Carl Bauer (architect, 1878)

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Carl Bauer (born May 13, 1878 in Neustadt near Coburg , † 1954 in Kronach ) was a German master mason and building contractor .

Live and act

Bauer attended the building trade school in Coburg from 1893 to 1898 . In June 1902, Bauer registered his bricklayer business in Coburg on Hutstrasse, followed by the Bauer und Schilling construction business with Arthur Schilling in August 1902, based on Viktoriastrasse. The banks' reluctance to lend due to an economic crisis led to the foreclosure auction of his house, richly decorated with figurative decorations, in Weichengereuth 3 in October 1909 and of the Weichengereuth 1 property in March 1910. The construction business was quietly liquidated in September of the same year . In the house Weichengereuth 1 he planned an inn on the ground floor with its unusually large round-arched windows, which was initially called Wirtschaft und Cafe Bauer , and from 1926 was called Mohrenkeller . In 1912 Bauer went looking for work in Mecklenburg . His family can be traced back to Kronach in 1916.

Viktoriastraße 3

With August Berger , Max Böhme , Carl Otto Leheis and Paul Schaarschmidt , Carl Bauer was one of the most important representatives of Art Nouveau in Coburg. Bauer planned and built a large number of houses in Coburg, which, unless they were demolished for the construction of the Frankenbrücke in 1992, still characterize the Coburg cityscape today and some of them are listed buildings in the city.

Buildings

The following buildings were carried out by Carl Bauer in Coburg:

  • Callenberger Straße 1, 4, 5 (4: new building in 1906; 5: new building in 1904 together with Johannes Köhler)
  • Hutstrasse 22, 24, 26, 40
  • Marschberg 1, 3, 5 (new buildings 1903–1905, demolished in 1992)
  • Sandstrasse 13, 13a, 17, 27, 29
  • Spitalgasse 7
  • Viktoriastraße 3 (new building 1906)
  • Weichengereuth 1, 2, 3 (new buildings 1903–1906, demolished in 1992)

literature

  • Helmut Wolter: Space - Time - Coburg Volume 1: Coburg architects and builders 1820-1920 . Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-937527-38-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First reference in the business directory of the Coburg address book from 1905
  2. ^ Government Gazette for the Duchy of Coburg, August 28, 1909
  3. ^ Government Gazette for the Duchy of Coburg, January 22, 1910
  4. ^ StadtA Co, B 447, B 448
  5. ^ Kronach City Archives
  6. ^ Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments. Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48. S. CXXIX, Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt near Coburg
DATE OF DEATH 1954
Place of death Kronach