Lothar Kallmeyer

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Reconciliation Church in Detmold (1967)
Zionskirche in Düsseldorf (1969)
Andreas Church in Münster-Coerde (1982)

Lothar Kallmeyer (born October 19, 1924 in Königsberg, East Prussia ; † April 2, 2019 in Münster ) was a German architect who was best known in the area of Protestant sacred buildings .

Life

Lothar Kallmeyer was born on October 19, 1924 as the son of the freelance painter Hans Kallmeyer (1892–1961) and his wife Toni Kallmeyer, b. Remky (1896–1989) born in Königsberg. After the Second World War he studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , where he was influenced by his teacher Egon Eiermann . After a stay in London, Kallmeyer worked as a freelance architect in Duisburg from 1954 to 1974 . From 1974 he worked with his office partner Wolfgang Herbst. Among other things, he worked as a visiting professor in the USA, as a consulting architect at the Marburg Church Building Institute and as a professor of building construction in Münster.

Kallmeyer had been building schools since the late 1950s. B. in Duisburg and Oberhausen . From the 1960s onwards, he made a name for himself with Protestant churches and community centers. In addition to new buildings such as the Reconciliation Church in Detmold (1967), the Zionskirche in Düsseldorf (1969) and the community center in Münster-Coerde (1982), the new church in Neu Eben-Ezer (1993) is considered to be his main work.

“Elements of haptic perception are particularly important for mentally disabled people and their learning. The construction of the parish-church center therefore had to enable intense sensory perception simply by entering the rooms. The sense of sight and the sense of touch had to be stimulated above all, but also the hearing. (...) After years of getting used to it and very intensive use, the impression of the room is still like it was at the beginning at the inauguration. It conveys something like "transcendence". This also applies to "profane" use of the room, for example at larger parties, conferences, and concerts. Disabled people feel that, as they repeatedly express, just like so-called non-disabled people. "

Kallmeyer was active on the board of the Deutscher Werkbund NW , in the German Evangelical Church Building Day and in the editorial office of the specialist journal Kunst und Kirche.

Church building Eben Ezer 1993

Fonts

  • Lothar Kallmeyer: Euphoria, resignation and new life. Contributions to church building. 2002.

literature

  • Günter Rombold (Ed.): Building churches for the future. Contributions to the new understanding of the church. (= Concrete theology. ) Vienna et al. 1969.
  • Kerstin Wittmann-Englert: tent, ship, apartment. Church buildings of post-war modernism. (= Research on post-war modernism. ) Lindenberg im Allgäu 2006.
  • Sylvaine Hänsel, Stefan Rethfeld: Architectural Guide Münster (with a depiction of the Andreas Church), Münster-Coerde (No. 361), Berlin 2008/2017.
  • Deutscher Werkbund (Ed.): 100 Years of the Deutscher Werkbund NW 1907–2007. 2007.
  • Ernst-August Korf: Church Neu Eben-Ezer Lemgo. (Brochure for the 25th anniversary in July 2017)

Web links

Ezer interior view
Commons : Lothar Kallmeyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries accessed on May 27, 2019
  2. ↑ https://www.eben-ezer.de/kirchengemeinde.html
  3. ↑ Joachim P. Walter (until 1992 director of the Eben-Ezer Foundation)
personal data
SURNAME Kallmeyer, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH 2nd April 2019
Place of death Muenster