Emil Heynen

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Emil Heinrich Carl Heynen (born June 18, 1877 in Hamburg ; † April 22, 1946 there ) was a German architect .

Life

Born and raised in the Hamburg Gängeviertel , Emil Heynen completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer after attending elementary school and then worked as a journeyman bricklayer at various companies. In addition, he attended the Hamburg building trade school until 1899 . From 1911 onwards, he worked as a freelance architect in Hamburg. Heynen mainly planned residential buildings in Hamburg's urban expansion areas. From 1929 at the latest he was a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA). During World War II he worked as an appraiser for the Hamburger Feuerkasse and died shortly after the end of the war in Hamburg. Emil Heynen is buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery .

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Heilandskirche on Winterhuder Weg

During the Weimar Republic , Emil Heynen emerged as a church architect and designed two of Hamburg's most important sacred buildings that were erected between the two world wars. 1926–1928 the Heilandskirche in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst was built according to his plans . With its mighty, calm pitched roof and the gothic flying buttress arcades in the base area, the transverse brick building still looks conventional from an architectural point of view, although it has already left the usual reception patterns of church buildings. The strict basic form of the church is subtly expressionistically shaped. The painting was done by Paul Perks , the crucifix was created by Ludwig Kunstmann , and the fountain on the forecourt was by Richard Kuöhl .

At about the same time, the Bugenhagenkirche was built in the Barmbek-Süd district in 1927–1929 . With this building, Heynen has already abandoned the traditional appearance of the church building in favor of a modern, urban design.

Bugenhagenkirche on Biedermannplatz

With the stacking of the community room and the church hall on two levels one above the other, Heynen gave the Hamburg church building an important impetus. The resulting compact structure is next to the St. Ansgar Church in Hamburg-Langenhorn and the Catholic church buildings by Johann Kamps (in the Bensel , Kamps & Amsinck office ) one of the most important modern sacred buildings of the New Building in Hamburg.

Emil Heynen's church buildings make a significant contribution to the Hamburg architecture of the Weimar Republic . Characterized by urban development directed city extensions under the chief building director Fritz Schumacher and the identity-creating brick as the most important facade material, Heynen's two brick churches fit into the architecture and material canon of these years.

In 1922 Heynen was accepted into the Hamburg Freemason Lodge "Zur Hanseatentreue".

literature

  • Hamburg Cultural Authority, Monument Protection Office: The Bugenhagen Church in Barmbek. An Evangelical Lutheran church building from the 1920s. Hamburg 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Hamburg 1, No. 2455/1877
  2. ↑ Marriage register StA Hamburg 1, No. 624/1904
  3. ↑ Death register StA Hamburg-Winterhude, No. 421/1946
personal data
SURNAME Heynen, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heynen, Emil Heinrich Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1946
Place of death Hamburg