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Rudolf Knosp
(approx. 1890)

Rudolf Knosp , also Rudolph Knosp (born June 27, 1820 in Ludwigsburg , † March 26, 1897 in Stuttgart ), was a German entrepreneur in the chemical industry .

Rudolf Knosp trained in an indigo trade and founded a small paint factory in Cannstatt in 1845 for chemical-technical articles. Knosp conducted research in the field of aniline dyes obtained from tar .

Company history of the paint factory Knosp

Grave in the Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart, Department 1

The knowledge and improvements in the manufacturing process obtained during his developments required spatial expansion of the production facilities. A year later, in 1846, he moved to Rotebühlstrasse in the west of Stuttgart. In the 1850s and 1860s, extensions and new buildings were made at the new location. In the years that followed, the plant was enlarged again and again. In 1872 the company bought the site of the former D'Ambly corset factory on the opposite side of Rotebühlstrasse.

The company finally faced great competition from Gustav Siegle's chemical factory . In 1873, Knosp merged with Siegles company G. Siegle & Co. and the Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik ( BASF ) founded by Friedrich Engelhorn . BASF enjoyed with their location Ludwigshafen immense strategic advantage, which is why the combined company under the company Baden Aniline and soda factories, Ludwigshafen a. Rh. And Stuttgart concentrated its production on Ludwigshafen. The Knosp factory site in Stuttgart was initially leased to a furniture factory and later gave way to a neo-baroque building by the architects Ludwig Eisenlohr and Carl Weigle . Knosp was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF until his death in 1897 .

The buildings on the Stuttgart factory site were destroyed in the Second World War and then not rebuilt. There is currently a BASF office building on the site.

Foundation Bud

With a donation of 2 million marks , Knosp and his wife Sophie Knosp, nee. Schmid started building the Rudolf-Sophien-Stift in the south of Stuttgart. The monastery was not completed until 1914 and is now used as a rehabilitation center and clinic for psychiatry , psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine .

Political commitment

From 1868 to 1870, Rudolf Knosp was a member of the customs parliament as a member of the Württemberg 13 constituency (Stuttgart) .

Bud building in Stuttgart-West

Villa Knosp, 2017
Villa Simolin, 1898

Rudolf Knosp moved his factory from Cannstatt to the west of Stuttgart in 1847, where he built his first factory building on the property at Rotebühlstrasse 70. In 1859 he built his family residence, Villa Knosp, on the neighboring property . On the opposite side of Rotebühlstrasse, Knosp built further factory buildings and residential buildings (Rotebühlstrasse 97 and 101) in 1872, in addition to Gustav Siegle's factory buildings (Rotebühlstrasse 103 and 105).

address Construction year object
Rotebühlstrasse 70 1847 Rudolf Knosps first factory building, rented to furniture factories from 1880
Rotebühlstrasse 70 1898 Instead of the abandoned factory building, the new Villa Simolin, the residence of Knosp's daughter Henriette Freifrau von Simolin-Knosp, destroyed in the Second World War, today the location of a modern business building
Rotebühlstrasse 72 1859 Villa Knosp, residence of the Knosp family, today owned by Württembergische Versicherung AG
Rotebühlstrasse 97, 101 1872 Extension buildings of the Knosp factory

After the death of her husband in 1897, Sophie Knosp built a business school and a housing estate on the former factory site between Rotebühlstrasse, Hasenbergstrasse, Senefelderstrasse and Augustenstrasse over the next few years. The settlement was called Knosp'sche Siedlung , and the street on which the settlement is located was named Knospstrasse in 1902 .

address Construction year object
Augustenstrasse 56 1901 Apartment building
Knospstrasse 1–11, 2–4 1902 Knosp'sche Siedlung →  images
Knospstrasse 8 1903 Higher commercial school, today a business school and business school
Senefelderstrasse 13 1906 Apartment building
Seeseiten Castle on Lake Starnberg (2018)

Villa on Lake Starnberg

In 1872 Rudolf Knosp acquired the so-called Seeseiten Castle , built by Georg von Dollmann in the years 1866/67 , one of the most important country houses on Lake Starnberg . The property came into the family property of August von Finck junior through his descendants and marriage .

literature

General

Bud Building

  • Villa Bud. In: Gebhard Blank: Stuttgart villas in the 19th century. A leaflet accompanying the exhibition in the Wilhelms-Palais from March 18 to August 16, 1987. Stuttgart 1987, page 14.
  • Christine Breig: The construction of villas and country houses in Stuttgart 1830–1930. An overview of the various implementations and changes in the villa building type in Stuttgart. Stuttgart 2004, pages 452-456.
  • Ulrich Gohl: Faces of their time. Unknown architectural and cultural monuments in Stuttgart. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 1992, pages 11-14. (Villa Knosp)
  • Gabriele Kreuzberger: Factory buildings in Stuttgart. Their development from the middle of the 19th century to the First World War. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-608-91629-6 .
  • Wolfgang Müller: Stuttgart in old views. Zaltbommel 1979, plate 101.
  • Annette Schmidt: Ludwig Eisenlohr. An architectural path from historicism to modernity. Stuttgart architecture around 1900. Stuttgart-Hohenheim 2006, page 368-370, page 400-415, page 488 f.

Web links

Commons : Rudolph Knosp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ # Kreuzberger 1993 , pp. 74-77
  2. ↑ #Kreuzberger 1993 , page 77
  3. ↑ #Sauer 1988
  4. ↑ # Kreuzberger 1993 , pp. 74-77
  5. ↑ #Breig 2004 , pages 452–455, #Schmidt 2006 , pages 368–370
  6. ↑ #Blank 1987 , #Breig 2004 , page 455-456, #Gohl 1992
  7. ↑ #Kreuzberger 1993 , page 77
  8. ↑ #Schmidt 2006 , page 403 f.
  9. ↑ #Schmidt 2006 , page 400-415, # 1979 Müller
  10. ↑ #Schmidt 2006 , page 401-403
  11. ↑ #Schmidt 2006 , page 488 f.
personal data
SURNAME Bud, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knosp, Rudolph; Knosp, Rudolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur in the chemical industry and founder
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1897
Place of death Stuttgart