Heinz Dohmen

Heinz Dohmen (born August 23, 1934 in Heinsberg , Rhineland) is a German architect . From 1976 to 1999 he was diocesan master builder and cathedral master builder of the Ruhr diocese in Essen .

Life

From 1954 Dohmen studied architecture at RWTH Aachen , a. a. with Professors Hans Schwippert , Rudolf Steinbach , Erich Kühn , Willy Weyres and Anton Wendling , where he obtained his diploma in 1959. In 1974 he did his doctorate under Willy Weyres with a dissertation on the churches of Erftraum in the 19th century in the Bergheim , Grevenbroich and Neuss districts .

Heinz Dohmen was diocesan master builder and curator in the diocese of Essen from October 1, 1976 to September 30, 1999, and since 1984 also master builder of the cathedral. From 1981 to 2003 Dohmen was a lecturer at the University of Essen for building history and artistic techniques for architects (free drawing, watercolors and glass painting ). He gave guest lectures at the Universities of Bochum, Würzburg and Friborg (Switzerland). Heinz Dohmen has continued to work as a commercial artist , glass painter , calligrapher and study tour guide since his studies and holds lectures on numerous topics in the history of culture, art and construction as well as church tours throughout Western Europe. Heinz Dohmen was a participant and judge (also chairman) of numerous architecture and urban development competitions. He achieved prizes and placements in all categories, published publications and received teaching assignments in the field of church construction and world cultures.

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Buildings and designs

Secular buildings

In the years 1961 to 1975, while Dohmen was working as a freelance architect with his own office in Wassenberg , he created designs for around 180 objects of all kinds, mainly single and multi-family houses, numerous medical practices, commercial buildings, commercial and smaller industrial buildings, buildings for young people, Meeting places and exhibition pavilions, as well as renovations, conversions and monument preservation measures on church buildings as well as the Caritas Children's Village Jugendhof Franziska Schervier in Geilenkirchen , several of them due to competition successes.

New Church Buildings

• St. Hubertus in Krefeld (1959, transportable church, Dohmen's first church building)
• Holy Cross in Arnsberg (1973 ff. With Stephan and Ursula Legge, Bonn)
• St. Petrus Canisius in Werdohl-Eveking (1975, with Stephan and Ursula Legge, Bonn)
• St. Anno in Essen-Stoppenberg (1977, with Stephan and Ursula Legge, Bonn), since about 2008 Serbian Orthodox St. Stephen Church with iconostasis
• Ongoing construction and renovation work on Essen Cathedral 1975–1999
• Bishop's burial place at Essen Cathedral, so-called "Adveniatkrypta" (1981–1983, with Hans Straetmans and Emil Wachter )
• Church and chapel, 2 new buildings in the study house St. Altfrid, Essen-Kettwig, with Hans Straetmans and Ralf Meyers and the sister chapel in the Bischöfl. Vicariate General Essen (1980/1996)
• St. Anna in Rheinberg, (1983/2006) after competition success,
• two papal altars for John Paul II's visit to the diocese of Essen on May 2, 1987
  • at the Prosper-Haniel colliery in Bottrop under a conveyor stand,
  • in the Gelsenkirchen Parkstadion as a six-star island under a simulated, cross-bearing, high 4-pillar headframe in the center of the stadium
• from 1990 eight churches in northeast Brazil (regions Pedro Segundo, Sao-Joao-da-Fronteira, Cajueiro-da-Praia, all in Piaui, and the cathedral in Coroatà / Maranhao for Bishop Reinhard Pünder 1991-2001) and a small church Bali (near Denpasar, with his brother Father Christian Dohmen SVD ),

numerous church redesigns and refurbishments in the dioceses of Aachen, Essen, Münster and Paderborn as well as in north-east Brazil

• Drafts for 10 organ brochures: Essen-Werden St. Ludgerus (with Klais Bonn), Essen-Stoppenberg Karmelkirche (with Seifert Kevelaer), Essen-Borbeck St. Dionysius (with Seifert Kevelaer), Essen-Altendorf St. Clemens-Maria-Hofbauer ( with Rieger Austria), Essen-Mitte St. Engelbert (with Klais Bonn and DBM Kleffner), Bochum-Wattenscheid Propsteikirche (with Sauer Höxter), Gelsenkirchen-Scholven St. Josef (with Beckerath Hamburg), Gelsenkirchen-Ressermark St. Ida (with Stockmann Werl), Oberhausen-Styrum Our Lady (with Oberlinger Windesheim), Schwelm St. Marien (with Seifert Kevelaer).

