Franz Kleinsteuber

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Franz Kleinsteuber (born August 13, 1886 in Farnroda , Thuringia , † January 18, 1961 in Würzburg ) was a German architect and representative of the New Building .

life and work

Kleinsteuber was in Munich resident before he moved and on November 17, 1921 to Wurzburg there until 1927 as a government architect ( Assessor in) Oberpostdirektion Würzburg worked.

Kleinsteuerber started his own business after 1927 and formed an office community with the local architect Christoph Mayer . Mayer, 22 years his senior, as a representative of Historicism and Art Nouveau , was given additional staff by a colleague who was oriented towards New Building.

In the course of the planned widening of Augustinerstraße, the city of Würzburg acquired the property with house number 9 (the birthplace of Ludwig Pfeuffer or Yehuda Amichai ) for demolition and with the intention of rebuilding with the building line set back. Kleinsteuerber was a member of a consortium that wanted to build an office building with shops and a restaurant here. Kleinsteuerber designed a seven-story high - rise for this purpose . After the original investor withdrew, the city of Würzburg took over the planning of Kleinsteuber and carried out the construction of the first high-rise in Franconia . However, a large number of changes had been initiated, so that Kleinsteuerber always emphasized later that his high-rise design had been significantly worsened as a result. After completion in the summer of 1930, the architects Mayer und Kleinsteuber moved into the fourth floor of the building on Augustinerstraße 9. Around 1935, the NSDAP district leadership had rooms on the same floor . As one of the few witnesses of the New Objectivity in Würzburg, the high-rise was added to the Bavarian list of monuments in 1974 as a single monument .

Even after Mayer's death on May 11, 1931, Kleinsteuber's office was continued under the name Mayer und Kleinsteuber .

During the time of the Third Reich , Kleinsteuerber was employed by the local planning office of the government of Mainfranken . Even after his retirement , he still took part in tenders and competitions with his private office. So he won z. B. the competition for a protective roof for the monastery ruins in Hersfeld . For postal workers, he designed a block of flats on Tiepolostraße in Würzburg.

Franz Kleinsteuber died on January 18, 1961 in Würzburg. His grave in the main cemetery has meanwhile been abandoned.

In an obituary in the Main-Post dated January 21, 1961, Heiner Reitberger wrote about the architect he knew personally: “Würzburg lost a talented construction specialist, an idiosyncratic, sometimes difficult personality, a passionate, eager to learn man who had the weather for new technologies, new ones Forms, new way of thinking. "

Buildings in Würzburg

Stürtz University Printing House in Würzburg, Beethovenstrasse 5 49 ° 48 ′  N , 9 ° 57 ′  E
Summer house for Fritz Knapp in Würzburg, Christoph-Mayer-Weg 2 49 ° 46 ′  N , 9 ° 56 ′  E
  • 1928–1930: Administration high-rise, Augustinerstraße 9 (listed)
  • 1929: Expansion of the synagogue , Domerschulstrasse
  • Israelite Teacher Training Institute, Sandbergstrasse
  • Extension of Richter's art gallery, Hofstrasse
  • 1930: Stürtz printing works, Beethovenstrasse 5
  • 1930: Richter print shop, Plattnerstrasse
  • 1931: Memorial to the fallen in the Volksgarten am Rennweg (together with Fried Heuler and Niedermeier)
  • 1931–1932: Villa Marbe, Judenbühlweg 7 (today Corpshaus Franconia )
  • 1928–1930: Administration high-rise, Augustinerstraße 9 (listed)
  • 1934–1935: Indoor swimming pool in the Sanderau district

Individual evidence

  1. ^ By the way , Peter Feile , an architect of the New Building, also moved into the sixth floor .
  2. Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 236.
  3. According to the planning status in July 2007, the demolition of the monument, which was one of the few significant buildings that escaped the devastating bomb attack on Würzburg on March 16, 1945, is planned for a new building.
  4. ^ R. Pfister: House M. in Würzburg. Built by the architect, government master builder Franz Kleinsteuber. in: Das Schöne Heim, Vol. 5, 1933/34, pp. 224–229.

literature

  • The high-rise building Augustinerstraße 9. (= booklets of the Heiner Reitberger Foundation , booklet 9.) Würzburg 2007, ISBN 3-87717-813-8 .
  • Heiner Reitberger: The old Würzburg. Wuerzburg 1977.

Web links

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