Heinz Schomann

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Heinz Schomann (born June 13, 1939 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German art historian and monument conservator . He was a curator at the Hessian State Office for Monument Preservation in Wiesbaden and later for many years head of the Office for Monument Preservation of the City of Frankfurt am Main, which he set up.

Family and school

Schomann lost his father at an early age, who died seriously wounded in a hospital train of the German Wehrmacht near Metz . He first attended the Kirchner School in Frankfurt-Bornheim and then the Helmholtz School in Ostend , where he passed the Abitur. As a schoolboy he played the cornet in the Bernd Skora combo from 1957 , while studying in the Paul Jones' Jazzmen combo alongside Alfred Dechert , the co-founder of the Barrelhouse jazz band .

education

In the 1960 summer semester, he began his studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, studying German , history and politics . After the second semester, in the summer semester of 1961, he also enrolled in art history and classical archeology . After the first state examination in 1965, he received his doctorate under Harald Keller in the summer of 1968 . The title of his dissertation is: The former Cistercian Staffarda abbey in Piedmont. A contribution to the brick architecture of the 12th to 13th centuries in Northern Italy . Then he decided against the teaching post because his interest in art history outweighed.

Professional development

In 1969 he got a job as a volunteer , later as a district curator with Gottfried Kiesow in the Hessian capital Wiesbaden. The Lord Mayor of Frankfurt Walter Möller appointed him in 1971 as a consultant for monument preservation, a position he held from August 1, 1972.

In the following time, the non-party Schomann built up the municipal office for the preservation of monuments and promoted the preservation and protection of monuments in politics and the public . He defended the independence of the monument office and received the support of the Frankfurt citizens and all parties represented in the city parliament.

In 1977, Schomann criticized the transformation of the formerly cultivated area around Kaiserstraße into Frankfurt's red light district . Of all of Frankfurt's districts, the Bahnhofsviertel is considered to be the most important in terms of both urban planning and architecture.

He strongly advocated the preservation of the Bockenheim tram depot , the south station and the Gutleut barracks and tried to restore the mural cycles by Jerg Ratgeb in the Carmelite monastery that were created between 1515 and 1519 .

The Rundschau-Haus , which was demolished in 2006 and the former publishing house of the Frankfurter Rundschau , was not (anymore) worth a monument because it was destroyed in the 1980s by new large windows.

In his work, Schomann was keen to guarantee those involved a maximum of legal security in the protection of historical monuments. In this endeavor, he and his office, in close cooperation with the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, went beyond the legal requirements. Based on a resolution of the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (KMK) made in 1980 regarding an inventory and publication, all of Frankfurt's cultural monuments visible above ground were identified, registered and published by 1986. In addition, Schomann's office identified all owners and informed them directly about the existing monument protection of their building, a service that the legislature did not provide and left it with publication in the official gazette.

Schomann's travel activities began as a schoolboy in the second half of the 1950s, where he initially hitchhiked to Scandinavia, France and Italy. From 1960 he focused on the Mediterranean countries and the Middle East in order to get a general overview as well as a very personal impression of the historical architecture.

In his numerous book publications he also deals with the Frankfurt monuments, the fountains, the painter, the Holzhausen and the station district, separately the main station, but also with the Hessian railway.

