Oskar Kunhenn

Oskar Kunhenn was a German architect who designed several important residential and administrative buildings in Essen in the first quarter of the 20th century .

Life

Oskar Kunhenn worked as an architect in Essen since the 1890s. Later he ran the Kunhenn & Büssing office together with Max Büssing . He was a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA).

Buildings and designs

former lending office Essen (1921)

former Villa Fritz von Waldthausen (1922–1923)

• 1895: Old pharmacy in Bottrop , Hochstrasse 32
• 1899: Residential and commercial building with Varieté Wolff's Colosseum in Essen-Mitte, Kopstadtplatz
• 1901–1902: Bredeney Town Hall in (Essen-) Bredeney , Bredeneyer Straße 131 (listed)
• 1902: Villa Abel in Mülheim an der Ruhr , Kassenberg 76
• before 1905: House at Mozartstrasse 8 in Essen
• 1908: Competition design for the new lodge house of the Freemason lodge "Alfred zur Linde" in Essen (awarded 1st prize)
• 1910–1912: Kaiser Wilhelm single home (today: House of Encounters ) in Essen-Mitte, Weberplatz 1 (heavily changed)
• 1912: Group of houses for the building association "Eigenheim" eGmbH in the Moltkeviertel in Essen , Weißbachstrasse 1, Messelstrasse 18, 20 and 22 in Essen (under monument protection)
• 1913: House for the building association "Eigenheim" eGmbH in the Moltkeviertel in Essen, Weißbachstrasse 2 (under monument protection)
• before 1915: competition design for a middle school in Hochemmerich
• before 1915: Draft for an "Evangelical Church in the Industrial Area"
• before 1915: Multi-family residential development for the “Viktoria Mathias” union in Essen, North Quarter
• before 1915: Office building for O. Küllenberg in Essen-Mitte, Kopstadtplatz 8 (not preserved)
• before 1915: Competition design for a commercial building for the landowner society in Essen
• before 1915: Radermacher house in Essen-Mitte, Maxstraße 16
• before 1915: Friedrich Arens house in Essen-Rüttenscheid, Pelmanstraße 6
• before 1915: own house in the Moltkeviertel in Essen, Semperstraße 8
• before 1915: Beermann residential group in Essen, Wolfgangstrasse
• before 1915: Landhaus Krahwehl (Krawehl?) in (Essen-) Heisingen
• 1921: municipal lending office in Essen, Söllingstraße 13/15 (under monument protection)
• 1922–1923: Villa Waldthausen for the banker Fritz von Waldthausen in Essen-Bredeney, Markuspfad 3/5 (under monument protection)
• 1925: House at Schinkelstrasse 34 in the Moltkeviertel in Essen (later inhabited by Gustav Heinemann ; under monument protection)
• 1925: Administration building, warehouse and residential development for the "Nürnberger Bund" eGmbH in Essen-Bergerhausen, Schürmannstraße 26–30 (under monument protection)

literature

• Buildings by the architects Oskar Kunhenn & Büssing BDA in Essen ad Ruhr. In: Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst , 2nd year 1915/1916, Issue 2 (PDF; 21.7 MB), pp. 62–92.

Web links

Commons : Oskar Kunhenn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stefan Krix: Bottrop story. The original. , last accessed June 6, 2011
2. ↑ Extract from the Essen list of monuments  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 387 kB)  
3. ↑ Barbara Maas: In the House of the Commerce Council. Villa architecture and upper-class living culture in the industrial age. The example of Mülheim an der Ruhr. Mülheim an der Ruhr 1990, ISBN 3-88867-033-0 , p. 169.
4. ↑ Modern villas in master watercolors, Series II. Friedr. Wolfrum & Co., Vienna / Leipzig o. J. ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 184 MB) 
5. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 28, 1908, No. 29 (from April 11, 1908) ( online ), p. 212 (under the heading “Miscellaneous”) - It is not known whether the new building was built according to Kunhenn's design.
6. ↑ Extract from the Essen list of monuments  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 404 kB)  
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Wasmuthsmonthshefte für Baukunst , 2nd year 1915/1916, issue 2, pp. 62–92.
8. ↑ Extract from the Essen list of monuments  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 845 kB)  
9. ↑ Extract from the Essen list of monuments  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 486 kB)  
10. ↑ Extract from the Essen list of monuments  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 653 kB)  
11. ↑ Excerpt from the Essen list of monuments ( memento of the original dated November 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 543 kB) 
12. ↑ Extract from the Essen list of monuments  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 375 kB)  
13. ↑ Extract from the Essen list of monuments  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 616 kB)