Stefan Leuer

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Stefan Leuer (born May 13, 1913 in Bad Neuenahr ; † February 21, 1979 in Cologne ) was a German architect . He is one of the well-known church architects in the Rhineland.

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Leuer graduated from the Realgymnasium in Ahrweiler. After graduating from high school in 1933 and an internship at a construction company with a carpenter's workshop, Stefan Leuen studied architecture at the Technical University of Aachen - from 1933 to December 1937. After graduating, he worked in Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's office and was compulsory during the Second World War the Reichsautobahn . In 1946 he became an assistant to Hans Schwippert at the Technical University of Aachen and then worked with Schwippert on his projects (Bundeshaus and Federal Chancellery) in Bonn. It was there that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer became aware of Leuer (as he did later in Maria Laach ) and arranged for him to succeed Dominikus Böhm's church building class at the Cologne Werkschulen - he was appointed to Cologne in 1954 (at the same time Schwippert became director of the Düsseldorf Art Academy). Stefan Leuer led his church and secular building class in Cologne until the architecture department of the factory schools was relocated to Cologne-Deutz in 1973 to the newly founded university of applied sciences.

Stefan Leuer was now an architecture professor at the University of Applied Sciences (renamed TH-Köln in 2015 ), but continued to teach sacred architecture . He preferred concrete and brick for his buildings. He taught his students how to use the appropriate materials correctly - his catchwords were “material-appropriate” and “work-oriented”.

Until his retirement in 1978, in addition to his teaching activities, he ran an architecture office with a partner and built numerous buildings in the Rhineland: churches, kindergartens, parish apartments, nursing homes and workshops for the disabled.

Stefan Leuer was married and has a daughter.

Work (selection)

  • Interior of the Bundeshaus in Bonn (as assistant or employee of Hans Schwippert)
  • Renovation of the Palais Schaumburg in Bonn (as assistant or employee of Hans Schwippert)
  • Office building of the Provinzial-Versicherung in Düsseldorf (as assistant or employee of Hans Schwippert)
St. Gregorius, Aachen-Burtscheid
St. Joseph, Siegburg
St. Barbara, Krefeld (formerly St. Franziskus)
  • Renovation of the Maria Laach abbey church in the Eifel
  • Reconstruction and expansion of the Cologne factory schools
  • Residential complex in front of the St. Maria im Kapitol church in Cologne
  • Lookout tower on the Krausberg near Dernau
  • Parish center St. Pius in Bad Neuenahr- Ahrweiler
  • Lookout tower of the long Köbes in Bad Neuenahr (exposed concrete)
  • Catholic parish church St. Gregorius in Aachen , Eupener Straße 222 (planning from 1962, draft and implementation planning)
  • Catholic parish church St. Franziskus in Krefeld, today Russian Orthodox church St. Barbara
  • Catholic parish church St. Joseph in Siegburg
  • 1951: Bonn , competition design for the Münster School (3rd prize)
  • 1954–1956: Bonn, college chapel of the Redemptorist Order
  • 1955–1957: Bonn, district Venusberg , catholic church and community center Heilig Geist (monument protection)
  • 1956: Herzogenrath , Catholic parish church Herz Jesu
  • 1958/1959: Dülken , cath. Parish church of St. Cornelius (only the choir was redesigned according to plans by Stefan Leuer)
  • 1964–1966: Krefeld , cath. Parish Church of St. Thomas More
  • 1965: Bonn, district of Hochkreuz , Catholic Holy Cross Church (with Willi Zachert)

literature

  • Felix Kreusch : New Churches in the Diocese of Aachen 1930–1960. Mönchengladbach.
  • Heinz Bouillon: Buildings in the Diocese of Trier (1960–1976). o.
  • Wilhelm Passavanti (Ed.): Bonn churches and chapels. Bonn 1989.
  • Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen. 1994.
  • Karl Josef Bollenbeck (edit.): New churches in the Archdiocese of Cologne 1955–1995. Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-922634-14-1 . (2 volumes)
  • Architektur und Wohnform , born 1950, issue 5, pp. 99–109.
  • Building and Living , 7th year 1952, No. 2, p. 69 f.
  • Michael Werling : Architecture teacher at Cologne University of Applied Sciences Part I / The alumni . Edited on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the department or the faculty for architecture of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Cologne 2006, p. 127 ff.

Web link

Commons : Stefan Leuer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The architect 1951, IV, 10, 6.
  2. ↑ Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg district , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , p. 122/123.
  3. ↑ Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Puetz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and the Rhine-Sieg district , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp 157/158.
personal data
SURNAME Leuer, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Neuenahr
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1979
Place of death Cologne