Rudolf Steinbach

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Rudolf Steinbach (born April 14, 1903 in Barmen ; † December 23, 1966 in Aachen ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Steinbach graduated from the Barmer Kunstgewerbeschule and the Polytechnikum Friedberg , and was a guest student at the Technical University of Stuttgart from 1929 to 1930 . Then he worked as a freelance architect in Heidelberg . During the Second World War, he was involved in reconstruction planning in Lorraine with Rudolf Schwarz , Emil Steffann and Alfons Leitl . After 1945 he worked again as a freelance architect in Heidelberg, worked for the magazine Baukunst und Werkform, published by Alfons Leitl, and took part in the Bauhaus debate in 1953 that was held there and triggered by Rudolf Schwarz . From 1951 to 1966 Steinbach taught as professor and successor to Otto Gruber building construction in the architecture faculty of the RWTH Aachen ; until Wolfgang Döring was appointed in 1972, Horst Kohl, Steinbach's senior assistant and office partner, was in charge of building construction in the architecture department at RWTH Aachen University.

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The focus of Steinbach's activity was in Heidelberg and in the Catholic milieu. He built several residential buildings there, rebuilt monuments that were destroyed in the war (Württemberg castles and churches, Alte Brücke , Neuburg Abbey ) in the sense of a history-conscious, lively preservation of monuments, such as the war-damaged church Johannisberg (Rheingau), which he shared from 1946 to 1951 traced back to its Romance origins with Rudolf Schwarz. He worked on numerous new church buildings in Schwarz (St. Albert in Andernach , St. Anna in Düren ). Together with Horst Kohl, Steinbach built the St. Lambertus Community Center in Düsseldorf and the St.Antonius Church in Wuppertal-Barmen (competition 1960, completion 1973); with Kohl and Gernot Kramer he built the Aachen fire station, the FIR (association) : Research Institute for Rationalization of the RWTH Aachen (1st prize in the building competition 1953), the Reiffmuseum Aachen (seat of the architecture faculty of the RWTH Aachen) and as an admirer of Islamic architecture with Kramer 1964–1971 the Bilail Mosque for Muslim students at RWTH Aachen University.

In 1961 Steinbach gave the lecture Are we building for a democracy? at a conference of the Evangelical Academy Berlin, which Ulrich Conrads published in 1969 as record 2 / Bauwelt Archive under the title "Die infendliche Barackei " and provided on the back with the text "Memories of Rudolf Steinbach" : "(...) He understood the stones. He said where they wanted to go. His instructions went into buildings apparently without a trace, often into those of others. He still took seriously what no one wants to accept as the task of the architect: making beauty shine . (.. .) ".

Steinbach was an important representative of the history-conscious building design and work theory of the Aachen School , which is also expressed in his appreciation of the "honored friend and master" Schwarz, in whose work he above all the "clarity" and "the last renunciation of superfluous, handed down to us, but no longer our own and self-experienced form ” . He lived in the Mantels garden house , a building by the Baroque master builder Johann Joseph Couven on the Lousberg in Aachen, and appreciated living in a baroque floor plan.

  • Old Bridge Heidelberg: Reconstruction after 1945

  • Old Bridge and Heidelberg Castle

  • Neuburg Abbey

  • St. Lambertus Düsseldorf with community center

  • St.Antonius Wuppertal-Barmen

  • Bilal Mosque Aachen

  • Mantels Lousberg garden house, Aachen: Rudolf Steinbach's home

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DIGIPORTA digital portrait archive: The architect Rudolf Steinbach. German Art Archive in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, accessed on December 16, 2017 (German).
  2. ↑ Rudolf Steinbach: What is the core of the discussion about Rudolf Schwarz? In: Ulrich Conrads (Ed.): Bauwelt Fundamente . The Bauhaus debate in 1953; Documents of a Repressed Controversy, No. 100 . Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 3-528-06100-6 , pp. 152-160 .
  3. ^ Rudolf Steinbach: The old bridge in Heidelberg and the problem of rebuilding . In: Ulrich Conrads and Peter Neitzke (eds.): The cities open to the sky, speeches and reflections on the reconstruction of what was lost and the return of the new building in 1948/49 . Bauwelt Foundations, No. 125 . Birkhäuser, Basel, Bosten, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7643-6903-5 , pp. 171-179 .
  4. ↑ Alfons Leitl: The Reconstruction of the Johannisberg Church in the Rheingau - An Example of Living Monument Preservation . In: Alfons Leitl (Hrsg.): Baukunst und Werkform . No. 1 . Frankfurter Hefte, Frankfurt am Main 1952, p. 36-46 .
  5. ^ BDA Wuppertal: Church of St. Antonius. BDA Wuppertal, accessed on March 20, 2018 (German).
  6. ^ Bernhard J. Lattner, Roland Feitenhansl, Joachim Hennze: Silent contemporary witnesses: Gernot Kramer (1928-2000). (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 20, 2018 (German).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stille-zeitzeugen.de  
  7. ↑ Hans-Peter Leisten: Main fire station: balancing act in matters of monument protection. Aachener Zeitung, July 6, 2015, accessed on March 20, 2018 (German).
  8. ↑ RWTH Aachen: DAS BAUWERK Planning, building and renovation of the Reiff Museum. RWTH Aachen, accessed on March 20, 2018 .
  9. ^ Elke Janßen-Schnabel: Reiff Museum Architecture Faculty of RWTH Aachen University. In: KuLaDig. LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland, 2011, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Julia Maxelon: The Bilal Mosque Aachen, Rhenish art sites. Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection, 2014, accessed on March 20, 2018 (German).
  11. ↑ Nadine Diab: Bilal mosque in Aachen: The hidden pioneer. Düsseldorfer Nachrichten - Westdeutsche Zeitung, August 11, 2017, accessed on March 20, 2018 (German).
  12. ↑ Contents of the Ulrich Conrads Archive Contributions to the Bauwelt in Schubern 1 - 23. TU-Cottbus, library, accessed on December 16, 2017 (German).
  13. ↑ Ulrich Pantle: Concept of Reduction. Contributions to church building in Germany from 1945 to 1950. Dissertation, University of Stuttgart 2003, p. 142. (Chapters 1–4 thereof online as PDF document with approx. 2.3 MB)

literature

  • Walter Schmitthenner : Rudolf Steinbach 1903–1966. Dates of his life, his works, his friends. Self-published , 1990.
  • Rudolf Steinbach: The old bridge in Heidelberg and the problem of reconstruction. In: Ulrich Conrads (ed.): The cities sky-open. Speeches and reflections on the reconstruction of what was lost and the return of the new building in 1948/49. Birkhäuser, Basel / Stuttgart 2002, pp. 171ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Steinbach, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1966
Place of death Aachen