Felix zur Nedden

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Felix zur Nedden (also: Felix Zur Nedden and Felix ZurNedden ; * August 30, 1916 ; † March 29, 2013 ) was a German civil servant , senior building director, architect and town planner as well as city planning officer .

Life

Felix zur Nedden was born in the early days of the Weimar Republic and experienced his youth in Bad Homburg .

During the Second World War , zur Nedden became a prisoner of war . After his release he began studying architecture in 1946, first in Vienna , then also in Hanover at the technical university there .

After Rudolf Hillebrecht had been appointed town planning officer of the new Lower Saxony state capital in 1948, zur Nedden started working for the town planning office in Hanover in 1951 . When in 1951 and 1952 the former Evershorst military airfield was expanded into an airport suitable for public transport based on plans by Friedrich Wilhelm Petzel , Felix zur Nedden built a former aircraft hangar into the first terminal building of the new Hanover airport .

The Aegidientorplatz 1 building built for Magdeburger Versicherung , here with the Sparkasse logo , seen in the evening from Breite Straße , in front of it the - later - corner elements by the artist Günter Tollmann

Between 1958 and 1959, the new building for Magdeburger Versicherung was built on Aegidientorplatz according to plans by the architects Walter Hämer , Hardt-Waltherr Hämer , Fritz Eggeling and Felix zur Nedden at the same time as the "completion and the most important part of the Aegi redesign over areas of the former Aegidienneu town ", Today at the address Aegidientorplatz 1 .

Around the same time, zur Nedden, together with Ulrich Zelinsky, implemented the urban planning concept for the development of the historic airport site, where the two of them were able to build the Alter Flughafen industrial park according to their own plans when construction began in 1959 .

Also in the 1950s, zur Nedden made his own photographs from the period of new planning and building in the post-war period, some of which the architect Friedrich Lindau used in later publications.

In 1965, zur Nedden, now called the senior building officer, took over the management of the Hanover city planning office.

On the occasion of the 60th birthday of the city planning councilor Rudolf Hillebrecht in 1970, Felix zur Nedden published his text Stadtmitte im Wandel about the redesign of the inner city of Hanover . In those years, zur Nedden also worked as chairman of the Lower Saxony-Bremen regional group of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning .

In 1972, zur Nedden was the deputy judge following the announcement of a nationwide architectural competition for the new building of Café Kröpcke .

Zur Nedden was a member of the Heimatbund Lower Saxony , in whose journal Heimatland several articles by and about him appeared, including in 1982 on the award of the Federal Cross of Merit .

In 2010, zur Nedden lived in the building at Hildesheimer Straße 183 in Hanover.

Felix zur Nedden was buried on October 15, 2017 after a memorial service in the Pauluskirche in the Engesohde city cemetery .

Fonts (selection)

  • Changed priorities of the urban planning tasks of the core city. In: Hannover , Torino [Turin]: Urbanistica-Verlag, [1968], pp. 56-62
  • City center in transition. In: Hanover. Issues from the Lower Saxony state capital , Issue 1 (1970), pp. 11-14
  • Urban development at a turning point. In: Address book of the state capital Hanover , 1977
  • Current problems of urban development in the dispute between citizen participation and legal supervision. Lecture in the 150th course of the institute “Urban Development and Law” from November 9th to 13th 1981 , Berlin: Institute for Urban Development of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning, 1981
  • Urban renewal today. Lecture in the 164th course of the institute “Urban Development and Law” from November 8 to 12, 1981 , Berlin: Institute for Urban Development of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning, 1982
  • Felix zur Nedden (edit.): Hanover then, yesterday and today. City in Transition between Preserving and Renewing , Stuttgart: Steinkopf, 1984, ISBN 978-3-7984-0600-1 and ISBN 3-7984-0600-6 ; contents
  • Felix ZurNedden: Hannover is changing. Once, yesterday, today , Hamburg: Medien-Verlag Schubert, 1998, ISBN 978-3-929229-57-8 and ISBN 3-929229-57-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c Compare the obituary notice on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from April 6, 2013, last accessed on October 19, 2017
  3. ↑ a b Eva Benz-Rababah : Aegidientorplatz. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 13f .; here: p. 14; Preview over google books
  4. ^ A b c Andrea Koenecke: From the land destruction campaign to the impetus for systematic "land regulation" , in this: Walter Rossow (1910–1992). “The landscape in the public consciousness” (= Center for Garden Art and Landscape Architecture: CGL studies , vol. 21), Munich: AVM-Edition, 2014, ISBN 978-3-95477-037-3 , p. 276; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ Felix zur Nedden: Experienced and remembered - youth years in Bad Homburg (8 and last) , eighth part of his memoirs in the series Alt-Homburg , Bad Homburg: Community circle Alt-Homburg, ISSN  0938-3379 , vol. 48 (2005), Issue 12, pp. 4-6
  6. ↑ a b c Compare between city center and urban region. Reports and thoughts. Rudolf Hillebrecht on his 60th birthday (= contributions to environmental planning ), ed. from the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning, Stuttgart; Bern: K. Krämer, 1980, passim ; Preview over google books
  7. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Flughafenstraße (Lgh) , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 11
  8. ↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Aegidientorplatz 1 , in Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and culture lexicon ... p. 75
  9. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1959. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 247ff .; here: p. 248
  10. ^ Friedrich Lindau: Photographic work , in ders .: Planning and building of the fifties in Hanover. Schlütersche, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-530-9 , p. 4; Preview over google books
  11. ^ Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity. Schlütersche, Hannover 2001 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , p. 76 and others; Preview over google books
  12. ↑ Werner Krämer: Table of contents of the Heimatbund - magazine "Heimatland" / done: Issue March 1950 to Issue 2.2003 (PDF document) from July 2016 on the heimatbund-niedersachsen.de page , last accessed on October 19, 2017
  13. ↑ oV : Birthday August 2010. In: Our Homburg. The local newspaper for citizens and friends of our city Bad Homburg vd Höhe , issue 03, 2010, p. 23; Digitized as a PDF document from the website of the community group Unser Homburg eV
personal data
SURNAME To Nedden, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zur Nedden, Felix; ZurNedden, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant, architect and urban planner, city planning officer in Hanover and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1916
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2013