Victor Calles
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 .
“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 (…). "
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)
- 1923: Cologne , Marienburg district , Am Südpark 39, House W./Haus Gessner (destroyed in the war)
- 1926: Königswinter , dance garden in a Rhine hotel
- 1932: Cologne , special show "Guest and Garden"
- 1934: Cologne , Waldpark country house settlement in Hahnwald
- around 1936–1944: Westwall , greening and camouflage (on behalf of the Todt Organization )
- around 1938: Heimbach / Nideggen / Simmerath , Rurtalsperre Schwammenauel , landscaping
- 1940: Czech Republic , Svitavy (then Zwittau ), cemetery
- 1947: Cologne , "Planning for the greening of the Roman city" (with Karl Band and Hans Schilling )
- around 1951: Hamburg , terrain competition for the International Horticultural Exhibition 1953 (3rd prize)
- around 1955: Cologne , Weidenpesch district , sports park
- 1957: Cologne , Federal Garden Show , model cemetery
- 1958: Leverkusen , Ulrich Haberland Stadium, today BayArena
- 1959–1960: Cologne , Rodenkirchen district , Lessingstrasse 8, residential building
- 1961: Hürth , local recreation area Otto-Maigler-See
- 1968: Hamm (victory) , sports park
- 1969: Werl , park cemetery , extension
- around 1969: Bornheim , Rathausstraße 2, town hall (architect: Ernst van Dorp )
- around 1969: Hamm (Sieg) , municipal cemetery
without dating:
- Bad Driburg , spa gardens
- Bad Honnef , Bondorfer Strasse 34, Villa Heckenfels
- Borken , city park
- Bornheim , Walberberg district , Dominican monastery St. Albert
- Düren , district building, outdoor facilities
- Erftstadt , Liblar district , mayor's office
- Monheim am Rhein , Rheinische Pappenfabrik
- St. Ingbert , popular sports facility
literature
- Horst Victor Calles: garden and landscape planning. 1920 – today. Self-published, Cologne 1982
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Green future of the black earth . In: Kölner Rundschau , July 2, 1949; at wisoveg.de
- ^ Viola Brixius: The Rheinpark in Cologne. History of a garden from 1914 to today . Volume 1. Cologne 2004, p. 138. (= dissertation, University of Cologne)
- ↑ Hans Schilling: Architecture 1945-2000 . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König , Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-88375-494-3 . , P. 323.
- ^ 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.
- ↑ Report on the project manager Hans Meyer , whom Calles hired, although he was forced to retire because of his Jewish wife
- ^ 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.
- ↑ Baukunst und Werkform , Volume 5, 1952, p. 115.
- ^ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Park cemetery and spa gardens in Werl , gardens and parks in Westphalia-Lippe
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Otto Valentien: House gardens . In: Bund Deutscher Architekten (ed.): Planning and building in the new Germany , Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 1960, p. 429.
personal data | |
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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 |