Rudolf Linder

Rudolf Linder (born August 17, 1849 in Tenniken ; † June 17, 1928 in Zurich ) was a Swiss architect and building contractor .

biography

Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel

Linder was a student at the Basel trade school in 1867 and began a three-year apprenticeship in the construction business of Hermann Preiswerk in 1868 . His training then followed at the building trade school in Stuttgart . From 1871 to 1873 he worked for the architects Vischer and Fueter in Basel. After a study trip to Stuttgart , Munich and Dresden , he studied at the Berlin Bauakademie . He then traveled through Italy , Spain and France and returned to Basel and worked in the construction business Müller & Rieder , which was later called Müller & Linder. At the end of the 1880s, he founded his own construction business in Basel. From 1895 he worked with Gustav Adolf Visscher van Gaasbeek , and in 1898 they made professional associations. This collaboration lasted until 1909.

In 1901, his construction company was converted into the Basler Baugesellschaft stock corporation. Linder's main interest was in the entrepreneurial and technical-constructive area. He founded a reinforced concrete construction business based on the Hennebique system in Basel . Visscher van Gaasbeek was largely responsible for the design area. In addition to the architecture office, the Basler Baugesellschaft had a property department , an engineering company and a stone and plasterer company . This construction company made Linder one of the city's defining architects and building contractors at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

1901–1902 Linder appeared in court to testify about the collapse of the Gasthof zum Bären at Aeschenvorstadt 67. The architect Hermann Baur was an apprentice at Linder from 1910 to 1917.

Works

Wettsteinplatz

In 1888 he realized a group of houses in the late classical tradition at Wettsteinplatz 10–11 and the entrance at Grenzacherstrasse 1–3 as an early work . These houses formed the beginning of an extensive complex of two-and-a-half-story row houses at Rheinfelderstrasse 32–42 and Wettsteinallee 2–10. He built over the square on his own account as a speculator . Another group of houses was built at Grenzacherstrasse 5-13 with Visscher van Gaasbeek. Other works in collaboration with Visscher van Gaasbeek are three villa-like single-family houses at Wettsteinplatz 6–8 with exposed brick facades in the style of the neo- renaissance . The Linders buildings on Wettsteinplatz and the surrounding area shaped the neighborhood.

These buildings show his interest in planning and designing larger structural ensembles .

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  Wettsteinplatz 10–11 / Grenzacherstrasse 1–3 (1888)

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  Wettsteinplatz 6/7/8 (1891)

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  Wettsteinallee 2-10 (1893)

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  Rheinfelderstrasse 32-42 (1893/94)

Palm Street

Site plan of the Palmenstrasse residential buildings in Basel

From 1904 to 1908 he built a group of so-called “multi-storey houses” at Palmenstrasse 1–19 and the adjacent Ahornstrasse 1–8. Here he was able to combine the advantages of the smaller bourgeois villa with the apartment building. In the U-shaped basic plan of the ensemble on Palmenstrasse, the houses face each other to the west and east and were closed to the north on Ahornstrasse by a horseshoe-shaped head building with a rounded courtyard. Shops with terraces were located on the ground floor on Ahornstrasse. The houses on Palmenstrasse have three floors with a habitable attic, the houses are offset from the street through deep front gardens. The relatively simple facade is in Art Nouveau style , which is complemented with colored decorations and stucco elements . Details such as the house door fittings made of brass or bronze in the form of male or female figures or heads were designed and executed in Albert Riggenbach's workshops in Basel. For the time revolutionary maisonette apartments on the lower floors, apartments with differentiated, generously cut floor plans testify to the efforts to bring the advantages of the single-family home into the compact form of the apartment block. All apartments had running cold and warm water, toilets and a bathroom . The head building on Ahornstrasse was demolished in the 1970s and replaced with a high- rise, three other buildings on Palmenstrasse also disappeared, so that the overall impression of the structural ensemble was severely impaired.

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  Palmenstrasse 1–19 (1904–1908)

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  Floor plan of an apartment

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  Ahornstrasse head block (1904–1908), demolished

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  Interior view of the Ahornstrasse head block

"At the viaduct"

Location plan of the apartment buildings "Am Viadukt" in Basel

Another ensemble that remained relatively intact are the apartment buildings "Am Viadukt", which occupy the entire block between Birsigstrasse, Pelikanweg and Tiergartenrain in the immediate vicinity of Basel Zoo . The floor plan is L-shaped towards Pelikanweg and Tiergartenrain, with elegant front gardens towards Birsigstrasse. The facade facing the Tiergartenrain presents itself as a sweeping castle facade, the main entrance on the first floor above the street can be reached via a bridge from the parallel Viadukstrasse. On Pelikanweg, the row of houses is grouped into an ensemble thanks to its varied design. Here, too, Linder furnished spacious maisonette apartments with all the most modern amenities of the time.

