Heinz Stoffregen

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Heinz Stoffregen (center) with his wife Gesine and his brother in the architect's apartment in Bremen (1913)

Ludolf August Heinrich "Heinz" Stoffregen (born November 11, 1879 in Hanover ; † February 10, 1929 in Bad Tölz ) was a German architect who focused on the Bremen / Delmenhorst area . He was a member of the Association of German Architects and from 1910 until his death a member of the German Werkbund , where he was on the board of the Bremen-Oldenburg local association.

biography

Office stamp Stoffregens
Tomb of the Brockshus and Stoffregen families in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen

Stoffregen was born as the son of the building contractor Wilhelm August Konrad Stoffregen and his wife Louise Karoline, b. Isermann, born. Around 1897 he completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in his father's shop, from 1899 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover and moved to Bremerhaven in 1904 , where he lived at Fährstraße 15 and ran an architecture office together with Johannes Bertram . In 1905 he moved to Bremen into an apartment at Mozartstrasse 10, and first contacts with the Delmenhorst bourgeoisie developed. Between 1906 and 1908 he moved several times, first to Mathildenstraße 26, then to Sielwall 49 and Rembertistraße 99.

In 1908 Stoffregen married Gesine Brockshus. She was the daughter of the director of the ship engineering and sea mechanics school in Bremerhaven. The couple had three daughters together and in 1909 they moved into an apartment at Ostertorsteinweg 74/75 , where Stoffregen probably also worked. It was not until 1925 that drawing rooms and studios (Domshof 26–30) were listed separately.

Stoffregen was appointed to the German Werkbund in 1910, to which he belonged until his death in 1929. He was a member of the board of the Bremen-Oldenburg local association.

In the Bremen / Oldenburg area in particular, Stoffregen gained a reputation for the design of residential houses, factory buildings and public buildings. From 1915 to 1918 he lived and worked in Gerdauen ( East Prussia ), but remained registered in Bremen, and from 1926 he maintained an additional studio in Berlin (Hohenzollernstrasse).

Stoffregen was a co-founder of the conservative architects' association " Der Block ", which was founded in Saaleck (Thuringia) in early 1928 as a reaction to the avant-garde association " Der Ring ". In addition to Stoffregen, the founding members were German Bestelmeyer , Erich Blunck, Paul Bonatz , Albert Geßner, Paul Schmitthenner , Paul Schultze-Naumburg and Franz Seeck .

Stoffregen died in 1929 during a spa stay in Bad Tölz in the Oberlandklinik sanatorium . His body was cremated in Munich on February 14, 1929 , and the urn was buried on April 24, 1929 in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen. The city of Delmenhorst honored the architect by naming a street in the Tappenort district after him.

Works

buildings

Residential building Gildemeisterstraße 8, Bremerhaven
Hamburger Straße residential complex , civil servants housing association, Bremen

Stoffregen collected 1,904 first experience as an architect in the construction of a duplex house in Bremerhaven, then he built in 1905 in Delmenhorst a house for Health Board Hermann Coburg (1861-1934), the factory doctor of Nordwolle . The "Haus Coburg" is now owned by the city of Delmenhorst and houses the Delmenhorst Municipal Gallery . In 1908, Stoffregen took part in a competition for the expansion of Bahnhofstrasse in Delmenhorst and was invited to design two retail houses for this street.

In the architecture competition for the new building of the Delmenhorst town hall, which was endowed with 3,500 marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 21,000 euros) and whose deadline was December 15, 1908, the city received 51 entries, 15 of them in the shortlisted came. In the end, Stoffregen's design won tied with that of the competitor Gerrit Emmingmann from Berlin, but Stoffregen praised the design of the building and Emmingmann's “excellent design of the marketplace”. The city council decided in favor of Stofregen's building, but had to combine its design with Emmingmann's conception of the square.

For the exhibition of the German Werkbund in 1914, the Bremen-Oldenburg branch designed its own building. Stoffregen designed the tea room in this house, which was planned and executed by August Abbehusen & Otto Blendermann . At the exhibition, Stoffregen also showed his design for the Delmenhorst town hall in the “Urban Development” category.

Stoffregen designed several buildings for Delmenhorster Linoleum-Fabrik AG (“anchor brand”) between 1910 and 1912, including a factory building for Hansa-Linoleumwerke that was built in 1925 .

On January 26, 1915, “ Die Glocke ” was the victim of a major fire in Bremen. In 1919 an architectural competition was organized for the new building, for which Stoffregen submitted a design. Among other things, this provided for the preservation of the Gothic cloister , which had been spared from the fire, because modern architecture and monument protection should not contradict each other. Stoffregen won one of the six first prizes.

Nevertheless, the jury was not satisfied: Albert Hoffmann wrote in the Deutsche Bauzeitung : “The jury pronounced its verdict on this arrangement in such a way that it admitted that the cloister could have the largest possible dimensions by following the intended building line, but that this makes its shape too indefinite. "

Since the other designs did not convince the jury either, the award winners had to submit additional designs. In it, Stoffregen rejected his original design and offered a completely different solution. Ultimately, however, he was unable to prevail, the new building, which began in 1926, was based on a design by architect Walter Görig .

From 1915 onwards , during the First World War, Stoffregen participated in the reconstruction of villages in East Prussia that had been destroyed by the war . During the reconstruction of Gerdauen "he used mansard roofs , natural stone plinths and wooden dormers and created the image of a small town in southern Germany." In addition to this work, he continued to receive orders from the Bremen area at this time. In 1921 he created the memorial of the city of Stade for the fallen soldiers of the First World War on the Güldenstern bastion.

At the German Trade Show in Munich in 1922 , Bremen was represented by Stoffregen's Bremer Landhaus , the interior of which was designed by Rudolf Alexander Schröder .

In 1927 he took part in the architectural competition in Berlin for the construction of a new school complex on Schlichtallee / Fischerstraße in Berlin-Lichtenberg, which Max Taut won. In the same year Stoffregen won the first prize for his design (title: "The Sacrifice Thanks") for the Imperial Navy Memorial in Laboe . However, the prize was only formally awarded to him, as the selection committee preferred the design by the architect Gustav August Munzer (title: "Our Navy"), but the estimated construction costs of 500,000 Reichsmarks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 1,834,000 euros) far exceeded. However, the judges recommended that Munzer's draft be implemented in a simplified form, which then happened.

In Bremen, Stoffregen designed settlements of larger and smaller single-family houses , including on Großgörschenstrasse (1913–1914) and Paschenburgstrasse (1920), as well as the Hamburger Strasse residential complex of the civil servants' housing association built in 1929 , which has been declared a cultural monument. A U-shaped apartment block designed by Stoffregen in Berlin-Dahlem is also a listed building . The most important building of the last few years could no longer be completed by Stoffregen: The Horn Landhaus on Schwachhauser Heerstrasse was completed by Carl Eeg and Eduard Runge in 1929/1930 .

More buildings

  • 1904–1905: House Gildemeisterstraße 8 in Bremerhaven (under monument protection)
  • 1904–1905: House Gildemeisterstraße 10 / corner of Gartenstraße
  • 1911: Row houses of the building association in Delmenhorst, Schanzenstrasse
  • 1911: Rehfeld house, Bismarckstraße 98 in Delmenhorst (changed in 1989)
  • 1912: Machine hall of the Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke AG in Nordenham
  • 1921: Memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First World War in the city of Stade on the Güldenstern Bastion
  • 1925: Brick advertising tower on the Bremen station forecourt (later: "Opelturm", demolished in 1967)
  • 1928: Residential development Binger Strasse 18–20 / Eberbacher Strasse 24–30 / Schlangenbader Strasse 80/81 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf (under monument protection)

Applied arts and design

Linoleum design from fabric rain

In addition to designing buildings, Stoffregen also dealt with the design of surfaces for linoleum for the Delmenhorst linoleum-Fabrik AG (today: German linoleum plants ), he also designed coach - Limousine for Delmenhorster Wagenfabrik Carl Tönjes AG in Delmenhorst.

Stoffregen also designed furniture and interior fittings, for example benches for the hallways and the furniture for the wedding room in the Delmenhorst town hall that he designed. He also made the windows of the town hall. He also designed the interior fittings for some of the houses he designed. See the list of Delmenhorster buildings.

Quotes

"He was one of the first to give the functional building the form it deserves, a form born purely from the conditions"

- Albert Gessner : in the obituary for rain of substances

List of Delmenhorster buildings

House Coburg, Delmenhorst, seen from the courtyard. Designed in 1905
Delmenhorst town hall. Designed in 1908
Delmenhorst market hall. Designed in 1909, as it was after renovation in 2015

Stoffregen had a particularly extensive effect in Delmenhorst, and his work in this city is well documented. The following is a chronology of his Delmenhorst projects:

1905:

  • House Coburg, Fischstraße (top floor changed due to renovation, originally white color, garden removed due to road construction), interior design

1908:

  • Draft of the town hall complex

1909:

  • Start of construction of the water tower

1910:

  • Drying and oxidizing houses of Linoleumwerke Ankermarke (demolished)
  • Completion of the water tower (unchanged)
  • Commercial building at Bahnhofstrasse 39 (ground floor completely changed, new painting)
  • Design for small owner houses
  • Design for a rural workers' house
  • Start of construction of the fire station (water tower construction)

