Oskar Barnstorf

Oskar Barnstorf (born October 8, 1878 in Hanover , † September 18, 1943 in Gehrden ) was a German architect and municipal building officer .

Life

Oskar Barnstorf studied 1898–1899 at the Technical University of Hanover under Karl Mohrmann , where he worked in 1899 as a student trainee. In the same year Barnstorf moved to the Technical University of Karlsruhe until 1902 , in order to work as a student trainee “at Schulze in Dortmund ” in 1902 .

In 1903 and 1904 Barnstorf worked in Hanover for the architect Ferdinand Eichwede , and from 1904–1906 in Kassel in the Fanghänel und Karst office .

In 1906 Barnstorf was back in Hanover, working in the Hanover consistory and again with Karl Mohrmann. In the same year, Barnstorf joined the construction works on the white sheet .

In 1910 the city of Hanover hired Oskar Barnstorf as city architect , he was later promoted to the municipal building officer (Stadtbaurat). In the same year Barnstorf designed the neo-Romanesque chapel in place of an older predecessor building in the Engesohde town cemetery .

Around 1914 Barnstorf designed his own house in his hometown on the corner plot of Warmbüchenstraße 21 / Hedwigstraße in the Südstadt district : He decorated the building - as a commitment to the Hanoverian Bauhütte - “with a striking stonemason and building hut symbolism ”.

Oskar Barnstorf, who is also through the design of sports - and school buildings excelled, entered the year of the beginning of World War II in retirement . He died in Gehrden in 1943, the year of the heaviest air raids on Hanover , which destroyed almost 50% of what was then the city.

Buildings (incomplete)

Chapel at the Engesohde city cemetery

Barnstorf's own house built around 1914 at Warmbüchenstrasse 21

1910: cemetery chapel at the city cemetery Engesohde
in the design of a Romanesque basilica with 5 / 8- apse
The " stucco building with Haustein headings from attacks late Art Nouveau conditions influencing the fate and simultaneously transmits expressionist trains". In addition to tufa details, there are building sculptures by the artist Elsbeth Rommel . The building is listed.
around 1914: Own residential building at Warmbüchenstrasse 21 / Hedwigstrasse
"of particular importance in terms of urban development and architectural history (...) on an acute-angled area", listed as a historical monument

literature

Wolfgang Neß: Engesohde cemetery. In: Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.): Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, Volume 10.1: City of Hanover, Part 1. ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 117 ff .; and Addendum Südstadt. In: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), as of July 1, 1985. City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 7 ff.
Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Alte Döhrener Strasse 98. In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 76 f.
Helmut Knocke: Barnstorf, Oskar. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 41.

Web links

Commons : Oskar Barnstorf - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Helmut Knocke: Barnstorf ... (see under the literature section )
↑ The brothers Dietrich Schulze and Karl Schulze , who ran a joint architecture office ( D. & K. Schulze ) from around 1902, are primarily in question . See the historical register of architects “archthek”, section Schubart - Schulze , accessed on December 28, 2013
↑ cf. Hans Fanghänel. In: arch INFORM . / see. Anton Karst. In: arch INFORM .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Alte Döhrener Straße 98 (see under the literature section )
↑ ^a ^b ^c Wolfgang Neß: Schiffgraben and former Georg-Stadt / Marien-Stadt… In: Denkmaltopographie… (compare the literature section ), p. 76f.
^ Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 694f.
↑ Wolfgang Neß: Engesohde cemetery (see under the literature section )

personal data
SURNAME	Barnstorf, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect, master builder and building officer in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH	October 8, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	September 18, 1943
Place of death	Gehrden

[HBL-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Helmut Knocke: Barnstorf ... (see under the literature section )

[2] The brothers Dietrich Schulze and Karl Schulze , who ran a joint architecture office ( D. & K. Schulze ) from around 1902, are primarily in question . See the historical register of architects “archthek”, section Schubart - Schulze , accessed on December 28, 2013

[3] . Hans Fanghänel. In: arch INFORM . / see. Anton Karst. In: arch INFORM .

[HKuKL-4] Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Alte Döhrener Straße 98 (see under the literature section )

[DTBD_77-5] Wolfgang Neß: Schiffgraben and former Georg-Stadt / Marien-Stadt… In: Denkmaltopographie… (compare the literature section ), p. 76f.

[6] Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 694f.

[7] Wolfgang Neß: Engesohde cemetery (see under the literature section )