Johannes Radke Explained

Johannes Radke (7 August 1853 – 1938) was a German architect, building official and councilor in Düsseldorf.

Life

Born in Margonin, Radke, son of the Lutheran preacher Johann Friedrich Daniel Lebrecht Radke (1841-1874), completed his schooling in 1874 at the Royal Grammar School in Bydgoszcz with the desire to study construction.^[1] After his studies, he worked in Berlin in the building administration of the Kaiserliche Reichspost as "Kaiserlicher Postbauinspektor" (Imperial Postal Building Inspector), before being appointed city building inspector in Düsseldorf in 1900. Between 1901 and 1921, he was also municipal alderman there. In these functions, he influenced the construction of the Hafen auf der Lausward and numerous other projects, such as the, the development of the Oberkassel district in the course of the Elektrifizierung der Düsseldorfer Straßenbahnen and the 1902 .

He designed numerous public buildings for Düsseldorf. The most important of these are numerous buildings of the Klinikumkomplex an der Moorenstraße, the Stahlhof, the and the Görres-Gymnasium. The old including the from 1900 to 1902, of which the bank protection wall, parapets, stairs, banisters, an altan and the water level clock are still preserved today, also goes back to Radke. Radke had already gained international attention before his time in Düsseldorf through the construction of the German exhibition pavilions for the World Exposition in Chicago in 1893 (World's Columbian Exposition) and the Paris Exposition Universelle.

Radke was a member of the .

Work

Realizations

• 1893: German exhibition pavilion at the World's Columbian Exposition
• 1900: German exhibition pavilion at the Exposition Universelle (1900)^[2]
• 1900: Rheinuferpromenade in Düsseldorf-Altstadt
  • among others 1902: Düsselschlösschen, Weinlokal at Burgplatz
• 1904–1906: verschiedene Bauten des University Hospital of Düsseldorf
  • among others 1906: Holy Spirit Chapel (Church of the Düsseldorf University Hospital).^[3]
• 1904–1906: Görres-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte.^[4]
• 1904–1906: Leibniz-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort
• 1904–1907: Luisen-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte.^[5]
• 1905: Friedhofskapelle auf dem Südfriedhof in Düsseldorf-Bilk.^[6]
• 1905–1906: Leo Statz Berufskolleg in Düsseldorf-Unterbilk.^[7]
• 1905–1907: Primary school at Badeanstalt Lindenstraße 128–130.^[8]
• 1906–1908: Stahlhof, Administration building of the in Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte.^[9]
• 1907: Realschule Luisenstraße in Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt.^[10]
• 1907–1911: Hauptfeuerwehrdepot (Feuerwache III) in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort^[11]
• 1908: Friedhofskapelle at the in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk.^[12]
• 1908–1910: Villa Wendelstadt in Bad Godesberg (Bauausführung durch Theo Westbrook)
• 1910–1912: Schule am Comeniusplatz (Comenius-Gymnasium, Comeniusstraße 1), Düsseldorf-Oberkassel.^[13]
• 1911–1912: Lessing-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk.^[14]
• 1913–1914: Hauptschule Bernburger Straße in Düsseldorf-Eller.^[15]
• 1927–1928: eigenes Wohnhaus (als Ruhesitz), called 'Haus zur Linde', Bondorfer Straße in Bad Honnef

Publications

• Beschreibung des Schulgebäudes. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1904.

Further reading

• Karl H. Neidhöfer: Düsseldorf. Straßennamen und ihre Geschichte. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1979, .
• Paul Sigel: Exponiert. Deutsche Pavillons auf Weltausstellungen. Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 2002, .

Notes and References

1. Programme of the Royal Grammar School in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz 1874, (Google Books)
2. Johannes Radke: Das Deutsche Haus auf der Weltausstellung in Paris 1900. In Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Jg. 19 (1899), Nr. 85,
3. https://archive.today/20130619132404/http://www.duesseldorf.de/cgi-bin/denkmal/dsneu.pl?nr=1099 Moorenstr. 5; Gebäude 13.79
4. https://archive.today/20130619132437/http://www.duesseldorf.de/cgi-bin/denkmal/dsneu.pl?nr=918 Görresgymnasium, Königsallee 57
5. https://archive.today/20130619161255/http://www.duesseldorf.de/cgi-bin/denkmal/dsneu.pl?nr=658 Luisenschule, Bastionstraße 24/Kasernenstraße 30
6. https://archive.today/20130619132453/http://www.duesseldorf.de/cgi-bin/denkmal/dsneu.pl?nr=971 Friedhofsanlage mit Gebäuden, Am Südfriedhof 14–16
7. https://archive.today/20140102204647/http://www.duesseldorf.de/cgi-bin/denkmal/dsneu.pl?nr=550 Friedenstraße 29
8. https://archive.today/20140102204647/http://www.duesseldorf.de/cgi-bin/denkmal/dsneu.pl?nr=550 Schulgebäude, Lindenstraße 128–130
9. https://archive.today/20130619132425/http://www.duesseldorf.de/cgi-bin/denkmal/dsneu.pl?nr=403 Stahlhof, Bastionstraße 39
10. https://archive.today/20130619132425/http://www.duesseldorf.de/cgi-bin/denkmal/dsneu.pl?nr=403 Realschule, Luisenstraße 73
11. https://archive.today/20140102204719/http://www.duesseldorf.de/cgi-bin/denkmal/dsneu.pl?nr=431 Feuerwache III, Münsterstraße 15
12. https://archive.today/20130619133342/http://www.duesseldorf.de/cgi-bin/denkmal/dsneu.pl?nr=197 Friedhofskapelle Stoffeln, Bittweg 60
13. https://archive.today/20130619132719/http://www.duesseldorf.de/cgi-bin/denkmal/dsneu.pl?nr=1382 Gymnasium, Comeniusstr. 1
14. https://archive.today/20130619133413/http://www.duesseldorf.de/cgi-bin/denkmal/dsneu.pl?nr=975 Lessing-Gymnasium, Ellerstraße 84
15. https://archive.today/20140102204823/http://www.duesseldorf.de/cgi-bin/denkmal/dsneu.pl?nr=1327 Hauptschule, Bernburger Straße 44