Refuge lime tree

Professor. Dr. Refuge Eduard lime tree (* 6. April 1912 in Heidelberg) is a German architect and town planner. Lime tree completed 1936 the technical university in Karlsruhe as a pupil E. O. Schweitzers and became 1939 masters of building of governments in Lahr. 1948 won lime tree the architectural competition for the reconstruction of the emperor route and the city centre in Karlsruhe, likewise 1953 for the reconstruction of the there town church. Starting from 1949 lime tree director/conductor of the national building administration south bathing in Freiburg was in mash gau, starting from 1957 directors/conductors of the above ground construction department in the Treasury Baden-Wuerttemberg. Up to its retirement in the year 1971 it establishes many public buildings, among other things hospitals, schools, administration buildings, settlements and besides - as a free architect - also churches. Starting from 1961 he was a professor at the technical university in Stuttgart.

to 1953 lime tree belongs to that to the jury of the competition for the Mannheimer national theatre and was a proponent of the draft bad van raw. Although one can feel the Mies' influence also in the architecture of lime tree, its style is quite individual and partly aligns themselves at the brutalism . Lime tree connected the inheritance of the past centuries carefully with the vision of the modernity. It uses modern materials in a skulpturalen and sometimes even pittoresken way (e.g. He cooperates to spiral stair), during the interior design with artists and craftsmen. He does not regard the rules of thumb of the modern trend dogmatisch.

selection of the works:

• Observation tower with honour mark in tri mountain in the Black Forest, 1935
• own house in Freiburg in mash gau
• the reconstruction and organization of the interior of the town church in Karlsruhe, 1953 - 1956
• federal state parliament of Baden-Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart, 1957 - 1961
• reconstruction of the lock in Stuttgart for the federal state government, 1958 - 1961
• buildings of universities in Freiburg in mash gau, Konstanz and Ulm
• Württembergi federal state library in Stuttgart, 1964 - 1970
• federal guesthouse in Peter mountain with Bonn, 1978 - 1990

Web on the left of

• refuge lime tree celebrate 90. Birthday - national portal Baden-Wuerttemberg
• appreciation of refuge lime tree by mayors Badenweilers
• the article over the tower in tri mountain