Richard Konwiarz

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Richard Konwiarz (born February 15, 1883 in Kempen , Province of Posen , † December 14, 1960 in Hanover ) was a German architect and municipal building officer who was particularly noted for the sports facilities he planned.

Life

Richard Konwiarz studied at the Dresden Art Academy with Paul Wallot and gained his first professional experience in the architectural offices Lossow and Kühne (Dresden) and Pflegehard and Haefeli in Zurich . In 1909, City Planning Officer Max Berg brought him to Breslau . Until 1945 he held a leading position in the city administration. He worked among other things, the construction of the Centennial Hall with whose expansion he supervised after the departure mountain. As a municipal building officer, Konwiarz implemented numerous municipal building projects: a crematorium, cemetery halls, hospital buildings, the state hall in the forum of the square in front of the Centennial Hall, traffic and factory buildings, sports halls and public parks. After the First World War , popular sport experienced an upswing, and in the early 1920s the urban area of ​​Wroclaw grew five times as much as a result of incorporations. Konwiarz planned in particular play, sports and swimming facilities for the individual districts, as well as the so-called Olympic Stadium as a large central facility. Konwiarz was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and the Bund Heimatschutz , he volunteered at the Day for the Preservation of Monuments and until 1933 was a lecturer at the Institute for Physical Education at the University of Breslau .

In 1945 he came back to Dresden and worked in the city administration on rebuilding the city. In 1947 he took over the chair for urban planning at the Technical University of Dresden . He also took over the management of the university development. In the spring of 1949 he presented a building program, and in 1950 a spatial development plan in order to take the university's growth into account for urban planning. In 1950 he retired and moved to Hanover. There he took on advisory activities in the construction of sports facilities and, together with Heinz Goesmann, designed the plans for the Lower Saxony Stadium in Hanover in the early 1950s .

His son Hans Konwiarz also became an architect.

Awards

plant

Buildings and designs

  • 1911 - Bismarck tower in Kempen , not preserved
  • 1914 - Design of the settlement for workers and employees of the company CW Regel Söhne in Luisenhain near Posen (today Poznań-Starołęka), not realized
  • 1919–1920 - Urban planning for the renovation of the old town in Wroclaw as well as drafts for four high-rise designs for the city administration, 1919–1920 (with Max Berg and Ludwig Moshamer )
  • 1924–1927 - Schlesierkampfbahn, called Olympiastadion , in Breslau
  • 1925–1927 - Crematorium at the Breslau-Gräbschen cemetery , not preserved.
  • 1926 - Two pedestrian bridges over the Grüneicher Weg in Breslau, as a connection between the Centennial Hall and the southern part of the exhibition grounds.
  • 1927–1929 - Strandbad Nordend Breslau-Rosenthal
  • 1929 - Children's rest home (received with changes) and temporary theater for puppet shows for the Werkbundsiedlung in Breslau
  • 1929 - Beblostrasse forming station, Breslau-Dürrgoy
  • 1929 - Brückenaue sports hall, Breslau-Oswitz
  • 1929 - Waldbad Breslau-Cosel
  • 1929 - Wroclaw-Opperau swimming pool
  • 1930–1931 - Brothersstrasse forming station (today Pułaskiego)
  • 1933–1934 - Building for the Schurtzmann & Wiesner Foundation on Roonstrasse (now Aleja Pracy ) No. 30, 32, 34 and a residential building at Roonstrasse 27–29
  • 1935 - SA memorial in Ostpark (today Park Wschodni), Breslau
  • 1936–1939 - Expansion of the Schlesierkampfbahn
  • 1936–1939 - Gate building of the southern exhibition area (now the entrance gate of the Wroclaw Zoological Garden)
  • 1937–1938 - State Hall in Breslau
  • 1941–1943 - Bunker in Breslau: Striegauer Platz (today Pl. Strzegomski), Elbingstr. (Ołbińska), Gräbschener Str. (Grabiszyńska), Fritz-Geisler-Str. (Ładna), Weissdornweg (Białodrzewna)
  • 1952–1954 - Lower Saxony Stadium Hanover with Heinz Goesmann

  • Pedestrian bridge to the zoo in Breslau (designed in 1926)

  • Olympic Stadium Wroclaw (designed 1924–1927)

  • Remains of the former memorial for the fallen Wroclaw SA men in Ostpark, Breslau-Tschansch (design 1935)

  • Bunker in Wroclaw, pl. Strzegomski (designed in 1941)

  • Team line-up in front of the original grandstand construction of the Lower Saxony Stadium (1963)

Fonts

  • Old Silesia. Architecture, spatial art, applied arts. 1913.
  • (as editor): The architecture of Breslau. An architectural guide. Wroclaw 1926.

literature

  • TE: Richard Konwiarz 75 years. In: Builder. 55/1958, p. 282.
  • Akademie der Künste (ed.): Arbeitsrat für Kunst, Berlin 1918–1921. (Exhibition catalog with documentation) Berlin 1980, p. 142.
  • Konstanze Beelitz, Niclas Förster: Breslau, Wrocław. Modern architecture. Wasmuth, Tübingen / Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8030-0660-0 .

Web links

Commons : Richard Konwiarz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data at OKR
  2. ↑ Reiner Pommerin : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 1: History of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin, Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02303-5 , p. 249.
  3. ↑ http://www.bismarcktuerme.de/ - From the Bismarck to the Kosciuszkoturm
  4. ↑ Ostdeutsche Bauzeitung vol. 20 no. 45, June 7, 1922, pp. 179–180.
  5. ^ J to Harasimowicz : Atlas architektury Wrocławia. Tom 2, ISBN 83-7023-679-0 , pp. 298-299; Jerzy Ilkosz, Beate Störtkuhl (eds.): Wieżowce Wrocławia , Wrocław 1997, ISBN 83-908067-0-3 , pp. 137, 153–156.
  6. ↑ a b Konstanze Beelitz, Niclas Förster: Breslau | Wrocław. Modern architecture. Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Berlin / Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-8030-0660-0 .
  7. ↑ a b c d What is being built in Breslau in 1929. In: Silesian monthly books: Leaves for culture and literature of the homeland. Volume VI, January 1929, number 1.
  8. ↑ Ostdeutsche Bauzeitung vol. 38 No. 21, May 23, 1940, pp. 95–98.
  9. ↑ Janusz Leszek Dobesz: Wrocławska architektura spod znaku swastyki na tle budownictwa III Rzeszy. 2005, ISBN 83-7085-911-9 , pp. 60-67 (online)
  10. ↑ Archiwum Budowlane Miasta Wrocławia - Białodrzewna b / n ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2013 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 / ma.wroc.pl
  11. ^ Hannoversche Stadttafeln: Lower Saxony Stadium (Plate 26)
personal data
SURNAME Konwiarz, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempen , Poznan Province
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1960
Place of death Hanover