Schellenberg, Alfred

Architect

born: 28.01.1850 in Usingen

died: 08.03.1932 in Wiesbaden

Schellenberg studied at the Polytechnic School in Stuttgart, joined the 2nd Uhlan Regiment in Potsdam as a volunteer in October 1869 and took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. He attended the building academy in Berlin until November 1872 and was appointed construction foreman on December 7, 1872. On February 27, 1873, he was employed by the royal government in Wiesbaden under Building Councillor Friedrich Cremer. In the fall of 1873, he went into business for himself as an architect and master builder. In 1871, he joined the Wiesbaden Casino Society and acquired citizenship in 1882.

His name is associated with a large number of buildings and projects not only in Wiesbaden, but also in southern Germany, Russia and Poland. In the early 1890s, Schellenberg opened a branch office in Stuttgart.

An early project in Wiesbaden is the villa of the industrial magnate Alphons Haniel at Bierstadter Straße 14 from 1876. Schellenberg built the Grand Hotel Nassauer Hof, the former Hotel St. Petersburg on the market square, the Villa Waldfriede between Platter Straße and Adamstal, which no longer exists today, and Schloss Hohenbuchau in Georgenborn. A large number of villas and country houses in Wiesbaden, but also the Rheingau sparkling wine factory of Johann Jacob Söhnlein in Schierstein, the Paulinenstift, the buildings and grandstands of the Erbenheim racecourse can be traced back to his architectural office.

From 1889-92, Schellenberg and Leipzig-born Paul Alfred Jacobi ran an architectural partnership together; during this time, the Red Cross Hospital at the Schöne Aussicht was built, among other things.