Konrad Reimer

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Konrad Reimer

Konrad Reimer (born July 28, 1853 in Berlin ; † March 1, 1915 ibid) was a German architect who, in collaboration with Friedrich Körte, created residential buildings, administration buildings, clinics and industrial buildings in the Berlin area from 1886 . Their most famous works are the Archenhold observatory , the Jewish hospital and large parts of the industrial plant for the Borsigwerke in Berlin-Tegel.

Life

After attending school, Konrad Reimer trained in the building trade. He was a student of Johann Heinrich Strack and was able to take the building foreman examination in 1878 and the master builder examination in 1882. In the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin, Konrad Reimer's first drafts are located under the name "Monthly Competition", including:

  • 1880: a “pleasure house” on an island
  • 1882: a cast-iron furnace shell for a factory in Kaiserslautern
  • 1884: a cast-iron, richly decorated gas lantern
  • 1884: a villa for a private citizen in Bielefeld

In 1886 Reimer founded the law firm Reimer & Körte with the architect Friedrich Körte . Together they both worked on plans and realizations of residential buildings, administration buildings and factories in the center of Berlin and in the surrounding area.

Works (selection)

Sing-Akademie building on Dorotheenstrasse, today Maxim-Gorki-Theater
Borsighaus in Berlin-Mitte
  • Reimer & Körte were able to complete an administration building in Berlin's Chausseestrasse (house number 13) for the entrepreneur August Borsig by 1899 . The building on the street side with wide gables, a sandstone facade and ornamental and figurative decorations brought the two architects further major orders from this company and other up-and-coming administrations for the following years.
  • 1897: A "civil servants 'and workers' house" stands opposite the Borsig factory in Berlin-Tegel. Reimer & Körte based their plans for the residential building on the Brandenburg brick Gothic. They chose light-colored plaster panels , timber frameworks on the upper floor, a loggia clad with wood and a large crooked hipped roof for the structural decoration . The monument preservationists assign the architectural style to the “stylized historicism”, which is related to the former Berlin suburbs in rural areas. The house counts as a prime example of entrepreneurial housing care, which was soon followed by the construction of the residential town of Borsigwalde .
Gate and administration building of the Borsigwerke in Tegel, built by Reimer and Körte
  • 1898–1899: The Borsig plant in the Reinickendorf district, Tegel district, was built in several construction stages after the production building in the then Oranienburg suburb in Chausseestrasse had to be relocated to larger areas and further outside. An administration building, six factory halls and the factory gate, planned and implemented by Reimer & Körte, were the first systems to be built. A Borsig construction office carried out numerous simple extensions between 1910 and 1940. In the years 1922 to 1924, according to documents from the architectural association Eugen Schmohl and the Charlottenburg government master builder A. Hillenbrand, two further administrative buildings with a wage office and casino as well as an office high-rise in the expressionist style were built. The entire ensemble is a listed building .
  • 1899–1900: The first Berlin trade union ( trade union house GmbH ) had Reimer & Körte design an administration building that was ready for occupancy on April 2, 1900 at the then address Engel-Ufer 15 in Berlin-Mitte . After the street was renamed Engeldamm, the building was given house numbers 62–64. Between 1945 and the 1950s, the building served as the Berlin-Mitte municipal hospital .
former "Motive House"
  • 1901–1902: The successful realization of large office buildings brought the two architects a contract to build a “Motivhaus” for the Academic Association Motiv Berlin , which had bought a plot of land in the area of ​​Hardenberg- / Knesebeckstraße in Charlottenburg. At the end of the First World War , the association sold the building. The new owners had the house with the richly decorated facade converted into a cinema by the architect Otto Berlich in 1919. Just 7 years later, Oskar Kaufmann turned it into a theater. In 1936 the theater was closed and the " Reichsschrifttumskammer " moved into the upper rooms , for which the house was rebuilt by Ernst Bechler . The Renaissance theater has been in the building complex since the 1950s .
former building of the Berlin Fire Insurance Institute; 1952
  • 1905: Reimer & Körte built an office building for the Berlinische Feuer-Versicherungs-Anstalt in the historic center of Berlin , right next to the Nicolaihaus on Brüderstraße. During the GDR era it was used by the state insurance company . The four-storey structure is designed with a seven-axis stone-clad facade, the central axis of which is emphasized by a curved gable. The decor is Baroque with echoes of Art Nouveau . After 1990 the Free State of Saxony bought the building and had it converted into its state representative.
  • 1905: The architectural office Reimer & Körte built a villa for the medical advisor Johannes Hofmeier in the style mix between neo-renaissance and neo-baroque that was desired at the time . Turrets, gables, plaster reliefs and protrusions and recesses structure the facade. A generous room layout with a total of 20 rooms and a central hallway with light shaft and skylight offered a high level of living comfort. The entire house is emphasized by an octagonal tower and covered by a hipped roof with differently designed dormers. This private house was one of the first in the Nikolassee villa colony founded in 1901 and served as a guide for subsequent buildings.
  • 1906: Construction of the forest house Villa Möllering by Reimer & Körte near Lüneburg . The homeland security style villa played a role as British headquarters in the last days of the war. The last Reich President, Karl Dönitz , who had his seat in Flensburg - Mürwik , sent a delegation there in early May 1945 to negotiate a partial surrender.
  • 1906–1908: The successful duo of architects built a “Centralmagazin” on Stralauer Platz for the Berliner Städtische Gaswerke (former numbering 29–34 / An der Schillingbrücke). The four-storey brick building on the site of the first urban gas station in Berlin, founded in 1847, was used to store gas-technical construction and repair materials and also contained workshops. The building is one of the first to have an inner supporting structure (ceilings, columns and beams) made of reinforced concrete, which created large-scale storage space. Neo-Baroque motifs such as tail gables and arched windows were used to decorate the building.
Main building of the Archenhold Observatory
  • The main building of the "Volkssternwarte" (later Archenhold observatory ), which was built between 1908 and 1909 in the then rural community of Treptow , was realized by Reimer & Körte. They replaced the earlier light wooden housing of the giant telescope made for the Berlin trade fair in 1896 with a U-shaped, solid building in the form of neoclassicism . The building was financed by donations from union members organized by the director of the observatory. Combat operations at the end of the Second World War damaged the building, but it was repaired by 1946 and reopened in simplified external forms. The building houses lecture, library and exhibition rooms and, together with the surrounding garden, forms a monument ensemble.
  • From 1910 to 1914, the Jewish community had Reimer and Körte's award-winning hospital design implemented. On a site (Exerzierstrasse [today's Iranische Strasse] / [today's] Heinz-Galinski-Strasse 1) in what was then the Berlin suburb of Gesundbrunnen , a third hospital was built in a single main building in the modern style , which replaced an earlier facility in the Spandau suburb . The building complex with an H-shaped floor plan is sparingly structured and simply designed with sandstone elements and plastered surfaces. A Star of David in the parapet indicates the owner and the purpose of the hospital. The ground floor housed a polyclinic, the upper floors contained administration rooms and apartments for doctors as well as a prayer room. During the time of National Socialism , the sickrooms were used as a collection point for the deportation of the Jewish population to extermination camps, the administrative rooms were the seat of the last remaining institutions of Jewish life, including the Reich Association of Jews in Germany. At the end of the Second World War, the existing farm buildings, the infection pavilion, the gynecological department and the nurses' home were destroyed. In the period from 1968 to 1983 reconstruction and rebuilding work took place. The buildings that have been preserved received a ceramic veneer over an insulating wall, so that the decorative elements of the facade are no longer visible.
formerly VDI club house, 1951. KdT until 1990, now part of the Jakob Kaiser house
  • 1911–1914: New construction of the 2nd VDI house

literature

  • Rudolf Vierhaus: German biographical encyclopedia. (dbe) Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25038-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architecture Museum of the TU Berlin . In: Architekturmuseum Berlin . October 15, 2018 ( tu-berlin.de [accessed October 14, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Architecture Museum of the TU Berlin . In: Architekturmuseum Berlin . October 15, 2018 ( tu-berlin.de [accessed October 14, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Architecture Museum of the TU Berlin . In: Architekturmuseum Berlin . October 15, 2018 ( tu-berlin.de [accessed October 14, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Architecture Museum of the TU Berlin . In: Architekturmuseum Berlin . October 15, 2018 ( tu-berlin.de [accessed October 14, 2018]).
  5. ↑ An excerpt from a Berlin daily newspaper ("Berliner ABC") from around 1982
  6. ↑ Architectural monument of the tenement building at Carmerstrasse. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Architectural monument, single-family house, Grabenstrasse 40; Rebuilt in 1929. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
  8. ↑ garden monument at Grabenstrasse 40; changed around 1924. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Borsighaus Chausseestraße 13. Accessed October 14, 2018 .
  10. ^ Berliner Morgenpost - Berlin: Master builder for Berlin: Konrad Reimer . July 30, 2003 ( morgenpost.de [accessed October 14, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Monument: Berliner Strasse 70 / Ernststrasse in Berlin-Tegel, civil servants 'and workers' residence, 1897. Retrieved on October 14, 2018 .
  12. ^ Hillenbrand, A. In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1924, part 1, p. 1150.
  13. ↑ Monument complex : Berliner Straße 19-37, Borsigwerke; 1898/99. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Engel-Ufer . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1900, III, p. 141.
  15. ↑ Engeldamm 62/64, trade union building, extension 1907
  16. ↑ Proof of the use of the Engeldamm building 62–64 as a hospital from a private medical report, 1950.
  17. ↑ Hardenbergstrasse 6, former motif house (club house); "Renaissance Theater" since the end of the 20th century; 1919, 1926/1927, 1936–38 rebuilt. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
  18. ^ Institute for Monument Preservation (ed.): Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmale der DDR, Berlin, I. Henschelverlag, 1984, p. 84.
  19. ↑ Brüderstr. 11–12: State Representation of the Free State of Saxony ( Memento from January 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) stadtentwicklung.berlin.de
  20. ^ Monument Brüderstraße 11-12, Berlinische Feuer-Versicherungs-Anstalt, office building. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Builders for Berlin: Konrad Reimer and Friedrich Körte. private homepage (PDF; 7 kB)
  22. ↑ Architectural monument: Villa Hofmeier at Rehwiese 25, 1905-06 by Reimer & Körte
  23. ↑ Monument central store of the municipal gas works in Friedrichshain
  24. ^ Berlin and its buildings. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2006, p. 336.
  25. ↑ Archenhold Observatory, 1908-09 by Reimer & Körte (D) (see Alt-Treptow Garden Monument)
  26. ^ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmale der DDR, Berlin, II. Henschelverlag, 1984, p. 368.
  27. ↑ Short story of the Jewish Hospital in Wedding , accessed on March 7, 2009.
  28. ↑ Architectural monuments of the Jewish Community Hospital, in the Berlin-Gesundbrunnen area. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Reimer, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1915
Place of death Berlin