Wilhelm Schlegtendal

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Wilhelm Schlegtendal (born July 9, 1906 in Dykhausen ; † November 6, 1994 in Nuremberg) was a German architect who worked as a construction clerk in the municipal building administration of the city of Nuremberg .

Schlegtendal became a city ​​planner in Nuremberg in 1937 after studying with Paul Bonatz and Paul Schmitthenner at the Technical University of Stuttgart and several years of professional experience. As early as 1939, the first plans to redesign the city for the Nazi party rallies were made . The Plärrer traffic hub was to be redesigned into a worthy vestibule in the old town. Schlegtendal envisaged a high-rise building as part of this redesign.

He and Heinz Schmeißner attracted Albert Speer's attention when they won a second prize in the architecture competition for the Gauforum in Frankfurt an der Oder in 1937 . Speer commissioned both of them to plan the reconstruction of the city of Nuremberg after the war. From 1946 Schlegtendal worked in his own office. In 1947 he and Heinz Schmeißner won the competition to rebuild Nuremberg.

Among other things, he designed the Nuremberg Plärrerhochhaus (1951–1953) for the Nuremberg municipal utilities and the Nicolaus-Copernicus-Planetarium (1959–1960), which replaced the previous building built by Otto Ernst Schweizer on Rathenauplatz in 1926–1927 and demolished in 1934 .

Awards

St. Sebald in Nuremberg

Work (selection)

  • 1938: Elementary school Saarbrückener Strasse in Nuremberg (with Heinz Schmeißner)
  • 1938–1940: Primary school Oedenberger Strasse (formerly Hermann Göring School) in Nuremberg- Schoppershof (with Heinz Schmeißner, Walter Brugmann and W. Köthmann)
  • 1946–1957: Reconstruction of St. Sebald in Nuremberg
  • 1951–1953: Tower of the municipal works in Nuremberg
  • 1952: Coca Cola AG administration and operations building in Nuremberg (demolished in 2019)
  • 1952–1953: Administration building of Aachener and Münchener Insurance in Nuremberg
  • 1955: Regional church archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria in Nuremberg-Rennweg (demolished in 2014)
  • 1955–1956: Dormitory for working women in Nuremberg
  • 1955–1957: Sonnenwohnheim (so-called Ypsilon house) in Nuremberg- Thon
  • 1958–1959: Christ Church in Nuremberg- Altenfurt
  • 1958–1961: Central Justice Building in Hof
  • 1959–1960: Albert Schweitzer Home in Nuremberg
  • 1960: St. Matthew Church in Nuremberg
  • 1965–1966: Church of the Redeemer in Erlangen
  • 1966: Passion Church in Nuremberg- Langwasser

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church of the Redeemer in Erlangen
personal data
SURNAME Schlegtendal, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Dykhausen
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1994
Place of death Nuremberg