Stained glass privately and in numerous churches and chapels (selection)

• Hagen-Vorhalle, Liebfrauen, (39 windows)
• Werdohl-Eveking, St. Petrus Canisius, (5 windows and 2 foyer glass walls)
• Dortmund-Kirchhörde, St. Patrokli, (9 windows)
• Dortmund-Eving, St. Marien, (8 ornamental windows and ribbon windows in the church rebuilt by Dohmen)
• Essen-Werden, Kardinal-Hengsbach-Haus (6 windows) & Chapel of the Kliniken-Süd, (4 windows)
• Essen-Holsterhausen, BMV School Essen - Room of Silence, (2 light walls)
• Essen-Stoppenberg, Collegiate Church Maria in der Not , (14 windows)
• Oberhausen-Sterkrade, St. Clemens, (large glass wall of baptisteries)
• Baesweiler b. Aachen, Mahnkapelle am Friedhof, (7 windows)

In addition, individual windows for numerous other churches, chapels and private clients from 1960 to 2010, a total of approx. 80 orders (see also the 20th / 21st century Mönchengladbach-Winkeln Glass Painting Foundation)

• Since special studies in Arabic calligraphy in 2014, increased work in own calligraphy.

Fonts

• Church buildings of the Erftraum in the 19th century (1800 - 1870) in the Bergheim, Grevenbroich and Mönchengladbach districts. Dissertation, Technical University of Aachen, Faculty of Construction, 1974.
• Image of the sky. 1000 years of church building in the diocese of Essen. Verlag Hoppe and Werry, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1977.
• So they built churches. 30 church building examples in the diocese of Essen. Ludgerus-Verlag, Essen 1981.
• Church. House of God and the Church. New churches in the diocese of Essen 1965–1992. Plöger, Annweiler / Essen 1992.
• together with Dirk Ansorge (Ed.): Raum und Transzendenz. Religious elements of modern architecture. Essen 1996.
• together with Eckhard Sons: churches, chapels, synagogues in Essen. Nobel, Essen 1998.
• Get to the bottom of life. Emil Wachter's Adveniat Crypt in the Essen Cathedral Church. Essen 2002.
• Food drawn. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89870-647-6 .
• Herz-Jesu-Kirche Bottrop. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2004, ISBN 978-3-89870-201-0 .
• Parish Church of Sankt Maximin, Koblenz-Horchheim. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-401-4 .
• Church of the Elisabeth Hospital in Essen. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-933784-92-6 .
• The St. Ludgerus Basilica in Essen-Werden. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89870-708-4 .
• Drawn European domes. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-95976-185-7 .

In addition, around 40 volumes with travel sketches from the author's travel guides and several artist biographies:

• Anne Marie Stoll-Rommerskirchen. Life and work. Geilenkirchen 1983.
• Ernst Rasche sculptor Mülheim 1926–1986. 1987.
• Hildegard Bienen Painter Sculptor Marienthal 1977–1990. Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen 1991.
• 15 church guides and around 200 specialist articles on church building, monument preservation, stained glass, world culture, travel, etc. v. a. m.
• For approx. 25 years official reporting from the annual cathedral master builder conference as a summary of all presentations in the respective documentation volume as well as in the specialist journal for church and art "Das Münster", illustrated with drawings or freehand sketches by the author.
• Other activities: Participation in exhibitions of drafts, drawings, watercolors, glass paintings, portraits and other things, artistic work coram publico at the Essen street festival for the 50th anniversary of the Essen diocese in 2008, at the architects' days in Bonn and Hanover, at the Essen-Werden Art Days every year from 2007 or at Werden still life 2012.
• Large retrospective of the author by the BDA in Essen on his 80th birthday Nov. - Dec. 2014 in the Kunstforum Essen - Kopstadtplatz
• Another major exhibition from August to December 2015 in the Kard.-Hengsbach - Haus Essen - Werden

Memberships

• Association of German Architects
• European Cathedral Builders Association V. ("honorary master builder" since 2005)
• Catholic Academic Association Germany
• Art association in the diocese of Essen (board member) until November 2015
• Münsterbauverein Essen
• Kunstring Folkwang Essen
• Rotary Club Essen-Süd (1980–2009, Paul Harris Fellow)
• CSL Communitas Sancti Ludgeri Essen-Werden (since 1977)

Web links

Commons : Heinz Dohmen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Heinz Dohmen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Food drawn by Heinz Dohmen