Klaus Groth (architect)

Klaus Groth (born July 1, 1893 in Pinneberg ; † December 19, 1979 there ) was a German architect . Around 800 buildings in the Pinneberg district were built based on his designs .

biography

Groth did an apprenticeship as a carpenter and studied at the building trade school in Hamburg . From 1913 he attended the Technical University of Darmstadt , but was then drafted as a soldier in the First World War and was only able to continue his studies in 1917. He later returned to Pinneberg and began his professional activity in the 1920s. In the course of his professional life, single and multi-family houses, commercial buildings, administrative buildings, youth hostels, a swimming pool, schools and churches were built in the Pinneberg district according to his plans.

Groth had been a member of the Association of German Architects since 1920 .

Architectural styles

The changing architectural trends from the 1920s to the period of reconstruction after the Second World War are reflected in Groth's buildings . Many of his early designs are influenced by Heimatschutz architecture, from the mid-1920s onwards there are increasing forms of New Building , such as those developed at the Bauhaus in Dessau. In the house with doctor's practice in Elmshorn from 1930/1931 this style is realized in its purest form.

During National Socialism, Groth turned back to homeland security architecture. During the Second World War and immediately afterwards, he was involved in the reconstruction of destroyed buildings.

Buildings designed by Klaus Groth

Building	Location	description	Construction year	image
Residential building	Pinneberg, Schillerstraße 12	Single-storey, gable-independent brick house with gable roof , decorative masonry	1919
Gut Eichenhof	Pinneberg, Rellinger Str. 37-39	Manor house with portico in colossal order , two parallel farm buildings. The client was the Hamburg shipowner Spethmann. Today retirement home.	1921
House Groth	Pinneberg, Bismarckstrasse. 10	Klaus Groth's house Single house with a crooked roof , extended in 1934 Not preserved	1922
Friedrichsgabe school	Friedrichsgabe, Pestalozzi-Str. 5	Two-storey building with hipped roof and side extensions, entrance portal with decorative gable	1924
youth hostel	Büsum		1924
Villa Wuppermann	Pinneberg, Fahltskamp 34 a	Single storey brick building with mansard hipped roof Remise later converted into living space Client: Dr. Herman Wupperman	1925
Haidkamp houses	Pinneberg, Haidkamp 18-32	Building group in the style of garden city architecture Two semi-detached houses and a four-family house, originally apartments for district officials	1926
Borstel-Hohenraden school	Borstel-Hohenraden, Quickborner Str. 99	Two-storey brick building with hipped roof, gabled central dormer window with clock	1927
House Boyksen	Pinneberg, Bismarckstrasse. 12		1928
Dany villa	Uetersen, Großer Sand 95	Two-storey brick building with a hipped roof, natural stone base, two flat cantilevers	1928
AOK building with swimming pool	Uetersen, Kleiner Sand 51-53	Clinker brick building with Bauhaus elements Originally administration of the local health insurance fund with the first swimming pool in the district. First major building in Groth	1928
Bauernmühle at Pinnauhafen	Uetersen	Six-storey clinker building with Bauhaus elements Foundation on reinforced concrete piles Client: Schleswig-Holstein Farmers' Association	1928
Pinneberg District Hospital	Pinneberg, Fahltskamp 74	Five-storey building with flat roof, south facade with continuous balcony strips. Due to numerous renovations, the original condition can no longer be recognized.	1931
Niendorf house	Pinneberg, Oeltingsallee 9	Two-storey clinker brick building with a gently sloping roof, decorative masonry, unusually narrow floor plan. Client: District Administrator Niendorf	1931
Apartment with practice,	Elmshorn, Bauerweg 24	For the first time in the region: House in pure Bauhaus style in cubic shapes with flat roof Client: Doctor Dr. Ritschel	1931
Langbehnhaus Youth Hostel	Genner (DK), Haderslevvej 484		1931
Lion pharmacy	Uetersen, Grosser Wulfhagen 50	Simple clinker brick building with a pharmacy on the ground floor, no longer originally preserved	1932
Lindfeld house	Pinneberg, Jägerkamp	Single house on the eaves with side entrance, crooked hip roof with bat dormer	1932
House Lüdemann	Halstenbek		1932
School Pinneberg-Waldenau	Pinneberg Nieland 1	Main house: Simple building with a gable roof, two floors and an attic with a dormer gym, also with a gable roof	1934
Residential building	Pinneberg, Großer Reitweg 16	Single-storey, eaves brick building, forms of homeland security typical of the time, steep gable roof	1935
school	Börnhöved		1939
Cemetery chapel	Pinneberg, Hogenkamp 34	Interior and an open vestibule supported by columns under a thatched hipped roof, interior illuminated on both sides	1948/56
Luther Church	Pinneberg, Kirchhofsweg 53	Reinforced concrete frame construction with brick infills, free-standing campanile	1954
Rellingen-Krupunder School	Rellingen, Heidestr. 84	Main house: two-storey brick building with gable roof, top floor with dormers Facade facing the street with arcade extension: across the main house, single storey with gable roof	1955
Kreuzkirche Waldenau	Pinneberg	Small church with a free-standing bell tower. Cooperation with architect Hans-Joachim Meier	1962

Conversions under the direction of Klaus Groth

modification	Location	description	Construction year	image
Conversion of the old hospital into a district building	Pinneberg, Moltkestrasse 10	Two-storey clinker brick building with a gable roof, monumental portico with columns, figurative ceramic art by Ludolf Albrecht	1932
Conversion of the old town hall into a Kreissparkasse	Pinneberg, Dingstätte 27	Two-storey brick building with hipped roof Original building before 1884, extension in 1903, rebuilt in 1934 for the Kreissparkasse by Klaus Groth	1934

literature

• The life of Klaus Groth, told by himself. West Holstein Publishing House Boyens & Co., 1979.
• Wolfgang Teuchert, Arnold Lühning (arrangement): Pinneberg district. (= The art monuments of the state of Schleswig-Holstein , Volume 9.) Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1961.
• Lothar Mosler (Ed.): Focus on Uetersen. History and stories 1234 to 1984. Heydorn, Uetersen 1985.
• various articles on Klaus Groth in the Hamburger Abendblatt , supplement Pinneberg
• Dr. Manfred Peters: Klaus Groth in yearbook for the Pinneberg district 1979, p. 5ff , Beig-Verlag Pinneberg

Web links

• Klaus Groth. In: arch INFORM .