Rainer Disse

Rainer Disse (born May 5, 1928 in Gütersloh ; † February 5, 2008 in Karlsruhe ) was a German architect who worked primarily in the construction of churches . His preferred building material was concrete, his architectural style can be assigned to brutalism .

Life

After studying architecture with Egon Eiermann at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , Baden-Württemberg remained the center of his work.

In addition to much-noticed sacred buildings, he designed the atrium house group in the Karlsruhe Waldstadt (1962–1963), the Sebastian School in Karlsdorf-Neuthard (1963–1968), the hillside development with terraced houses in connection with the Catholic community center St. John the Baptist in Hornberg ( 1966–1973), large industrial buildings and numerous residential buildings.

He also worked out several development plans and site redevelopment plans. For one of his last major works, the US Bowling Center in Karlsruhe (1984–1987), he received a World Award .

Several of Rainer Disse's churches are now listed as historical monuments . His work archive is in the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering .

Sacred buildings

Church tower of St. Elisabeth in Freiburg-Brühl

Church on the Feldberg

His most important sacred buildings include:

1954–1955: St. Maria Königin in Linkenheim
1955–1957: St. Thomas in Grünwettersbach
1957–1958: St. Elisabeth in Friedrichstal
1960–1962: St. Michael in Altenbach
1960–1961: Church of the Transfiguration of Christ on the Feldberg
1962–1964: St. Johannes Baptista in Durlach
1962–1964: St. Josef in Bruchsal
1962–1964: St. Elisabeth in Freiburg-Brühl
1962–1963: funeral hall of the main cemetery in Karlsruhe – Neureut
1966–1968: St. John the Baptist in Hornberg
1963–1971: Holy Spirit in Offenburg – Albersbösch
1965–1967: St. Marien in Gaggenau
1968–1970: St. Petrus Canisius in Freiburg – Landwasser
1973: St. Bonifatius in Wilhelmsfeld
1974–1976: St. Peter and Paul in Bad Oeynhausen (extension)

literature

Meike Deck: The architect and church builder Rainer Disse (1928–2008). Reduction and concentration in the age of concrete brutalism. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2667-5 .

Web links

Commons : Rainer Disse - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Data record on Rainer Disse in the database of the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Individual evidence

↑ Melanie Mertens, "The tent of God among the people". St. Josef in Bruchsal , in: Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg , Vol. 48 No. 3 (2019), pp. 192–193

↑ Johannes Werner: House of God and the Congregation. The new catholic church in Hornberg. In: Dieter Jakob (Ed.), Architecture. The world we build for ourselves (= Wilhelm Hausenstein Symposium 2012). Munich 2014, pp. 29–38 .

↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Disse, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	May 5, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gutersloh
DATE OF DEATH	February 5, 2008
Place of death	Karlsruhe

[1] Melanie Mertens, "The tent of God among the people". St. Josef in Bruchsal , in: Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg , Vol. 48 No. 3 (2019), pp. 192–193

[2] Johannes Werner: House of God and the Congregation. The new catholic church in Hornberg. In: Dieter Jakob (Ed.), Architecture. The world we build for ourselves (= Wilhelm Hausenstein Symposium 2012). Munich 2014, pp. 29–38 .