Rainer Oefelein

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Rainer Oefelein (born August 23, 1935 in Dresden ; † January 19, 2011 in Kremmen ) was a German architect and university professor , he taught as a professor of building construction at the Technical University of Berlin .

Oefelein designed and implemented several residential building projects in Berlin, including the Pfarrland settlement in Rudow and, as his largest project, the high-deck settlement in Neukölln . The concept of the large housing estate with around 6,000 residents today (as of 2011) was considered innovative in terms of urban planning when it was built in the 1970s and 1980s. In the last years of his life he took part in research into the reinstallation of the pilgrimage route Berlin-Wilsnack .

Career

Rainer Oefelein studied architecture in Munich and Berlin. Between 1965 and 1970 he worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin . 1980/1981 he was a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 1993 he received a professorship for building construction at the Technical University of Berlin.

He also worked as a freelance architect since 1968, in the 1970s in an architectural community with the architect Bernhard Freund. The law firm was primarily active in urban and residential construction in Berlin. In 1987 Oefelein took part in the International Building Exhibition in Berlin . In 2005 he was a participant in the international photo exhibition (Iza Documenta) in Poreč , Croatia , and in 2006 in a traveling exhibition of the Brandenburg Chamber of Architects. In addition, he has been researching the reinstallation of the Berlin-Wilsnack pilgrimage since 2004 and has organized accompanying exhibitions in Havelberg , Potsdam , Bernau and Berlin. He was also the first chairman of the St. Jakobusgesellschaft Berlin-Brandenburg eV, founded in 2006 , which is dedicated to the research, preservation and care of the cultural assets and religious customs associated with the Way of St. James and the local pilgrimage traditions.

Oefelein died on January 19, 2011 at the age of 75 in his home town of Kremmen. He was buried in the Kisseln cemetery in Berlin-Spandau .

Buildings (selection)

Rollbergsiedlung

In 1970, Oefelein and Freund won an urban planning competition from the West Berlin Senate to build a large housing estate as part of social housing on both sides of Sonnenallee in southeast Berlin-Neukölln . The concept presented and implemented in the 1970s and 1980s turned against the high-rise concept of "urbanity through density" that was common in Berlin at the time, such as in the Märkisches Viertel or in Gropiusstadt and relied on a structural and functional separation of pedestrians and car traffic . High-level , green paths, the high-decks, connect the mostly five- to six-story buildings in the high-deck settlement named after them . The streets with parking spaces and garages are below the high decks. The settlement was praised by the public and by architects as a positive and innovative example of new residential construction. In the 1990s, however, the urban planning concept was considered to have failed. The high decks were mostly deserted and the desired multifunctional communication zone did not emerge.

Rainer Oefelein said in an interview in 1987 that there had been "worse things" than the high-deck settlement and overall he considered the solution to be "satisfactory" for the time, but already for his next major project, the parish settlement in Berlin- Rudow , he has learned the lessons from the deficits of the high-deck settlement. The parish settlement was also the result of a competition it won (1980). It was built in 1985 on Rudower Höhe in the style of a garden city with around 500 rental apartments in the form of city ​​villas . Landscapers equipped the settlement with lots of greenery and a green corridor up to Rudower Höhe, a 70 meter high artificial mountain of rubble . With 280 gardens, the apartments had more gardens than the allotment garden on which the garden city was built.

Rainer Oefelein's other buildings and projects in Berlin include the renovation and extensive rebuilding of the Neukölln Rollbergsiedlung (1980s) - like the high-deck housing estate today, a social hotspot with district management - as well as a residential and commercial building on Kurfürstendamm (from 1980 ), the double sports hall on Hohenstaufenstrasse (from 1991) and the residential buildings at Schöneberg's Nelly-Sachs-Park (from 1994). His few buildings outside Berlin include eleven terraced houses in series production in Erkrath-Hochdahl near Düsseldorf (from 1977) and seven terraced houses as part of the European Building Exhibition in Bonn-Hardtberg (from 1978).

Fonts

  • Brandenburg. Medieval pilgrimage from Berlin to Wilsnack-Tangermünde. 2nd edition, Conrad Stein, Welver 2008, ISBN 978-3-86686-189-3 . (= Outdoor Handbook , Volume 189.)

literature

  • Ute Birk in conversation with Rainer Oefelein, the architect of the Highdeck and Pfarrland settlement. In: Brigitte Jacob, Harald Ramm (Ed.): From Ilsenhof to the Highdeck. Models of social living in Neukölln. Transit Buchverlag , Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-88747-039-7 , pp. 122-131. (Book accompanying an exhibition by the Neuköllner Kulturverein eV in cooperation with the Neukölln Art Office, October 2 - November 29, 1987)
  • Heiko Haberle: Highdecksiedlung and Rollbergviertel - two residential concepts from the 1970s. ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Matthias Seidel, Thorsten Dame (Ed.): Weiterbauen 70th University of the Arts Berlin, Faculty of Design, degree course in architecture, specializing in the history, theory and criticism of architecture, seminar documentation for the 2005 academic year –2006 ( PDF file , therein pp. 191–217, section Die High-Deck-Siedlung pp. 191–208, the page numbers under “Individual references” refer to this entire text. No ISBN).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Freund later left the architectural community and worked in a leading position at a large Berlin housing company. Since 1998 he has been working exclusively as a publicly appointed and sworn expert for the Berlin Chamber of Commerce ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.45grad.de
  2. ^ Short biography of Rainer Oefelein
  3. ↑ St. Jakobusgesellschaft Berlin-Brandenburg eV founded.
  4. ↑ Rainer Oefelein died. ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-mark-online.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Die-Mark-Online. January 24, 2011.
  5. ↑ Heiko Haberle: Highdecksiedlung and Rollbergviertel ... , p. 193f.
  6. ↑ Ute Birk in conversation with Rainer Oefelein, the architect of the Highdeck and Pfarrland settlement. P. 122f.
  7. ↑ Heiko Haberle: Highdecksiedlung and Rollbergviertel ... , p. 205f.
  8. ↑ Sonnenallee / high-deck settlement. In: Evaluation of the Berlin neighborhood management in the pilot phase 1999–2002. Volume 2. Results for the areas. Empirica Wirtschaftsforschung und Beratung GmbH, Berlin May 2003. pp. 121–124 (On behalf of the Senate Department for Urban Development, Berlin; Departments I and IV. Coordination: Heidrun Nagel. Editing: Stefan Geiss, Marie-Therese Krings-Heckemeier, Ulrich Pfeiffer, Darja Reuschke, Annamaria Schwedt. Project number: 20090, PDF file ).
  9. ↑ Ute Birk in conversation with Rainer Oefelein, the architect of the Highdeck and Pfarrland settlement. Pp. 126, 129.
  10. ↑ Ute Birk in conversation with Rainer Oefelein, the architect of the Highdeck and Pfarrland settlement. P. 127ff.
  11. ^ Rainer Oefelein: Buildings and projects.
personal data
SURNAME Oefelein, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 2011
Place of death Cramps