Stephan Legge

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The Holy Cross Church Arnsberg (1973)

Stephan Legge (born August 8, 1930 in Zülpich ; † September 23, 2005 in Bonn ) was a German architect and urban planner .

Life

He studied architecture at RWTH Aachen . Then he and his wife, the architect Ursula Legge-Suwelack, founded an architecture office in Lammersdorf , which dealt with residential and sacred construction and took part in architecture competitions.

In 1972 the couple of architects won first prize for their contribution to the urban planning ideas competition “Federal buildings and their integration into the city of Bonn” and thus became known nationwide. According to the Legge plan, the ministries previously scattered over the greater Bonn area were to be concentrated in two high-rise centers on both sides of the Rhine by 1985 - connected by a glass-roofed pedestrian bridge. The cost of a corresponding reconstruction of the city of Bonn was estimated by a working group of the then Federal Minister of Construction Hans-Jochen Vogel at 13 billion marks. The Legge architectural office then moved to Bonn, but the plans were not implemented.

In the 1980s and 1990s Legge was increasingly concerned with the renovation of old buildings and after 1990 founded a branch office in Leipzig and a real estate company.

Works (selection)

Stained glass window by Stephan Legge in the Aukirche Monschau, approx. 1966

Competitions

  • 1962 A European sleeping place (with Jürgen Rohner and Ursula Legge-Suwelack, 3rd prize)
  • 1965 Kreishaus Arnsberg (with Ursula Legge-Suwelack)
  • 1969 Bielefeld University (with Ursula Legge-Suwelack and Zoran Tasic, 6th place and special purchase)
  • 1972 Urban development draft of federal buildings and their integration into the city of Bonn (with Hermann-Josef Siepen, Norbert Breuer, Georg Krutt, Hartmut Schütt, Rolf Stockem and Ursula Legge-Suwelack, 1st prize)
  • 1976 Reorganization of the town center (with Ursula Legge-Suwelack, 1st prize)

Fonts

  • Stephan Legge: Lammersdorf local planning, Simmerath office, Monschau district, taking into account a changed community structure. Ed. Of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Landwirtschaftl. Construction North Rhine-Westphalia eV (ALB-NRW), Düsseldorf 1966

Exhibitions

  • Stephan Legge: Paintings, watercolors and drawings, House of the Evangelical Church, Bonn 2007

Web links

Commons : Stephan Legge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl-Christian Kaiser: Building for the Federal Government, assembly line over the river, in: Die Zeit , April 28, 1972, issue 17
  2. ↑ Federal capital at the end, in: Der Spiegel 33/73, Hamburg 13 August 1973
  3. ↑ The ideal boudoir, DIE ZEIT No. 48, November 30, 1962
  4. ↑ Der Baumeister , Heft 62, Munich 1965, p. 68
  5. ↑ Bauwelt vol. 60, issue 49, Berlin 1969, p. 1758
  6. ↑ Bauwelt booklet vol. 63, booklet 21, Berlin 1972, pp. 841–852
  7. ↑ Der Baumeister No. 73, Munich 1976, pp. 60–61
personal data
SURNAME Legge, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Zülpich
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 2005
Place of death Bonn