Otmar Schär

The unicorn pharmacy (1954) after the war

The Gerhart Hauptmann School (1966) in Heilbronn

Otmar Schär (also Ottmar Schär ; born November 17, 1920 in Jetřichov , † January 20, 1977 in Heilbronn ) was a German architect who worked in Heilbronn and Nordheim . He is considered the architect of the reconstruction period.

biography

Schär, who was born in the Sudetenland , fought in the Air Force during the Second World War , losing a leg in action over France. Therefore he was admitted to the Heilbronn hospital. During the war he studied architecture in Stuttgart and Prague . After the end of the war he was interned briefly, but then returned to Heilbronn. In 1948 he opened an architecture office there. He worked as an architect in Heilbronn until 1970.

Works

• Corner building at Kieselmarkt / Falkenstrasse (1953)
• Building avenue 59 (1954)
• the unicorn pharmacy (1954)
• House Lohtorstrasse 31 (1954)
• Gemminger Gasse 9 (1954)
• the Nordheimer gymnasium and festival hall (1955)
• the eight-story commercial building at Fleiner Tor 1 (1964)
• the Gerhart Hauptmann School (1966)
• the business and office building at Barbarino-Eck (1969)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data after the entry on Ottmar (Otmar) Schär in the HEUSS database of the Heilbronn City Archives , contemporary history collection, call number ZS-11556. Further additions according to the entry on Otmar Schär in the personal database of the Baden-Württemberg State Bibliography .
2. ^ Master builder Otmar Schär (1920–1977) . In: Denkmalstiftung Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Denkmalstimme , No. 2/2019, pp. 11–12, pdf .
3. ↑ Alexander Renz: Chronicle of the City of Heilbronn (=  publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 35 ). Volume VII: 1952-1957. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1996, ISBN 3-928990-60-8 , p. 157 .
4. ↑ Alexander Renz: Chronicle of the City of Heilbronn (=  publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 35 ). Volume VII: 1952-1957. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1996, ISBN 3-928990-60-8 , p. 177 .
5. ^ Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim Hennze: Stille Zeitzeugen. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture . Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 , pp. 72 and 73
6. ↑ ^{a b} Alexander Renz: Chronicle of the City of Heilbronn (=  publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 35 ). Volume VII: 1952-1957. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1996, ISBN 3-928990-60-8 , p. 232 .
7. ↑ Alexander Renz: Chronicle of the City of Heilbronn (=  publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 35 ). Volume VII: 1952-1957. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1996, ISBN 3-928990-60-8 , p. 293 .
8. ↑ Stefanie Pfäffle: Renewal without loss of identity . In: Heilbronn voice . November 2, 2006 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on January 23, 2011]).
9. ↑ Modern business and office building on "Barbarino-Eck" . In: Heilbronn voice . No. 147 , July 21, 1969, p. 9 .

literature

• Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim Hennze: Silent contemporary witnesses. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture. Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 . Pp. 40, 41, 72 and 73.
• Master builder Otmar Schär (1920–1977) . In: Denkmalstiftung Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Denkmalstimme , No. 2/2019, pp. 11–12, pdf .