Otto Dörzbach

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Otto Dörzbach (* 1920 ; † September 1989 in Heidelberg ) was a German architect .

life and work

Dörzbach worked with Otto Bartning from 1946 , initially as an employee in Bartning's office in Neckarsteinach on the emergency church project . Bartning designed the building program for Notzeit churches together with Dörzbach. From 1950 he was partner of Bartning in the joint architecture office in Heidelberg. Bartning moved his residence to Darmstadt in 1950, while Dörzbach stayed in Heidelberg. Dörzbach was primarily responsible for organizing the office. All of Bartning's buildings that were built after 1950 were planned and carried out in collaboration.

The women's clinic in Darmstadt, which opened in August 1954, is one of the Darmstadt masterpieces . It is a six-story building along Bismarckstrasse. Today the building bears the name "Otto-Bartning-Bau".

Based on a design by Bartning and Dörzbach, the Bau-Muster-Haus was built on Rheinstrasse in Darmstadt in 1955/56 , which served as an exhibition hall with permanent sample shows for building materials, components, accessories and furnishings and changing special shows. The building was demolished in the late 1970s in favor of a hotel complex.

After Bartning's death in February 1959, Dörzbach continued to run the office under his name and ended the projects that had been started. These included the German School in Lisbon, the reconstruction of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Reformation Memorial Church for the Holy Trinity) in Worms, the Ascension Church in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen and the Luther Emergency Church in Cologne. Dörzbach created the design for the tower of the Erlöserkirche in Marl alone.

literature

  • Roland Dotzert, Peter Engels, Anke Leonhardt: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-8062-1930-2 , p. 60, p. 64.
  • Stephanie Hahn, Michael H. Sprenger: Dominion - Architecture - Space. Festschrift for Ulrich Schütte on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Lukas Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3-867-32024-1 , p. X.
  • Bärbel Herbig: The Darmstadt Master Buildings. A contribution to the architecture of the 50s. Darmstadt 2000.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Draft plans for churches in need
  2. ^ Harzverein für Geschichte und Altertumskunde eV (Hrsg.): Harz-Zeitschrift. 52./53. Year 2000/2001, ISBN 3-931-83681-9 , p. X
  3. Jürgen Bredow, Helmut Lerch: Materials on the work of the architect Otto Bartning. Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-923974-00-0 , pp. 140 f.
  4. Cornelius Tafel, Winfried Nerdinger (Hrsg.): Architekturführer Deutschland, 20. Jahrhundert. Birkhäuser, Basel et al. 1996, ISBN 3-764-35287-6 , p. 246.
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