Heinrich Rosskotten

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Heinrich Rosskotten (also written Roßkotten , Roskothen or Roskotten ; born May 29, 1886 in Dortmund , † June 5, 1972 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect .

Life

Rosskotten studied at the Technical University of Munich with August Thiersch and at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg with Professors Wolf, Felix Genzmer and Christoph Hehl . During his studies he became a member of the Academic Association Motiv .

After completing his studies, he first joined the Prussian State Building Administration and in 1913 transferred to the Reich Service as a government master builder. During the First World War he was responsible for building airships and hangars in the Prussian War Ministry. In 1920 Roskotten was appointed head of the Reichsbauverwaltung. In cooperation and a. with Peter Behrens and German Bestelmeyer he built buildings in various European countries on behalf of the Foreign Office.

From 1921 Rosskotten became gradually self-employed and settled in Düsseldorf as a partner of Fritz August Breuhaus , with whom he ran a joint architecture office until 1927. The office planned and implemented some colliery buildings and settlements for the Rheinisch-Westfälische coal and steel industry. Finally, in 1923, he resigned from civil service with the rank of government building officer. With Karl Wach (later professor of architecture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy ), Roskotten ran a joint, productive architects' firm from 1928 to 1947. Roskotten also worked as a teacher at the School of Applied Arts in Prague . From 1947 to 1957 he worked alone, and from 1958 he worked very successfully with Prof. Edgar Tritthart (1909–1992) and architect Josef Clemens .

In addition, after the Second World War , from 1948 to 1952, Rosskotten was the first chairman of the BDA regional group in North Rhine-Westphalia and thus a member of the Presidium of the Association of German Architects (BDA) . 1953 awarded him the RWTH Aachen , the honorary doctorate .

Buildings and designs

1921–1927 with Fritz August Breuhaus

  • 1923–1924: Conversion of the Hardy & Co. GmbH bank in Berlin, Markgrafenstrasse 36 / Taubenstrasse 19 (not preserved)
    The Hardy & Co. bank, founded in 1880/1881, moved into a building on Gendarmenmarkt built by Heinrich Theising in 1906 , the exterior of which was only slightly changed during the renovation. The house was badly damaged during World War II, but large parts of it could be repaired. After 1990, the remaining part of the building was demolished and replaced by the margrave block from 1994–1996 .
  • 1923–1925: Administration and bank building of the mining company “Lothringen” and Westfalenbank AG in Bochum , Huestraße 23
    changed after war damage; Extension buildings 1958/1959 by the architects Suter & Suter (Basel)
  • 1924–1926: Nurses home for the Lazarus hospital and deaconess house in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen , Bernauer Strasse 118 (with O. Rüger), under monument protection
  • 1925: Conversion of the former Hotel Monopol into an office building, Berlin, Friedrichstrasse 100

1928–1947 with Karl Wach

Allianz, Cologne
Former Allianz and Stuttgarter Lebensversicherungsbank in Berlin, today part of Quartier 110 on Friedrichstrasse
  • 1928–1930: Coking plant of Pattberg shafts I / II in ( Moers -) Repelen
  • 1929: Reinforced concrete grain silos of the Wheat Mill Plange in the Düsseldorf harbor, Weizenmühlenstraße
  • 1929–1930: Parish hall of the Evangelical Kreuzkirchen parish in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort, Collenbachstrasse
  • 1930–1931: Protestant Matthäikirche with rectory and parish hall in Düsseldorf-Düsseltal, Lindemannstrasse 70 (under monument protection)
  • 1931–1933: Office building of Allianz and Stuttgarter Verein Versicherungs-AG in Cologne , Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 31–41
  • 1937: Residence for "Director Sch." In Düsseldorf
  • 1937–1943: Allianz and Stuttgarter Lebensversicherungsbank AG building in Berlin, Mohrenstrasse 53–61 (executed by A. Boumann), renovations around 1950 and 1991
  • 1938–1940: Walzstahlhaus office building in Düsseldorf, Kasernenstrasse 36
  • 1940–1941: Administration building of the Robert Zapp company in Düsseldorf, Bleichstrasse (demolished in 2007)

