Theodor Merrill

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Theodor Edwin Merrill (born May 9, 1891 in Cologne , † March 31, 1978 in Tutzing , Upper Bavaria ) was a German-American architect .

Life

Merrill was a son of Boston- born Hervey Cotton Merrill (1862-1953), who studied dentistry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and had met his German fellow student and future wife Helen Anastasia Hefter (1865-1934). After he had finished her training in 1885 and she in 1886 with a doctorate in Dental Surgery , he accompanied her to Cologne, where her father had just taken over the office of pastor of the Anglican parish. HC Merrill opened a dental practice there, but was also active in real estate trading and, above all, as a stimulator and planner of parks and villas.

Theodor Merrill studied at Cornell University in Ithaca / NY and at RWTH Aachen . In 1921, together with Ernst Leybold, a businessman and real estate agent, he founded a company called Merrill & Leybold , specializing in the marketing of real estate according to his own plans. He worked in the Cologne area and was mainly active in the field of upscale single-family house and villa construction. Merrill was one of the main architects of the Cologne-Marienburg villa colony . Even before the First World War he was involved in the Gronauerwald garden settlement . At the end of the 1920s he initiated the Cologne-Hahnwald villa estate . He often had the gardens designed by Heinrich Wiepking-Jürgensmann , who in 1927 opened a branch office in Cologne with Merrill.

Merrill also took part in the Cologne skyscraper competition in 1925 and designed buildings for the cooperative settlement in Cologne-Zollstock with Wilhelm Riphahn , Caspar Maria Grod and Emil Mewes .

From 1933 to 1939 Fritz Ruempler worked for Theodor Merrill and continued to run the office under his name after his emigration. In 1959, after returning from exile, Merrill reunited with Fritz Ruempler to form a working group that was dissolved at the end of the 1960s due to the general building crisis. His estate is kept in the historical archive of the city of Cologne (holdings 1586). Merrill was a citizen of the United States of America throughout his life .

buildings

  • before 1915: designs for the Gronauerwald garden settlement in Bergisch Gladbach
  • 1919: Bonn , Bad Godesberg , Turmhof , extension
  • 1922–1924: Service villa for the general director of the Cologne reinsurance company H. Grünwald in Cologne-Marienburg , Goethestrasse 66
  • 1923/24: Schmidt House, Rondorfer Straße 9 , Cologne-Marienburg (later residence of the Indian embassy ; demolished in 1977)
  • before 1924: Dr. Eaters in Cologne - Marienburg
  • before 1924: House Kleinejung in Cologne - Marienburg
  • 1925: House in the English country house style for the merchant F. Goldmann in Cologne - Marienburg, Pferdmengesstr. 1
  • 1925: Villa Emil Hoesch in Hagen-Eppenhausen , Goldene Pforte 1
  • 1925–1926: House for Heinrich Fr. Wiepking-Jürgensmann in Berlin-Lichterfelde , Curtiusstrasse 101 / Lotzestrasse 3
  • before 1926: Schl. In Dusseldorf
  • before 1926: group of three houses in Cologne-Marienburg
  • before 1926: Stüssgen house in Cologne-Marienburg
  • before 1926: House Fr. in Cologne-Marienburg
  • 1927–1930: Zollstock housing estate in Cologne-Zollstock, Höninger Weg, Zollstockgürtel (with Wilhelm Riphahn, Caspar Maria Grod and Emil Mewes)
  • 1929–1930 residential and studio house for the artists Hildegard Domizlaff and Helen Wiehen in Cologne-Müngersdorf
  • 1929–1934: Group of seven residential buildings on Rheinuferstraße in Cologne-Rodenkirchen (with Adolf and Wilhelm Quebe, Jan Op Gen Oorth and Hans Schumacher )
  • before 1931: Merrill House in Cologne-Rondorf
  • before 1931: House in Cologne-Marienburg
  • before 1931: Surface installations of the Königsgrube colliery in Wanne-Eickel
  • 1931–1932: Large-scale residential building near Cologne
  • 1931–1932: House in Bonn
  • 1932: Foyer apartment building in Luxembourg , Arloner Strasse (with Jean Deitz)
  • 1935: House Birkhof for the manufacturer Alfons Mauser in Cologne-Hahnwald, Bonner Landstrasse 119 (broken off in 2016/17)
  • 1937: Office and commercial building in Cologne, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 15
  • before 1964: House in the Bergisches Land (with Fritz Ruempler)
  • before 1951: House (S.) M. in Ittenbach , Siebengebirge (with Fritz Ruempler)
  • before 1965: House near Cologne (with Fritz Ruempler)
  • before 1965: rental apartments near Lugano

