Moser and Schürch

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Biel / Bienne railway station, 1919–1923

Moser und Schürch was an architecture firm in Biel that existed from 1910 to around 1929. The office partners were the architects Friedrich Moser (1877–1964) and Wilhelm Schürch (1882–1955), who both had previously completed competitions together. The office, whose works can be found in Biel, the canton of Bern and in some cases beyond, made the transition from the Heimat style to a moderate modernity over the course of its existence . After the separation, both partners continued to run their own offices.

The office, which Moser, at that time employed by Biel's municipal building authority, had already founded around 1908, began with hospital buildings: the expansion of the Seeländischer Asylum Gottesgnad in Mett from 1911 and later the retirement asylum of the same provider in Langnau and the Maison Blanche children's sanatorium in Leubringen.

Also before the First World War , the residential colony of the railway construction cooperative in Nidau, a small settlement of one and two-family row houses, was built. At the Swiss National Exhibition in 1914 , they designed the dairy farming pavilions.

In addition to public buildings, factories and buildings for industry soon appeared, such as the Güdel machine factory in Biel and the Landis & Gyr factories in Zug (1911–18). They built extensions and the welfare house for the United Wire Works during the First World War. During this time, the young employee Walter von Gunten became a partner, who then founded his own office in 1922.

In 1916 a competition resulted in the design for what was probably her most important work: the Biel / Bienne station . In the competition, for which 45 works were received, both suggestions from the office (Motti: Au pied du Jura and Biel / Bienne! Everything get out! ) Were awarded first place. The competition was advertised to obtain a uniform square design, as a pure “facade competition” in which the station building, post office and express goods building were included. Both designs represent a neoclassical approach; the solution with a large portico supported by Doric columns was preferred.

In addition, the office worked out a large number of development plans, especially in the late 1910s, often in the context of ideas competitions.

Work (selection)

  • God's grace , Seeländisches Krankenasyl, Mett , 1910/11
  • Maschinenfabrik Güdel , Bern , 1911
  • Watch factory Trösch , Biel 1913
  • Residential colony of the railway construction cooperative , Nidau , 1911–1914
  • Dairy pavilions , Swiss National Exhibition, Bern , 1914
  • Landis & Gyr factory , Zug , 1911–1918
  • Maison Blanche , Cantonal Children's Hospital , Leubringen , 1913
  • God's grace , retirement home, Langnau , 1913/14
  • United Wire Works , Extension Buildings, Biel, 1913–1916
  • Development plan Bözingen / Boujean , 1916.
  • Development plan Grenchen , 1917.
  • United Wire Works , Welfare Building, Biel, 1917/18
  • Competition Greater Zurich , 1918.
  • Zoning plan Moutier , 1918.
  • Designing the lakeshore in Lucerne , ideas competition, 1918.
  • Development plan Kriens , 1919.
  • Biel / Bienne railway station , 1919–1923
  • House Hirt-Suter Biel, 1919/20
  • Gruen-Watch Biel watch factory , 1922/23
  • Residential houses Dufourstr. Biel, 1924-26

literature

  • Daniel Wolf: Moser and Schürch. In: Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber (Hrsg.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 389 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NN: Rural hospitals in the canton of Bern: Architects Moser & Schürch in Biel . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 85 , no. 8 , 1915, p. 86 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-32193 .
  2. ^ NN: Rural hospitals in the canton of Bern: Architects Moser & Schürch in Biel (end) . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 85 , no. 10 , 1915, pp. 113 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-32201 .
  3. ^ NN: Residential colony of the railway construction cooperative in Biel: Architects Moser & Schürch in Biel . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 66 , no. 18 , 1915, p. 206 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-32309 .
  4. ^ Georg Germann, Werner Stutz: Biel . In: INSA: Inventory of Newer Swiss Architecture, 1850–1920 . tape 3 , no. 3 , 1983, p. 85 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-4534 .
  5. ↑ Christine Kamm-Kyburz, Christian Raschle: Zug . In: INSA: Inventory of Newer Swiss Architecture, 1850–1920 . tape 10 , no. 10 , 1992, pp. 518 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-10932 .
  6. ↑ NN: The welfare house of the United Wire Works A.-G. Biel: Arch. Moser, Schürch & v. Gunten, Biel . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 72 , no. 11 , 1918, pp. 98 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-10932 .
  7. ^ NN: station building and post office in Biel . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 68 , no. 25 , 1916, pp. 293 ( online ).
  8. ^ NN: Competition for facade designs for the new railway station and post office in Biel . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 69 , no. 5 , 1917, pp. 45-50 ( online ).
  9. ^ Georg Germann, Werner Stutz: Inventory of the newer Swiss architecture , 1850–1920 . Biel. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): INSA . tape 3 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-280-01397-6 , p. 75 , col. 3 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-4534 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on March 14, 2016]).