Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7408-0468-8 , p. 53.
6. ^ Tonindustrie-Zeitung , Volume 26, A. Seydel, 1902, p. 1332.
7. ^ Franz Josef Talbot (with photographs by Achim Bednorz): Bonner Südstadt . Emons Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7408-0468-8 , pp. 158, 232.
8. ↑ in the case of buildings that no longer exist - if known - the last valid address
9. ↑ today Adenauerallee
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 2, Catalog (1), pp. 173–199. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
11. ^ Gerhard Kirchlinne: The Bonn Südstadt: One of the most splendid Wilhelminian style quarters in Germany . Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050248-4 , p. 104.
12. ^ Franz Josef Talbot (with photographs by Achim Bednorz): Bonner Südstadt . Emons Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7408-0468-8 , p. 161.
13. ↑ Information board on the former main building of the Friedrich Soennecken stationery factory
14. ↑ until 1972 Kronprinzenstraße ( entry in the Bonn street cadastre)
15. ^ ^{A b c} Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part I: Cologne District. (= Contributions to architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, Volume 34.1 ) JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7616-1322-9 , p. 476/477.
16. ^ Nicole Bemmelen: The new Judengasse in Bonn - origin and destruction . In: Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Stadtarchiv Bonn (ed.): Bonner Geschichtsblätter: Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , ISSN  0068-0052 , Volume 51/52 (2001/2002), Bonn 2003, pp. 197–284 ( here: p. 249).
17. ↑ ^{a b} Paul Metzger: Bonn am Rhein in old views , Volume 2, Zaltbommel 1981, ISBN 978-90-288-1635-0 , p. 18. ( online )
18. ^ Walter Belz, Hans Kammerer: Kammerer + Belz: Werkbericht , J. Hoffmann, 1985, p. 128.
19. ↑ ^{a b} Steinerberghaus has been bringing happiness to the summit high above the Ahr for 100 years , Rhein-Zeitung , February 28, 2011
20. ↑ Landgasthof Steinerberghaus - steinerberghaus.de ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )