Otto Spalding

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Otto Spalding (born May 24, 1863 in Jahnkow, a district of Glewitz ; † July 19, 1945 in Berlin ; full name: Otto Wilhelm Spalding ) was a German architect and construction officer . His buildings are predominantly Art Nouveau , and most of those that have survived are listed as historical monuments .

Life

Spalding came from a Mecklenburg family, he probably studied architecture at what was then the Technical University of Charlottenburg and then lived in what is now the south end of Berlin. In the address book of Berlin and its suburbs from 1905, Otto Spalding is entered as “Imperial Building Inspector and Architect” with a house at Bahnstrasse 12, Südende. In 1920 he appears as "Post-Baurat" at the address Berliner Straße 27, Südende. In 1924 he is “Ob. Baurat ”with the same address. In the 1930s, Spalding moved again to Hanstedter Weg 7, where he was named “Ob. Building Councilor a. D. “stayed until the end of his life.

From the early 1890s, Spalding went public with competition designs. Until March 1895 he worked as a royal government architect in Berlin and had asked for his release from civil service. In 1896 he went into business for himself with his brother-in-law Alfred Grenander , the joint office of Spalding and Grenander existed until 1903.

In 1901 Spalding was appointed post construction inspector , from 1903 at the latest he worked exclusively as a construction clerk in the building administration of the Reichspost on the construction of post and telegraph offices in Berlin and its suburbs. Seven of them are still preserved. His work was honored with multiple promotions (1905 Imperial Building Officer, 1911 Post Building Officer, 1920 Senior Post Building Officer). In 1924 he went into temporary retirement, but still worked on one or the other project. He officially retired in 1928 .

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buildings

Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Guben (1903)
Kurhaus in Binz, Ruegen Island (1907)
Fernamt Winterfeldtstrasse in Berlin-Schöneberg (1929)
  • 1894–1896: Paul-Riebeck-Stift retirement and sick home in Halle (Saale) (donated by the industrialist Paul Riebeck ; together with Alfred Grenander )
  • 1894–1895: House at Potsdamer Strasse 22A in Berlin-Lichterfelde (together with Alfred Grenander)
  • around 1900: Conversion and extension of the villa of the entrepreneur Max Wilke in Guben , Bahnhofstrasse 45 (only the gatehouse preserved; together with Alfred Grenander)
  • 1901–1902: own house in Südende near Berlin , Dahlemer Straße 2 (later Brandenburgische Straße 2; not preserved)
  • 1901–1903, 1919: Post Office Schöneberg , 1919 expansion with the South Telephone Office (with Wilhelm Tuckermann and Louis Ratzeburg)
  • 1902–1903: Club house for the Academic Rowing Club in Regattastraße 237 in Grünau (together with Wilhelm Loebell)
  • 1902–1903: Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Guben (foundation of the entrepreneur Friedrich Wilke; together with Grenander)
  • 1904–1905: Lietzenburg , home for the Oskar Kruse family on the Baltic Sea island of Hiddensee
  • before 1907: "Zum weissen Rössel" and "Zum golden Fisch" double houses in Binz (island of Rügen) ( under monument protection )
  • 1907–1908: Kurhaus in Binz (island of Rügen)
  • 1909–1912: Post office 21 in Berlin-Moabit , Lübecker Strasse 1–2 / Turmstrasse 23
  • 1912–1913 and 1926: Telegraph Office in Berlin-Tempelhof (administration building and workshop building I, Schätzelbergstrasse 1–3; workshop building II, Industriestrasse 38–40)
  • 1915–1917: Post office 42 in Berlin-Tempelhof, Tempelhofer Damm 171–173 / Theodor-Francke-Strasse 10–11
  • 1915–1917: Post office 332 in Dahlem near Berlin
  • 1923–1929: Fernamt Berlin in Berlin-Schöneberg , Winterfeldtstrasse 19–23 (in two construction phases; together with Kurt Kuhlow)
  • 1924–1925: Hedwig-Rüdiger-Haus (single home for post office workers of the Berlin Oberpostdirektion ) in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Dernburgstrasse 58 (on the initiative of the social reformer and chairwoman of the Berlin district association of the German Reichspost, Hedwig Rüdiger )
The front building on Dernburgstrasse was destroyed during the Second World War, the area was then cleared and greened. The complex was soon popularly called "Drachenburg", which was used to characterize both the castle-like structure and the residents.
  • 1925–1926: Housing complex in Berlin-Steglitz , Markelstrasse 31–36, Gritznerstrasse 10–14, Paulsenstrasse 26–28 and Treitschkestrasse 22–27
  • own summer house, villa "Drei Rosen" in Binz, beach promenade 32a ( under monument protection )

Competition designs

  • 1890: Competition design for a stalking house (hunting lodge) (monthly competition of the Architenten Association of Berlin (AVB) November 1890, 5 sheets)
  • 1891: Competition draft for an "improvement of the street island at Potsdamer Brücke " in Berlin-Tiergarten (monthly competition of the AVB January 1891, 3 sheets)
  • 1892: Competition design for a popular theater ( Schinkel competition 1892, 14 sheets)
  • 1894: Competition draft for a town hall in Bonn-Poppelsdorf (monthly competition of the AVB July 1894, 7 sheets)
  • 1894/1895: Competition design for a town hall in Stuttgart (general architectural competition , together with Alfred Grenander, awarded one of six purchases, not carried out)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Historismus.net database, accessed on November 30, 2010.
  2. ↑ Spalding, Otto . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1905, Part 1, p. 2030.
  3. ↑ Spalding, Otto . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1920, part 1, p. 2718.
  4. ↑ Spalding, Otto . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1924, part 1, p. 2938.
  5. ↑ Spalding, Otto . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, part 1, p. 2894.
  6. ↑ Alfred Grenander. The Berlin U-Bahn Archive, accessed on April 15, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Website with details on the Loeweschen Maschinenfabrik in Berlin-Moabit, contains a reference to the Spalding & Grenander company; accessed on January 12, 2015.
  8. ↑ Residential building Potsdamer Straße 22A in Lichterfelde
  9. ^ The villa of the cloth manufacturer Max Wilke. at maerkischer-bote.de , accessed on August 8, 2015.
  10. ↑ Dieter Rentschler, Wulf Schirmer (edit.): Housing, residential buildings, single-family houses. (= Berlin and its buildings , part IV, volume C.) Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-433-00665-2 , p. 153.
  11. ↑ Monument post office Hauptstrasse 27 in Schöneberg
  12. ↑ Rowing club house, Regattastraße 237 in Grünau
    The club house of the academic rowing club in Grünau near Berlin . In: Die Kunst - monthly magazine for free and applied arts . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1899, p. 361–364 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - With photographs and description).
  13. ^ History of the parish in Guben on their website.
  14. ^ Spalding & Grenander - House Kruse on the island of Hiddensee . In: Modern designs . 5th year, issue 11. J. Hoffman, Stuttgart 1902, p. 387–395 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  15. ↑ Spalding & Grenander - semi-detached house "for the White Horse and the Golden Fish" . In: Modern designs . 5th year, issue 11. J. Hoffman, Stuttgart 1902, p. 396-399 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  16. ↑ Post office NW 21, Lübecker Strasse 1–2 / Turmstrasse 23
  17. ↑ Telegraph Office
  18. ↑ Post office 42 in Tempelhof
  19. ↑ Telecommunications Office 1
  20. ↑ Single dormitory Dernburgstrasse 44, 48–54, 58 / Herbartstrasse 17–18, 20–21
  21. ↑ Hedwig Rüdiger House . District Lexicon Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf on berlin.de
  22. ↑ Residential complex at Markelstrasse 31–36 in Steglitz
  23. ↑ a b c d e Holdings on Otto Spalding at the Architekturmuseum der Technische Universität Berlin , last accessed on November 20, 2017.
  24. ↑ German construction newspaper . 29th year 1895, No. 48 (from June 15, 1895), p. 304.
personal data
SURNAME Spalding, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spalding, Otto Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Glewitz
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1945
Place of death Berlin