Otto Bongartz

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Peter Otto Bongartz (born July 18, 1895 in Aachen ; † May 21, 1970 in Cologne ) was a German architect .

Life

Grave of the Bongartz family
Zehlendorf town hall (Berlin, 1926-1929) with Eduard Jobst Siedler

Otto Bongartz studied at the Technical University of Aachen after the First World War and then completed his legal clerkship (1921–1923) in preparation for a job in public construction. At the same time he worked 1921–1922 in Hans Sturm's office in Aachen, then in 1922 with August Biebricher in Krefeld. 1923–1925 Bongartz worked for Eduard Jobst Siedler in Berlin; Together they built the new town hall in Zehlendorf (Berlin) from 1926 to 1929.

In 1925 Bongartz went to Cologne to work under the newly appointed city planning director Adolf Abel in the city's building construction department; 1935–1948 he was head of this office himself. In 1948 Bongartz set up his own office; he worked u. a. during the reconstruction of many war-damaged churches in the Archdiocese of Cologne, his new church buildings from the post-war period show the signature of a rather conservative architect.

Bongartz was married to Margarete Susanne Helene Everling since 1926. He died in 1970 at the age of 74 and was buried in the family grave in Cologne's Südfriedhof (hall 32). There is a finial on the grave site .

Buildings (selection)

Holy Spirit Church in Aachen
  • 1926 - 1929: Zehlendorf Town Hall (Berlin) with Eduard Jobst Siedler
  • 1929–1930: New building of the Catholic Church Heilig Geist in Aachen
  • 1945 (planning) / 1950–1951: New construction of the Catholic Church of St. Albertus Magnus in Cologne-Kriel
  • 1945–1949: Reconstruction of the Catholic Church of St. Silvester in Erle
  • 1948–1955: Reconstruction of the Catholic Church of St. Joseph in Cologne-Ehrenfeld
  • 1949–1950: New construction of the Catholic Church of St. Servatius in Bonn-Friesdorf
  • 1950–1951: Reconstruction and expansion of the Catholic Church of St. Vincentius in Dinslaken
  • 1952: New construction of the Catholic Church of St. Agatha in Dorsten
  • St. Martin, Duisburg-Neumühl (1956–2012)
    1955–1956: New construction of the St. Martin Catholic Church in Duisburg - Neumühl (listed since 1998, demolished in 2012)
  • 1960–1962: New building of the Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit in Bachem (Frechen)

literature

  • Helmut Fußbroich: Architecture Guide Cologne. Sacred buildings after 1900. Cologne 2005, p. 311 (Vita).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate No. 1006 from May 22, 1970, registry office Cologne old town. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Christian Welzbacher: The state architecture of the Weimar Republic . Lukas Verlag for art and intellectual history, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-936872-62-0 , p. 99 eff .
  3. ^ Adolf Abel and Otto Bongartz: Plan Stadium and Sport Park Cologne, 1928. In: Getty images. Getty Museum, 1928, accessed November 8, 2018 .
  4. ^ Catholic parish of St. Agatha, Dorsten. Parish of St. Agatha Dorsten, accessed on November 8, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Bongartz, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bongartz, Peter Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1970
Place of death Cologne