Theodor Moosbrugger

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Moosbrugger's Heilbrugner house, the Villa Moosbrugger designed by him (1908)

Theodor Moosbrugger (born May 17, 1851 in Brackenheim , † December 10, 1923 in Heilbronn ) was a German architect who worked primarily in Heilbronn and its surroundings. At the beginning he built buildings of the late historicism in connection with elements of the Swiss house style ( director's villa Ackermann ), partially modified in the style of Art Nouveau ( restaurant “Volksgarten” ). His later buildings were shaped by the Heimat style ( Villa Moosbrugger ), also in connection with English country house architecture ( Villa Dopfer ). On October 20, 1927, the Heilbronn municipal council named Moosbruggerstrasse , which is located near the Südbahnhof, after him .

Life

He was born in Brackenheim as the son of master craftsman Thomas Moosbrugger (1822–1886) and Johanna Luise Mathilde, née. Schächterlen, born. After attending school in Brackenheim, he studied architecture from 1868 to around 1874 at the Stuttgart Polytechnic, today's University of Stuttgart . After study trips and initial construction work in Brackenheim, Moosbrugger acquired Heilbronn citizenship in 1881. Moosbrugger was from 1893 to 1911 a representative of the National Liberals in the Heilbronn parish council and from 1901 to 1918 a member of the Protestant parish council.

Maute & Moosbrugger

House in Heilbronn

In Heilbronn he met the daughter of the Heilbronn official builder Hermann Maute , Emma Mathilde Maute (1865–1913), whom he married in 1885. The marriage produced four sons and one daughter. Together with his father-in-law, Moosbrugger had been running an architecture office at Uhlandstrasse 6a in Heilbronn since 1889. Maute and Moosbrugger were the in- house architects of the Ackermann twisting mill in Heilbronn's neighboring town of Sontheim , for whom they constructed or converted many buildings.

Moosbrugger & Steus

After Maute's death in 1893, Moosbrugger continued to run the office alone for a long time; Only in 1914 did the architect Hermann Steus join the team, who also built the Villa Angele and the building for the commercial and commercial bank. Moosbrugger's eldest son Felix (1886–1950) took over the architecture office in Uhlandstrasse in 1918 and continued to run it there until it was destroyed in the war in 1944.

Act

Knorr building
Kaiserstr. 29, businessman Wilhelm Saemann

The following works by Moosbrugger are known, mostly total loss:

  • Double tenement at Roßkampffstrasse 24 in Heilbronn for the baker Friedrich Gerock (1890).
  • House on Rosenberg (three-story, seven-axis) in Heilbronn for the manufacturer Julius Mertz, owner of the vinegar factory Rund (1891), total loss.
  • Workers' settlement on Salzgrundstrasse in Heilbronn for Salzwerk Heilbronn AG (1891), total loss.
  • Sülmerstrasse 8 residential and commercial building in Heilbronn for master butcher Christian Rank (1892), total loss.
  • Houses at Kolpingstrasse 14 and 16 in Sontheim for the Ackermann twisting mill (1892).
  • Main administration building Sontheimer Straße 4 of the Knorr company in Heilbronn (1895), total loss:

Theodor Moosbrugger's monumental factory buildings from the Wilhelminian era were also destroyed in the Second World War. In 1895 he had set up the "main office" for the Knorr company administration at Sontheimer Strasse 4, an elongated brick- clad building over three floors. The point de vue of this complex was the four-story brick tower with its round-arched blind arcades , corner pinnacles and a wall wreath . There was a sign with the inscription: "ERBAUT 1903". "

“For the company Peter Bruckmann und Söhne Moosbrugger had designed a huge, two and a half storeys high and 37 axes wide sandstone building between Lerchenstrasse and Oststrasse, which among other things housed the administration and the design department. Reminiscent of Italian and French models in its formal language, the lined up round arches of this building, whose facade was over a hundred meters wide, made an awe-inspiring impression. Behind it was a shed roof hall over a floor area of ​​76 by 80 meters, where the majority of the six hundred workers created beautiful things out of silver. "