1911:

  • Storage shed of the linoleum works anchor brand (demolished)
  • Employee settlement of the linoleum works Ankermarke, Linoleumstraße (slight modernizations by the house owners)
  • Rehfeld House, Bismarckstraße 98 (changed by renovation in 1989)
  • Terraced houses of the Delmenhorster Bauverein, Schanzenstrasse (heavily changed due to modernization)
  • Commercial building Freese / Kappler, Lange Straße 106 (shop window front modernized in 1989)

1912:

  • Bretthauer house and restaurant, Lange Straße 23 (ground floor completely changed), interior design
  • Design for workers' houses
  • Construction of the town hall begins
  • Limousine designs for Delmenhorster Wagenfabrik (until 1914)

1914:

  • Villa Oekermann, Oldenburger Straße 136 (demolished), interior
  • Completion of the town hall (almost unchanged), interior decoration
  • Commercial building at Bahnhofstrasse 4 (ground floor and color scheme changed)
  • Design for a high rack system for Linoleumwerke Ankermarke

1919:

  • Market hall (arcade demolished, shop fittings, original condition only from the outside)

1922:

  • Residential house Bismarckstraße 87 (extensions, otherwise original)
  • Residential building Bismarckstraße 88 (demolished)
  • House at Bismarckstraße 89 (well preserved)
  • Semi-detached houses for the linoleum works Ankermarke, Schanzenstraße (Stoffregen's authorship only assumed, greatly changed)

1925:

  • Drying hall Linoleumwerke "Hansa" (demolished)
  • Cenotaph at the town hall (completely rebuilt)
  • War ceremony in the factory yard of the linoleum works anchor mark (not preserved)
  • Tax office (in good condition, gable attachment missing)

literature

  • Nils Aschenbeck : Heinz Stoffregen 1879–1929. Architecture between tradition and avant-garde. Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-528-08746-3 .
  • Nils Aschenbeck: Heinz Stoffregen. Work and importance of a Bremen architect. In: Yearbook of the Lower Saxon People's Association 1987. Bremen 1987.
  • Nils Aschenbeck: Heinz Stoffregen - country houses in the industrial city. In: "Primarily house building ..." Heinrich Vogeler and the Bremen reform architects. Oldenburg 2002. (= New Series of Barkenhoff Foundation , Volume 1.)
  • Nils Aschenbeck: clinker art. Fritz Höger and colleagues in Delmenhorst. Oldenburg 2001. (= Handbook of Delmenhorster Monuments , 1.)
  • Gerhard Kaldewei, Birgit Lohstroh: Departure into the modern age. The Delmenhorst town hall by the Bremen architect Heinz Stoffregen 1908/1925. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-393-0 .
  • Hermann Fitger: Stoffregen, Heinz. In: Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Bremen 1969.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Nils Aschenbeck: Heinz Stoffregen 1879–1929. Architecture between modern and avant-garde. Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-528-08746-3 .
  2. a b c d Hermann Fitger in: Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Verlag H. M. Hauschild , Bremen 1969, p. 480.
  3. a b Archive information of the State Archive Bremen from June 16, 2010.
  4. ^ Information from the Museum of Things , Deutscher Werkbund, from June 21, 2010.
  5. a b Leichenbuch Bremen 1929, p. 219, accessed on August 22, 2015
  6. Information from the Bremen State Archives
  7. a b Departure into the modern age. The Delmenhorst town hall by the Bremen architect Heinz Stoffregen. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003.
  8. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , 42nd year of August 8, 1908, note on the competition announcement
  9. ^ Report of the commission elected to examine the question of the inadequacies of town halls. In: Delmenhorster Kreisblatt from January 16, 1909.
  10. ^ Information from the Museum of Things , Deutscher Werkbund, June 21, 2010.
  11. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung, December 17, 1919, p. 597.
  12. Gunnar Strunz: Discover Königsberg. Between Memel and fresh lagoon. Trescher Verlag, p. 237.
  13. ^ Archive information from the Deutscher Marinebund e. V.
  14. Frank Hethey: A globe as a late coronation - the “Opelturm” opened 60 years ago , in: Weser-Kurier , July 9, 2015
  15. ^ Gerhard Kaldewei (ed.): Linoleum - history, design, architecture 1882–2000. 2000, ISBN 3-7757-0962-2 , p. 18.
  16. ^ Information from the Delmenhorst City Archives, June 14, 2010.
  17. Information on the website of the city of Delmenhorst  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.delmenhorst.de  
  18. ^ Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , February 1929.
  19. ^ Archive information from the city of Delmenhorst.