Friedrich Richard Ostermeyer

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Friedrich Richard Ostermeyer (born August 24, 1884 in Danzig ; † June 24, 1963 in Hamburg ; mostly only Friedrich Ostermeyer or Friedrich R. Ostermeyer in the literature ) was a German architect and urban planner whose main focus was in Hamburg. He was one of the leading representatives of clinker brick architecture in residential construction.

Life

After finishing school, the son of a pastor worked as a bricklayer and began studying at the Königsberg building school. From 1907 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe with Friedrich Ostendorf . His exams in 1910 were followed by study trips to Italy and northern Germany.

In 1911 he took over the office of Schaar and Hinzpeter in Hamburg-Altona and built several single and multi-family houses in the Elbe suburbs . After a study trip to Denmark, a reorientation towards the style of homeland security architecture began under the influence of Werner Jakstein , the head of the building maintenance commission in Altona. He increasingly used brick and clinker in exposed masonry.

After participating in the First World War, Ostermeyer designed residential buildings for the Altona garden city Steenkamp and the garden city Berne .

With the plans for large housing estates with humane, light residential buildings in the spirit of reform architecture, Fritz Schumacher in Hamburg and Gustav Oelsner in neighboring Altona created the basis for state-subsidized, mostly cooperative, residential construction on their own land. Ostermeyer realized mostly large residential buildings in numerous projects.

The architect Paul Suhr joined Ostermeyer's office in 1934. There were no orders for large apartment blocks due to the global economic crisis . The office mainly dealt with single houses of private clients, most of which were traditionally built with pitched roofs in the interests of the new rulers. The design language became more traditional in the use of materials and in the facade design.

During World War II , in which Ostermeyer volunteered, he was wounded and lost an eye. After his release in 1944, he took over the management of Wehrmacht training in Hamburg-Hochkamp and worked with Konstanty Gutschow on the plans for the reconstruction of Hamburg after the destruction caused by the air raids.

In 1946 he took over the management of the “Planstube” for the creation of a general development plan for Hamburg and the development of settlement structures to loosen up urban structures.

In the 1950s he resumed his residential construction work and also designed churches and buildings for church institutions. His style was still characterized by artisanal conservatism and did not follow the trends of international architecture modernity of the post-war period.

Ostermeyer worked in his office until his death in 1963, which was then continued by Paul Suhr.

Friedrich Richard Ostermeyer was buried in the Nienstedten cemetery.

buildings

  • 1911–1915: Town houses in Hamburg-Groß Flottbek, Dürerstraße 9–15, Cranachstraße 63 (in the style of Heimatschutz architecture; No. 13 belonged to Ostermeyer himself)
  • 1913–1914: “Sarlingheim” retirement home in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld, Von-Hutten-Strasse 5
  • 1919: Single home (dormitory for employed women) in the Steenkamp settlement in Bahrenfeld
  • 1919–1932: Houses in the garden city of Berne in Hamburg-Farmsen-Berne, Berner Allee, horse paddock, Saselheider Weg, Karlshöher Weg, Beim Fahrenland etc.
  • 1924–1929: Cooperative block of flats at Kieler Strasse 75–89
1st construction phase 1925/1926 (with expressionist jagged silhouette)
2nd construction phase 1927/1928 (reduction to cubic structure composition and masonry drawing as an example of Hamburg modernism)
  • 1925: Apartment block Bendixensweg 2–10 in Hamburg-Barmbek-Nord (for a cooperative)
  • 1926–1927: Adolf-von-Elm-Hof (strict cubic structure with ceramic architectural decorations)
  • 1926–1930: Residential houses as garden urban developments in Hamburg-Bergedorf, Gojenbergsweg 57–71, Ida-Boy-Strasse 1–15
  • 1927–1928: “Demmlerhof” residential development in Schwerin, Dr.-Hans-Wolf-Straße
  • 1928: House in Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel, Pfeilshofer Weg 10
  • 1928–1929: “Otto-Stolten-Hof” residential development for the ship carpenters in the Jarrestadt
  • 1928–1929: Large cooperative housing complex "Friedrich-Ebert-Hof" with 738 apartments in Hamburg-Ottensen, Friedensallee, Griegstrasse, Behringstrasse, Grünebergstrasse, Ottawiweg (Hipp sees this as being of programmatic importance for the social democratic and union housing policy of the Weimar Republic via communal facilities in a separate single-storey wing)
  • 1928: " Heinrich-Groß-Hof " residential development for the ship carpenters in Hamburg-Barmbek-Süd, Kraepelinweg 25–31, Pinelsweg 9–11, Reyesweg 26–32 (use of a Gothic-looking pointed arch in the entrance area)
  • 1928–1930: House Elbchaussee 126 / Hohenzollernring in Hamburg-Othmarschen
  • 1929: Lambrechtsgrund residential development in Schwerin ( Obotritenring 193–223 / Jean-Sibelius-Straße 1–18, monument): four and five-story brick building with two head sections connected by a strongly recessed central wing, each of which includes a community courtyard with a playground and economic facilities
  • 1929–1930: Flotowstrasse apartment block with building over the Stradellakehre in Hamburg-Barmbek-Süd (together with C. Wendt)
  • around 1930: "Friedrich-Ebert-Hof" residential development in Hamburg-Wandsbek, Walddörferstrasse 2–12 / Lengerckestrasse / Eulenkamp (the loss of the lattice windows and paneling with panels has lost the original, austere impression that had been adapted to the neighboring Dulsberg.)
  • 1929–1930: “Werkblock” residential complex for the Geestemünder Bauverein in Bremerhaven, Werkstrasse 14/15, Hökerstrasse
  • 1929–1931: “August-Bebel-Hof” settlement in Braunschweig
  • 1933–1935: House at Furtweg 15 in Hamburg-Eidelstedt
  • 1950: House "Alte Fischmarktapotheke" in Hamburg-Altstadt, Alter Fischmarkt 3 (together with Paul Suhr)
  • 1952–1953: Church of the Redeemer in Hamburg-Borgfelde , Jungestraße (together with Henry Schlote and Paul Suhr; the conservative building is one of the first church buildings that Ostermeyer realized in the post-war period.)
  • 1952–1953: Melanchthon Church in Hamburg-Groß Flottbek, Ebertallee 30 (together with Paul Suhr)
  • 1953–1954: Broder-Hinrick-Church in Hamburg-Langenhorn, Tangstedter Landstrasse (together with Paul Suhr)
  • 1954–1955: "Jacobihof" office building in Hamburg-Altstadt, Jacobikirchhof 8–9 (together with Paul Suhr)
  • 1955: Pauluskirche in Hamburg-Hamm, Quellenweg 10 (together with Paul Suhr)
  • 1961–1962: Epiphany Church in the Jarrestadt, Wiesendamm / Semperstrasse

  • Adolf-von-Elm-Hof

  • Friedrich-Ebert-Hof

  • Kieler Strasse residential complex

  • Broder Hinrick Church

  • Epiphany Church

  • Jacobihof

  • Church of the Redeemer, Borgfelde

  • Pauluskirche, Hamm

literature

  • Jan Lubitz: Ostermeyer, Friedrich . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 238-240 .
  • Friederike Rathke: Friedrich Ostermeyer. In: Dorothea Roos, Friedmar Voormann (ed.): Hamburg brick and clinker buildings. Shape, construction, material. KIT publishing, Karlsruhe 2011, ISBN 978-3-86644-657-1 , p. 134 ff.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Richard Ostermeyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  • Hermann Hipp: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. History, culture and urban architecture on the Elbe and Alster. Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-1590-2 . ( quoted as Hipp with page number )
  • Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg. The great architecture guide. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 . ( cited as Lange, 2008, with object number )
  1. ↑ Lange, 2008, e.g. object A 42
  2. ↑ Lubitz mentions 1943
  3. ^ Olaf Bartels: Hamburg architects after 1945
  4. ↑ Hipp, p. 338 f.
  5. ^ Lange, 2008, object J 55
  6. ↑ Hipp, p. 336
  7. ↑ Hipp, p. 334
  8. ↑ Hipp, p. 475
  9. ↑ Lange, 2008, object G 33
  10. ↑ Hipp, p. 307, Lange C 67
  11. ↑ Hipp, p. 442
  12. ^ Lange, 2008, object M 37.2
  13. ↑ Demmlerhof in the culture database
  14. ↑ Hipp, p. 477
  15. ↑ Hipp, p. 425
  16. ^ Dirk Meyhöfer: Hamburg. The architecture guide. Braun, o. O. 2007, ISBN 978-3-938780-15-2 , No. 178
  17. ↑ Hipp, p. 330 f.
  18. ↑ Lange, 2008, object J 20
  19. ↑ Hipp, p. 434
  20. ↑ Hipp, p. 330
  21. ↑ Hipp, p. 433
  22. ↑ Lange, 2008, object G 21
  23. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
  24. ↑ List of cultural monuments in the Hamburg district of Eimsbüttel , No. 1657; image
  25. ^ Lange, 2008, object A 42
  26. ↑ Hipp, p. 270
  27. ^ Lange, 2008, object E 41
  28. ↑ Lange, 2008, object J 58
  29. ↑ Hipp, p. 463
  30. ^ Lange, 2008, object A 60
  31. ^ Lange, 2008, object E 54
  32. ↑ Hipp, p. 427
personal data
SURNAME Ostermeyer, Friedrich Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ostermeyer, Friedrich; Ostermeyer, Friedrich R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1963
Place of death Hamburg