Publications

  • The former Cistercian Abbey of Staffarda in Piedmont. A contribution to the brick architecture of the 12th to 13th centuries in Northern Italy . Philosophical Faculty of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, dissertation of July 3, 1968
  • Bels art hikes: Bavaria north of the Danube . Belser Verlag, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 978-3-88199-136-0
  • 111 Frankfurt monuments . Dieter Fricke Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 978-3-88184-008-8
  • with Diether Dehm , Hilmar Hoffmann , Irene Hübner: Record Our Depot - Songs for the Bockenheimer Bürgerzentrum . Discofon sound carrier, Trion Sound Production, Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • Reclam's Art Guide Italy, Vol. 1/1 - Lombardy . Reclam, Ditzingen 1981, ISBN 978-3-15-010305-0
  • Reclams Art Guide Italy, Vol. 1/2 - Piedmont, Liguria, Aosta Valley . Reclam, Ditzingen 1982, ISBN 978-3-15-010306-7
  • Imperial coronation . Harenberg Verlag, Bonn 1982, ISBN 978-3-88379-290-3
  • Frankfurt Central Station . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 978-3-421-02801-3
  • The old Frankfurt fountain . Documentation by the Kuratorium Kulturelles Frankfurt, 1985, ISBN 978-3-88184-022-4
  • Art monuments in western northern Italy. Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, Aosta Valley . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1987, ISBN 978-3-534-03144-3
  • The Frankfurt Bahnhofsviertel and Kaiserstraße - A contribution to urban planning and the architecture of historicism . With an afterword by Albert Speer . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 978-3-421-02876-1
  • Kaisergalerie . Harenberg Verlag, Bonn 1989, ISBN 978-3-88379-248-4
  • as editor: Peter Paul Rubens and the Palazzi di Genova . Harenberg Verlag, Bonn 1989, ISBN 978-3-88379-355-9
  • Art monuments in Tuscany (excluding Florence) . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 978-3-534-06894-4
  • with Volker Rödel and Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 978-3-7973-0576-3
  • Art Monuments of the Iberian Peninsula, Part I: Portugal and Northern Spain . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1996
  • Art monuments of the Iberian Peninsula, Part II: Central Spain . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1997
  • Art monuments of the Iberian Peninsula, Part III: South / East Spain . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1998
  • Frankfurt am Main and the surrounding area - from the Pfalzsiedlung to the banking center . DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2000, ISBN 978-3-7701-2238-7
  • with Jan Röwer: Frankfurt am Main . Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2001, ISBN 978-3-86134-824-5
  • with Volker Rödel: Railway in Hesse . 3 vol., Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-8062-1917-3
  • The Himbächel Viaduct of the Hessian Odenwald Railway . Federal Chamber of Engineers, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-941867-04-8
  • The Frankfurt Holzhausenviertel - from the pond house to the residential area . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86568-581-0
  • The Frankfurt painter's quarter and the rise of Sachsenhausen . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86568-492-9

Memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Martin Lüdke: Heinz Schomann - The monument protector . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse, February 27, 2016. From: fnp.de, accessed on March 19, 2017.
  2. ↑ Dr. Heinz Schomann (monument conservator) ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Brief portrait of Hans Thiel . In: Writings of the Association of Former Helmholtz Students V., 1, Frankfurt am Main 1988, pp. 75-76. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vehev.de
  3. ↑ Jürgen Förnges: Imbued with the Helmholtz Spirit for over 50 years ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Information for Members No. 101, March 2006, Association of former Helmholtz students. V., pp. 4-5. (PDF file; 645 KB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vehev.de
  4. ^ History . Barrelhouse jazz band. From: barrelhouse-jazzband.de, accessed on March 19, 2017.
  5. ↑ The former Staffarda Cistercian Abbey in Piedmont ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Stanford University Library. From: stanford.edu, accessed March 19, 2017.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / searchworks.stanford.edu
  6. ↑ A noble area from the start. The former city curator Heinz Schomann writes about the Holzhausenviertel . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 18, 2010.
  7. ↑ Heinz Schomann: The architecture alone can be touched . Interview by Claudia Müller-Proskar. In: Kulturelle Kurznachrichten, Kuratorium Kulturelles Frankfurt e. V., December 2015 / January 2016, pp. 5–6. ISSN 1434-6532.
  8. ↑ Twilight Boulevards . In: Der Spiegel, June 6, 1977. From: spiegel.de, accessed on March 19, 2017.
  9. ↑ Claudia Michels: There is only a small lobby to maintain the building . In: Frankfurter Rundschau, November 30, 2011. On: fr.de, accessed on March 19, 2017.
  10. ↑ Monument topography , on: frankfurt.de, accessed on March 19, 2017.
  11. ^ Heinz Schomann, Volker Rödel: Monument topography Frankfurt am Main . Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn , Wiesbaden 1986. ISBN 978-3528062385 .
personal data
SURNAME Schomann, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main