Nikolaus Heiss

Nikolaus Heiss (* 1943 in Bleicherode ) is a German architect and monument conservator .

Live and act

Nikolaus Heiss came to Darmstadt in 1948 . After graduating from high school , he studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt and then worked as a freelance architect. The focus of his work was on the construction of residential houses, the renovation of village centers and historical buildings.

From 1981 to 2010 he was head of the lower monument protection authority of the city of Darmstadt and chairman of the association Friends of Mathildenhöhe . He is currently Deputy Chair. He also worked on the municipal monument advisory board and on the municipal commission for the application of the Mathildenhöhe as a world heritage site .

Heiss was involved in various major projects in Darmstadt, including the renovation of the Art Nouveau bath , the reconstruction of the main train station , the renovation of the Kranichstein hunting lodge , the rescue of the remains of the former Liberal Synagogue, the renovation of the Hessian State Museum and the reconstruction and renovation of the Mathildenhöhe .

From 2006 to 2009, Heiss had lectureships for architecture and photography in the history department of the Technical University of Darmstadt and a lectureship for monument preservation at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern .

Honors

In November 2016, Heiss received the bronze plaque of merit from the city of Darmstadt.

Fonts

As a sole author

• Art Nouveau Bath Darmstadt. Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-87390-267-1 .
• Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt. Schnell & Steiner Verlag, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7954-6864-4 .
• Flight over Darmstadt 2007-2010. Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt, ISBN 978-3-87390-288-6 .
• Flight over the mountain road. From Darmstadt to Heidelberg. 2009-2011. Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-87390-297-8 .

As a co-author

• The main station and its building history. (= Monument Protection in Darmstadt , Issue 2.) (with Eva Reinhold-Postina) Darmstadt 1993, without ISBN.
• City of Darmstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse. ) (With Günter Fries) Edition Henrich, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 .
• The Darmstadt indoor swimming pool. (= Monument Protection in Darmstadt , Issue 5.) (with Eva Reinhold-Postina) Darmstadt 1995, without ISBN.
• Rheinstrasse and Luisenplatz. From the baroque suburb to the modern city center. (= Monument protection in Darmstadt , No. 8.) (with Gesine Schneider) Darmstadt 2000, without ISBN.
• The Darmstadt Castle. Creation, change, destruction, reconstruction. (= Monument Protection in Darmstadt , Issue 10.) (with Mona Sauer) Darmstadt 2006, without ISBN.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homepage of the association .
2. ↑ Homepage: Board of Directors .
3. ↑ Darmstädter Echo from Monday, November 28, 2016, p. 14.