Otto Busch (architect)

Gym by Otto Busch (1913)

Gym by Otto Busch (2013)

Otto Busch (born before 1899; died after 1914) was a German architect in German Southwest Africa , today's Namibia . Along with Friedrich Höft , Otto Ertl , Gottlieb Redecker and Wilhelm Sander, he was one of the most important architects and civil engineers of the German colony at the time .

Busch came to German South West Africa in 1905. He left the country in 1914 with his wife Minna (née Schiller) for a home vacation. Due to the outbreak of World War I in South West Africa , they were never able to return

buildings

Busch was best known for planning and building magnificent villas in the villa district on Schanzenhügel (at that time Boysenhügel) in Windhoek . He built a total of 198 buildings, five of which were not residential buildings. His buildings include:

• Green wreath bowling alley (1905)
• Green Wreath Hall (1906)
• Villa Kiesewetter (1906)
• Villa Wasserfall (1907)
• Gym (1909)
• August Stauch House
• Villa Lanwers (1908)
• Imperial Crown (1909)
• Villa colony with six villas (1913/14)

literature

• Walter Peters: Historicism and Objectivity, The Reception of German Architecture during the period 1882 to 1914 in the former German South West Africa (Namibia) . University of Natal, In: Restorica , No. 14, October 1983. ( Available online )
• Christine Marais: Windhoek: Our Heritage . Gamsberg Macmillan, Swakopmund 1986/1999, ISBN 0-86848-260-9 .
• Vanessa Jane Ruhling: Colonial Architecture as Heritage: German Colonial Architecture in Post-Colonial Windhoek , University of Cape Town, August 2018 ( available online ; English; PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Windhoek Villa. In: Habitat Magazine, November 8, 2016.
2. ^ Windhoek: Our Heritage. Christine Marais. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
3. ^ ^{A b} Historicism and Objectivity, The Reception of German Architecture during the period 1882 to 1914 in the former German South West Africa (Namibia) . University of Natal, In: Restorica , No. 14, October 1983, pp. 14 f.