Johannes Baltzer (architect)

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Johannes Baltzer

Johannes Richard Baltzer (born December 4, 1862 in Bielefeld , † June 25, 1940 in Lübeck ) was a German architect , town planner , construction officer and monument conservator in Lübeck. He designed a large number of public buildings there in the years after 1900.

Life

After completing his studies, Baltzer worked briefly in Berlin , Bartenstein , Osnabrück and Plön . Coming from Plön, where he headed the new building of the grammar school as a government architect, he joined the Lübeck civil service as a building inspector on July 1, 1898 . There he had a decisive influence on building construction in the city and rural districts for over three decades . In that position, he first carried out several buildings and carefully designed them architecturally down to the last detail. These included the navigation school, the Marli barracks , the IV and V St. Lorenz School and the Warmbadehaus in Travemünde .

Baltzer succeeded the building director Schaumann , who had moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1903, and thus took the lead in the building construction industry, which was then rapidly developing. This was later to be joined by the management of civil engineering and horticulture .

Aware of the duties of a senior official , he limited himself from then on to influencing himself on a large scale and left the individual processing to the younger employees he had selected - Max Meyer, Mühlenpfordt and Virck . However, since Baltzer was always involved in all essential points, all the state buildings built in his years were of an unusually high artistic rank. His style has been described as a mixture of homeland security architecture with Art Nouveau elements. Examples of these are the Ernestinenschule (1904), the Johanneum (1906), the double school in St. Gertrud (1905), the officers' mess (1906), the main fire station (1906), the Strecknitz sanatorium , administration building in Travemünde, church and school in Kücknitz , expansion of the city ​​library (1927), exhibition hall at the Holstentor, Se Grenz slaughterhouse, etc.

The Lübeck building industry was promoted in a special way by Baltzer, because he put through competitions for buildings in special places, such as the Burgtorzingel , the theater , the Volkshaus, the Holstenbrücke or the St. Gertrud Church , and ensured that besides The local architects who were brought in primarily from outside the city were those who had grown up in Lübeck.

Given the abundance of old art possessions, the preservation of monuments was of course close to his heart. Lübeck owes him an exemplary organization of the preservation of monuments on the basis of a monument protection law (1915), which gave him decisive influence as a carer. With his participation, the Schabbelhaus and the conversion of the St. Anne's Monastery into a museum , the conversion of the wool magazine , the conversion of the church in Nusse and the restoration of the eastern front of the Lübeck town hall were built . At the meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities on November 9, 1915, the award of the silver medal to Hans Schaefer , Rudolf Struck and himself was subsequently approved on the occasion of the opening of the Museum of Cultural History.

In the field of urban development, the development plans of all settlements, playgrounds, open-air theater, the Schrangen project, cemetery facilities and the organization of housing construction should be noted.His last job as chief building director was the general settlement plan in 1928 after the war .

On August 1, 1929, Hans Pieper Baltzer , who had been a senior building officer in the Hanseatic city since 1927, became his successor.

In Lübeck there was initially a place in the Dornbreite settlement, settlement area from 1932, until around the mid-1970s named after Johannes Baltzer, who has meanwhile been de-dedicated and built with multi-family houses. A street in the university district has recently been named after him.

  • Works (selection)

  • Navigation school

  • Warm bathing establishment in Travemünde

  • V. St. Lorenz School

  • Marli barracks

  • Officers' mess

  • Ernestine School

  • Johanneum

  • Main fire station

Fonts

  • The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck / vol. 3, part 1. The church in Old Lübeck; Lübeck Cathedral in 1919
  • The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck / vol. 3, part 2. Jakobikirche; Aegidien Church , Lübeck 1919
  • The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck / Vol. 4. The monasteries [u. a.] , 2001, unchanged. Reprint [of the edition] Lübeck, Nöhring, 1928

literature

Web links

Commons : Johannes Baltzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gymnasium Schloss Plön ( Memento of the original from November 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 52598852.de.strato-hosting.eu
  2. ↑ Pestalozzi School ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kinderwege.de
  3. ↑ Luther School
  4. ↑ Marli School ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schule-marli.lernnetz.de
  5. ↑ A new theater building commission was formed to rebuild the theater. In this Commission were from the Senate , the senators Johann Hermann Eschenburg , Eugen Emil Arthur Kulenkamp and Julius proliferating and from the citizens' committee John Daniel Benda , August Sartori (educator) , Blunck, Heinrich Goertz , HW Behn, HL Ms Stender and Hermann Otte selected. Meyer, Ernst Wittern and Buchwald became substitutes . In addition, building director Baltzer and building officer Eugen Deditius were on the commission. The new building laws of 1919, the preparatory work of which went back to 1906, were Deditius' main work in later times. In addition to Karl von Großheim , Baltzer was on the jury and also voted for the design by the foreign architect Martin Dülfer .
  6. ^ Society for the promotion of charitable activities. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 80, number 46, edition of November 14, 1915, p. 666
personal data
SURNAME Baltzer, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baltzer, Johannes Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, town planner, building officer and monument conservator in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1940
Place of death Lübeck