Fritz Schupp (22 December 1896 in
Uerdingen
Uerdingen () is a district of the city of Krefeld, Germany, with a population of 17,888 (2019). Originally a separate city in its own right, Uerdingen merged with the city of Krefeld in 1929. Today, Uerdingen is best known for a local distillery ...
– 1 August 1974 in
Essen
Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...
) was a German architect.
He was educated from 1914 to 1917 at the Universities of Karlsruhe, München and Stuttgart. Despite mostly working alone, he formed a partnership based in Essen and Berlin with Martin Kremmer . From 1949, Schupp was a lecturer at the Technical University in Hannover.
Between 1920 and 1974, he built 69 factories and plants. In the Bergbauarchiv (Bochum), 17500 sketches are at the disposal of researchers.
His best-known work was the
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex
The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex (German Zeche Zollverein) is a large former industrial site in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The first coal mine on the premises was founded in 1847, and mining activities took pla ...
, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001.
Works
* 1921: Zeche Holland 3/4/6 in Wattenscheid
* 1922: Mine's head offices ''Am Knie'' in Dortmund-Neuasseln
* 1927: Cock factory in
Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen (, , ; wep, Gelsenkiärken) is the 25th most populous city of Germany and the 11th most populous in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with 262,528 (2016) inhabitants. On the Emscher River (a tributary of the Rhine), it lies ...
* 1928–1930: Evangelist church in Berlin-Niederschöneweide
* 1928–1932: Plant
Zeche Zollverein
The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex (German Zeche Zollverein) is a large former industrial site in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The first Coal mining, coal mine on the premises was founded in 1847, and mining activit ...
12 in
Essen
Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...
* vor 1930: Hall of ''„Zeche in Horst bei Essen“''
* 1936: Over surface installations
Rammelsberg
The Rammelsberg is a mountain, high, on the northern edge of the Harz range, south of the historic town of Goslar in the North German state of Lower Saxony. The mountain is the location of an important silver, copper, and lead mine, the only min ...
in
Goslar
Goslar (; Eastphalian: ''Goslär'') is a historic town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Goslar and located on the northwestern slopes of the Harz mountain range. The Old Town of Goslar and the Mines ...
* 1936: Monument for the victims of the
Schlagwetter-Explosion in Flöz „Ida“
Zeche Adolf von Hansemann in
Dortmund-Mengede
* 1938: Extension of the farm ''Schulte up der Hege'' in
Werksfürsorge Zollverein
* 1936–1940:
German Mining Museum
The German Mining Museum in Bochum (german: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum) or DBM is one of the most visited museums in Germany with around 365,700 visitors per year (2012).Auskunft der Pressestelle des DBM, 12 September 2013 It is the largest ...
in
Bochum
Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) of the most populous Germany, German federal state o ...
(with
Heinrich Holzapfel)
* 1940–1951: Powerplant Gustav Knepper in Dortmund-Mengede
* 1944: Pit
Zeche Germania in Dortmund-Marten (transformed in 1974 as a heritage of the Deutschen Bergbaumuseum in Bochum)
* 1948–1952: Pit Grimberg 1/2 in
Bergkamen
Bergkamen (; Westphalian: ''Biärgkoamen'') is a town in the district of Unna, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated south of the river Lippe, approx. north-east of Dortmund and south-west of Hamm.
Bergkamen, a fairly new town in ...
* 1950: Tower
Zeche Friedlicher Nachbar in Bochum-Linden
* 1953: Social offices of the Rammelsberg mine in Goslar
* 1953: Pit
Zeche Pluto Wilhelm in
Herne-Wanne
* 1954: Pit 7 of
Zeche Ewald in
Herten
* 1954: Aden house in Lünen
* 1955–1956: Tower over pit 2 der
Zeche Lohberg in
Dinslaken
Dinslaken is a town in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is known for its harness racing track, its now closed coal mine in Lohberg and its wealthy neighborhoods ''Hiesfeld'' and ''Eppinghoven''.
Geography
Dinslaken ...
* 1955–1959: Pit Katharina in Essen-Kray
* 1950er Jahre: Tower, hall and washing facilities of pit Hugo in Gelsenkirchen-Buer
* 1958–1960: Powerplant Springorum in Bochum-Weitmar
* 1960: Tower of the Zeche Vereinigte Dahlhauser Tiefbau pit in Bochum-Dahlhausen
* 1964: Concrete tower of pits 4 and 6 in Zeche Sophia-Jacoba in
Ratheim
References
More
* Wilhelm Busch: ''F. Schupp, M. Kremmer. Bergbauarchitektur 1919–1974.'' Rheinland-Verlag, Köln 1980, .
* Wilhelm Busch, Thorsten Scheer (Hrsg.): ''Symmetrie und Symbol. Die Industriearchitektur von Fritz Schupp und Martin Kremmer.'' Köln 2002, .
External links
*
Bauten von Fritz Schupp in Bochum
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1974 deaths
1896 births
20th-century German architects
People from Krefeld