Paul Bonatz
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Paul Bonatz was a German architect. He was member of the Stuttgart School and professor at the University of Stuttgart during part of World War II, and from 1954 until his death. He worked in many sty
Paul Bonatz
University Library of Tübingen (1910–1912)
Pillar of Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge (1939–1941; rebuilt after destruction in 1945 and since widened)
Townhall Hanover (1911–1914)
Reichsautobahn
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The Reichsautobahn system was the beginning of the German autobahns under Nazi Germany. There had been previous plans for controlled-access highways in Germany under the Weimar Republic, and two had b
Paul Bonatz
…neo-Romanesque, and designed important public buildings both in the Weimar Republic and under the Third Reich, including major bridges for the new autobahns. In 1943 he designed several buildings in Turkey, returning to Stuttgart in 1954. Bonatz was born on 6 December 1877, in Solgne, Alsace-Lorraine, then…
Berlin–Munich Reichsautobahn, today's A9, southeast of Dessau, photographed in 1939. The oaks were intentionally retained in the median strip.
Hitler shoveling dirt at the ceremonial inauguration of Reichsautobahn construction on 23 September 1933; behind him on the right Fritz Todt, on the left two workers helping him
Layout of the Drackensteiner Hang project: to negotiate the steep terrain with minimum disturbance, the two directions were routed on different sides of the mountain
Reichsautobahn work site near Berlin, April 1936