Stein Holz Eisen: Bauwirtschaft und Baugestaltung was a weekly building journal published in Frankfurt am Main (from 1929 also in Berlin) by the Stein Holz Eisen-Verlagsgesellschaft. Its covers announced its range (Hoch- und Tiefbau, Material, Form, Maschine, Schall, Licht, Wärme, Bauchemie): building construction and civil engineering, materials, form, machines, acoustics, lighting, heating and building chemistry.
Founded in 1879 as a building trade paper with an official register of new building projects (Bauten-Nachweis nach amtlichen Quellen), by the late 1920s it was edited by the architect and technical author Otto Völckers (1888–1957), who led it until 1933. Published in Frankfurt at the height of the Neues Frankfurt programme, it combined reports on new housing estates, schools and industrial buildings with articles on rationalisation, building research, new materials such as glass, steel and lightweight concrete, and the economics of construction.
This database currently holds the weekly issues nos. 1–26 of 1929 (January to June) and no. 21 of 1930 (November).
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69 buildings and projects have been extracted from the issues; a selection is listed here, each opening the issue at its page. See all 69 projects in the project directory.
The publisher and editor of the journal, as printed in its mastheads.
Architect and technical author (1888–1957), later known for Das Grundrißwerk (1941); led the journal until 1933.
Publisher and editorial office at Franken-Allee 25, Frankfurt am Main.
Selected scholarship on the journal, and the institutional sources from which the database draws its scans and transcripts.
The reproductions were digitized by Phoebus Panigyrakis from original volumes held at the saai Archiv für Architektur und Ingenieurbau, Karlsruhe. The scans were edited into PDF booklets (cropping, rotation and page corrections) by Ines Rulence, processed for Character Recognition, and published as flipbooks.
Issues of Stein Holz Eisen published before 1931 are in the public domain in the United States. Under EU law (Directive 2006/116/EC), the journal as a collective work is in the public domain, as more than 70 years have elapsed since publication. However, individually authored contributions may carry separate protection: texts, drawings and photographs by authors who died after 1955 may remain under copyright in the EU. The Architectural Periodicals Database does not assert ownership of the original creative content, only of the database itself. If you are a rights holder and believe your work has been used without appropriate permission, please contact us at info@architecturalperiodicals.com.