Denis Boniver
Denis Joseph Boniver (born February 18, 1897 in Schalke ; † July 16, 1961 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect and university professor .
Life
Denis Boniver was the grandson of the chairman of the board of the same name at Schalker Bergwerks-AG “Consolidation” , who died just one year after his grandson's birth.
Boniver studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart with Paul Schmitthenner . During the National Socialist era, Boniver was a lecturer in building history at the Technical University of Stuttgart from 1935 to 1939 and then taught at the University of Architecture in Weimar . After the war he had his own office in Mettmann .
Boniver became interested in church building at an early age and became a member of the steering committee of the German Evangelical Church Building Day. After 1945 he played a key role in restoring and building numerous churches. In 1957 he won the competition to redesign the interior of the Marienkirche in Lübeck .
plant
buildings
- around 1935: own house in Stuttgart-Sillenbuch
- 1937: House F. in Stuttgart, Richard-Wagner-Strasse
- 1951–1954: Am Neandertal primary school
- 1955: New town hall in Düren
- 1955–1956: Evangelical old town church in Gelsenkirchen (under monument protection)
- 1955–1957: Church of the Redeemer (Iserlohn)
- 1957–1959: New construction of the evangelical Pauluskirche in Essen- Huttrop, Knaudtstraße (profaned in 2007 and placed under monument protection. 2015 conversion to a day care center for the elderly)
- 1957–1959: Protestant Peace Church in Gelsenkirchen-Schalke, Königsberger Strasse 122 (under monument protection)
- 1957: Protestant Church of the Resurrection in Bonn-Venusberg (under monument protection)
- 1957–1961: Town house in Münster, Klemensstrasse
- 1958: Redesign of the interior of the Marienkirche in Lübeck
- 1960: Reconstruction of the Catholic parish church St. Laurentius in Uedem
- 1961: Lukaskirche in Bielefeld, today: Apostle-Paulus-Kirche
Fonts
- The central room. Studies of Nature and History. Stuttgart 1937.
- Occidental architecture - a building history in examples. (with drawings by Egon Pruggmayer ) Staackmann Verlag, Leipzig 1940.
- Why are we building history? (Speech on the occasion of the opening of the winter semester 1943/1944) State University for Architecture and Fine Arts, Weimar 1943.
- Cathedral Gothic. Dietsch & Brückner, Weimar 1944.
- University and job. (Speech on the occasion of the meeting of the student body at the beginning of the summer semester 1944) Dietsch & Brückner, Weimar 1944.
- Excerpt from the report on the worship facilities of the restored St. Mary's Church in Lübeck. In: Jahrbuch des St. Marien Bauverein 4 (1958), pp. 22–35
literature
- Thomas Parent, Thomas Stachelhaus: Churches in the Ruhr area 1850-1935. Ardey-Verlag, Münster 1993, ISBN 3-87023-034-7 .
Web links
- Search for Denis Boniver in the German Digital Library
- Search for Denis Boniver in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ University archive Stuttgart: inventory overview ( Memento from July 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ History Workshop Düren ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Denis Boniver: An architect builds his own house: Haus Boniver in Sillenbuch near Stuttgart . In: The beautiful home. Illustrated magazine for applied arts, vol. 7, 1936, pp. 18–23.
- ↑ Markus Grenz: Seniors now live in the former New Paulus Church. In: WAZ. Retrieved June 21, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boniver, Denis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boniver, Denis Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schalke |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1961 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |