Heinrich Latz

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Johann Heinrich Latz (born May 9, 1912 in Saarwellingen , † 1989 in Saarbrücken ) was a German architect and Ministerialrat from Saarland .

Life

From April 1931 to July 1936 Heinrich Latz studied architecture at the Technical University in Darmstadt , then until July 1937 in Freiburg im Breisgau . Here he then took up his first professional activity. From September to December 1937 he worked in Munich , then until March 1938 in Bayreuth . On December 31, 1938, he married Marianne Glückert. The marriage had eight children. Heinrich Latz's eldest son is the landscape architect and university professor Peter Latz .

From April 1938 to October 1940 Latz was employed in an architectural office in Trier . During the Second World War , Latz was evacuated from December 1944 to July 1945 in Wustweiler and the Odenwald . Then he lived again in his birthplace Saarwellingen. After the war he worked as a freelance architect. With the Saarwellingen-based architect Toni Laub, Latz led an architectural association in Saarwellingen until the end of the 1950s.

Latz und Laub had won the competition for the reconstruction of the Saarland district town Saarlouis, which had been badly destroyed by US artillery fire in 1948 . In the years that followed, the first six winners of the competition got together to implement the Latz und Laub plan. The first phase of construction was on Französische Strasse. In the years 1949–1951, Latz and Laub built blocks of houses on both sides of the street, consisting of three-story residential and commercial buildings with protruding rows of shops on the ground floor and an atrium on the first floor. The construction phase on Deutsche Straße began in 1951. The reconstruction was based on the chessboard-like floor plan of the fortress city designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban . Latz and foliage widened the streets, enlarged the squares and provided them with courtyard-like interior surfaces. One of the basic prerequisites for the uniformity of the new inner city facility was that the individual plots could be combined and rearranged through levy without expropriation proceedings. The redevelopment of the Saarlouis city center is considered one of the special achievements of the reconstruction in Saarland after the Second World War. The inner city ensemble built by Latz und Laub is under monument protection as a "cultural monument core city Saarlouis".

Subsequently, Latz was successively head of the state building construction offices in Merzig , then in Saarlouis , in Merzig and then again in Saarlouis. After working for the State Building Authority in Saarbrücken, he moved back to Saarlouis, where he also lived from 1955 to 1968. After moving to the structural engineering office in Merzig, Latz was appointed Ministerialrat in Saarbrücken in 1963, where he also lived from 1968. In 1974 he resigned from the state authority and became the manager of a planning association. Heinrich Latz died in Saarbrücken in 1989.

Works

literature

Lutz Hauck: Saarlouis after the zero hour, Reconstruction between tradition and modernity (Schriften des Landkreis Saarlouis, Vol. 3), St. Ingbert 1998.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Peter (born October 19, 1939); Hans Benno (October 16, 1940); Maria Margarete (July 5, 1942); Martin Viktor (April 23, 1944); Maria Regine (June 4, 1946); Anton Michael (July 5, 1948); Christoph Peter (November 6, 1949); Marianne (December 5, 1952)
  2. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacral Buildings of Classicism and Historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, p. 387.
  3. ↑ Roland Henz u. Jo Enzweiler (ed.): Saarlouis Stadt und Stern / Sarrelouis - Ville et Étoile, text: Oranna Dimmig, translation into French: Anne-Marie Werner, Saarbrücken 2011, pp. 162–167.
  4. ↑ Biographical information according to: LATZ + PARTNER, landscape architects, urban planners; www.latzundpartner.de/
  5. ↑ Oranna Dimmig: Saarlouis City and Star / Sarrelouis - Ville et Étoile, ed. by Roland Henz u. Jo Enzweiler, translation into French: Anne-Marie Werner, Saarbrücken 2011, pp. 54–55.
personal data
SURNAME Latz, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Latz, Johann Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and Saarland ministerial advisor
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarwellingen
DATE OF DEATH 1989
Place of death Saarbrücken