page_title: Friedrich Zollinger
section_title: The Zollinger System
hierarchical_section_title: Friedrich Zollinger / The Zollinger System
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Zollingerdach an einem Siedlungshaus in Schweicheln-Bermbeck, Hiddenhausen, Kreis Herford, Nordrhein-Westfalen. English: House in town of Hiddenhausen, District of Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
context_page_description: Friedrich Zollinger, also known as Fritz Zollinger was a German architect, engineer, buildings official and town planner.
  He served as city architect in Merseburg, and developed the "Zollinger roof", and the no-fines concreting process.
  Fritz Zollinger was not related to the Swiss architect Otto Zollinger who worked in Saarbrücken from 1924 to 1944.
context_section_description: The Zollinger system is a construction system for timber roofs in which a large number of short planks is put together in a diamond grid. The system has been developed in Germany in the early 20th century by Friedrich Zollinger and has been mostly used to construct curved roofs.
caption: House with Zollinger roof in Schweicheln-Bermbeck, Germany
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