Richard Schiffner

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Richard Schiffner (born February 7, 1881 in Zittau ; † April 17, 1953 there ) was a German architect .

Life

Richard Schiffner was the son of a railway official. He attended the community school in Zittau and, combined with an apprenticeship as a bricklayer , the Zittau building trade school . He then worked in Leipzig and from 1903 studied architecture at the Dresden Art Academy , especially with Paul Wallot . At the end of his studies he was awarded the silver medal of the academy and received a travel grant from the Gottfried Semper Foundation to Italy . He initially worked at the building department of the city of Dresden under city building officer Hans Erlwein and was involved in the execution of the city ​​cattle and slaughterhouse in Dresden.

In 1911 he opened his own office in Zittau, first at Rathausplatz 2, later at Markt 22.

Works

The König Albert Museum in Zwickau is considered to be Schiffner's main work . On July 14, 1910, his competition design received first prize from the jury; the building was built from 1912 to 1914 and still houses the city art collections and the Zwickau council school library .

In Zittau he designed the new building for the Kronen-Lichtspiele , Äußere Weberstrasse 17, built in 1912 and rebuilt in 1928 by the Dresden architect Martin Pietzsch .

He presumably was the site manager for the new construction of the administration building of the Elektrizitätswerke Oberlausitz AG in Zittau, Görlitzer Strasse 9, which was completed in 1914 according to designs by the Dresden architects Lossow and Kühne .

After the First World War , when due to inflation , among other things, hardly any major construction contracts were available, he also designed tombs and cenotaphs, for example at the Zittauer Kreuzkirche , at the source of the Spree at Kottmar and in the communities of Neugersdorf, Wittgendorf, Seitendorf, Spitzkunnersdorf, Kemnitz and Hörnitz and Eibau. In the second half of the 1920s, post offices, schools and community buildings predominated, such as the post offices in Hainewalde (1926) and Großschönau (1931) and schools in Niederoderwitz (1925), Neusalza-Spremberg (1926) and Großpostwitz (1929).

In Seifhennersdorf he designed the technical college for the textile industry (1926), although his plans were only partially carried out, and in 1935/1936, in collaboration with Hans Kech (1902–1954), completely redesigned the interior of the Kreuzkirche, which was badly damaged in a fire.

Also in 1936, the Dr. Curt Heinke Tower was built on the Breiteberg based on Schiffner's designs.

From 1936 to 1938 the Ratskeller and the city hall in the Löbau town hall were redesigned according to his designs.

literature

  • Bernd Mälzer: For the 120th birthday of the Zittau architect Richard Schiffner. In: Zittauer Geschichtsblätter ( ISSN  1439-2739 ), issue 1/2001, pp. 10-12.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gernot Klatte: Pietzsch, Carl Richard Martin . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  2. on draft authorship cf. List of cultural monuments in Zittau Ost (and there linked monument index card)
  3. Kreuzkirche Seifhennersdorf , accessed on November 4, 2013