Ludwig Bopp

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Ludwig Bopp
Town hall in Bergisch Gladbach

Ludwig Bopp (born February 18, 1869 in Memmingen , † January 10, 1930 in Cologne ; full name: Ernst Christoph Ludwig Bopp ) was a German architect of historicism .

Ludwig Bopp came as the son of the master mason and temporary managing director Georg Christoph Ernst Bopp (1840–1908) and Regina Wilhelmine Bopp, nee. Zech (1843–1886) in Bavarian Swabia to the world. There is no information about his school or training time. It is possible that his father moved with him and his five sisters to Munich after their mother's untimely death, where he remarried after only six months.

Around 1895, Bopp joined the office of the architect Gabriel von Seidl in Munich , who was one of the leading architects of historicism. Bopp was sent from Munich to Bergisch Gladbach in 1898 to act as site manager for the construction of Lerbach Castle , which Gabriel von Seidl had designed for the industrialists Richard and Anna Zanders . Before moving to the Rhineland, he married Elisabeth Herrmann in Memmingen in 1898, with whom he had five children.

While Lerbach Castle was still being built, Bopp started his own business and designed the well-known Gronauerwald garden settlement for Richard Zanders , for which he created around 70 single-family houses for workers at the Zanders paper factory and the “An der Eiche” ensemble with several rental apartments. According to his plans, the Bergischer Löwe community center was also built with the Mariensaal , which could accommodate events with up to 1000 guests.

The high point of his work was the construction of the town hall in Bergisch Gladbach in 1905/1906. As a result, Bopp designed villas throughout the Rhineland in the style of historicism (in Bergisch Gladbach, for example, Haus Niesen or Haus Klingner , in Cologne the Meirowsky ), but also industrial buildings.

After the First World War , there were no orders, and Bopp's historicizing style was no longer in demand. He moved with his family to Wesseling and set up a new office in Cologne, where he was involved in a GAG housing project . There were also private problems. Bopp began an extramarital relationship that resulted in two children and which eventually led to the separation from the family.

The culture prize "DER BOPP" is named after Ludwig Bopp and has been awarded annually since 2008 by the "Stadtverband KULTUR" in Bergisch Gladbach.

Buildings (selection)

literature

  • Hans Leonhard Brenner : From Swabia to the Bergisches Land. Ludwig Bopp, the architect of the Bergisch Gladbach town hall. (= Home between Sülz and Dhünn. History and folklore in Bergisch Gladbach and the surrounding area , volume 3.) Bergisch Gladbach 1996, pp. 20–33.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Fußbroich: Max Meirowsky - Cologne entrepreneur, donor and art collector, in: Contributions to Rhenish-Jewish History, vol. 5, 2015, no. 5, pp. 28–46
  2. ^ Vogts, Hans: Cologne. Structural development 1888-1927, Berlin 1927, p. 129; see. also: http://www.bilderbuch-koeln.de/Fotos/deutz_wohnh%C3%A4user_in_historisch_cimbernstra%C3%9Fe_alt_befestigung_441026 (accessed January 4, 2017)
  3. ^ Fahmüller, Johannes; Rogge, Ralf; Kieser, Marco: Villas in Solingen. Bourgeois houses between 1860 and 1950 (workbook of the Rhenish Monument Preservation 74), Worm 2009, pp. 69–71
personal data
SURNAME Bopp, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bopp, Ernst Christoph Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Memmingen
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1930
Place of death Cologne