Bernhard Wielers

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Bernhard Wielers (born February 2, 1897 in Bochum ; † September 12, 1957 there ) was a German architect who worked in Bochum.

Life

Bernhard Wielers was the youngest of three children of the Bochum architect Hermann Wielers and his wife Auguste Wielers born. Clostermann (1868-1945). From his marriage to Thekla Wielers geb. Lenze had four children, including the young deceased son Hans Wielers (1925–1944).

He was a student of the architect Wilhelm Kreis at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Since his father had already died in 1917, he could not continue his architecture office after completing his training, but had to build up his own professional life.

The estate of Bernhard Wielers is located as holdings KV 5 in the archive of the Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Associations (KV) in the Mönchengladbach city archive.

Buildings and designs

  • 1926: Extension of the St. Josef Hospital in Bochum- Grumme
  • 1926–1928: Multi-family residential development in Harpen , Castroper Hellweg / Weserstraße / Fuldastraße (together with Peter Klotzbach )
  • 1927–1929: Construction of the Bochum municipal bank building (based on a winning competition design by Wilhelm Kreis from 1925; rebuilt almost unchanged after severe war damage by Wielers 1946–1949)
  • 1941: Air raid shelter of the St. Josef Hospital in Grumme, Gudrunstraße 56
  • 1946–1949: Reconstruction of the parish church St. Joseph in Bochum, Stühmeyerstraße (without southwest tower and with lower choir window)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ancestors of Bernhard Wielers  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the family research database Eich and Stegers on gedbas.genealogy.net , accessed on August 11, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / gedbas.genealogy.net  
  2. ^ A b New buildings and a letter from Wilhelm Kreis. In: Wasmuthsmonthshefte für Baukunst und Städtebau , 13th year 1929, issue 6 (from June 1929) (PDF document with 23 MB) , pp. 242–250. (Mention of Wielers as a district student on p. 250; various images of the municipal bank in Bochum, p. 246–250)
  3. ^ Association of German Architects - Bochum District Group (Ed.): Architectural Guide Bochum. (= Architecture in the Ruhr Area , Volume 4.) Bochum 1986, p. 91.
  4. ^ The municipal bank (Stadtsparkasse). In: Bernhard Kerber: Bochum's buildings 1860–1940. Studienverlag N. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1982, ISBN 3-88339-261-8 , p. 71.
  5. ^ Association of German Architects - Bochum District Group (Ed.): Architectural Guide Bochum. Bochum 1986, p. 86 f.
  6. ↑ Kommunalbank Bochum (Sparkasse) ( Memento of the original dated May 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.architektur-ruhr.de , accessed on August 11, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.architektur-ruhr.de
  7. ↑ St. Josef Hospital, bunker building at www.ruhr-bauten.de , accessed on August 11, 2013
  8. ^ Parish church St. Joseph and rectory - index card A 595 (from the list of monuments of the city of Bochum) (PDF document with 446 kB) , accessed on August 11, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Wielers, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1957
Place of death Bochum