Wilhelm Werdelmann

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Wilhelm Werdelmann (born March 20, 1865 in Leopoldshöhe , Principality of Lippe ; † April 25, 1919 in Barmen , today part of Wuppertal ; full name: Bernhard August Wilhelm Werdelmann ) was a German architect and architecture teacher.

Life

Werdelmann attended the Leopoldinum grammar school in Detmold, the capital of Lippe, and then studied at the Dresden University of Technology from 1885 to 1886 and at the Charlottenburg University of Technology from 1886 to 1889 . In 1890 he passed the 1st state examination, as part of his legal clerkship he worked as a government building manager on the execution of the Imperial Court building in Leipzig under the architects Ludwig Hoffmann and Peter Dybwad . In 1894 he passed the 2nd state examination to become a government architect ( assessor ). In the same year he took part in the architectural competition for the new construction of a municipal indoor swimming pool in Wroclaw . His design won the competition and construction was carried out under his direction from 1895 to 1897. He gained a foothold in Breslau and worked there as a freelance architect until 1899. In 1899, Werdelmann was appointed as the successor to Erdmann Hartig as director of the Crafts and Applied Arts School Barmen / Elberfeld , where he stayed until his death in 1919.

buildings

Indoor swimming pool / Łaźnia Miejska in Breslau / Wrocław (photo 2005)
  • 1895–1897: Municipal indoor swimming pool (Łaźnia Miejska) in Breslau (Wrocław), Zwingerstraße 10 (ulica Teatralna) (preserved with changes)
  • 1898: Palais Wiskott (for Kommerzienrat Th. Wiskott) in Breslau, Am Stadtgraben (ulica Podwale)
  • before 1900 ?: "Military spa" in Bad Landeck (Lower Silesia) (Lądek-Zdrój)
  • 1903–1905: Volksbadeanstalt (also referred to as "Stadtbad und Volksheim") in Striegau (Lower Silesia)
  • 1907–1909: Volksbad in Jena
  • 1909–1911: Evangelical Luther Church with rectory and parish hall in (Wuppertal-) Barmen- Heckinghausen
  • 1913–1914: Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in (Wuppertal-) Barmen-Sedansberg, Stahlstrasse 9

literature

  • Hermann J. Mahlberg, Christoph Heuter (Red.): Art, design & co. From the Kunstgewerbeschule Barmen-Elberfeld, Meisterschule, Werkkunstschule Wuppertal to Faculty 5 of the Bergische University / Comprehensive University Wuppertal (1894–1994). Müller + Busmann, Wuppertal 1994, ISBN 3-928766-10-4 , pp. 100-103.
  • Iwona Bińkowska, Marzena Smolak: Nieznany portret miasta. Publishing house of the Muzeum Historyczne in Wrocław, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka we Wrocławiu, Wrocław 1997.
  • Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Architects, civil engineers, builders, property developers and their buildings in Wuppertal. Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-928441-52-3 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ostdeutsche Bauzeitung , 7th year 1909, No. 75 (from September 18, 1909), p. 451
personal data
SURNAME Werdelmann, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werdelmann, Bernhard August Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and architecture teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Leopoldshöhe
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1919
Place of death Barmen