Max forehead
Max Stirn (born May 10, 1880 in Cologne , † May 7, 1916 in Nuremberg ) was a German architect who worked in his hometown of Cologne.
Life
Max Stirn studied architecture, passed the second state examination in 1909 after a legal clerkship and was appointed government architect ( assessor in public construction). The title of Government Builder a. He also led D. after he had decided against a career as a civil servant and was self-employed in Cologne. He also obtained his doctorate in engineering ( Dr.-Ing. ).
Forehead was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund as well as the Architects and Engineers Association for Lower Rhine and Westphalia and the Association for Art in Commerce and Industry Cologne .
During the First World War , Stirn was hired to build industrial facilities that were important to the war effort and died in 1916 as a result of a serious injury sustained during this activity.
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Stirn's work includes villas , residential and commercial buildings, workers' settlements , industrial plants and buildings as well as hotels in Germany and Switzerland. One of his most important and extensive projects was the “Landhaus-Kolonie Sürth ” in the Cologne district of the same name, which was built in the streets Ulmenallee, Rotdornallee and Ober Buschweg from the summer of 1910 to 1912 for the Cölner Geleinde-Gesellschaft mbH according to the plans . It is one of very few closed villa developments in the Cologne area that were built according to a uniform plan.
“In the short period of independent activity, in addition to successfully participating in numerous competitions in his hometown and in Nuremberg, he built or converted several residential and commercial buildings, at the gates of Cologne, in Sürth, a cozy country house colony, in Troisdorf and further in Saxony and On the North Sea coast extensive industrial buildings, workers' apartments with the surrounding facilities, in Switzerland, especially in beautiful Gunten on Lake Thun, large and comfortably furnished inns. "
Buildings in Cologne
Map with all coordinates of the buildings in Cologne: OSM | construction time | District | address | image | object | measure | Remarks |
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| 1910/1911 | Sürth | Ulmenallee 9 location |
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Residential building in the "Landhaus-Kolonie Sürth" | New building | Monument protection |
| 1910/1911 | Sürth | Ulmenallee 6/8 position |
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Double villa in the "Landhaus-Kolonie Sürth" | New building | Monument protection |
| 1910/1911 | Sürth | Ulmenallee 16/18 location |
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Double villa in the "Landhaus-Kolonie Sürth" | New building | Monument protection |
| 1910/1911 | Sürth | Ulmenallee 20/22 location |
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Double villa in the "Landhaus-Kolonie Sürth" | New building | Monument protection |
| 1910/1911 | Sürth | Ober Buschweg 22 location |
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Residential building in the "Landhaus-Kolonie Sürth" | New building | Monument protection |
| around 1911 | Sürth | Ulmenallee 1 location |
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Residential building in the "Landhaus-Kolonie Sürth" | New building | Monument protection |
| 1910-1912 | Sürth | Ulmenallee 10-14 position |
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Group of houses / row of three villas in the "Landhaus-Kolonie Sürth" | New building | Monument protection |
| 1914 | Deutz | on the exhibition grounds (exhibition grounds) | Niederrheinische Weinschenke (in the ensemble "Niederrheinisches Dorf") at the Cologne Werkbund exhibition |
canceled after the end of the exhibition | ||
| 1914 | Riehl | Riehler Strasse 173 |  |
Cologne Zoological Garden : outdoor enclosure with monkey rocks | New building | partially destroyed by the war |
Buildings outside of Cologne
| construction time | City district |
address | image | object | measure | Remarks |
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| 1911/1912 |
Hamburg Stellingen |
Högenstrasse 114 location |
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Water tower | New building | Landmarks of the district |
Competition designs
- 1912/1913: (Wuppertal-) Barmen , Mission House on the Hardt (purchase)
- 1913: Varel , water tower (purchase)
- 1913: Cologne , Ehrenfeld district , Protestant church with rectory and elementary school (1st prize and commission)
- 1913: Immigrath , Catholic elementary school (3rd prize)
literature
- Hans Vogts : Government Builder Dr.-Ing. Max forehead †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 36th year 1916, No. 64 (from August 9, 1916), p. 432.
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Wolfram Hagspiel : Villas in the south of Cologne. Rodenkirchen, Sürth, Weiss and Hahnwald. (with photographs by Hans-Georg Esch) JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-7616-2488-3 .
- ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 29, 1909, No. 35 (from May 1, 1909), p. 237.
- ↑ Hans Vogts: Government Builder Dr.-Ing. Max forehead †.
- ↑ Georg Metzendorf (ed.), Friedrich Becker, Fritz Enke: The new Lower Rhine village at the German Werkbund exhibition in Cologne 1914. Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1914, pp. 49–52.
- ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 33rd year 1913, No. 18 (from March 5, 1913), p. 125.
- ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 47, 1913, No. 43 (from May 28, 1913), p. 400.
- ^ German competitions, united with architecture competitions , Seemann, 1913, p. Vii.
- ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 47, 1913, No. 98 (from December 6, 1913), p. 896.
- ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 48, 1914, No. 5 (from January 7, 1914), p. 64.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Forehead, max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1916 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |