Otto Leitolf

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Otto Leitolf, architect (1881–1967)

Otto Leitolf (born April 28, 1881 in Metz ( Lorraine ); † May 20, 1967 in Schleching ; full name: Otto Valentin Leitolf ) was a German architect and from 1919 to 1945 director of the master school for building craftsmen (today: master school for stonemasons and Stone sculptor) in Aschaffenburg .

Life

The son of the Chief Postal Director Valentin Julius Leitolf and his wife Maria Henriette Luise initially grew up in Trier, but the father was transferred to Gumbinnen ( East Prussia ) at pre-school age , after two years in Magdeburg the father became the organizational head of the German postal system in Alsace in 1900 Appointed to Strasbourg . The family (two sisters) moved into an official apartment in the former French medical school at Strasbourg Cathedral . Otto attended the "Lyzeum" (former Jesuit college) on Münsterplatz. The father often took his children with him on business trips so that they not only got to know the buildings of Strasbourg, but also the Alsace itself ( Colmar - Isenheimer Altar ). After graduating from high school and a year of service in the 138th Infantry Regiment in 1899/1890, he enrolled at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , structural engineering department, studied architecture and sculpture with Heinrich Bauser from 1900 to 1902 with Carl Schäfer , Otto Warth and Max Laeuger . In 1902 he moved to the Technical University of Munich and became a student of Carl Hocheder , the brothers Friedrich von Thiersch and August Thiersch, and Heinrich von Schmidt . He completed his studies on August 30, 1904 with the main diploma examination and went to the Bavarian State Building Service in Landshut for practical training .

During his studies in Munich he met Emmy Röth (born October 20, 1880 in Munich, † 1956 in Prien), the youngest daughter of the landscape painter and draftsman Philip Röth . He married her on October 14, 1905 in Munich and they had five children together.

Via Freising (deputy building authority assessor) he joined the construction management of the main customs office in Munich in 1908 as an architect and office manager. After passing the state examination for higher civil service, he was appointed building authority assessor at the Aschaffenburg agricultural department on April 1, 1911.

On August 2, 1914, he was a platoon leader with the Bavarian Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 8 in the battles of the Battle of Lorraine near Nancy - Epinal . As a result of a fall in the trenches, he had to undergo a serious leg operation in the field hospital , the consequences of which made further front-line service impossible. He was awarded the fourth class with swords of the Military Merit Order. In the "Krüppelheim Würzburg" he took over the implementation and completion of the new building of the King Ludwig House. On April 26, 1917, he was discharged from military service and then worked on the structural design of the buildings in connection with the Main canalization in Aschaffenburg.

With the decision of the city council of Aschaffenburg on March 21, 1919 Otto Leitolf became head of the master school in Aschaffenburg. In addition to his teaching activities, he also worked as a freelance architect. In 1928 there was also a short collaboration with the architect Ferdinand Keilmann . He let u. a. his students re-measure and sketch important buildings. These documents were helpful documents for the reconstruction after the destruction in World War II; he also had defective works of art restored and supplemented. In April 1941 the Aschaffenburg local history museum dedicated an exhibition to him: "Otto Leitolf - From the Architect's Workshop" A bomb hit destroyed the master school on November 22, 1944 and also ended the teaching activities of its director. Otto Leitolf moved with his family to Kirchheim near Würzburg. In 1950 the family moved to Upper Bavaria, in 1956 his wife died in Prien am Chiemsee ; later he married the sculptor Irmela Gerstein.

Otto Leitolf died at the age of 86 on May 20, 1967 in Schleching.