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  "Am Viadukt", entrance to Tiergartenrain 3

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  Group of houses “Am Viadukt”, garden facade Pelikanweg 3/5/7

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  Hall on the ground floor with internal apartment stairs to the mezzanine floor

Further works in Basel (selection)

Villa Burckhardt-Bischoff (1886)

Spalenring 148–150 (1909/10), torn off

• Villa Burckhardt-Bischoff, Hardstrasse 45 (1886)
• Residential buildings at Wettsteinplatz 10–11 / Grenzacherstrasse 1–3 (1888)
• Single-family houses Wettsteinplatz 6/7/8 (1891)
• Workers' houses at Pfeffelstrasse 1–36 (after 1892)
• Terraced family houses Wettsteinallee 2–10 (1893)
• Terraced family houses Rheinfelderstrasse 32–42 (1893/1894)
• Sodeck office building, Freie Strasse 74 (1896–1898 with Visscher), demolished in 1976
• Residential buildings Pilgerstrasse 13–33 (1896–1903 with Visscher)
• Multi-family houses Grenzacherstrasse 5–13 (1897/1898)
• Villa St.-Jakobs-Strasse 34 (1898)
• Houses Kandererstrasse 36 (1900) and 35 (1901)
• Saffron Guild, Gerbergasse 11 (1901–1902)
• "Haus zum Hermelin", Freie Strasse 15 (1902 with Visscher)
• Palmenstrasse 1–19 / Ahornstrasse 1–8 (1904–1908), partially demolished
• Residential buildings St.-Jakobs-Strasse 13–15 (1906)
• Residential houses at Gartenstrasse 10-14 (1906), demolished in 1984
• Residential houses at Spalenring 148–150 (1909/1910), demolished
• Apartment buildings "Am Viadukt" (1911–1915)

Fonts (selection)

• Reinforced concrete structures System Hennebique. Basel 1896.
• Project of an art museum on the Schützenmatte. Basel 1912.
• Architect. Basel 1919.

See also

• Emanuel La Roche (1863–1922), Basel architect who shaped the city at the same time

Individual evidence

1. ^ Court archive VV 5 files in the sense of Rudolf Linder, architect, concerning the collapse of the Gasthof zum Bären, Aeschenvorstadt 67, on August 28, 1901, 1901–1902 (series)
2. ↑ Construction supervision: Hardstrasse 45 «Villa Burckhardt-Bischoff»
3. ↑ The historic restaurant of the year 2008 ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ 'Haus zum Hermelin' Freie Strasse 15, Basel ( Memento from March 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

literature

• Basler Heimatschutz (Ed.): The architect Gustav Adolf Visscher van Gaasbeek.
• Rolf Brönnimann: Basel Buildings 1860–1910. Basel 1973.
• Rolf Brönnimann: Villas of Historicism. Basel 1982.
• Hans Eppens: The Basel architect Gustav Adolf Visscher van Gaasbeek. In: Jurablatte , 39th year 1977, issue 10.
• Hans Eppens: The Basel architect Rudolf Linder. In: Jurablätter , 45th year 1983, pp. 80–84.
• Uta Feldges: The Paulusquartier in Basel. In: Voluntary Basel Monument Preservation. Basel 1978.
• Dorothee Huber: Architecture Guide Basel. Basel 1993.
• F. Lauber: Basel buildings. Basel 1976.
• Edwin Strub: Basel single-family houses. In: Die Schweizerische Baukunst , year 1912, issue IV (from February 23, 1912), pp. 53–67.
• Edwin Strub: Modern apartment buildings. In: Die Schweizerische Baukunst , year 1912, booklet XVIII (from September 6, 1912), pp. 277–291.
• Single-family house and apartment. In: Die Schweizerische Baukunst , year 1913, issue XIV, pp. 205–218.
• Rose Marie Schulz-Rehberg : Architects of the Fin de Siècle. Building in Basel around 1900. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-85616-527-7 .

Web links

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