Wenzel Bürger

Wenzel citizens ( born September 27, 1869 in Fork, † April 25, 1946 in High Großweitzschen in chub ) was an architect who lived and worked from 1893 in Chemnitz. In his wide-ranging, diverse construction tasks comprehensive work the typical contemporary stylistic evolution from historicism is the onset of modernity to read, some of his early buildings belong to the recognized architectural heritage of the city of Chemnitz.

Life

Wenzel citizen was born in 1869 in the Bohemian town of Fork, the son of a master mason. His architectural studies, he completed probably in Berlin. 1893 began his professional career in civil Chemnitz, Zwickau in the house Straße 75, he first opened a " studio for architecture." Later he moved his office to the ground floor of his own house Stollberger road 19 times, he was associated with a native of Vienna architect Karl Johann Benirschke ( 1877-1941 ).

In the spring of 1897 won the 1st prize in Wenceslas citizens architecture competition for the Chemnitz synagogue at which 78 architects had participated. The synagogue was built under his construction management by March 1899 at the Romanesque Revival style. In May 1897, he married Hulda born in Dresden Vesper, from this union had two children.

Emerged in the years leading up to the First World War, partly in collaboration with Benirschke, a number closed like showpiece, first in the National Romantic style, and later in a temperate Art Nouveau. Typical of the buildings were strongly articulated facades, galleries, stair towers and tower-like bay.

Also in the area of the school building is an interesting contribution to citizen Chemnitz architectural history is obtained, the three-storey building of the then second Catholic public school is due to the Sonnenberg on his 1902 draft submitted. The build time for this time scoring the most modern school buildings in Germany Art Nouveau building was less than a year. Since 1999, the traditional school building houses the Protestant school center. At the same time, he designed a new school building in Einsiedel (now a district of Chemnitz).

Together with built Benirschke citizens before 1908, the new factory building, which was founded in 1883 Gebrüder Becker at the Annabergerstraße; This monumental building was later transferred to the Schubert & Salzer AG and was largely destroyed during the heavy air raids in the spring of 1945. Nor will receive a 1918 by citizens built factory buildings of Pöge electricity AG Altchemnitz district.

The new business of the publishing house of the newspaper "Chemnitz Latest News " on the Annabergerstraße, which was inaugurated on 1 July 1908 was created in collaboration with the Dresden architect Rudolf Bitzan ( 1872-1938 ). A few years later, the Art Nouveau building of the Metropol Theater at the Zwickau road was built by citizen design. With the construction project of a theater he had in 1909 with his participation in the contest for the German theater in Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia) to gain experience.

Preserved are also various designed and executed by citizens upper-class villas. In 1906, the resulting text in an Art Nouveau villa attributable On Feldschlosschen in Chemnitz -Kappel, detached in an elevated position on a 3000 square meter plot, served until 1945 as the residence of the director of the nearby brewery. In collaboration with Benirschke built Wenzel citizens in 1907 in the Park Street 13 a villa for the foundry owner Gustav herb home. In 1909, the Villa Hempel were (now Villa Oscar Baron Kohorn to Kornegg ) completed in the park road 35 and the villa in the Riemann Dietzel Straße 25 (today Straße ).

Far outside the Chemnitz region 1906-1907 after a victorious competition design by Wenzel citizens in Kufstein (Tyrol, Austria ) was an imposing Savings Bank and Post Office building built.

In addition to his professional activities, citizens also developed a far -sighted approach to relieve the traffic in the city, under the title " A bold plan - the relief of the inner city," was published in a supplement to Chemnitz Gazette of 13 December 1925.

After the destruction of his house on the Chapel Hill on March 5, 1945 Wenzel drew citizens by chubs, where his daughter lived. He died on 25 April 1946 in the medical and nursing home high Großweitzschen.

Buildings

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