Wilhelm Koep

Wilhelm Koep (born May 26, 1905 in Auel , today in Belgium ; † June 25, 1999 in Cologne ; full name: Wilhelm Johann Koep ) was a German architect .

Life

Blue-Gold House in Cologne

Koep was considered the "house architect" of the perfumery company 4711 in Cologne; In addition to various residential and industrial buildings in the Rhineland and the Ruhr area, the Blau-Gold-Haus opposite Cologne Cathedral , the former factory buildings in Cologne-Ehrenfeld (today Barthonia Forum ) and the “Schweizer Ladenstadt” (today Opern Passagen ) come from him.

Koep graduated from the Cologne School of Applied Arts and worked for the architect Ludwig Paffendorf from 1922 onwards . He later took over his office.

The Koeps estate has been included in the historical archive of the City of Cologne under the inventory number 1592 , its whereabouts after the collapse of the archive in March 2009 has not been clarified for the time being.

buildings

Residential and commercial building Glockengasse 2a, Columbahaus

Senate Hotel

Construction management Lindenallee 55–57, Cologne-Marienburg (1929)
Stables Castle Röttgen (1935)
Conversion of Marienburger Strasse 24, Cologne-Marienburg (1936/1937)
Conversion of buildings on the Petersberg (1937)
Fridolinstrasse 57, Cologne-Ehrenfeld (1939)
Williamsbau , semi-solid winter construction at circus Williams, Aachener Strasse , Cologne (1947/1948)
Reconstruction of the hotel on the Petersberg (for Belgian occupation around 1948; again for Allied High Commission August 1949)
" Sartory-Säle ", Cologne city center (around 1950)
Perfumery factory "4711" with rotunda, today: Barthonia-Forum, Venloer Strasse 241, Cologne-Ehrenfeld (1950–1962)
Blue and Gold House "4711", Domkloster 2 (1952)
Reconstruction of the hotel on the Petersberg (around 1952)
House Koep, Kleingedankstraße (1953)
Lindenallee 57, renovation (with Rudolf Koep, 1953/1954)
Melaten cemetery , Röhlig grave (with Ludwig Gies , 1953)
Nordstern Insurance Building , Gereonstrasse, Cologne-Altstadt-Nord (1954)
Oberländer Ufer 192, (1954–1959)
Columbahaus, Glockengasse 2a, Cologne-Altstadt-Nord (around 1954)
Reconstruction of Saaleck House , Am Hof (1955)
Apartment building, Komödienstraße 9 (1955)
Café Overbeck, Essen, Kettwiger Strasse 15 (1955/1956)
Furniture store Buch, Aachener Strasse 380–390, Cologne-Braunsfeld (1958)
Schaafenstrasse 10–12, Cologne-Altstadt-Süd (1958)
Senats-Hotel, Unter Goldschmied 9, Cologne-Altstadt-Nord (1958/1959)
Kölnische Rundschau , Stolkgasse (1959–1985)
Schwabenland House, Glockengasse 2, Cologne-Altstadt-Nord (1961)
Opern Passagen with a garage (Swiss store town), Cologne-Altstadt-Nord , (1962–1964)
Central Cathedral Building Association , Mohrenstrasse, Cologne-Altstadt-Nord (1964)
Am Bollwerk 1–5, Cologne-Altstadt-Nord (1966)
Weingarten House, Friesenplatz , Cologne-Altstadt-Nord (1966)
Herzogstrasse 31, Cologne-Altstadt-Nord (1966/1967)
Villa Mülhens, Am Stiftswäldchen, Cologne-Hahnwald (1966)
Hansaring 69–73, Cologne-Neustadt-Nord (1972)
Kölnische Lebensversicherung , Mevissenstrasse, Köln-Neustadt-Nord (1978/1979)
Dental house, Universitätsstrasse, Cologne-Lindenthal (1984/1985)

literature

Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2, p. 866. (Short biography and list of works)
Ulrich S. Soenius, Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 .

Web links

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

Projects by Wilhelm Koep in the database on architecture and civil engineering of the 50s, 60s and 70s in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on May 9, 2011

Individual evidence

↑ Ulrich S. Soenius, Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 292.
↑ Inventory information at www.archive.nrw.de, accessed on April 24, 2016
↑ State Conservator Rhineland - List of Monuments 12.6 - Cologne District 7 and 8 (Porz and Kalk) . Rheinland Verlag Cologne. 1980. p. 12
↑ Winfried Biesing: The Petersberg. From the Fliehburg to the residence for state guests . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 1990, ISBN 3-89365-186-1 , pp. 71-73.

personal data
SURNAME	Koep, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Koep, Wilhelm Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	May 26, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Owl
DATE OF DEATH	June 25, 1999
Place of death	Cologne

[1] Ulrich S. Soenius, Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 292.

[2] Inventory information at www.archive.nrw.de, accessed on April 24, 2016

[3] State Conservator Rhineland - List of Monuments 12.6 - Cologne District 7 and 8 (Porz and Kalk) . Rheinland Verlag Cologne. 1980. p. 12

[4] Winfried Biesing: The Petersberg. From the Fliehburg to the residence for state guests . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 1990, ISBN 3-89365-186-1 , pp. 71-73.