Werner W. Neumann

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Werner W. Neumann (born June 16, 1916 in Erfurt , grew up in Naumburg (Saale) , † 2003 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German architect and painter who worked in Frankfurt am Main. For the Hessian area, he mainly designed various modern Protestant church buildings.

life and work

Before the Second World War, Werner W. Neumann studied at the Technical University of Dresden . There he received his doctorate in 1943/1944 as a doctoral engineer (Dr.-Ing.) With a dissertation on the Naumburg community center during the Renaissance . As a young architect, he worked on the restoration of the Gothic Naumburg Cathedral .

After the war Neumann worked independently in Frankfurt am Main. He gained his first experience here with his preliminary planning for the reconstruction of the Rödelheim Cyriakus Church (1951/1953) and the new construction of the Hotel Hessischer Hof (1952). Neumann built the modern Frankfurt Weißfrauenkirche (1956) at a prominent location . Other church buildings in Hesse include: the Michaelskirche (1960) in Darmstadt, the Wartburgkirche (1962) in Frankfurt-Nordend, the Stephanuskirche (1962) in Bad Karlshafen , the Philippuskirche (1962, 1997 demolition of the campanile ) in Frankfurt-Riederwald , the Bergkirche (1966) in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen, the Dreifaltigkeitskirche (1966) in Frankfurt-Bockenheim and the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer Church (1969) in Frankfurt-Niederursel.

Neumann chose a solemn design for his church buildings. The focus was on the liturgy and the congregation that gathered for it. With this thought he should have been close to the Michael Brotherhood . Neumann worked closely with visual artists such as Helmut Lander , Christian Oehler and Jürgen Weber . From the 1970s on, he primarily designed secular architecture, from residential buildings to administrative buildings. In the end Neumann turned to painting again.

  • Frankfurt am Main, Hotel Hessischer Hof, 1952

  • Frankfurt am Main, Cyriakuskirche, reconstruction / rebuilding 1951/53

  • Frankfurt am Main, Weißfrauenkirche, 1956

  • Karlshafen, Stephanuskirche, 1962

  • Frankfurt am Main, Wartburg Church, 1962

  • Frankfurt am Main, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church, 1969

  • Frankfurt am Main, Dreifaltigkeitskirche, 1966

Fonts

  • The Naumburg town house in the Renaissance. Dissertation, Dresden University of Technology, 1943/1944. (published as a book only in 1998, edited by his son, the Hessian monument conservator Michael Neumann)

literature

  • Karin Berkemann : Post-war churches in Frankfurt am Main (1945–76). (= Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Hessen , Volume 51.) Theiss, Stuttgart 2013. (also dissertation, Neuendettelsau, 2012.)
  • Carla Diehl: The liturgy as the client. In: Evangelisches Frankfurt , 25th year 2001, No. 5 (August 2001). ( online , last accessed May 24, 2013)
  • Maximilian Weingartner: Small communities. Strongholds of Faith. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 6, 2010 ( online , last accessed on May 24, 2013)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internet presence of the Michaelsgemeinde in Darmstadt
  2. ↑ Internet presence of the Wartburg community in Frankfurt am Main , last accessed on May 24, 2013
  3. ^ Stephanuskirche in Bad Karlshafen on the Evang website. Church district Hofgeismar, last accessed on May 24, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Werner W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH 2003
Place of death Frankfurt am Main