Wilhelm Seidensticker

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Wilhelm Seidensticker (* 1909 in Bochum ; † 2003 in Essen ) was a German architect .

Life

Seidensticker completed an internship and from 1929 studied at the Technical University of Hanover with Ernst Vetterlein and Otto Blum . In 1933 he completed his studies at the Graz University of Technology with the academic degree Dipl.-Ing. from. From 1934 to 1937 he worked for the building department of the city of Bochum. In 1936 he did his doctorate on cycle path planning with special consideration of the Ruhr area . The following year he started his own business. During the Second World War , from 1941 onwards, he worked as a government building officer in the Air Force in Norway and Finland .

He was taken prisoner of war and returned to Bochum in 1947. In 1948 he was significantly involved in the reconstruction plan for Wattenscheid .

Later he settled in Essen . In the 1960s he worked with the engineer Heinz Budde in an architectural community.

From 1959 to 1981 he published four books on urban planning. He lived in Essen and in the south of France .

buildings

Alleestraße 156, Bochum
Grillo theater

Seidensticker's buildings include the two-storey milk bar building in the Grugapark in Essen, which was completed in 1952 and demolished in the 1980s , the Essen- Katernberg settlement , the large mourning hall in the central cemetery Freilrafendamm in Bochum, the office building and the production hall in Essener Strasse 80 in Bochum and the former administration building of the Bochumer Verein in Alleestraße 156 in Bochum ( Thyssen-Krupp-Haus ). The latter is considered to be the first real high-rise in the city to be built after the war. It was planned in 1961 and built in 1963/64. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia and its Chamber of Architects once rated the building as exemplary. It is not a listed building.

Together with Johannes Dorsch , Seidensticker designed the reconstruction of the Grillo Theater in the style of the New Building in Essen, which was given its purpose in 1950.

The first new construction of a Catholic church in Essen after the Second World War, the Church of St. Mary's Birth in Frohnhausen, took place from 1951 onwards according to his design.

From 1954 to 1956, the Kaupenhöhe disc residential high-rise was built at Hölderlinstrasse 2 in Essen. Seidensticker had planned 181 apartment-sized rental units, some of which have since been merged. On November 26, 2019, it was listed as a historical monument.

He designed Waltrop's town hall , which was built in 1955/56, to be relatively conservative .

Seidensticker won a competition for the further development of the Margarethenhöhe workers' housing estate in Essen, which was advertised in the 1950s. However, its design was changed several times before the buildings were erected. In 1982, Karl-Heinz Krüger passed a damning verdict on the result: “The botch that arose over 20 years of building fumbling is an example of the inability of everyone involved in post-war housing construction - only the most narrow-minded construction bureaucrats and architects could so blatantly bypass the tried and tested to build."

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Seidensticker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical Register of Architects , on www.kmkbuecholdt.de
  2. ↑ a b c Seidensticker, Wilhelm. on www.nrw-architekturdatenbank.tu-dortmund.de
  3. ^ A b Hans H. Hanke: Have a shocking effect on the visitor. on www.bochum.de
  4. ↑ 100 years of Volkshochschule Essen. on www.hv-essen.de
  5. ↑ Buildings by Wilhelm Seidensticker in Bochum at www.ruhr-bauten.de
  6. ↑ Tim Walther, No Monument Protection for Post-War Modernism? , at www.ruhrbarone.de
  7. ^ Lecture "The Grillo Theater 1950: The Architects Wilhelm Seidensticker and Johannes Dorsch". Peter Brdenk reports on the series “125 Years of the Grillo Theater” in Essen on bda-essen.de
  8. ↑ St. Mary's Birth. Parish of St. Antonius, accessed on December 20, 2019 .
  9. ↑ From the experimental settlement - to the Scheiben residential high- rise , on media.essen.de
  10. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen: high-rise apartment building, Hölderlinstrasse, Essen ; accessed on December 20, 2019
  11. ↑ Rathaus Waltrop , on bigbeautifulbuildings.de
  12. ^ Karl-Heinz Krüger, Happy Solution , in: Der Spiegel 11, 1982, pp. 228–235, here p. 228 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Seidensticker, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH 2003
Place of death eat