Bernhard Hirche

Bernhard Hirche (born July 17, 1946 in Hengersberg ) is a German architect . His office is in Hamburg .

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Bernhard Hirche's family comes from Silesia and fled to Lower Bavaria towards the end of the Second World War. In the 1950s the family moved on to Hamburg. His father Werner Hirche became a secondary and secondary school teacher at the Hamburg school Holstenwall 14/15. After graduating from high school, Hirche began studying architecture at the TU Braunschweig in 1967 . The architecture there, known as the “ Braunschweig School ”, had a lasting impact on him. Even after graduating in 1973, he remained connected to the Braunschweig School and initially worked as an architect in the office of Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer , before working as an assistant at Dieter Oesterlen 's chair from 1975 to 1980 .

After winning the competition to rebuild the Apostle Church in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel , Bernhard Hirche opened his own architectural office and moved back to Hamburg. Due to his experience in church building and the preservation of monuments, he was a member of the building committee of the North Elbe Church from 1986 to 2004 and of the Hamburg monument council from 1991 to 1998. Hirche has been a professor at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences since 1991, which was renamed the University of Applied Sciences in 2001 . After the architecture teaching there was transferred to the newly founded HafenCity University at the beginning of 2006, Hirche has been an HCU professor since then.

architecture

In his wide-ranging activity, Bernhard Hirche has realized numerous projects from single-family homes to urban planning tasks and is also involved in monument conservation work as well as the design of church organs . A special focus of his work is building in existing buildings. Many of Hirches' buildings are characterized by their design engagement with the existing building fabric. In accordance with the motto of a bound contrast coined by his teacher Dieter Oesterlen , Bernhard Hirche respects the architectural style of the existing building, which he however reflects with modern design solutions.

This design approach is particularly important in church construction, which has been Bernhard Hirche's field of activity for many years. Already with his first church building, the reconstruction of the Hamburg Apostle Church, which burned down in 1977, Hirche used the opportunities he found to reorganize the building functionally and integrated a newly created community center on two levels and above it a spatially concentrated church hall within the spatial envelope of the neo-Gothic original building. In numerous other church buildings such as the Hamburg Bugenhagen Church , the Stuttgart Collegiate Church or the Lambertikirche in Oldenburg, Hirche demonstrates his sensitivity for the existing building, which he contrasts with self-confident modern solutions.

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  Reconstruction of the Bugenhagenkirche Hamburg (1996–98), interior

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  Conversion of the collegiate church in Stuttgart (1999–2003), new ceiling construction

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  Reconstruction of the Friedenskirche Siek (2005-06), new organ

Works (selection)

• Apostelkirche , Hamburg-Eimsbüttel 1980–82, reconstruction and redesign
• Landeszentralbank, Lüneburg 1984–87
• Administration building Fachspedition Hoyer, Hamburg-Hamm 1985–87
• Memorial Joseph-Carlebach-Platz , Hamburg-Eimsbüttel 1987–88
• City center Taunusstein-Mitte , community center "Taunus", church center St. Johannes Nepomuk, Taunusstein 1987–91
• Reinfeld Education Center, Reinfeld 1994–96
• Bugenhagenkirche , Hamburg-Barmbek 1996–98, renovation and redesign
• Evangelical Church Center Kronsberg , Hanover 1998–2000
• Evangelical Luther Church, Dortmund, Borsigplatzviertel , church and community center in the old building from 1963, completion 2003
• Stiftskirche , Stuttgart 1999–2004, renovation, redesign and new organ
• Friedenskirche, Siek 2005–06, reconstruction and new organ
• Lübeck Cathedral (project), Lübeck, new organ
• Museum Johannes Reuchlin, Pforzheim 2006-08
• Lambertikirche , Oldenburg 2007-09, renovation and redesign

Awards

• 1988 BDA Prize Lower Saxony , recognition for the Landeszentralbank Lüneburg
• 1989 Award for exemplary buildings in Hamburg for Joseph-Carlebach-Platz
• 1991 AIV Prize Hamburg - Building of the Year 1990, for the Church at Rockenhof
• 1996 BDA Hamburg Architecture Prize, Honorable Mention for the Buck house
• 1997 BDA Schleswig-Holstein Architecture Prize, 3rd prize for the Trittau kindergarten
• 1999 BDA Hamburg Architecture Prize, 2nd Prize for the Bugenhagen Church
• 1999 BDA Schleswig-Holstein Architecture Prize, 1st prize for the Reinfeld Education Center
• 2002 BDA Hamburg Architecture Prize, 3rd prize for the GFA-Holfing office building
• 2003 BDA Lower Saxony Architecture Prize, recognition for the Hannover-Kronsberg Church Center
• 2003 Architecture Prize for single-family houses from the Reiners Foundation, award for the Iversen house
• 2004 BDA Dortmund Architecture Prize, recognition for the Luther Church

literature

• Ralf Lange : Religious buildings by Bernhard Hirche. In: Hamburg Chamber of Architects: Architektur in Hamburg Jahrbuch 1999, pp. 124–129. Hamburg 1999
• BDA Hamburg: Architects BDA in Hamburg 2003/2004. Hamburg 2003
• Jan Lubitz: ... but a big one! - The architect Bernhard Hirche. In: Hamburg Chamber of Architects: Architektur in Hamburg Jahrbuch 2007, pp. 160–169. Hamburg 2007

Web links

• Prof. Dipl. Ing. Bernhard Hirche Architect BDA
• germanarchitects - Bernhard Hirche ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )