Otto Müller-Jena

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Otto Müller, called Otto Müller-Jena (* May 8, 1875 in Jena , † August 12, 1958 in Cologne , full name: Otto Heinrich Friedrich August Müller ), was a German architect . He lived and worked in Cologne and, with his secular buildings , was particularly prominent in the Rhineland and the Ruhr area . The only sacred building he built is the neo-Romanesque Holy Cross Church in Gladbeck - Butendorf .

Holy Cross Church in Gladbeck-Butendorf

Life

Otto Müller-Jena was born in Jena as the son of the optician Karl Friedrich Robert Hieronymus Müller and his wife Louise Christiane Müller nee. Reinhold. It was there that he was baptized on May 30th of the same year in the Protestant town church of St. Michael . After completing his training, he settled in Cologne as a freelance architect around 1900 and married on June 26, 1906 in his hometown Jena through his bride Adelaide (Adelheid) Jeanne Henriette Wiethase into the family of the well-known architect Heinrich Wiethase . In 1903 Müller-Jena was one of the founders of the Cologne branch of the Association of German Architects (BDA), was its chairman from 1919 to 1924, since then chairman of the Rhineland-Palatinate-Saar district and since 1929 also a member of the BDA's main board in Berlin . This commitment was ended in 1934 when the National Socialists were brought into line . In 1950 the BDA made him an honorary member.

In a first creative phase around the turn of the century, his buildings were stylistically shaped by the examination of German architecture from the turn of the Middle Ages to the modern era ; later he also took up neoclassical tendencies. The contemporary trend towards architecture with a strong effect on the material is also reflected in Müller-Jena’s buildings, some of which - for today's standards - were very elaborately designed. In the 1920s he approached the New Building , in some cases significantly , without completely abandoning traditional elements.

Buildings and designs (selection)

High school in Essen-Steele, main entrance
Town hall in Recklinghausen
Old town hall in Gladbeck
Sidol works in Cologne
  • 1901: two drafts for the development of the Rheinuferstraße in Cologne
  • 1902–1904: Gymnasium (since 1935 "Carl-Humann-Gymnasium") in Essen-Steele , Laurentiusweg (changed, under monument protection)
  • 1903–1904: Markthalle am Heumarkt in Cologne (not preserved)
  • 1904–1908: Town hall in Recklinghausen , Rathausplatz 3
  • 1907–1908: Villa in Cologne-Marienburg , Oberländer Ufer 190 (under monument protection)
  • 1908: Expansion of the St. Barbara Hospital in Gladbeck
  • around 1908: Bank building for the Rheinisch-Westfälische Disconto-Gesellschaft AG in Recklinghausen
  • 1908–1910: Amtshaus (today Old Town Hall ) in Gladbeck
  • 1909–1910: Expansion of the Regina arc lamp factory in Cologne
  • 1912–1913: Administration building for the Kölnische Feuer- und Unfall-Versicherungs-AG “Colonia” in Cologne, Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer
  • 1912-1914: Cath. Parish church Heilig Kreuz in Gladbeck - Butendorf , Horster Straße 133 (altar area, organ gallery and west facade changed; with the rectory as a whole ensemble since 1998 under monument protection)
  • 1914: various buildings at the German Werkbund exhibition in Cologne 1914
  • around 1920: Freezer on the municipal slaughterhouse in Cologne-Ehrenfeld
  • 1920–1921: Building of the steamship company "Neptun" in Cologne (not preserved)
  • 1926/1933: urban planning for the area around Cologne Cathedral
  • 1926–1928: Chemical factory Siegel & Co. ( Sidol-Werke ) in Cologne-Braunsfeld , Eupener Strasse
  • 1928–1930: GAG settlement, called “Little Moscow”, in Cologne-Ehrenfeld

Fonts

  • ... in: Modern designs. Monthly booklets for architecture and spatial art. 13th year, Stuttgart, 1914, pp. 284–285 and no. 4 (enclosure)
  • ... in: Modern designs. Monthly booklets for architecture and spatial art. Volume 14, Stuttgart, 1915, pp. 401-428

literature

  • Richard Landé (arr.): Models for house fronts on the Rheinuferstrasse in Cologne. Leipzig 1901.
  • ... In: Der Architekt , 7th year 1958, supplement after p. 264.
  • Robert Steimel: Cologne heads. Cologne 1958, p. 285.
  • Wolfram Hagspiel : The "new Lower Rhine village". In: The German Werkbund exhibition in Cologne 1914. (= The West German impulse 1900–1914. Art and environmental design in the industrial area. ) (Exhibition catalog) Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne 1984, pp. 184–191.
  • Wolfram Hagspiel: Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren. Monuments in Cologne , Volume 8.) JP Bachem, Cologne 1996. (2 volumes)
  • Ralph Eberhard Brachthäuser: Master builder of classical modernism. The architect Otto Müller-Jena (1–3). In: Our city, magazine for information, advertising, culture and homeland care (published by Verkehrsverein Gladbeck eV), Volume 35 (2008), No. 1 (pp. 42–45), No. 2 (pp. 17–25) , No. 3 (pp. 11-16). Digitized on the homepage of the Gladbeck Abbey: [1]
  • Wolfram Hagspiel: Otto Müller-Jena. Rodenkirchen's first major villa planner. In: köln süd stadtMAGAZIN , Volume 23 2012, No. 2, pp. 14-17.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln, Volume 8) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume I, pp. 557-560.
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Jena, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Otto (real name); Müller, Otto Heinrich Friedrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1958
Place of death Cologne