Victor Calles

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Victor Calles , also Viktor Calles (born March 26, 1901 in Aachen , † October 21, 1969 in Cologne ) was a German garden and landscape architect .

Life

After studying in Berlin , Stuttgart and Cologne, I did a horticultural internship in Aachen . In 1920 Calles set up his own office, which was based in Cologne from 1921. He was a member of the Association of German Garden Architects (BDGA). From 1961 Calles ran his office with son Horst Victor Calles (born June 19, 1939), who took it over after his father's death in 1969. In 1979/80 the company moved from Cologne-Müngersdorf (Veit-Stoss-Straße 6) to Cologne-Lövenich (An der Ronne 48). The office has been run by the third generation of Dipl.-Ing. Torsten Calles and Luc de Brabant under the name "Calles De Brabant Landscape Architects".

Calles became known, among other things, for his proposals for the recultivation of the areas affected by open- cast lignite mining in the Rhenish lignite district west of Cologne, which he had presented since 1946, long before the relevant laws were passed. He was involved in the preparation of the Federal Horticultural Show in Cologne in 1957 as a member of the design and cemetery committee. In addition to private and public gardens, his work at home and abroad includes around 80 cemeteries as well as some sports facilities and memorials . Calles was the partner of the Cologne architect Hans Schilling on numerous projects .

Calles family grave

“Victor Calles had the flair to foresee future developments and to come up with suggestions that many people found unrealistic, but which in fact only preceded progress. (…) Victor Calles is also a pioneer in landscape planning, which has finally found its legal basis today (…). "

- Gerhard Olschowy : (1982)

Calles had been with Luise Alwine Lise Lotte born in 1935. Foxglove (1910–1985) married. He died in 1969 at the age of 68 in a Cologne hospital. The couple's grave is located in the Melaten cemetery (hall 117).

Work (selection)

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literature

  • Horst Victor Calles: garden and landscape planning. 1920 – today. Self-published, Cologne 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb (= city ​​traces, monuments in Cologne , volume 8.) 2 volumes. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2, p. 812.
  2. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 3340 from October 22, 1969, registry office Cologne West. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 22, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Horst Victor Calles: Garden and landscape planning. 1920 – today.
  4. ↑ Green future of the black earth . In: Kölner Rundschau , July 2, 1949; at wisoveg.de
  5. ^ Viola Brixius: The Rheinpark in Cologne. History of a garden from 1914 to today . Volume 1. Cologne 2004, p. 138. (= dissertation, University of Cologne)
  6. ↑ Hans Schilling: Architecture 1945-2000 . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König , Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-88375-494-3 . , P. 323.
  7. ^ 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 , Volume 1, p. 30.
  8. ↑ Report on the project manager Hans Meyer , whom Calles hired, although he was forced to retire because of his Jewish wife
  9. ^ Werner Durth , Niels Gutschow : Dreams in ruins: plans for the reconstruction of destroyed cities in western Germany 1940-1950 . In: Writings of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum on the history of architecture and the theory of architecture , Vieweg, 1988, ISBN 3-528-08706-4 , p. 255.
  10. ↑ Baukunst und Werkform , Volume 5, 1952, p. 115.
  11. ^ 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 , p. 102.
  12. ↑ Fritz Bendler: Report on the development of the local recreation area around the Otto-Maigler-See in Hürth. in: Hürther Heimat , vol. 80, 2001, p. 35ff.
  13. ^ Park cemetery and spa gardens in Werl , gardens and parks in Westphalia-Lippe
  14. ↑ Minutes of the meeting of the local community council of the local community Hamm (Sieg) on ​​June 15, 2011 ( Memento of the original of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ; PDF) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamm-sieg.de
  15. ^ Otto Valentien: House gardens . In: Bund Deutscher Architekten (ed.): Planning and building in the new Germany , Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 1960, p. 429.
personal data
SURNAME Calles, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calles, Viktor (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garden and landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1969
Place of death Cologne