  • Lohtorstrasse 32 office building in Heilbronn for the merchants Jakob and Ernst Holzäpfel (1896), total loss.
  • Hotel Charlottenstrasse 2 in Heilbronn for the hotelier Heinrich Hoffmann (1897).
  • Villa Dittmarstrasse 5 in Heilbronn for the architect Albert Hagenmeyer (1897).
  • Methodist chapel at Seemannstrasse 24 in Böckingen (1897), total loss.
  • Residential and commercial building at Kaiserstraße 29 in Heilbronn for the merchant Wilhelm Saemann (1897), total loss.
  • Eugen Cluss director's villa in Heilbronn (1900).
  • Factory building at Karlstrasse 15 in Heilbronn for the furniture manufacturer Carl Dauer (1903), total loss.
  • Residential house at Kolpingstrasse 18 in Sontheim for senior executives of the Ackermann company (1904).
  • House at Schäfergasse 7 in Heilbronn for the shoemaker Ernst Beutinger (1905), total loss.
  • Town hall in Schwaigern (1906).
  • Factory building Weipertstrasse 8 to 10 in Heilbronn for the machine manufacturer Ferdinand C. Weipert (1907), since 1998 the Heilbronn innovation factory .
  • Villa Moosbrugger (Moosbrugger's own house) in Heilbronn (1908).
  • Villa Dopfer in Heilbronn (1909).
  • Residential and commercial building at Sülmerstrasse 21 in Heilbronn for the manufactured goods dealer Karl Staehle (1909), total loss.
  • Double house at Allerheiligengasse 2 / Götzenturmstraße 2 in Heilbronn for master locksmith Gottlieb Bikel (1909), total loss.
  • Villa Gerock on Alexanderstraße in Heilbronn (1909), total loss.
  • Residential houses Liebigstrasse 8 , 10 , 12/14 , 16/18 , 22/24 and 26 in Heilbronn for the employees of the Knorr company (1911–1916).
  • Villa Mayer in Heilbronn (1912).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates and places of birth and death according to Hennze 2009 (see literature). Gerhard Schwinghammer and Reiner Makowski give street names in Die Heilbronner . Edited by the city of Heilbronn. 1st edition. Silberburg-Verlag , Tübingen 2005, p. 154, on the other hand, put June 17, 1851 as the birthday and December 9, 1823 as the date of death.
  2. ^ Friedrich Dürr, Karl Wulle, Willy Dürr, Helmut Schmolz, Werner Föll: Chronicle of the City of Heilbronn. Volume III: 1922-1933 . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1986, ISBN 978-3-928990-14-1 ( Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 29), p. 315
  3. ↑ Official city map of Heilbronn . Scale 1: 15,000. 40th edition, 2007 edition. City of Heilbronn, Surveying and Cadastre Office, Heilbronn 2007. Grid square K 15
  4. ^ Friedrich Dürr , Karl Wulle, Willy Dürr, Helmut Schmolz, Werner Föll: Chronicle of the City of Heilbronn. Volume III: 1922-1933 . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1986, ISBN 978-3-928990-14-1 ( Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 29), p. 109
  5. ^ Julius Fekete , Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Stadtkreis Heilbronn . (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume I.5.). Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , pp. 257 .
  6. ↑ Joachim Hennze: A master of representative building. Theodor Moosbrugger (1851-1923). In: Christhard Schrenk (Hrsg.): Heilbronner Köpfe V. Pictures of life from five centuries. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2009, ISBN 978-3-940646-05-7 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 56), pp. 131–148, p. 146.
  7. ↑ Joachim Hennze: A master of representative building. Theodor Moosbrugger (1851-1923). In: Christhard Schrenk (Hrsg.): Heilbronner Köpfe V. Pictures of life from five centuries. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2009, ISBN 978-3-940646-05-7 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 56), pp. 131–148, p. 148.
  8. ↑ Joachim Hennze: A master of representative building. Theodor Moosbrugger (1851-1923). In: Christhard Schrenk (Hrsg.): Heilbronner Köpfe V. Pictures of life from five centuries. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2009, ISBN 978-3-940646-05-7 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 56), pp. 131–148, p. 136.
  9. ↑ Joachim Hennze: A master of representative building. Theodor Moosbrugger (1851-1923). In: Christhard Schrenk (Hrsg.): Heilbronner Köpfe V. Pictures of life from five centuries. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2009, ISBN 978-3-940646-05-7 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 56), p. 131–148, p. 136 and p. 138

literature

  • Joachim Hennze : A master of representative building. Theodor Moosbrugger (1851-1923). In: Christhard Schrenk (Hrsg.): Heilbronner Köpfe V. Pictures of life from five centuries. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2009, ISBN 978-3-940646-05-7 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives. Volume 56), pp. 131–148
  • Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim J. Hennze: Silent contemporary witnesses. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture . Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 , p. 113

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personal data
SURNAME Moosbrugger, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Brackenheim
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1923
Place of death Heilbronn