Otto Bäppler

Otto Bäppler (born July 18, 1868 in Offenbach am Main , † July 5, 1922 in Oberursel-Hohemark ; full name: Otto Christian Heinrich Bäppler ) was a German architect .

Otto Bäppler trained at the Offenbach Technical College . From around 1900 he worked as an architect in Frankfurt am Main . At first he worked with Aage von Kauffmann and then as a freelance architect. He was a representative of historicism and an opponent of Art Nouveau . In addition to a number of houses in Frankfurt, many of which are now listed buildings, he built mansions in the Vordertaunus for wealthy Frankfurt families . He also designed the family grave in Frankfurt's main cemetery for the Hermann Mumm von Schwarzenstein family.

His wife was Antonie geb. Thurau (1873-1944). Their son, the architect Hans Bäppler (born February 19, 1899 in Offenbach), took over the architecture office after his father's death. The family grave is located in the Frankfurt Südfriedhof .

Buildings and designs (selection)

In 1898 he built Villa Waldfried on Flughafenstrasse in Schwanheim for Carl von Weinberg .
Together with Aage von Kauffmann , Bäppler built the Villa Mumm on Forsthausstrasse (today: Kennedyallee) in Frankfurt from 1902–1904 for Hermann Mumm von Schwarzenstein .

The Hammacher country house was built near Aachen based on his designs in 1913–1915 for the brickworks owner Willy Hammacher.

In 1904 he built the Villa Wetzlar in Kronberg im Taunus , Jaminstrasse 2, for the banker Emil Wetzlar, son of Charlotte Wetzlar, born Bonn.

Frankfurt am Main, Bockenheimer Landstrasse 25, administrative building based on a design by Otto Bäppler in rational neoclassicism with a columned frontispiece. Inside, the contemporary furnishings and the stair rotunda have been preserved. The reception building has been preserved, the rear part is a new building. The former Allgemeine Hypothekenbank Rheinboden AG was sold to COREAL CREDIT or to the investor Lone Star , who operates various financing transactions there under AHBR .

In 1909/1919 the Villa Gans was built on the Kestenhöhe in Oberursel for Ludwig Wilhelm von Gans; today a hotel project for a union investment company.

In 1906/1907 the Villa Schuster (also Haus Waldhof ) was built in Kronberg for the banker Bernhard Ludwig Schuster. (for sale)

In 1909/1910 the Kastanienhain house was built in Kronberg as a residence for the banker Heinrich Fritz Mumm von Schwarzenstein (1870–1942) and his wife Emilie called Mila, née von Guaita (1882–1953). (later AWO house Waldfriede , today the seat of a private company)

In 1910/1911 Bäppler built the Protestant Martinus Church in Frankfurt-Schwanheim at the suggestion of Carl von Weinberg

In 1898/1899 he built the Villa Rehe private house of a pharmacist, in the Third Reich a mothers' convalescent home, then the staff house of a retirement home, after a long vacancy renovation to a private house at Reichenbach Weg 25g, Königstein - Falkenstein

Landhaus Mühlweg 6 Königstein - Falkenstein. Built as a residential house on approx. 9000 square meters of land, the site was partly built on with greenhouses and operated as a gardening shop. Dismantling of the greenhouses and used again as a residential building. After vacancy now again (as of 2019) renovation as a residential building

1911 Two-storey massive villa in Hanau , Friedrichstrasse 18, rebuilt after the Second World War , Hesse cultural monument

On October 19, 1913, the war memorial for those who died in the Wars of Unification was ceremoniously unveiled in Koblenz-Metternich , which was created based on a design by Bäppler. It is preserved.

Martinus Church, Frankfurt-Schwanheim
Villa Mumm, Frankfurt
Villa deer

literature

Thomas Zeller: The architects and their building activities in Frankfurt am Main from 1870 to 1950. Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-921606-51-9 , page 25.
Andrea Frenzel: A unique starry sky. (PDF; 1.4 MB) The Martinus Church in Schwanheim. In: DENKmal, newspaper on the “Open Monument Day” in Hesse. State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, September 10, 2006, p. 8 , accessed on September 2, 2012 .

Web links

Commons : Otto Bäppler - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Ernst Mack: The Frankfurt family von Weinberg. Under the sign of the cornflower blossoms . Frankfurt am Main 2006, p. 24 .

personal data
SURNAME	Bäppler, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bäppler, Otto Christian Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	July 18, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH	July 5, 1922
Place of death	Oberursel (Taunus)

[1] Ernst Mack: The Frankfurt family von Weinberg. Under the sign of the cornflower blossoms . Frankfurt am Main 2006, p. 24 .