Otto Eichert

Otto Eichert (born March 21, 1890 in Ludwigsburg ; † June 5, 1951 in Obertürkheim ) was a German architect.

Life

Otto Eichert was a son of the entrepreneur Christian Ludwig Eichert and his wife Marie, b. Hammer. Christian Ludwig Eichert had completed an apprenticeship as a shoemaker with his father Jakob Friedrich Eichert and initially started his own business as a shoemaker. In 1889 he founded the “Weil und Eichert wax factory” together with Leopold Weil. Christian Ludwig Eichert had four sons and two daughters; the eldest son Max took over the company management in 1919.

Otto Eichert, the second born, studied with Paul Bonatz and traveled to Italy . He was mainly active as an architect in Ludwigsburg .

Buildings (selection)

Church of the Redeemer

In 1919 Eichert created a tower-like extension to the residential building Asperger Straße 22 in Ludwigsburg, which the district building officer Ludwig G. Abel had built in the 19th century.

In 1922 he built a shop in Myliusstrasse 4 in Ludwigsburg.

In 1923 he built the Villa Eichert at Asperger Strasse 40 in Ludwigsburg. The plastered building with facade decorations by Emil Hipp is now a listed building.

In 1923 Eichert received the order to design a house for the Frischauer family of manufacturers. The building at Asperger Strasse 34 in Ludwigsburg is now a listed building . It has richly decorated sandstone facades; A glass mosaic dome in yellow, orange and blue is embedded in the roof; original bathroom tiles and parts of the original parquet flooring have been preserved from the interior. Hans Frischauer, owner of the Asperg chemical works , was a Czech Jew. After being harassed in 1938, he fled to Prague , where he was also able to bring his family. Frischauer, his wife and their two sons Robert and Walter probably perished in the Belzec extermination camp . Only the daughter Gertrud, who had been sent to England in good time, survived. The Villa Frischauer was taken over by the city of Ludwigsburg for a fraction of its actual value and used as the mayor's residence until 1945. In 1965, Gertrud Basto-Frischauer, the legal owner, then received at least a reasonable price when the city of Ludwigsburg bought the building from her under normal conditions.

In 1927 Eichert converted the cemetery chapel on the New Ludwigsburg Cemetery into a crematorium .

In 1931, according to Eichert's plans, the Karlshöhe Church was built at Königinallee 48 in Ludwigsburg, which was later also placed under monument protection. The church has a low bell tower on the northwest corner and an entrance hall in a side aisle-like porch on the south side. Inside there are two halls. The chancel on the west side was redesigned in 1973 when an organ was installed.

The Ludwigsburg Erlöserkirche with parish and rectory at Osterholzallee 51 and Erbestraße 7 dates back to 1935/36. The church is a three-aisled basilica with a bell tower facing south. It was damaged in an air raid in 1944, but it was later restored together with the interior. The plastic jewelry comes from Erwin Scheerer , the organ from the Ludwigsburg organ building company EF Walcker & Cie , the windows of the aisles by Wilhelm Blutbacher , who also created the wall fresco in the chancel in 1946. The parish and rectory in the Heimat style adjoin the nave of the church to the east.

In the post-war period, Otto Eichert designed the house at Hölderlinstrasse 3A in the north of Stuttgart as the headquarters of the Württemberg-Baden Metal Industry Association (VMI). The demolition of this building, constructed in 1952, was discussed in 2016. The district chairwoman Sabine Mezger and the architect Roland Ostertag spoke out in favor of a conservation statute . The latter said: “A city is emerging, empty of memory, without secrets, without surprises” and “We lose history, although we humans have a basic right, a civil right to history.” In a brief report, Florian Zimmermann came to the conclusion that The building is a historical monument, even if the monument office has denied it the necessary authenticity and integrity: “In terms of its functions as a representative administrative center and its traditionally conservative design, the building meets the requirements that were on the threshold of the post-war period Economic boom were set by an employers' association. It was built functional and solid as a historicizing building in the tradition of the Stuttgart School according to plans by Otto Eichert. In numerous details, however, design intentions can also be experienced at second glance, which clearly assign it to the time it was built. The building is an example of the mostly unnoticed trends in post-war architecture, which derive their architectural self-image from the design and formal continuity of conservative views since the early 20th century and react to modern developments with appropriate modifications. "

In 1952 the Goethe-Gymnasium was built in Ludwigsburg, which was also designed by Eichert.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/JHTR7JKOSZ5TTCGE3HQ6VUFOL43K2TCE
2. ↑ Eichert, Christian Ludwig at www.leo-bw.de
3. ↑ Wolf Deisenroth et al., Monument Topography Baden-Württemberg. I.8.1. City of Ludwigsburg , Konrad Theiss Verlag Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1938-9 , p. 89 f.
4. ↑ Wolf Deisenroth et al., Monument Topography Baden-Württemberg. I.8.1. City of Ludwigsburg , Konrad Theiss Verlag Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1938-9 , p. 159
5. ↑ Wolf Deisenroth et al., Monument Topography Baden-Württemberg. I.8.1. City of Ludwigsburg , Konrad Theiss Verlag Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1938-9 , p. 91 f.
6. ↑ Marion Blum, Tragig blows around the villa of the Frischauers , in: Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung , September 8, 2013 ( online )
7. ↑ Wolf Deisenroth et al., Monument Topography Baden-Württemberg. I.8.1. City of Ludwigsburg , Konrad Theiss Verlag Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1938-9 , p. 121
8. ↑ Wolf Deisenroth et al., Monument Topography Baden-Württemberg. I.8.1. City of Ludwigsburg , Konrad Theiss Verlag Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1938-9 , p. 93 f.
9. ↑ Wolf Deisenroth et al., Monument Topography Baden-Württemberg. I.8.1. City of Ludwigsburg , Konrad Theiss Verlag Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1938-9 , p. 163
10. ^ Rebecca Anna Fritzsche, Conservation Statute for Stuttgart-North. District advisory board wants to save more old buildings , January 29, 2016 in Stuttgarter Zeitung ( online )
11. ↑ Florian Zimmermann, brief report on the question of whether the building at Hölderlinstrasse 3a in Stuttgart is a monument in accordance with Section 2 of the Monument Protection Act , January 21, 2016 ( digitized version )
12. ↑ Calendar of the city's history at www.ludwigsburg.de