After 1947

  • 1951: Building for the Rheinisch-Westfälische Bank AG in Düsseldorf
  • 1951/1952: House of the NRW Bank for Community Economy in Düsseldorf (with Helmut Funkhänel , Robert Kuhlen , Josef Clemens, Heinrich Kleiner )
  • 1952/1953: Rhein-Ruhr Bank in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt (most recently Dresdner Bank)
  • 1952/1953: Reconstruction of the Koch department store in Düsseldorf am Wehrhahn (with Hermann Wenner , Hans Noethlich , Heinrich Fricke , Rupert Wach)
  • 1953/1954: David-Hansemann-Haus in Düsseldorf, Poststrasse 5 (guest house and training center of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Bank AG )
  • 1954: Zurich-Haus der Zürich-Versicherung in Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-Allee 12 (with Rupert Wach , Robert Kuhlen, Wolf Kirchhoff , Artur Karstein , Walter Clausnitzer ), concrete-glass architecture
  • 1954: Bernhard Blanke bank in Düsseldorf (with Josef Clemens, Franz Haasen , Ernst W. Langer , Horst Müller , Heinz Seibel )
  • 1954: Bankhaus Poensgen, Marx & Co. in Düsseldorf (with Robert Kuhlen, Josef Clemens, Franz Haasen, Bruno Manze ) (client: Bernhard Blanke)
  • Competition design 1955, executed 1956–1966: Stadttheater in Dortmund, Platz der alten Synagoge / Hansastraße (with Josef Clemens, Edgar Frasch , Edgar Tritthart)
  • 1956: Competition design for the new headquarters of Phoenix-Rheinrohr AG in Düsseldorf (not carried out)
  • 1956/1957: Rhein-Main-Halle in Wiesbaden (with Edgar Tritthart), on the site of the former Taunus train station
    built under the direction of the Wiesbaden city building councilor Simon; The construction costs amounted to about ten million DM, which were raised by a private company, consisting of companies from the private sector and the state capital. This company is also the operator of the hall complex, which was one of the most modern congress and exhibition centers in the Federal Republic of Germany when it opened on April 27, 1957. The congress hall had around 3000 seats and an exhibition area of ​​up to 8000 square meters. In addition, six meeting rooms were available for 30 to 700 people. Around 2000 guests attended the official inauguration, during which the then Prime Minister of Hesse, Georg August Zinn , described the project as a “milestone on the path to recovery” for Wiesbaden. After a number of extensions, the Rhein-Main-Hallen had more than doubled the space available over the decades by the end of 2007. They now had a total of thirteen halls and halls of various sizes with a total area of ​​around 20,000 square meters. (Demolished in 2014)
  • 1956–1958: Protestant Church of the Redeemer in Hilden , St.-Konrad-Allee
  • 1956–1961: RWTH Aachen University, Civil Engineering (with Edgar Tritthart, R. Fingscheidt, Hermann Kompelscheck , K. Hack)
  • 1958: Competition design for the town hall in Neuss (2nd place, not executed)
  • 1963: Arrival hall at Düsseldorf Airport in Düsseldorf-Lohausen (with Edgar Tritthart, Josef Clemens)
  • 1965: Town hall in Hagen (with Edgar Tritthart and Adam Wiehl ) (demolished)
  • 1967: Commerzbank AG bank building in Bielefeld (with Joachim Schiel, Edgar Tritthart)
  • from 1969: overall planning for the new construction of the Düsseldorf airport (with Edgar Tritthart, Joachim Schiel , in cooperation with the planning group NV NACO (The Hague) under the direction of Gerhard Possekehl)
  • 1970: Commerzbank AG building in Düsseldorf

such as

  • undated: Building for Deutsche Bank AG in Osnabrück (with Edgar Tritthart, L. Schiel)
  • undated: Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf
  • n.d.: Entrance hall of the Düsseldorf industrial club

Rosskotten carried out other buildings for the Foreign Office in Prague, Copenhagen, Paris, The Hague, Barcelona and Warsaw, and he also took part in the competition for the German School in Barcelona.

Fonts

  • Builder and architect. Task and responsibility. In: The Architect, 1955, no. 12, p. 506ff.
  • Essence and character of the free occupation. In: The architect 1956, H. 7/8, p. 291.

literature

  • Luigi Monzo: Building churches in the Third Reich. The inversion of the church's renewal dynamics using the example of the St. Canisius Church in Augsburg designed by Fritz Kempf. In: Das Münster - magazine for Christian art and art history, 68. 2015/1 (April), pp. 74–82.
  • Tilo Richter: The aesthetic business: the architect Fritz August Breuhaus as a publicist. Dissertation ETH Zurich 2008.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 38.
  2. ↑ Description of the building at Luise-Berlin
  3. ↑ Architecture database ruhr-bauten.de
  4. ↑ Modern designs , 1930, no.11.
  5. ↑ Modern designs , 1930, no. 11, p. 504.
  6. ↑ Mentioned in an article about area monuments in NRW .
  7. ↑ Modern designs , 1930, no. 11, p. 513.
  8. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , 1933, issue 40.
  9. ^ Hiltrud Kier , Werner Schäfke : The Cologne rings . History and splendor of a street. 2nd Edition. Vista Point , Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-88973-066-3 , p. 21 .
  10. ↑ Berlin list of monuments: Allianz and Stuttgart life insurance banks
  11. ^ City information of the WAZ of October 12, 2011
  12. ↑ Last Minute Specials until closing - How Wiesbaden is fighting for its (congress) future ... ( Memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Uli Schmidt: Hilden: Erlöserkirche is 50 years. Rheinische Post, April 25, 2008, accessed on March 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Rosskotten, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1972
Place of death Dusseldorf