Kurt Nowotny

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Kurt Nowotny (born December 1, 1908 in Heynitz ; † June 1, 1984 ) was a German architect who designed numerous post and telecommunications buildings in the GDR .

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New main post office Leipzig , special stamp of the GDR post from 1965
Main Post Office Dresden-Neustadt, GDR Post stamp from 1982
Main post office of Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) in the Strasse der Kulturen 1967

Kurt Nowotny was born on December 1, 1908 as the son of a locksmith in Heynitz. After finishing school, he initially trained as a carpenter and carpenter. A subsequent training at the Academy of Applied Arts in Dresden from 1928 to 1931 joined the study at up to 1933 Academy of Fine Arts in. Nowotny was a student of the architect Wilhelm Kreis (1873–1955).

From 1934 Kurt Nowotny worked as an assistant in Fritz Steudtner 's architecture office. From 1936 to 1938 he worked for the Dresden- Weimar air district command with planning for an airport in Weimar . After moving to the Reich Ministry of Post in Chemnitz , the unrealized designs for a post office in Zschopau (1938–1941) and a post station in Chemnitz (1939–1941) emerged before he was called up for military service in 1942 .

From the end of the Second World War until 1950 Nowotny worked as a site manager and designer in the Soviet Union . After his return to Germany he became chief architect in the Ministry for Post and Telecommunications of the GDR . Nowotny held this position until he retired in 1972. In the 1950s he made numerous competition entries, including designs for the engineering school for postal and telecommunications in Leipzig (1951-1953), kindergartens in Görlitz , Radeberg and Dresden (1952-1956) and for a television tower in Roitzsch, Trossin municipality (1955 / 56).

Other projects by Nowotny were plans for a primary school in Bautzen in 1950, the cultural center of the steelworks in Brandenburg in 1952 and for the Berlin television tower, initially planned for a location in the Müggelberg Mountains , in 1954. Urban planning related to the design of the north-south and east West axes in Dresden.

The architect's buildings include the radio office in Wilsdruff from 1956 , which was built in collaboration with Heinrich Schwabe and Erika Lindner, and the post office in Bärenfels from 1962. The main post offices in Dresden-Neustadt and Leipzig were added as major projects . In addition to Kurt Nowotny, Wolfram Starke and Günter Biermann were also involved in the Dresden building. The main post office in Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1967 and a post office complex in Rostock - Lütten Klein in 1966 were not realized in the form he had planned . Nowotny's urban planning for the Postplatz in Dresden from 1964 was also not carried out.

Kurt Nowotny's most spectacularly executed projects are the two television towers built in 1964 in Dresden-Wachwitz and on the Kulpenberg in Kyffhäuser . Nowotny also led the redesign of church buildings. One of his last projects is the fundamental renovation of the Jakobuskirche in Görlitz between 1980 and 1982, with the sanctuary in particular being adapted to the liturgical regulations of the Second Vatican Council .

Awards

As an architect in the postal and telecommunications sector, Nowotny has received several awards from the relevant ministries. In 1964 he received the GDR Medal of Merit and in 1965 the Leipzig City Art Prize .

Fonts

  • Reinforced concrete towers for radio purposes. in: DA (1964), No. 9, pp. 536/537
  • Buildings of the Deutsche Post. in: DA (1965), No. 2, pp. 82-106

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Backhaus: Model renovation of environmentally damaged pillars on the St. Jakobus Cathedral, Görlitz, built in the neo-Gothic style. Institute for Diagnostics and Conservation of Monuments in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt eV, 2013, p. 80 , accessed on November 28, 2019 : “Under the direction of the architect Kurt Nowotny, Coswig, the church experienced a fundamental in the years 1980-82 Renovation, with the sanctuary in particular being adapted to the liturgical regulations of the Second Vatican Council. "
personal data
SURNAME Nowotny, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Heynitz
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1984