Peter Klotzbach

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Peter Klotzbach (born October 17, 1875 in Barmen ; † July 25, 1947 in Wuppertal ) was a German architect and architecture teacher. He is considered a representative of the Heimatschutz style and also designed numerous school and administrative buildings as well as a number of monuments. As far as his buildings are preserved, they are mostly - in whole or in part - under monument protection .

Life

After his practical training with an architect in Barmen and the subsequent visit to the building trade school in Idstein , Peter Klotzbach initially worked as an employee in various architectural offices. From 1900 to 1915 he worked as a teacher at the Kunstgewerbeschule Barmen , from 1909 onwards, parallel to his teaching activities, he acted as a building consultant for the district of Opladen , and later also for the districts of Gummersbach , Lennep , Mettmann and Waldbröl . In 1913 he was appointed professor.

Klotzbach took part in the First World War as a soldier. After the war he worked as a freelancer in Barmen, at the end of the 1920s in a partnership or in a joint office with the architect Paul Fliether .

Peter Klotzbach was a member of the German Werkbund (DWB), the Association of German Architects (BDA) and the Bergisch Architects and Engineers Association in Wuppertal .

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Buildings and designs

House Mühlstroh in Opladen (1909)
  • 1902–1903: Realgymnasium Sedanstraße , Realschule Siegesstraße and elementary schools Eichenstraße and Emilienstraße in Barmen (together with Eugen Rückle , based on plans by Carl Winchenbach and urban planning inspector Paul Eduard Freygang )
  • 1909: Mühlstroh residential building in Opladen , Altstadtstraße 36
  • 1911: The bell tower of the Protestant church in Bergisch Neukirchen is raised with a slated hood
  • 1911–1913: Realgymnasium in Opladen, Im Hederichsfeld 19 (extended 1927–1928)
  • 1912: Ruhlach settlement in Opladen
  • Realschule in Fulda
  • 1914: Catholic elementary school, today Felix Metzmacher School , in Immigrath
  • around 1914: District Office in Leverkusen
  • 1914–1915: Helmholtz secondary school in Hilden , Gerresheimer Strasse 20
  • 1915: "Römersches Waldhaus" in Opladen, in the Wupperinsel green area
  • 1918–1920: Agricultural winter school in Lennep
  • 1919–1920: Agricultural winter school in Opladen, Düsseldorfer Strasse 153–157
  • 1920: Freiherr-vom-Stein-Brunnen in Opladen
  • 1921–1922: Chapel on the Marienberg in Neviges
  • 1922: Honor roll for the pupils of the Barmen grammar school, Bleicherstraße who died in World War I
  • 1923: Black and white monument in Barmen (based on a design by the architect Fischer)
  • 1924: Housing development for senior civil servants in Opladen, Fürstenbergstrasse 20–22
  • 1925–1926: Honor roll for the fallen of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Wichlinghausen in Barmen
  • 1925–1926: Memorial hall in the cemetery chapel on Hugostraße in Barmen
  • 1926: Johannes Langermann monument in the Barmer grounds
  • 1927–1928: Architectural design of the Fallen Memorial in Kronenberg
  • 1927–1929: Administration building for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Elberfeld, on the banks of Iceland (on the Alexanderbrücke; together with Paul Fliether)
  • 1929: War memorial in Langerfeld (together with Paul Fliether)
  • 1929: Red Cross House in Opladen
  • 1930: Design of a memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First World War in Wülfrath
  • 1931: Memorial for the deserving men of the North Town Citizens' Association in Wuppertal-Barmen
  • 1936–1937: Schellenbeck garden city in Wuppertal
  • 1938–1939: Building for the air clothing office " Lenkwerk " in Bielefeld , Am Stadtholz 24–26 (later called Richmond-Kaserne )
  • 1939: Town hall in Wiehl
  • Lyceum in Uerdingen
  • Municipal cemetery in Opladen
  • Hallendorf settlement
  • Villa Weskott in Opladen, Fürstenbergstrasse 1

Fonts

  • The beautiful front door on the Lower Rhine and in the Bergisches Land. A. Schöpp, Elberfeld 1925 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Paffrath: Professor Peter Klotzbach. A builder from Bergisch. In: Land an Rhein und Wupper, Heimatkalender 1963 , pp. 64–70.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal. Biographies of the participating artists. Wuppertal 1991, p. 78 f. (= Contributions to the preservation of monuments and the cityscape of the Wuppertal , Volume 2.)
  3. ^ Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg: Architects, civil engineers, builders, property developers and their buildings in Wuppertal. Pies, Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-928441-52-3 , S. #.
  4. ^ Axel Kirchhoff: The architect Heinrich Plange (1857–1942). A builder of entrepreneurship in the Bergisch region. Dissertation, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal 2004, p. 118 f. ( online as PDF; 64.7 MB)
  5. ^ List of members in the yearbook of the German Werkbund 1914
  6. ↑ Address book Barmen 1913
  7. ^ List of members in the yearbook of the Association of German Architects and Engineers' Associations 1931
  8. ^ Declaration of love to the Ruhlach , accessed on August 12, 2013
  9. ↑ Metzmacher: Names and building (parts) received , accessed on August 12, 2013
  10. ^ District Office, today City Archives , accessed on August 12, 2013
  11. ^ History of the forest house. , accessed August 12, 2013
  12. ↑ Agricultural winter school Opladen (today: Chemical Investigation Office) , accessed on August 12, 2013
  13. ^ Stein - his monuments , accessed on August 12, 2013
  14. ↑ Preserve the old, discover the new. , accessed August 12, 2013
  15. ^ Gemeinnütziger Bauverein Opladen eG , accessed on August 12, 2013
  16. ↑ Honor roll for the fallen of the Lutheran congregation Wichlinghausen , accessed on August 12, 2013
  17. ↑ Johannes Langermann Monument , accessed on August 12, 2013
  18. ↑ Christoph Heuter: The police headquarters in Wuppertal. A building from the 1930s. In: Geschichte im Wuppertal , Volume 9 (2000), pp. 88-103, here pp. 98 f. ( Article online as a PDF document with 2.7 MB )
  19. ↑ War memorial in Langerfeld , accessed on August 12, 2013
  20. ↑ Memorial to the deserving men of the North Town Citizens' Association , accessed on August 12, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Klotzbach, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and technical school teacher, representative of homeland security architecture
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1947
Place of death Wuppertal