Otto Andersen (architect)
Otto Andersen (born December 12, 1924 in Hamburg-Bergedorf ; † July 5, 1981 in Hamburg ) was a German architect . He designed numerous churches in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein in the 1950s and 1960s . They are among the region's most important works in post-war church building .
Life
Otto Andersen attended the Hamburg Building School from 1944 to 1945 and studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart from 1946 to 1951 . Then he worked in the architecture office of his father-in-law Behrmann in Hamburg-Blankenese and achieved his first successes in competitions in urban planning and church building . From 1954 to 1973 he worked as a freelancer from Meldorf in these areas as well as in the preservation of monuments and in private housing. He also designed some organ prospectuses , such as that of the Pinneberger Heilig-Geist-Kirche. From 1971 to 1973 he traveled several times to Morocco and Iran and opened his own office as a design architect in Agadir in 1976/1977 .
plant
His church buildings include z. B.
- Paul Gerhardt Church in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld (1954–1955) (together with Alfred Behrmann)
- Church of St. Peter in Hamburg-Groß Borstel (1956–1958)
- Thomaskirche in Schulensee near Kiel (1957–1959)
- St. John's Church in Ahrensburg (1960–1962)
- Ansgar Church in Elmshorn (1961–1962)
- Church of the Redeemer in Uetersen (1961)
- St.Ansgar Community Center in Hamburg-Othmarschen (1961–1964)
- Trinity Church Center in Hamburg-Rahlstedt (1961–1965)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church in Hamburg-Rahlstedt (1965-1967)
- Bonnus Community Center in Osnabrück (1962–1967)
- Trinity Church in Lübeck-Kücknitz (1965)
- Church of the Resurrection in Heide (1963–1965)
- Holy Spirit Church in Pinneberg (1962–1963)
- Martin Luther Community Center in Ehlershausen near Hanover (1964–1967)
- Chapel in the extension of the Meldorfer Friedhof (1968)
- Blockdiek Protestant Community Center, Bremen - Osterholz (1971)
- as well as the Friedenskirche in Schleswig, the church in Kappeln-Ellenberg and the church in Bliesdorf
literature
- Karin Berkemann : "Tomorrow's architecture!" Hamburg's post-war churches . Ed .: Monument Protection Office Hamburg. Dölling and Galitz Verlag , Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937904-60-3 .
- Ralf Lange: Hamburg. Reconstruction and re-planning 1943-1963. Langewiesche publishing house, Königstein im Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-4610-2 . (including a short biography)
- Claus Rauterberg: The architect Otto Andersen (1924–1981) and his church buildings in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. In: DenkMal! ( ISSN 0946-4549 ), Volume 10, 2003, No. 1, Pages 89-100.
Web links
- Otto Andersen. In: arch INFORM .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karin Berkemann : "Tomorrow's architecture!" Hamburg's post-war churches . Ed .: Monument Protection Office Hamburg. Dölling and Galitz Verlag , Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937904-60-3 , p. 57 .
- ↑ Home Friedhof Meldorf ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen: b.zb: 430
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Andersen, Otto |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1924 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg-Bergedorf |
DATE OF DEATH | 5th July 1981 |
Place of death | Hamburg |