Hans Busch (architect)

St. Johannes Church in Guckheim, inauguration June 16, 1963, building is a listed building. Architect: Hans Busch, Frankfurt / Main

Hans Busch (* 1911 ; †  1990 ) was a German architect .

Life

Hans Busch comes from Frankfurt-Sossenheim . He studied architecture from 1930 to 1936 at the Technical University in Darmstadt and the University of Stuttgart . After working in an architecture office, doing military service and imprisonment, he went into business for himself in 1946. As an architect, Hans Busch u. a. Numerous churches and public buildings planned for the Diocese of Limburg . The need was great: after the Second World War , over 200 churches were restored or rebuilt within a generation in the Limburg diocese alone.

Many of the buildings he built between 1946 and 1986 are now listed buildings . From 1946 he worked together with the artist Jupp Jost on numerous public and sacred buildings .

Work (excerpt)

Catholic Church of St. Michael in Mammolshain

• 1946/1947: St. Michael Catholic Church in Mammolshain with integration of an existing chapel, cultural monument
• 1952/1953: Catholic parish church St. Marien in Langhecke near Villmar , altarpiece by Jupp Jost, cultural monument
• 1952/1953: Catholic Christkönig Church in Asslar , cultural monument

Christ the King Church in Frankfurt-Praunheim

• 1953: Community hall, from 1986 church in Frankfurt-Bonames , Christmas curtain by Jupp Jost
• 1953: Redesign of the Christkönig Church in Frankfurt-Praunheim, cultural monument
• 1954: Catholic Church of St. Josef in Villmar, cultural monument
• 1954/1955: "House of Encounters" in Königstein im Taunus , sgraffito by Jupp Jost, since 1988 a listed building.
• 1954/1955: Catholic parish church Mariae Visitation in Runkel , cultural monument
• 1959: St. Raphael , Frankfurt am Main-Bockenheim
• 1961: Church of St. Johannes in Guckheim , is a listed building
• 1967: St. Michaelskirche in Sossenheim , Gothic choir tower supplemented by a new church by Hans Busch

literature

House of Encounters in Königstein im Taunus, sgraffito by Jupp Jost. The building is a listed building and was described in the press as “the most modern and most beautiful conference center in Hesse”.

• Hans-Curt Köster, Rudolf Grulich: The house of meeting: A short story of an architectural and historical monument in Königstein im Taunus . Langewiesche publishing house , Königstein i. Ts. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7845-0090-4 .
• Hans-Curt Köster (ed.): New encounter: a monument becomes a European Green Building. The house of meeting in Königstein i. Ts. With contributions by Wilhelm Derix , Rudolf Grulich , Hans-Curt Köster, Ralf Lange, Christoph Meyer, Frank-Michael Saltenberger, Arne Steffen, Christian Stolte and Gerd Weiß . Koenigstein i. Ts. ( Verlag Langewiesche ) 2012, ISBN 978-3-7845-6305-3
• Karin Berkemann : Post-war churches in Frankfurt am Main = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . Wiesbaden 2013
• Catholic parish Sankt Marien Frankfurt am Main (Hrsg.): History of the churches in Sankt Marien. Self-published, Frankfurt am Main 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walther Kampe : Our common path: 150 years of the Limburg diocese. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 978-3782003995 , p. 105.
2. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Catholic Church of St. Michael In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
3. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Catholic Parish Church St. Marien In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
4. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Catholic Church Christkönig In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
5. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Christ-König-Kirche In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
6. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Catholic Church of St. Josef In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
7. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): House of Encounters In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
8. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Catholic Parish Church Mariae Heimsuchung In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse