Bernhard Rotterdam

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Bernhard Rotterdam (born February 8, 1893 in Langenfeld - Immigrath ; † October 7, 1974 in Bensberg ) was a German architect . He became known as the builder of Catholic churches in the Rhineland and the seminary in Bensberg .

Professional background

As the eldest son of Heinrich Rotterdam's twelve children, Bernhard grew up in Richrath , where his father started a construction business in 1899. There he also received his first training in the building trade. In addition to him, four of his five brothers worked as architects or civil engineers in the profession he had chosen. The father's company still exists in the fourth generation as Rotterdam Hochbau GmbH today (2012) in Langenfeld.

In 1910 Bernhard Rotterdam entered the Staatliche Baugewerkschule in Cologne to study, but due to the outbreak of the First World War, he was only able to take his exams in 1920. From 1922 to 1925 he completed further studies in the architecture department of the Düsseldorf Art Academy as a student in Emil Fahrenkamp's master class . While still studying there, he designed the first church building in 1924, which he carried out in Berghausen in 1926 . In the following year, he and Karl Mataré, a brother of the sculptor Ewald Mataré , won second prize out of 102 submitted designs in the competition for the establishment of a seminary in Bensberg . After no first prize had been awarded, Rotterdam was commissioned to carry out the project after revising its competition design. In connection with this he moved his residence to Bensberg in 1925 and initially moved into individual rooms in the castle . In the following decades, Rotterdam designed numerous church buildings in the Rhineland, with a focus on the Archdiocese of Cologne, and carried them out. Before the Second World War, his work was concentrated in the area around Langenfeld and Leverkusen and, after the same, extended in particular to the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis and the then Cologne district . Since the mid-1960s at the latest, the son Bernhard, known as Bernd Rotterdam, was a partner at the father's side. He continued to run the studio after his death.

According to Koch, Rotterdam was one of the Rhenish architects who tried to realign the building of Catholic churches after the First World War. This development also influenced the new buildings after the Second World War. He places him alongside architects such as Dominikus Böhm , Rudolf Schwarz , Karl Band and Fritz Schaller .

The estate of the architectural office Bernhard Rotterdam has been in the historical archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne since 2005 .

