Wilhelm Wickop

Wilhelm Wickop (born October 29, 1824 in Beckrath , † October 4, 1908 in Rhöndorf ) was a German master mason, trade teacher and architect of historicism .

Life

Wilhelm Wickop was the son of Jacob Dietrich Wickop from Ruhrort and Johanna Wickop geb. Frenzen from Krefeld . At the age of 15 he lost his father and had to drop out of school and start an apprenticeship in order to support the family with his earnings.

Wickop began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in Cologne and later passed his examination as a master bricklayer. He then got a job at the Cologne City Planning Department, where he trained as an architect by himself. To this end, he completed a number of practical years with Cologne cathedral builder Ernst Friedrich Zwirner and was also entrusted with new records of monumental buildings from the Middle Ages, especially the Romanesque churches, for the Cologne district government . In 1856 Wickop went first to Krefeld and a few months later to Berlin, where he began an official training as a drawing and trade school teacher. He completed his practical year from 1858 at the Provinzial-Gewerbeschule in Aachen and on March 18, 1862, he again passed his examination as a trade school teacher in Berlin. With effect from November 18, 1862, Wickop was finally employed at the Provincial Trade School in Aachen as a full trade school teacher, later promoted to senior teacher and appointed professor. In 1894 he retired and spent the rest of his life in Rhöndorf am Rhein.

Wilhelm Wickop was married to Henriette Elise born in 1856. Schifflin (* 1833) from Krefeld. Together with her he had several children, including Georg Wickop , who in turn was the father of Walther Wickop , both successful architects and university lecturers.

Act

Even before Wickop's service in Aachen, the Dutch industrialist and politician Peter Regout became aware of him and gave him the planning for the construction of his Villa Vaeshartelt in Maastricht , which was later followed by other construction contracts from Regout.

Wickop's first main work in Aachen was the construction of the old synagogue in the Moorish style in 1862 . Two years later, in the same style, a new wing was added to the Neue Redoute , the monumental structure built by Jakob Couven in 1782 . This wing served as the residence for the city's music directorate and was laid out at right angles and unconnected to the redoubt and was not connected to one another until 1910 by the Aachen city architect Joseph Laurent as part of a further renovation.

As a result, Wickop received the order to build several school and factory buildings in Aachen and new gas factories in Aachen and Cologne. He also took over the planning for the construction of several villas for entrepreneurs in Aachen and the surrounding area, including the von Scheibler families in Astenet , Nellessen in Aachen and Hösch in Düren .

In addition, Wickop took part in several architectural competitions and won, among other things, a first prize for his design for the new building of the Brussels synagogue and in 1868 a prize for his design for the new building of the Berlin Cathedral .

In addition, Wickop created numerous designs for mostly sacred gold and silversmith work.

Work (selection)

• 1857: Villa Klein Vaeshartelt in the Maastricht district of Meersenhoven, Weert 18
• 1860–1862: Old Synagogue Aachen in Moorish style
• 1863: Villa Boschstraat 45 in Maastricht ( attributed )
• 1863–1864: A new wing is added to the New Redoute in the Moorish style
• 1880: Villa Le Petit Suisse (also: Villa Kanjel ) in the Maastricht district of Nazareth, Meerssener Weg 1

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  Old Synagogue Aachen

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  New Aachen Redoute (around 1905)

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  Villa Le petite Suisse

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  Villa Boschstraat 45

literature

• Heinrich Pützer: Obituary Wilhelm Wickop. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 42, 1908, No. 88 (from October 31, 1908), p. 608.

Web links

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

• Data in the historical register of architects
• Personal data of teachers in Prussia
• Buildings by Wilhelm Wickop in Floris van Waroij: The Regout Estate , 2006