Architects Heydecker

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A glazed clay tablet, embedded in the outer facade of the former bottling hall of the Allgäu brewery in Kempten
House of the dairy industry , Kempten
Listed New Apostolic Church , Kempten
Heydecker grave, Evangelical cemetery Kempten

The architects Heydecker were the brothers Leonhard Heydecker jr. (Born August 26, 1871 in Kempten ; † July 27, 1958 ibid) and Otto Heydecker (born March 29, 1885 in Kempten; † April 13, 1960 in Meersburg ). The main place of work of the two architects was their hometown Kempten.

Live and act

Leonhard and Otto were the sons of the master carpenter and furniture maker Leonhard Heydecker (1840–1915) and his wife Maria Elisabetha, née Sontheimer (1844–1910), who had several children together.

The older of the two, Leonhard Heydecker Jr., was not only an architect, but like his father also a furniture manufacturer. With his company "Archiktekt Leonhard Heydecker jr." He was first known for his construction work. However, he not only designed the buildings themselves, but often also their interiors, so that uniformly designed complete works emerged; a representative example of this is the municipal secondary school in Memmingen , which was built around 1910 and is now a listed building .

The furniture produced by Heydecker was only made to order and taking into account the wishes of customers, who came from all over southern Germany and mostly belonged to the upper middle class. The company had a second headquarters in Überlingen , where Leonhard Heydecker married. Exceptionally large sales were achieved with "absolutely soundproof" telephone booths, of which Heydecker was the sole supplier for all of Württemberg .

Otto Heydecker, fourteen years his junior, did not join the business until 1909. After attending secondary school and industrial school at the Technical University of Darmstadt, he studied civil engineering and graduated with a degree in engineering .

As “Architects Heydecker”, the two brothers took part in architectural competitions far beyond their home region and achieved considerable success. Among other things, they won in a competition for a new secondary school and a secondary school in Görlitz 2nd prize among 187 candidates in the East Prussian Olsztyn in a competition to build a new city hall is also the 2nd prize among 73 applicants. Other competitions were also made for projects in Cologne and Heidelberg .

The Heydecker brothers also worked with the painter and medalist Franz Xaver Unterseher and with the architect Andor Ákos . They planned workers' houses, mansions, workshops and factory buildings and had a lasting impact on the image of their hometown Kempten. Today, many of the buildings they created, often bearing panels with the inscription “Architects Heydecker”, are listed as historical monuments .

Personal

Leonhard Heydecker married Katharina Amalie Rosa "Milly" Ziesing (1868–1938), who was born in Lucerne , on April 5, 1908 in Überlingen .

On November 6, 1912 Otto Heydecker married in Braunschweig from Velpke originating Meta Velke (1888-1971). The couple lived in Kempten. The two sons Rudolf Leonhard (1919–2012) and Walter (1921–1941) emerged from this marriage.

The family grave of the Heydecker family at the Evangelical Cemetery in Kempten was designed by the brothers Leonhard and Otto Heydecker themselves. They both found their final resting place there.

Honors

  • Naming of Heydeckerstraße in the Kempten district of Eich .

Work (selection)

Secondary school on Salzstrasse , Kempten (Allgäu)

Building in Kempten (Allgäu)

  • Station kiosk, meanwhile demolished (formerly Bahnhofsplatz, today August-Fischer-Platz)
  • Shop fitting on the former station square, sold
  • Electric smelter near Kempten (today: 3M Technical Ceramics )
  • Own Heydecker furniture factory on Freudenberg, sold

Buildings in the vicinity of Kempten (Allgäu)

Buildings in other locations

drafts

  • Competition design for a building in Cologne
  • 1910: Competition design for the town hall in Heidelberg (purchase)
  • 1910: Competition design for a secondary school in Görlitz (awarded a 2nd prize of 2,400 marks)
  • 1910: Competition design for the town hall in Allenstein (East Prussia) (awarded one of two 2nd prizes of 1,500 marks)
  • 1912: Competition design for a boys' school in Mindelheim (purchase)
  • 1925: Competition design for an agricultural school and a cultural building authority in Kaufbeuren (awarded 3rd prize)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leonhard Heydecker , ancestry.com; accessed on November 27, 2015.
  2. ↑ Otto Heydecker , ancestry.com; accessed on November 27, 2015.
  3. ↑ The good single piece of furniture. In: Interior decor , Volume 31, 1920, no. 9, p. 314. ( (PDF) online )
  4. ↑ a b c d Munich and the province. Work by the company LO Heydecker , article by Dr. Karl Lory in: Kunst und Handwerk: Zeitschrift für Kunstgewerbe und Kunsthandwerk since 1851 - 63.1912-1913, p. 280, accessed on November 29, 2015
  5. ↑ Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts. November 29, 2015, p. 484 , archived from the original ; accessed on November 29, 2015 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e Anna Köhl, Ralf Lienert: Creative Minds. Streets and their namesake in Kempten . 2nd Edition. Tobias Dannheimer publishing house, Kempten (Allgäu) 2007, ISBN 978-3-88881-056-5 , p. 14th f .
  7. ↑ Personal data on Leonhard Heydecker jr. in the Heydecker-Glynn family tree on ancestry.com, accessed November 28, 2015.
  8. ↑ Personal details of Otto Heydecker in the Pam Behrens family tree on ancestry.com, accessed on November 28, 2015.
  9. ^ The secondary school in Kempten - by the architects Leonhard Heydecker and Dipl.-Ing. Otto Heydecker. In: Süddeutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 32, 1922, No. 13, p. 61 ff.
  10. ↑ Alexander Duke of Württemberg, Wolfgang Haberl, Gerhard Weber, Michael Petzet (eds.): Monuments in Bavaria: City of Kempten. Volume VII.85. Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Munich / Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-7954-1003-7 , p. 38, 64, 82 .
  11. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 44, 1910, No. 39, p. 300.
  12. ↑ Der Baumeister , 8th year 1910, p. 80
  13. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 30, 1910, No. 42, p. 284.
  14. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 46, 1912, No. 15, p. 152.
  15. ↑ Winfried Nerdinger (Ed.): Thomas Wechs 1893-1970. Modernist architect in Swabia. (= Writings of the Architekturmuseum Schwaben , Volume 6.) Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-496-01340-2 , p. 139.

literature

  • Works by Leonhard Heydecker and Otto Heydecker, Kempten. In: Der Profanbau , year 1920, issue 9/10.
  • Julius Hofmann (Ed.): On the work of the architects L. Heydecker and Dipl.-Ing. O. Heydecker, Kempten. In: Moderne Baufformen , 23rd year 1924, p. 139 ff.
  • Friedrich Heinrich Hacker: On the work of the architects Leonhard and Otto Heydecker in Kempten. Allgäu printing and publishing house, Kempten 1927, 1930 and 1937.
  • Architects L. Heydecker and Dipl.-Ing. Otto Heydecker, Kempten General. Verlag Kurz, 1930.
  • Karl Lory: Munich and the Province. Work by the LO Heydecker company . In: Bayrischer Kunstgewerbeverein (Hrsg.): Art and craft . tape 63 , no. 9 , 1913, pp. 274–282 ( online [accessed on March 14, 2016] (with numerous images of furniture from Leonhard Heydecker's workshop and information on the company's history)).
  • Bernard Kühling: Allgäuer Künstlerlexikon . 1st edition. Kempten 2012, p. 151.

Web links

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