plant

Chapel "Maria Frieden" Aschaffenburg-Obernau

Aschaffenburg

  • 1911–1912: Design and construction management for the rectory in Obernau
  • 1913: Design of the Stations of the Cross on the way from Obernau to the Obernau Forest Chapel
  • 1916–1921: Design and construction management for the extension of the Obernau Maria Frieden chapel
  • 1919: Planning of the Fasanerie settlement in cooperation with Franz Schmitt in the Austrian colony
  • 1919–1923: Planning for a training colony in the city. Master School for Builders, Dankwartstraße 10–28 and for the residential buildings on Legatplatz
  • 1920–1921: Design for a war memorial in Obernau
  • 1921: Emergency church opposite the later Pauluskirche using a military hospital barrack, top of a belfry and addition of a portico with six columns from Rabitz (no longer available)
  • 1921: House for the port authority, Seegrundstrasse 1
  • 1922: Honor grove with war memorial Ebersbacher- / Marienstraße, shell limestone, Pieta by the sculptor Hans Gehring
  • 1922: Row houses Adelenstrasse 2b-20 as well as the semi-detached and row houses between Adelen-, Wilhelminen-, Helenen- and Bertastrasse
  • 1922: Planning of a residential and administrative building for the Seibert factory; Großostheimer Strasse 225
  • 1923: War memorial at the Church of Our Lady in Aschaffenburg with a statue of the Virgin Mary by Ludwig Sonnleitner
  • 1923–1924: Grove of honor in the old town cemetery, inside: a war memorial with a figure of the risen man above a cenotaph, together with the sculptor Ludwig Sonnleitner
  • 1924: Residential building for the tax building office, Auweg 145
  • 1925: Protestant rectory in Damm , Paulusstrasse 15
  • 1925: Row house group Helenenstrasse 1–9
  • 1925–1926: Grove of honor with a war memorial on the Schöneberg
  • 1925–1926: Houses at Dankwartstrasse 1–15
  • 1927: Obernauer Straße: House group nos. 77–81 with stepped gables and row houses nos. 83– 103 for large families
  • 1929: Design of 18 row houses for large families, Hefner-Alteneck-Straße 30 with 64
  • 1930: "Gartenhaus" residential building, Kleine Schönbuschallee 53 (no longer exists)
  • 1931-1934: Ev. Lutheran Pauluskirche with atrium based on a preliminary design competition work by Christian Ruck, Nuremberg
  • 1934: HJ home and youth hostel with sports fields (today Aschaffenburg Municipal Music School and CVJM Aschaffenburg), Kochstrasse 6 and 8

Wurzburg

  • 1916–1917: Completion of the new building for the orthopedic clinic König-Ludwig-Haus
  • 1926: Administration building of the Würzburg Chamber of Crafts
  • 1928–1930: Design and construction of an infant home for the German Red Cross
  • 1928–1930: Design for the Sonnleitner house
  • 1948: Johannis emergency church in Luisengarten
  • 1950–1955: Reconstruction of St. Stephen's Church

Lohr a. Main

  • 1934: Protestant Resurrection Church
  • 1935: Planning and execution of the Sparkasse
  • 1932–1937: Buildings of the sanatorium and nursing home

Marktheidenfeld

  • 1913–1914: Planning and construction of the district office in Marktheidenfeld
  • 1925: Villa of the brewery owner Georg Mayr (Martinsbräu) in Marktheidenfeld
  • 1928–1929: Villa of the brickworks owner Willy Scheiber in Marktheidenfeld

Other places

as well as various award-winning competition designs (2nd prizes)

literature

  • Ulrich Debler: Otto Valentin Leitolf. A portrait of the architect and head of the Aschaffenburg master school for building craftsmen. In: Aschaffenburg yearbook for history, regional studies and art of the Lower Maing area. Volume 15. Geschichts- und Kunstverein Aschaffenburg eV, Aschaffenburg 1992, ISBN 3-87965-057-8 , pp. 205-215.
  • Hans-Bernd Spies, Renate Welsch ( arrangement ): Obernau 1191–1991. Contributions to the past and present. City of Aschaffenburg - City and Stiftsarchiv, Aschaffenburg 1991, ISBN 3-922355-02-1 .
  • Horst Schäfer (Ed.): Obernau then and now. Village image through the ages. (= Aschaffenburg Studies, II., Documentations , Volume 6.) Aschaffenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922355-07-2 .

Web links

Commons : Otto Leitolf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emmy Leitolf-Röth: An artist's life . For the 100th birthday of the Darmstadt painter Prof. Philip Röth. In: Darmstädter Wochenschau , 7th year No. 3 (March 1941)
  2. ↑ “The exhibition is intended to provide an insight into the development and activities of the architect Otto Leitolf. Insofar as no images of completed buildings can be seen, but drawings and the like, these should only show how the builder sees, studies and designs his environment and how he prepares his building ideas for the execution. " (Josef Wirth, responsible exhibition manager)
  3. ^ Files for the new building of the rectory, Obernau parish archives
  4. ^ Extension of the Obernau Chapel - stations, Obernau parish archive
  5. ↑ Extension of the Obernau Chapel, Obernau parish archive
  6. ↑ Hans Sommer: Design and execution of the war memorial. In: Hans-Bernd Spies, Renate Welsch ( edit. ): Obernau 1191–1991. Contributions to the past and present. City of Aschaffenburg - City and Stiftsarchiv, Aschaffenburg 1991, ISBN 3-922355-02-1 .
  7. ↑ Forestry Office in Klingenberg
  8. ↑ Compiled by the daughter Paula Hoosmann geb. Leitolf from memory (incomplete), City and Abbey Archives Aschaffenburg. Otto Leitolf's archive was handed over to the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg .
personal data
SURNAME Leitolf, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leitolf, Otto Valentin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1967
Place of death Schleching