literature

  • Country houses by Theodor Merrill, Cologne / Gardens by Heinrich Fr. Wiepking-Jürgensmann, Berlin in: Wasmuths MONTHLY FOR BUILDING ART 5/1926 (PDF; 25.0 MB) Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Berlin.
  • Wilhelm-Kästner: Residential buildings by Theodor Merrill - Cologne. In: Moderne Baufformen, Vol. 25, 1926, pp. 53–66.
  • The house of the architect and other buildings by Theodor Merrill, Cologne on the Rhine in: Wasmuths MONTHLY for architecture 2/1931 (PDF; 24.3 MB) Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Berlin
  • 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 , pp. 885–890. (not yet evaluated for this lemma)
  • Wolfram Hagspiel: Villas in the south of Cologne. Rodenkirchen, Sürth, Weiss and Hahnwald. (with photographs by Hans-Georg Esch) JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-7616-2488-3 , pp. 48–55, 66–69, 125–151 and 156–159. (not yet evaluated for this lemma)

Web links

Commons : Theodor Merrill  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Proceedings of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, 1881-1886, Ann Arbor 1886, p. 547; Like. 1886-1891, Ann Arbor 1891, p. 29
  2. ↑ a b c Wolfram Hagspiel : Villas in the south of Cologne: Rodenkirchen, Sürth, Weiss and Hahnwald. (with photographs by Hans-Georg Esch) JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-7616-2488-3 .
  3. ↑ Urban planning . 1/1915
  4. ↑ a b c Modern designs , issue 1/1924
  5. ↑ Interior decoration . 1926
  6. ^ 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 , pp. 680–684.
  7. ↑ http://www.bilderbuch-koeln.de/Denkmale/3593
  8. ↑ a b c d e Wasmuths monthly booklet for architecture 5/1926 (PDF; 25.0 MB)
  9. ↑ http://www.route-industriekultur.de/themenrouten/20-unternehmervillen/villa-emil-hoesch.html
  10. ↑ http://www.bilderbuch-koeln.de/Denkmale/8375
  11. ↑ http://bauwatch.koelnarchitektur.de/pages/de/architekturfuehrer/39.wohnbebauung_an_der_uferstrasse.htm
  12. ↑ a b c 2/1931 Wasmuths monthly booklet for architecture 2/1931 (PDF; 24.3 MB)
  13. ↑ a b Rudolf Pfister (Ed.): 130 Eigenheime Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1932
  14. ↑ http://www.onsstad.lu/uploads/media/ons_stad_95-2010_4-11.pdf
  15. ↑ http://www.koelner-wochenspiegel.de/rag-kws/docs/530457
  16. ↑ http://www.drkuester.de/kaiserbueros
  17. ↑ http://www.nrw-architekturdatenbank.tu-dortmund.de/obj_detail.php?gid=1387
  18. ↑ Der Baumeister 1964 XII p. 1398
  19. ^ Rudolf Pfister (Ed.): 150 Eigenheime Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1951
  20. ↑ http://www.nrw-architekturdatenbank.tu-dortmund.de/obj_detail.php?gid=1387
  21. ↑ a b Der Baumeister 1965 VI p. 377
personal data
SURNAME Merrill, Theodore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merrill, Theodor Edwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1978
Place of death Tutzing