Wilhelm Kürschner

Memorial plaque on the house, Bahnhofsallee 7, in Bozen

Wilhelm Kürschner (born July 28, 1869 in Liebenau in Saxony , † February 14, 1914 in Gries near Bozen ) was a master builder of historicism. From 1901 to 1908 he was the city ​​architect in Bozen.

Wilhelm Kürschner worked as a bricklayer's apprentice in Sonnenstein in 1884/85, as a construction technician in Dresden in 1889, and as an architectural draftsman in Augsburg and Munich from 1892–1896. In 1899/1900 he took over the construction management of the Merano city ​​theater as a representative of Martin Dülfer . In 1901 he was appointed city architect in Bolzano. Under his direction, in the course of the city ​​expansion begun by Sebastian Altmann in 1907, Defreggerstrasse (today Leonardo-da-Vinci-Strasse) was broken through to Goethestrasse.

Buildings

• 1901–1905 Construction of the Bolzano City Museum (based on plans by the academic painter Alois Delug )
• 1903–1904 Reform-Realgymnasium (today middle school "Josef von Aufschnaiter")
• 1904–1907 Construction of the town hall of the city of Bozen on Rathausplatz (planned by Carl Hocheder from Munich )
• 1904–1907 Sparkasse building on Sparkassenstrasse
• 1906–1908 Hotel Zentral (today "Forst")
• 1906–1908 Franz Joseph Girls School (today Goethe School)
• 1907–1909 Colonnaded courtyard when today's Leonardo-da-Vinci-Straße breaks through

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Kürschner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Viktor Malfér: Construction work in Bozen-Gries 1850–1914 . Der Schlern , 1984, pp. 145-146
• Renate Brenn-Rammlmair: City architect Gustav Nolte. The home style in Bozen 1908–1924 , Athesia, Bozen 2007, pp. 17–18