Walter Görig

The bell , 1926–1928

Sexton's house

Walter Görig (born March 4, 1885 in Idar; † April 7, 1974 in Bremen ) was a German architect .

biography

Deutsche Schiffsbank, 1952

After attending high school, Görig completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt . During his studies he became a member of the Markomannia Darmstadt fraternity in 1902/1903 . He then first worked in Hamburg in the building authorities. From 1908 Görig worked in Wilhelm Ostwald's architectural office in Bremen.

From 1914 he had his own office. After his military service in the First World War , in which he was wounded in 1915 and lost his left index finger, he was able to design and realize a number of buildings in the 1920s, including the Friesenhaus in Spitzenkiel in Bremen. 1927–1928 The Glocke on the Domsheide and 1929–1930 the Evangelical Church in Bremen-Oslebshausen , both in expressionistic brick architecture, were built according to his plans . From 1930 he was a master builder at Bremen Cathedral .

After the Second World War , a number of residential and commercial buildings were built in Bremen according to his plans, including the Landeszentralbank Am Wall (together with Friedrich Schumacher ) and the Deutsche Hypotheken- und Schifffahrtsbank am Domshof .

Works

• 1921: Julius Penning house, Schwachhauser Ring 112, Bremen
• 1922: Sigmund Freudenberg house, Schwachhauser Ring 110, Bremen
• 1922: Renovation of the Böving country house
• 1923–1924: Carl FW Borgward house , Schwachhauser Ring 89; before completion sold to Karl Biehusen
• 1924: Residential house, Schwachhauser Heerstraße 115, Bremen
• 1926–1928: The bell , Domsheide 6–8, Bremen
• 1926–1928: Parish hall of the cathedral parish , Sandstrasse 10–12, Bremen
• 1926–1928: sexton's house of the cathedral parish , Am Dom 1, Bremen
• 1927-1928: House Mittelviefhaus, Hartwigstrasse 47, Bremen
• 1927-1938: Ev. Deaconess House, Nordstrasse , Bremen
• 1928: Extension to the Elisabethstift, Philosophenweg 1, Oldenburg
• 1929–1930: Church, rectory and parish hall Oslebshausen, Bremen
• 1930: Dr. Jungermann, Ratsherr-Schulze-Weg 4, Oldenburg (demolished in 1985)
• 1936: North German Mende-Rundfunk GmbH, Bremen
• 1949: State Central Bank Bremen
• 1952: Deutsche Schiffsbank , Bremen
• 1952 and 1960: Preacher houses of the cathedral parish , Sandstrasse 13 and 14, Bremen

See also

• List of important buildings in Bremen
• List of Bremen architects

Honors

• Iron Cross , 2nd class
• Bremen Hanseatic Cross
• Oldenburg Friedrich August Cross

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 252-254.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 149.
2. ^ Knop, W .: Housing in Bremen after the war, in: Knop, Wilhelm (Ed.): The housing of the free Hanseatic city of Bremen, Bremen 1929, Fig. 71
3. ^ Hofmann, Albert: On the artistic design of the structural center of Bremen, in: Deutsche Bauzeitung 53 (1919), pp. 545–547, pp. 549–556, p. 561–565, p. 567, p. 569–571 , Pp. 581, pp. 584-585, pp. 597-600, pp. 613-620
4. ↑ H .: Work by Arch. Heinz Stoffregen - Bremen, in: Baumeister 24 (1926), pp. 189–192, here p. 192
5. ↑ Fig. XI c 16-17: Bremen and its buildings 1900-1951
6. ^ Precht, Friedrich: From Aufriss zum Abriss, Oldenburg 2007
7. ↑ Bremen and its buildings 1900-1951, 1952, 271, Fig.XI b 2
8. ^ Precht, Friedrich: From Aufriss zum Abriss, Oldenburg 2007
9. ↑ Fig. XI k 15: Bremen and its buildings 1900-1951
10. ↑ Fig. XI g 16-17: Bremen and its buildings 1900-1951
11. ^ Lührs, Wilhelm: The Domshof. History of a place in Bremen, Bremen 1979, pp. 95–96, pp. 98–99, pp. 156–159
12. ↑ Flugdächer and Weserziegel, 1990, pp. 184–185