Heim & Kempter

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The architects' office Heim & Kempter was a studio community of the architects Paul Heim (born October 15, 1879 in Stuttgart; † February 22, 1963 in Stuttgart) and Albert Kempter (* June 8, 1883 in Stuttgart; † ) that was active in Breslau from 1923 to 1940 . 1941 in Breslau).

Paul Heim attended the building trade school in Stuttgart and there he met his future brother-in-law Kempter. After working as a construction manager for Paul Schultze-Naumburg in his hometown, in 1910 he became an employee of the Wroclaw City Planning Council Max Berg . He worked on the Wroclaw Centennial Hall and developed urban development plans for Zobten (with Berg) and Zimpel near Breslau (with Hermann Wahlich). Since 1945 he lived in Stuttgart again. Paul Heim should not be confused with the Stuttgart architect with the same first and last name, who lived from 1905 to 1988.

Albert Kempter also worked in the Wroclaw City Planning Office after completing his studies in Stuttgart, where he and Max Berg designed a crematorium and the cemetery chapel in the Oswitz district.

Buildings and designs

Zimpel ( Sępolno ) settlement , 1926
Arcade house on the WUWA, 1929
Kindergarten at WUWA, 1929

The office, led by both architects from the early 1920s to the Second World War, was one of the leading representatives of the New Building in the world , as were Hans Poelzig , Theo Effenberger , Emil Lange , Heinrich Lauterbach , Ludwig Moshamer , Adolf Rading , Hans Scharoun and others Silesian capital. The following list of projects clearly shows the particular interest in housing construction in the context of urban development.

  • 1923–1924: urban development plan for the Eichborngarten settlement in Gräbschen
  • 1926: Merckelstrasse settlement in Breslau
  • 1926–1928: Houses in the Zimpel settlement
  • 1927 (competition design), 1932–1933 (execution): Gustav-Adolf-Kirche in Zimpel
  • 1928: urban development plan for the Bischofswalde settlement
  • 1928–1929: urban development plan for a settlement with small apartments in Klein-Tschansch (Księże Małe, a south-eastern suburb of Wroclaw)
  • 1929: Laubenganghaus in the Werkbundsiedlung Breslau
  • 1929: Kindergarten in the Werkbundsiedlung Breslau
  • 1935: House at Agathastraße 3 in Breslau
  • 1938: Office building of the "Siedlungsgesellschaft Breslau AG"

as well as numerous other single-family homes

literature

  • WuWA. Mieszkanie i miejsce pracy Wrocławska wystawa Werkbundu . Wrocław / Breslau 2014. ( digitized version )

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