Richard Jörg

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Richard Jörg (born August 12, 1908 in Karlsruhe ; † September 1992 in Konstanz ) was a German architect and municipal building officer , who was best known for his designs for Catholic church buildings. He was the municipal senior building officer in Mainz and government building officer in Mannheim .

life and work

Richard Jörg completed a degree in architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe with a focus on urban building construction , housing and settlement with Otto Ernst Schweizer . Jörg took over the management of the Mainz Building Department in 1947 and was active in this position in Mainz until 1952. During his activity in Mainz he became known for his plans to rebuild the old town that had been destroyed by the war . For the old city center, however, he was unable to develop a feasible overall urban design concept due to the different traffic conditions (sequence of different urban spaces, extraordinarily complex landscape of squares and alleys). From 1949 to 1951 he was in charge of the reconstruction of the Moller City Theater, today the State Theater in Mainz .

As a senior building officer, together with Adolf Bayer, he developed concepts for maintaining several unobstructed views of the Mainz Cathedral , which, among other things, were based on a low, highly loosened ridge development on the south side of Ludwigsstrasse . He developed other lines of sight from Schusterstrasse and through a new lane between Stadthausstrasse and Alter Universitätsstrasse, formerly Seppel-Glückert-Passage. This concept was only implemented from 1961 and Ludwigsstraße was considerably widened to the depth of the southern wall of Gutenbergplatz . Uniform two-story pavilions were built in front of tall rear buildings. This ensemble has not been recognized as a historical monument, although the basic cubic shape as an integral part of the superordinate ridge structure and the largely preserved substance and proportions of the buildings have been described as worthy of monument.

The most striking building of his creative period in Mainz is the Holy Cross Church in the Silesian Quarter, approved by the Mainz Bishop Albert Stohr and planned with the participation of the architect Bernhard Schmitz . The avant-garde central building is the first pre-conciliar Catholic church building in Germany, which - as later strived for in the Vatican - was oriented towards dialogue and the bonding of the church people with the priesthood. For this purpose, the spatial separation of the sanctuary and lay room was abolished. Jörg often used the elaborate lighting control later on.

Together with Adolf Bayer, whom he knew from his time in Mainz, he took part in the architectural competition for the construction of government buildings in Würzburg.

The city of Mannheim appointed Jörg as urban planning director in 1952. He was in charge of the structural engineering, spatial planning and green areas department. In Mannheim he was responsible for the reconstruction of the Mozart Hall in the Rose Garden , the official building C 7.2 and the armory , as well as for the new construction of the Chamber of Crafts in B1 and the St. Lioba Church as well as the renovation of the Engelhardt House on the planks .

Buildings (selection)

Front view of the Church of St. Andreas in Neckarhausen

Fonts

  • with Ignatia Neumann and Hugo Schnell: The Ursuline Chapel in Mannheim. From the history of the Ursuline Order and the Ursuline Monastery Schweidnitz-Mannheim (= Small German Church Leaders. Vol. 1051). Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1975.

Web links

Commons : Richard Jörg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Das Münster , year 1992, issues 1–4.
  2. ^ Richard Jörg, Adolf Bayer : Urban planning and construction of Mainz. In: Otto Ernst Schweizer and his school. The students on the sixtieth birthday of their master. Ravensburg 1950, pp. 19-27.
  3. ↑ Andrew MacNeille: Between Tradition and Innovation - Historic Places in the Federal Republic of Germany after 1945. Dissertation, University of Cologne, 2004, p. 236 ( PDF ; 3.1 MB).
  4. ^ Heinrich Henning: Mainz. The fate of a city. In: The new city. Magazine for architecture and town planning. Born 1953, pp. 49–87.
  5. ^ Roland Goller: November 24, 1951. Mainz, Stadttheater: Again in the Moller building. In: 400 years of opera - theater - opera houses, construction - destruction - reconstruction. Euro-Opera.de.
  6. ^ Richard Jörg, Adolf Bayer : Urban planning and construction of Mainz. In: Otto Ernst Schweizer and his school. The students on the sixtieth birthday of their master. Ravensburg 1950, p. 22.
  7. ^ Ewald Wegner : Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Volume 2.2: City of Mainz. Old town. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 202.
  8. ^ Hugo Schnell : The new Church of the Holy Cross in Mainz by Richard Jörg. In: The Minster. Year 1955, issue 1/2.
  9. ^ The Würzburg government building competition. In: Bauwelt . Born 1953, issue 13.
  10. ↑ Christian Peters: "Fortunately we are an exception". Mannheim in the fifties. Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7995-0905-4 , p. 124.
  11. ^ Andreas Schenk: Architectural Guide Mannheim. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01201-3 , p. 47, object no. 245.
personal data
SURNAME Jörg, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and municipal building officer
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH September 1992
Place of death Constancy