Heinrich Kiefer (architect)

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Heinrich Kiefer , also Heinz Kiefer , (born March 31, 1877 in Gummersbach ; † 1946 there ) was a German architect who lived and worked in Gummersbach. After studying at the building trade school in Cologne , he created villas and bourgeois houses, commercial and industrial buildings. He designed his buildings mainly in the modernized Empire and Baroque styles .

Buildings and designs

  • 1899–1900: Renovation and partly redesign and additions to the Oberberg Cathedral in Gummersbach
  • 1905–1908: Protestant parish hall in Gummersbach (demolished in 1985)
  • 1908: Administration building of the tubular steam boiler and machine factory L. & C. Steinmüller in Gummersbach, Fabrikstrasse
  • 1910: Town hall in Ründeroth , Rathausplatz 6 (converted, under monument protection)
  • 1911–1912: (Old) town hall in Hennef
  • 1912: House for Carl Hugo Steinmüller , called Haus Waldfried , in Gummersbach
  • 1912–1913: Hohenzollernbad in Gummersbach
  • 1913: Post office next to the old town hall in Hennef
  • 1913: Office building at the Basalt-Actien-Gesellschaft quarry in Lindlar
  • 1913: Villa for the Wollenweber family in Dieringhausen , Dieringhauser Straße 66
  • around 1920: House with outbuildings for the industrialist Otto Gehres in Bochum , Gudrunstraße 9
  • 1920–1922: Cooperative housing estate Körnerstraße in Gummersbach

literature

  • Jürgen Woelke: Heinrich Kiefer (1877–1946) - an architect who shaped the cityscape. In: Gerhard Pomykaj, Jürgen Woelke (Ed.): Gummersbacher in their time. The 19th and 20th Centuries in Biographies and Memories. Festschrift for the 900th anniversary of Gummersbach in 2009 (= contributions to the history of Gummersbach. Volume 6.) Gronenberg, Wiehl 2009, ISBN 978-3-88265-292-5 , pp. 99–110.
  • Landscape Association Rhineland , Rheinisches Industriemuseum Engelskirchen (ed.), Lothar Hammer: Beautiful living. The domicile of the factory owner (= writings of the Rheinisches Industriemuseum. Volume 6.) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, pp. 142–161.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Kiefer, Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 258 .
  2. "Out" for a house. (PDF; 25.4 MB).
  3. ^ Walter Buschmann: Röhrendampfkessel- und Maschinenfabrik L. & C. Steinmüller, Gummersbach, Fabrikstrasse ( history - the administration building rheinische-industriekultur.de).
  4. The old town hall in Ründeroth , accessed on August 8, 2013.
  5. Listed buildings in the municipality of Engelskirchen. , accessed February 14, 2016
  6. Hohenzollernbad received a table. , accessed August 8, 2013.
  7. in: 100 Years of the Historic Town Hall. , accessed August 8, 2013.
  8. The historic Steinhauerpfad ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 8, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lindlar.de
  9. ^ Akademie Brasil-Europa for cultural and scientific studies , accessed on August 13, 2013.
  10. ^ Gesellschaft Harmonie, Restaurant Herr B. on ruhr-bauten.de , accessed on August 8, 2013.
  11. Garden city idea in Gummersbach , August 8, 2013.