Karl Trahn

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St. Johannis in Hamburg-Harburg

Karl Trahn (born August 12, 1889 in Gangerschild near Süderbrarup , † April 24, 1964 in Hamburg ) was a German architect .

Life

Karl Trahn studied painting at the applied arts college in Flensburg and at the art schools in Königsberg and Munich. He initially worked as a draftsman in the office of the Harburg architect Heinrich Fischer . After the First World War, the autodidact began to work independently as an architect. As early as 1928, Trahn had an office in what is today in Kirchenallee in Hamburg-St. George. According to other sources, Trahn founded his own architectural office in 1932. In 1956, Einhart Hölscher joined Trahn as a partner . Hölscher had studied with Egon Eiermann and Otto Ernst Schweizer at the TH Karlsruhe and had been with Trahn since 1949. Trahn & Hölscher mainly engaged in housing and savings bank construction, later their activity increasingly shifted to industrial architecture. Together with Hölscher, Trahn won several architecture competitions that were advertised in Hamburg as part of the reconstruction after the Second World War. In 1952, together with William Zwinscher, he received first prize in the competition for the "Hochbahnschleife" area in Barmbek , in which 76 architects took part, which they realized together with other architects. Trahn also received third prize in the competition for 1,500 new apartments in the “Aßmann Canal” project in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, together with others .

At the time of its creation, Trahn's design for the Johanniskirche in Harburg was controversial . In terms of art history, it marks the “breakthrough in modern sacred architecture” in Hamburg. The interior design in particular was later praised. As one of the few new church buildings, the Johanniskirche was described in detail in the magazine “dasbeispiel” compiled by BdA members in 1956 . In his book "The Church of the 20th Century in Germany", Hugo Schnell certified the building's style-forming power.

Buildings and designs

Heinrich-Traun-Strasse 48
  • 1924: Former Neugraben local office, Cuxhavener Str. 192
  • 1927: Uhlenbusch House, Hanstedt (demolished 2014)
  • 1928: Mortuary at Harburg New Cemetery
  • 1928–1933: Three single-family houses (now listed) on Heinrich-Traun-Strasse in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel
  • 1929: Paul Gerhardt parish hall, Harburg-Wilhelmsburg (abandonment and demolition planned)
  • 1932: Hamburg-Ochsenwerder parish hall (originally in connection with a branch of the Hamburger Sparkasse)
  • 1950/51: Friedrich-Naumann-Straße settlement, Hamburg (with Dyrssen & Averhoff)
  • 1952 to 1962: Settlement on the Aßmann Canal Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg (with Ernst and Heinz Dorendorf, Friedrich and Ingeborg Spengelin, Sprotte & Neve)
  • 1952–1958: Participation in the construction of the Hochbahnschleife settlement in Hamburg-Barmbek
  • 1953: St. Johannis Church in Hamburg-Harburg
  • 1956: Administrative building of the municipal "Deutsche Wohnungsbaugesellschaft mbH Harburg", Knoopstr. 35/37, Hamburg
  • 1957: Hamburger Sparcasse from 1827, Altona branch (today Haspa, remodeled and disguised)
  • 1958/59: Denickestraße Hamburg-Heimfeld (Trahn & Hölscher, Otto Kindt, Friedrich & Ingeborg Spengelin)
  • 1960 Production halls, office building Koebers Eisenhütte (today Harburg-Freudenberger) Alte Seevestrasse, Hamburg
  • 1962: Kreuzkirche in Lüneburg
  • 1964/65: Single-family houses in Eißendorfer Grenzweg, Hamburg-Marmstorf (today Hamburg-Eißendorf)

Web links

Commons : Karl Trahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publications of the Helms-Museum , issue 23, Helms-Museum, 1988, p. 102
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ^ Lennart Hellberg, Heike Albrecht, Heino Grunert: Harburg and surroundings, monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, Hamburg 1999, p. 357 with further references.
  4. ^ Ralf Lange : Hamburg - reconstruction and new planning 1943–1963, Königstein, 1994, p. 329, with further references
  5. ^ Letter from the building police dated September 8, 1928 "(Karl Trahn = architect in Hamburg, Hamburg, 65, Kirchenallee 23)"
  6. ↑ Website of the Brunke + Partner office, successor office of Trahn & Hölscher ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2005 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.brunke-partner.de
  7. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: View in urban planner's drawer , January 22, 1952, p. 3 (accessed December 1, 2014)
  8. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: View father and son at the top , January 21, 1953, p. 3 (accessed December 1, 2014)
  9. ↑ Ralf Lange: Hamburg - Reconstruction and new planning 1943–1963, Königstein, 1994, p. 260
  10. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2012 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 / ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de
  11. ↑ Hamburg and his buildings, 1918–1929, Hamburg 1929, p. 323, with correction slip, there reference to Karl Trahn
  12. ↑ Info on the cemetery
  13. ↑ architekturarchiv-web.de (accessed on December 1, 2014)
  14. ↑ website of the parish  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: 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.kreuzkirche-lueneburg.de  
personal data
SURNAME Trahn, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trahn, Karl Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Gang shield at Süderbrarup
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1964
Place of death Hamburg