Deutsche Architekten im Elsass 1940–1944

Planen und Bauen im annektierten Grenzland

This book presents the main fields of work on which planning and construction took place between 1940 and 1944. Of particular importance is the "Baufibel", a guideline for Strasbourg's future housing construction, which was to unfold only in the regionalist forms of Heimatschutz architecture. An urgent task was the reconstruction of destroyed villages near the French Maginot Line, which, however, soon had to be stopped due to the precarious war situation.


  • Author: Wolfgang Voigt
  • ISBN: 978 3 8030 0755 1
  • Size: 16 x 24 cm. Paperback
  • Edition: 1st edition, original edition

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  • After the occupation of Alsace by the Wehrmacht in the summer of 1940, German architects were among the first wave of experts who swarmed into the disputed borderland to follow military conquest with administrative conquest. Strasbourg, which was intended to be the capital of a new “Gau Oberrhein,” was to receive a monumental urban expansion and grow together with Kehl on the right bank of the Rhine. The political center with buildings for the party and the Wehrmacht was planned for the new district on the Rhine. Under the supervision of Albert Speer, a competition was held among eight architects for the “New Strasbourg”. The works submitted were anything but homogeneous designs. They reflect the different attitudes of the architects towards the Nazi regime, but above all the rivalries and positional struggles of various schools of architecture in Germany, which were waged with vigor beneath the surface.

  • Author Wolfgang Voigt
    ISBN 978 3 8030 0755 1
    Size 16 x 24 cm. Paperback
    Number of pages 228 pages
    Illustrations 94 illustrations, plans and maps
    Languages German
    Edition 1st edition, original edition
    Release September 2012
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