Lebrecht Völki
Lebrecht Völki (born August 13, 1879 in Baden , † July 7, 1937 in Winterthur , resident in Altnau ) was a Swiss architect .
Live and act
Lebrecht Völki came from a humble background. At the industrial school in Frauenfeld (today: Kantonsschule Frauenfeld ) he obtained his Matura in 1898 . He then studied architecture with Carl Schäfer at the Technical University of Karlsruhe . From 1904 to 1906 he worked in the building department of the city of Strasbourg . After his return to Switzerland, he joined the Jung und Bridler office in Winterthur in 1907 and, in 1909, succeeded Ernst Georg Jung and together with Otto Bridler became a partner in the architecture office now trading under the name Bridler and Völki . Bridler and Völki realized some historically significant villas for wealthy families living in Winterthur, as well as several public buildings.
Since Bridler devoted himself more and more to military tasks from the beginning of the First World War in his rank as a colonel division , Völki took over the office entirely in the course of the war. From the beginning of the 1920s, Völki appeared under his own name and concentrated increasingly on the implementation of cooperative housing construction , especially on behalf of the Winterthur Society for the Construction of Cheap Housing (GEbW) , on whose board he had been since 1911. It was also during this time that he realized buildings that still shape the cityscape, such as the headquarters of the Winterthur insurance companies, as well as administrative and industrial buildings for the Sulzer company.
From 1912 he was on the board of directors of Hypothekarbank Winterthur and from 1923 to 1936 he was the arsenal commander for engineering troops with the rank of lieutenant colonel . Völki had been married to Alice Forrer since 1909, who came from a respected family in Winterthur. The villa he designed for his family still exists today and is privately owned.
Works (selection)
- Own works
- Vogelsang / Jonas-Furrer-Strasse residential colony, 1920–1921
- Villa Völki , 1924–1925
- Administration building of Sulzer AG , 1928
- Villa Jäggli (today Restaurant Goldenberg), 1928–1929
- Building on the Sulzer site near Winterthur train station, 1929 ( Building 87 , pipe fitter's shop and Hall 11 , diesel engine hall )
- Extension to Eulachgarage , 1930 (demolished in 2006)
- Schöntal settlement in Winterthur-Töss , 1930–1934
- Headquarters of the Winterthur insurance companies , 1929–1931 (today: AXA Insurance )
- With Otto Bridler
- Villa Obere Halden , Winterthur, 1907
- Villa Sträuli , Winterthur, 1908
- Villa Blumenhalde , Winterthur, 1909
- Villa Selvana , Winterthur, 1909
- Crematorium Friedhof Rosenberg , Winterthur, 1909–1910
- Heiligberg school building , Winterthur, 1909–1912
- City parish hall , Liebestrasse Winterthur, 1912–1913
- Museum of History and Ethnology , St. Gallen, 1913–1920
- Winterthur printing works , Winterthur, 1915
- Switzerland. Bankgesellschaft , Rapperswil, 1915–1920
- Villa Oberes Alpgut , Winterthur, 1916–1920
literature
- NN: Lebrecht, Völki . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 110 , no. 5 , 1937, pp. 56 ( e-periodica.ch ).
Web links
- Vanessa Giannò Talamona: Völki, Lebrecht. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Völki Lebrecht, architect, 1879–1937 in the Winterthur Glossary.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lunchtime tours of the municipal monument preservation service to buildings by the Winterthur architect Lebrecht Völki. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 30, 2016 ; accessed on October 12, 2019 .
- ↑ The works are listed in the architectural dictionary in: Franziska Kaiser: Völki, Lebrecht. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 554.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Völki, Lebrecht |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baden AG |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1937 |
| Place of death | Winterthur |