Fritz Mayer (architect)

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Burgbernheim War Memorial (1925)
Parish Church of St. Sebaldus (1935)
Greding town hall (around 1700, 1937)
Rectory St. Bonifaz, Bad Windsheim (1939)
Peller House (1957)
Multi-family house Frommannstraße 1 (1958)

Fritz Mayer (born April 17, 1889 in Windsheim , † November 30, 1964 in Nuremberg ) was a German architect and technical school teacher.

Life

After an apprenticeship as a stonemason and subsequent years of traveling , Mayer studied at the building trade school in Augsburg and the building school of the Nuremberg Technical Center , and in 1913 he passed the final exam in Nuremberg. From 1919 to 1924, he later held a teaching position at the successor to the Nuremberg Building School, the Higher Technical State School in Nuremberg .

From 1925 he worked as a freelance architect in Nuremberg. Mayer built numerous churches and secular buildings in Nuremberg and the surrounding area, which, with their conservative forms, can be largely assigned to the Heimatschutz style. The Fritz Mayer Hall of Honor is particularly significant for the Nuremberg men who were killed as soldiers in the First World War in the Luitpoldhain at the end of the 1920s , whose neoclassical architectural style anticipated the planning for the Nazi party rally grounds.

In the post-war period , Mayer played a key role in the reconstruction of Nuremberg. In Fritz Mayer's post-war work, the reconstruction of the Pellerhaus as a city library and archive with the integration of new building elements without imitating lost parts is placed in a series with construction work by Hans Döllgast and Rudolf Schwarz . Mayer took over the basement of the Pellerhaus, the ground floor and parts of the inner courtyard of the Renaissance building and added a strongly vertically structured archive building with distinctive arches. The storage rooms of the archive are only 2.20 m high. To the right of it, a completely new part of the building was added in stricter forms.

Fritz Mayer's son Walter Mayer (1929–1988), who received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin under Peter Poelzig , has been teaching since 1972 as a professor in the architecture department of the Nuremberg University of Applied Sciences , which emerged from the Bauschule and the Technical State College.

Buildings and projects

Nuremberg

  • 1928: Original building of the Theresienkrankenhaus on Mommsenstrasse
  • 1928–1930: Hall of Honor in Luitpoldhain
  • 1934–1935: Catholic parish church St. Sebaldus, Von-Soden-Straße 26
  • 1935–1936: NSDAP guest house at Bahnhofstrasse 5 / Gleißbühlstrasse 20 (with Woldemar Brinkmann )
  • 1935–1937: Catholic parish church Heilig Kreuz, Zirndorfer Straße 20 (expanded in 1967/1968 by Walter Mayer)
  • 1936: own house, Bothmerstraße 2
  • 1936: St. Konrad Catholic Church in Schniegling , Schnieglinger Straße 292 (reconstruction 1955)
  • 1936–1937: Catholic Church of the Holy Cross in Gebersdorf
  • 1937: Bürgerhaus, Oedenberger Strasse 34
  • 1939: Ensemble of residential and studio house for Hermann Gradl and residential building Welscher, Teutonenstraße 43–45
  • before 1943: gatehouse to the St. Jobst cemetery, Sulzbacher Straße
  • before 1945: residential development in Winklerstrasse
  • before 1945: Neutorgraben residential building
  • before 1945: widows and orphans' fund / civil service insurance, main market
  • after 1945: Reconstruction of Egidienplatz (with Walter Mayer)
  • 1948–1949: Reconstruction of the parish hall of the Reformation Memorial Church, Berliner Platz 20
  • 1948–1950: Reconstruction of the former Franciscan monastery St. Ludwig in Gibitzenhof , Straßburger Straße 12
  • 1951–1952: Reconstruction of the Satzinger mill, Kirchenberg 1 (with Walter Mayer)
  • 1956: Church of St. Georg (with Alfons Abel )
  • 1956–1957: New building of the city library (former Pellerhaus )
  • 1957–1958: Reconstruction of the evang.-luth. Reformation Memorial Church , Berliner Platz 11
  • 1958: Apartment building, Frommannstraße 1 (with Walter Mayer)
  • 1958: Hospital pharmacy at the museum bridge
  • 1963: Extension of the Hallerwiese Clinic (with Walter Mayer)

Surroundings

  • 1925: War memorial on Kapellenberg near Burgbernheim (with sculptor Herzog)
  • 1935–1937: Reconstruction of the town hall in Greding
  • 1936–1937: Sparkasse in Neustadt an der Aisch
  • 1938–1939: Catholic parish church St. Bonifaz with rectory in Bad Windsheim , Metzgergasse 53
  • 1939: Rectory with school hall in Eschenbach
  • before 1943: Conversion of the savings bank in Emskirchen

Awards

  • 1958: Culture Prize of the City of Nuremberg

literature

  • Fritz Traugott Schulz (introduction): Fritz Mayer. (= Neue Werkkunst ) Friedrich Ernst Hübsch Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1930.
  • Wilhelm Schlegtendal : work of the architect Fritz Mayer - Nuremberg. In: Der Baumeister , Issue 5-6 / 1943.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hall of Honor in Luitpoldhain
  2. ^ Adrian von Buttlar et al .: Monument preservation instead of dummy cult. Birkhäuser, Basel 2010. ( online at google books )
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k List of architectural monuments in Nuremberg
  4. ↑ a b c d e List of sacred buildings in Nuremberg
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Der Baumeister , Issue 5–6 / 1943
  6. ↑ The Catholic Church of the Holy Cross
  7. ↑ St. Georg, Nuremberg
  8. ^ List of architectural monuments in Greding
  9. ↑ List of the architectural monuments in Bad Windsheim
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and technical school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Windsheim
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1964
Place of death Nuremberg