buildings

  • 1924: -9999Catholic Church of St. Paul with rectory in Langenfeld- Berghausen (built in 1926)
  • 1924: -9999Catholic seminary Bensberg (today: Kardinal-Schulte-Haus ; competition revision: 1925, execution: 1926 to 1929)
  • 1928: -9999Catholic parish church St. Engelbert with rectory in Leverkusen-Pattscheid
  • 1928–1929: Catholic parish church Herz Jesu with parsonage and parish hall in Wiesdorf
  • 1929–1930: Extension of the Catholic Church of St. Josef in Krefeld- Traar (previously 1st prize in the competition; addition of transept, choir apse and tower)
  • 1931–1932: Conversion of the former seminary in Cologne's Marzellenstrasse into an administration building
  • 1935: -9999Extension of the Catholic parish church St. Lambertus in Birgelen
  • 1935: -99991st prize in the competition for a crematorium at the Westfriedhof in Cologne
  • 1936: -9999Catholic parish church St. Heinrich in Witzhelden
  • 1937: -9999Catholic parish church St. Konrad in Hilden
  • 1938–1939: Catholic Church of St. Michael in Opladen
  • 1945–1947: Reconstruction of the Catholic parish church St. Katharina in Wald with redesign of the choir room
  • 1945–1953: Reconstruction of the Catholic parish church St. Gereon in Monheim
  • 1946–1953: Catholic parish church St. Joseph in Moitzfeld
  • 1947–1949: Reconstruction of the Catholic parish church of St. Remigius in Opladen
  • 1948: -99991st prize in the competition for a new town hall in Wipperfürth and subsequent implementation until 1950
  • 1951–1953: Catholic parish church St. Marien in Gronau (tower completed 1957)
  • 1952–1956: Catholic parish church St. Servatius in Hoffnungsthal with parsonage and youth home (execution 1954–1956)
  • 1954: -9999Extension of the Catholic parish church St. Apollinaris in Dabringhausen- Grunewald
  • 1954–1955 and 1958–1959: Castle walls 7 and 3 (“Domherrensiedlung”) in Cologne
  • 1954–1955: Catholic parish church St. Maria Königin with parsonage and youth home in Frankenforst (tower completion 1957)
  • 1955–1956: Catholic parish church of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt in Immigrath with rectory
  • 1956–1957: Catholic parish church of St. Michael in Wipperfürth- Neye with parsonage and youth home
  • 1957–1958: Catholic parish church St. Konrad in hand with rectory and youth home
  • 1957–1958: Renovation of the Catholic parish church St. Laurentius in Hohkeppel (under the direction of the Rhenish Monument Authority )
  • 1957–1958: Catholic parish church St. Michael in Solingen with rectory and parish hall
  • 1958–1959: Catholic parish church St. Mariä Himmelfahrt in Bröl with parish home
  • 1958–1960: Extension of the Catholic parish church St. Dionysius in Baumberg (new building except for the tower and choir)
  • 1958–1961: St. Monika retirement home in Sankt Augustin-Ort with chapel (built in 1960/61)
  • 1959: -9999Expansion of the Catholic parish church "To the painful mother" in Biesfeld (choir expansion)
  • 1959–1960: Catholic parish church St. Engelbert in Rommerscheid
  • 1959–1965: Restoration of the Catholic parish church St. Agatha in Wipperfürth- Agathaberg
  • 1960–1962: Margaretenhöhe nursing home in Bergisch Gladbach with the St. Josef chapel (1961/62)
  • 1960–1962: Catholic parish church St. Pankratius in Junkersdorf with rectory and library
  • 1960–1962: Catholic parish church St. Michael in Odenthal -Neschen with parish home
  • 1961: -9999Kurienhaus of the Archdiocese of Cologne together with master builder Willy Weyres
  • 1961–1962: Extension of the Catholic parish church St. Konrad in Hilden
  • 1961–1962: Catholic parish church St. Willibrord in Kirdorf with parish center
  • 1961–1962: Catholic parish church of St. Elisabeth "In der Auen" in Refrath with rectory, youth home and library
  • 1961–1963: Catholic parish church of Christ the King in Langenfeld
  • 1961–1963: New construction of the parish church of St. Mary's Visitation in Marienheide as an extension of the existing monastery church
  • 1961–1964: Extension of the Catholic parish church St. Michael in Waldbröl
  • 1962–1963: Reconstruction of the Catholic parish church of the Holy Family in Cologne-Höhenhaus
  • around 1962/64: Curia building with diocesan museum in Cologne (in collaboration with Willy Weyres )
  • 1963–1964: Catholic parish church of St. Sebastian with parish hall in Schmitzhöhe near Lindlar
  • 1963–1964: Catholic parish church St. Quirinus in Mödrath
  • 1966–1970: Catholic parish center Heilig Geist in Weiden
  • 1967: -9999Extension (choir) of the Catholic parish church St. Johann Baptist in Kürten
  • 1972–1973: Catholic parish center St. Martinus in Kaster (previously 1970 winner in a limited competition)

as well as numerous other projects, including schools and hospitals. Of the latter, the hospitals Maria-Hilf in Bergisch Gladbach, St.-Remigius in Opladen and St.-Josef in Monheim are mentioned.

literature

  • Bernhard Rotterdam. With an introduction by Johannes Schumacher. (= New Work Art ) Berlin / Leipzig 1931.
  • Wilhelm Gladbach: an architect with his own signature. In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Heimatkalender 1963 , pp. 47–52.
  • Bernd Koch: The architect Bernhard Rotterdam and his church buildings in the Rhineland. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2006, ISBN 3-89870-326-6 .
  • Bernd Koch: The architect Bernhard Rotterdam and his buildings in the Bergisches Land. A church builder (1893-1974) of the 20th century with his own “handwriting”. In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 2012. Yearbook for the Bergisches Land. 82nd year 2012, Heider Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-87314-462-0 - ISSN  0722-7671 , pp. 146–154.
  • Michael Werling : Some Bensberg buildings by the architect Bernhard Rotterdam (= home between Sülz and Dhünn. History and Folklore in Bergisch Gladbach and the Surrounding Area, Issue 23, 2017), edited and published by Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV, pp. 34–40.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Bernd Koch: The architect Bernhard Rotterdam and his church buildings in the Rhineland. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2006, ISBN 3-89870-326-6 . P. 99.
  2. ^ Nachlass Bernhard Rotterdam accessed on June 4, 2019.
  3. St. Mariä Visitation Marienheide accessed on June 4, 2019.
  4. Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. 26th edition. Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1966, p. 317.