Heinrich Küster

This article deals with the architect, for the zoologist see Heinrich Carl Küster

Wilhelm E. Heinrich Küster (born August 16, 1870 in Hanover ; † July 1, 1956 in Görlitz ) was a German architect and construction clerk .

life and work

Küster came as the son of the painter Albert Küster and his wife Julie, b. Cordes, to the world. After graduating from high school, he studied architecture at the Royal Technical University of Hanover from 1890 to 1895 and later did his doctorate . He was appointed government builder ( Assessor of the building subject) and worked in the Prussian civil service in Elberfeld until 1899 . Until 1905 he was a municipal civil engineering inspector in Oberhausen , after which he moved to Breslau , where, in collaboration with Richard Plüddemann, he designed the room-defining reinforced concrete structure of the two municipal market halls no.1 built between 1906 and 1908 (Ritterplatz / Sandstrasse; preserved as a monument in its original use) and No. 2 (Friedrichstrasse; ruin destroyed in the war, demolished in 1973).

In 1909 he was appointed town planning officer to Görlitz and held this position as a full-time member of the magistrate for almost 24 years until 1933. During this time, the city ​​of Görlitz approached the big city mark (1910: approx. 88,000 inhabitants, 1930: approx. 94,000 inhabitants) and had to face the associated challenges of growing road traffic and the need for public facilities. Therefore developed sacristan to 1923 a modern development plan, which replaced the outdated "building code" of 1871 and where the construction classes (with determination of the allowable building height, the nature and degree of structural use) as well as the traffic management for the first time in the sense of modern urban land subordinate to Way was defined. He was also the author and co-author of several books and various specialist articles on urban planning.

Küster built several public buildings that shape the cityscape in Görlitz, such as B. the crematorium in the municipal cemetery and with other architects the building complex of the Oberrealschule and Reform- Realgymnasium in today's Carl-von-Ossietzky-Strasse and Lessingstrasse (1911–1913, today a vocational school center for economics and social affairs).

gallery

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  Interior and construction of market hall 1 in Wroclaw

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  Markthalle 1 - detailed solution

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  Market hall 2 under construction (1907)

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  Crematorium on Luthersteig in Görlitz

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  Vocational School Center Görlitz

Fonts (selection)

• The exposure of common rooms in the building codes. Karl Heymanns Verlag, Berlin 1908.
• The use of reinforced concrete in the Wroclaw market halls. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung . Supplementary sheet notices about cement, concrete and reinforced concrete construction. 6th year 1909, issue 8, pp. 34–36. (online as a PDF document)
• with Ewald Genzmer : Development plan and building regulations. German publishing house for people's welfare, Dresden 1917.
• with Georg Snay and Bruno Salomon (eds.): Görlitz. (= Monographs of German cities. Volume 13). Deutscher Kommunal-Verlag, Berlin-Friedenau 1925.

literature

• Jan Harasimowicz (Ed.): Encyklopedia Wrocławia . Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wroclaw 2006, ISBN 83-7384-561-5 , p. 436 (Polish).
• Karin Roth: Housing construction in Görlitz between the world wars . In: Ines-Ulrike Rudolph, Susanne Jaeger (ed.): Görlitz-Zgorzelec. Strategies without limits . 2007, ISBN 978-3-940046-12-3 , pp. 90–96 ( online ( memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 13.7 MB ; accessed on January 18, 2013]).
• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Degeners Who is it? 10th edition, Berlin 1935.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Küster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Photo of the grave of Küster in the Stadtwiki Görlitz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 19, 1899, No. 59 (from July 29, 1899) online , p. 353. (Dismissal from civil service mentioned in the section Official Communications )
2. ↑ Write some sources (e.g. Arkadiusz Dobrzyniecki: Hala Targowa, ul. Piaskowa 16. In: Atlas architektury Wrocławia. Tom I. Budowle sakralne, Świeckie budowle publiczne. Breslau 1997, ISBN 83-7023-592-1 .) These buildings were mistakenly assigned to the urban planning inspector Friedrich August Küster , possibly referring to an architect of the same name working in Cologne. In contrast, the press descriptions from the time of construction and a later published monograph on the market halls (Agnieszka Gryglewska: Wrocławskie hale targowe. 1908–2008. Breslau 2008, ISBN 978-83-89262-49-3 .) Show Heinrich Küster as an architect.