Kurt Schneckendorf

Kurt Schneckendorf (born September 19, 1908 in Darmstadt ; † May 1, 2005 ) was a German architect and construction clerk . He was initially influenced by the New Building , but later also oriented towards moderate traditionalism and played a key role in the reconstruction of the city of Nuremberg.

New Town Hall, Hauptmarkt 18

Life

Kurt Schneckendorf, son of Josef Emil Schneckendorf , was a student at the Stuttgart School , he studied from 1927 to 1929 at the Technical University of Stuttgart with Paul Schmitthenner and then from 1930 to 1931 at the Technical University of Munich with Robert Vorhoelzer ; in this respect he was also strongly influenced by the Vorhoelzer'sche Postbauschule . In 1932 Schneckendorf worked as a construction referendar at the Nuremberg Post Office. In 1933 he was dismissed from the postal service because of his dissident attitude towards the regime and worked as a freelance architect in Nuremberg from 1933 to 1935. In 1935, Walter Brugmann , the Nuremberg construction consultant at the time, brought him to the municipal building department and assigned him to Heinz Schmeißner's department, in which he was responsible for the buildings of the newly created zoo . From 1940 to 1945 he was a soldier in World War II and as a prisoner of war . As an unencumbered person, Schneckendorf, who returned to the service of the city of Nuremberg in 1945, was interrupted by a stay in the United States in 1949, and was able to quickly advance after the end of the war under the reinstalled construction consultant Schmeißner. In 1954 he became head of the building construction department. In 1960 he left at his own request and went back to work as a freelancer.

Work (selection)

• 1936–1940: Buildings in the zoo (including entrance and ticket office buildings, hippopotamus house, monkey house, predator house, elephant house)
• 1950: Variety theater for the US troops on Treustraße
• 1951–1956: New Town Hall, Hauptmarkt 18 (called "Schneckendorf-Bau")
• 1955: High-rise beds in the North Clinic (called "Y-Bau")
• 1957–1959: Schauspielhaus (referred to as conversion, but in fact a new building)
• 1956–1959: Extension of the slaughterhouse

literature

• Center for Industrial Culture (eds.), Klaus Jürgen Sembach, Jutta Tschöke, Christian Koch: Architecture in Nuremberg 1904–1994. Verlag W. Tümmels, Nuremberg 1994, ISBN 3-921590-21-3 .
• Nuremberg City Archives / Nuremberg City Museums: Reconstruction in Nuremberg. (Exhibition catalog) Nuremberg 2010.
• Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (Ed.): Heinz Schmeißner - Architect and City Planning Officer - 80 years. (Festschrift) Munich and Nuremberg 1985.
• Martin Schieber: Nuremberg. An illustrated history of the city. CH Beck Verlag , Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46126-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ City Archives Nuremberg / Museums of the City of Nuremberg: Reconstruction in Nuremberg.