Vietze & Helfrich
Vietze & Helfrich was an architecture office in Frankfurt am Main .
The two architects Franz Josef Vietze (1862–1938) and Wilhelm Helfrich (1875–1963) created a large number of buildings, various of which are now listed . From 1903 they worked together in an architecture office. The office stood for a traditional construction method and thus opposed the modern style, e.g. B. Exit Ernst Mays .
people
Franz Josef Vietze was born on December 1, 1862 in Unter-Kratzau (Bohemia) and died on December 17, 1938 in Frankfurt. He is the father of the architect Alfred Vietze (* 1889). From 1899 Franz Josef Vietze worked for the construction company Schaffner & Albert before he started working with Wilhelm Helfrich in 1903.
Wilhelm Helfrich was born on October 17, 1875 in Frankfurt as the son of the Bornheim master mason Conrad Wilhelm Helfrich. He was trained at the Städel Art Institute .
Other important architects such as Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Leonhardt and Robert Wollmann worked as employees at the Vietze & Helfrich architecture office before they went into business for themselves.
buildings
(see also List of Cultural Monuments in Frankfurt City Center , List of Cultural Monuments in Frankfurt-Bahnhofsviertel )
| image | Building | Location | Dating | annotation |
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Parkhotel | Frankfurt am Main, Wiesenhüttenplatz 36/38 | 1905 | under monument conservation |
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Residential and commercial building | Frankfurt am Main, Allerheiligenstrasse 3 | 1907 | under monument conservation |
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House of the commercial association, from 1919 a public education center |
Frankfurt am Main, Eschersheimer Landstrasse 2/4, Eschenheimer Anlage 40, Oeder Weg 1 |
1907-1908 | under monument conservation |
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Culinary art museum | Frankfurt am Main, Windmühlstrasse 1 | 1909 | under monument conservation |
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Apartment building | Frankfurt am Main, Hansaallee 30/32 | 1910-1911 | under monument conservation |
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New theater | Frankfurt am Main, Mainzer Landstrasse 55 | 1910-1911 | destroyed in World War II |
literature
- Walter Schwarz: The culinary art museum in Frankfurt am Main. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-7829-0387-0 , p. 15 f.
- Thomas Zeller: The architects and their building activities in Frankfurt am Main from 1870 to 1950. Henrich, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-921606-51-9 , p. 145 and p. 381.