Herbert Groethuysen

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St. Karl Borromäus , Fürstenried Ost (Photo: 2011)

Herbert Groethuysen (born August 19, 1921 ; † before January 2, 2021, probably on December 30, 2020 ) was a German architect .

Life

Maßmannplatz dormitory development (Photo: 2008)
St. Mauritius, Munich (Photo: 2011)

After the Second World War, Groethuysen studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich . Together with Erik Braun, Wolfgang Fuchs, Gordon Ludwig, Jakob Semler and Werner Wirsing , he worked in the construction office of the Bavarian Youth Social Welfare Office in the 1950s with the aim of realizing modern architecture in social housing. An important project was the “ Maßmannplatz dormitory settlement for young workers and students ”, which was built between 1948 and 1951 in direct cooperation with the students and workers, initially without a building permit , but tolerated by the authorities and supported by the US occupation forces.

Then, together with Alexander von Branca , Groethuysen founded an architecture office which, among other things, built a monastery with a convent church Herz Jesu , the first reinforced concrete church in Munich, girls 'dormitory and day care center on Buttermelcherstraße and a servants ' convent on Herzogspitalstraße from 1953 to 1955 . From 1954 he realized residential buildings in Gauting , Grünwald , Planegg and Söcking , the Truderinger police station, social housing in Kleinhadern , Schwabing and on the Hasenbergl as well as the church of St. Borromäus in Fürstenried Ost .

From 1960 to 1973 he worked with Gernot Sachsse and Detlef Schreiber. The buildings from this period include the residential complex on Rondell-Neuwittelsbach, fire station 2, the institute for animal nutrition in Weihenstephan , the Catholic parish church of St. Mauritius in Moosach , apartments and supermarket in Neuperlach and the church of the Holy Family in Geretsried . The best known and most controversial, however, was the administration building of the Süddeutscher Verlag on Färbergraben, the “ Black House ”, whose inclusion in the list of monuments in 2007 was controversial, but has since been demolished.

At the end of the 1960s, he realized the Nuremberg Exhibition Center with Generalplanungsgesellschaft Plan GmbH, which he co-founded . In the 1970s he was involved in the renovation of the old town of Landsberg am Lech and, together with Joachim Böttinger and Werner Wirsing, in the new construction of exhibition hall 4 at Messe Frankfurt . In the 1990s he then built the parish church of St. Elisabeth in Haidhausen.

In 1953 Groethuysen was appointed to the German Werkbund . In 1958 he was appointed to the Association of German Architects .

The buildings of Groethuysen were photographed by the architectural photographer Sigrid Neubert .

In addition to Alexander von Branca, Erik Braun, Wolfgang Fuchs, Max Hoene , Gordon Ludwig, Hans Maurer , Theodor Müller, Sep Ruf , Jakob Semler, Gerd Wiegand and Werner Wirsing, Groethuysen was a member of the New Building Working Group in the German Werkbund Bayern.

The St. Mauritius Church Center in Moosach is an important brutalist building .

The Catholic parish church of St. Karl Borromäus in Fürstenried Ost has been included in the list of Bavarian architectural monuments .

Groethuysen died at the age of 99.

buildings

St. Mauritius, Munich (Photo: 2011)
St. Mauritius, Munich (Photo: 2015)
Herz-Jesu-Kloster, Munich (Photo: 2016)
Black House (Photo: 2007)

as a member of the architectural community Erik Braun, Gordon Ludwig, Wolfgang Fuchs, Herbert Groethuysen, Jakob Semler , Werner Wirsing :

as a member of the Groethuysen , Schreiber, Sachsse architectural community :

Honourings and prices

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catrin Lorch: Obituary Herbert Groethuysen - The International. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 1, 2021. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
  2. ↑ not proven reliable, see discussion
  3. ^ Museum of Photography. Retrieved July 21, 2020 .
  4. ^ Herbert Groethuysen | Munich in the picture. Retrieved July 21, 2020 .
  5. ^ History. Retrieved July 21, 2020 .
  6. ^ Munich-Isarvorstadt | Heart of jesus. Retrieved on July 21, 2020 (German).
  7. ^ German Post-War Modern - Church St Karl Borromäus (1962-64) in Munich, ... Accessed November 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Groethuysen, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1921
DATE OF DEATH before January 1, 2021