Klaus and Ursula Löwe

Gravestone Klaus Löwe in the Rahlstedt cemetery with an ornament based on the altar stele of the Matthias Claudius Church in Oldenfelde

The architect couple Klaus Löwe (born March 24, 1937 in Rahlstedt ; † August 2, 2018 in Hamburg ) and Ursula Löwe, b. Rabe (* in Hamburg) worked from the 1960s to 2006 in northern Germany with a focus on church building.

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Klaus and Ursula Löwe worked as architects in Switzerland and the USA in the 1960s before they returned to their hometown of Hamburg and opened their own architecture office. Her work includes secular and sacred buildings. A major focus of her work was building churches.

Among their ecclesiastical buildings are u. a. Pastorates, community centers, youth centers, bell towers and sacred buildings, especially in the church districts of Stormarn and in the districts of Hamburg, Duchy of Lauenburg and Holstein-Lübeck of the then North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church .

In terms of interior design, they designed altar rooms (e.g. Martin Luther Church in Wentorf , 1976; St. Johannes Church in Glinde , 1986), wall reliefs (e.g. in the Oher Straße parish hall of the Glinde parish, 1996) and organ brochures (e.g. B. Martin Luther Church Wentorf, 1980; Gethsemane Church in Neuschönningstedt , 1986; St. Thomas Church in Grünhof-Tesperhude , 1993).

Sacred buildings

The sacred buildings include the St. Martin Chapel in Escheburg (1981), the Gethsemane Church in Neuschönningstedt (1983), the Matthias Claudius Church in Oldenfelde (1988) and the St. Thomas Church in Grünhof-Tesperhude (1988).