Georg Bufler
Georg Bufler (born April 30, 1878 in Weiler im Allgäu ; † November 20, 1950 ibid) was a German builder and contractor who worked for 50 years as a market builder for Weiler im Allgäu and the townscape especially in the time of the economic boom before First World War shaped by residential and commercial buildings and public buildings.
Life
After elementary school, son Georg Bufler attended a day training school in Mindelheim for two years and was thus able to complete the five-semester construction school in Munich . He found his first employment in Rhineland-Palatinate . However, he soon returned to Weiler to take over his father's construction business, who died in 1904 after he had only been able to enjoy his retirement home, which was completed in 1903 on the Sandbühl above the school district, for only one year. At the age of 26, Georg Bufler married Sophie Schuster in 1904, with whom he had four sons, three of whom reached adulthood. The strong economic years before the First World War brought the young specialist a plethora of orders and enabled him to realize his architectural ideas.
He quickly won the trust of private and public clients, which ultimately earned him the position of market architect (head of the municipality's building department) for several decades. With the newly opened branch line Röthenbach-Weiler the market town on their own had reached a long striven for transport and economic policy goal. Bufler was given the rare opportunity for a master builder to design almost all of the buildings in the new, up-and-coming district around Bahnhofsplatz and Bahnhofstrasse. P. 51
- Buildings before the First World War
1902 Heim department store , botanical display collection
1904 Villa Inama , today Villa Lessing
1904 Private residence, first Herz Zahnatelier, later Sinds office building
1907 Milz & Karg straw hat factory, today Binder-Rist knitwear factory
1910 Baldauf office building , today a post office pharmacy
1910 Stadelmann office building , later Feinkost Betzler, today a beverage market
1910 Eschenlohr department store
1912 post office building
19xx Villa Stromeyer today Villa Ennemoser
Returning from the First World War - in which he was deployed as a soldier in the Vosges and Flanders - it was difficult for him, like other companies in the period of high inflation, to build on the pre-war successes in the field of private construction. Key public contracts at that time were the conversion of the former brewery and inn “Zum Hirschen” into the first town hall (1920) and the conversion of the imperial Austrian official building and later inn “Zum Lamm” into the new town hall (1922–1923), which the municipality acquired soon afterwards ). The architecture of the memorial chapel for the fallen of the First World War and the newly designed stairways to the church and chapel followed. The external renovation of the Kornhaus followed, followed by the demolition and construction of two of the three main bridges over the Hausbach. Build 1929/1930 could Bufler with the teacher Dairy one of its most imposing buildings, the Minister Anton Fehr led in his opening speech to the utterance: The most beautiful and most perfect dairy farm is in the hamlet ... .
- Buildings in the 1920s and 1930s
1922–1923 Town Hall , renovation of the former Imperial Austrian office building
1929/1930 Sennhof school building of the teaching and research institute for Emmental cheese making
1930s Kornhaus , renovation
1930s houses for customs officers in Neuhaus
1930s houses for customs officers in Neuhaus
1935 Customs staff houses in Hinterschweinshöf
The loss of his son Rudolf, who was supposed to take over the construction business in Weiler, but died in 1946 in the Brest-Litovsk prisoner -of- war camp in Belarus, hit Georg Bufler hard. He got health problems, a leg amputation threatened. Bufler died in 1950 at the age of 73.
family
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Josef Bufler (1835–1904), master bricklayer and company
founder 1⚭ Balbina Schwärzler from Röthenbach
2⚭ Rosina Heim from Bechlingen near Krumbach
9 children, 2 of them in construction-
Christian Bufler , from his first marriage to Balbina Schwärzler, took over a construction business in Immenstadt in Oberallgäu in 1898,
⚭ Frieda Lau
4 daughters and a son (Karl), who was supposed to continue the business but fell in World War II -
Georg Bufler (1878–1950), from his second marriage to Rosina Heim,
⚭ 1904 Sophie Schuster
3 sons who reached adulthood- Burkard Bufler (* 1906), most recently head of department for federal buildings at the regional finance office in Freiburg im Breisgau
- Rudolf Bufler (* 1906; † 1946),
- Albrecht Bufler († 1991), most recently Ministerialrat at the highest building authority in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior in Munich. Pp. 49, 50, 54
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Christian Bufler , from his first marriage to Balbina Schwärzler, took over a construction business in Immenstadt in Oberallgäu in 1898,
Josef Bufler
Georg Bufler's father, the master bricklayer Josef Bufler (1835–1904), at the age of 29, built a residential and commercial building with a workshop and storage rooms on Bregenzer Strasse in Weiler in 1864. His construction company had a very good reputation in the Rothachtal and the surrounding area. Bufler used modern-looking methods to reduce costs. All year round, he only had a small workforce who, in the severe winters with no construction activity, reworked the tools, machines, scaffolding and formwork material and manufactured Art Nouveau concrete moldings for the coming season. During the construction period, the company grew enormously with over 50 Italian guest workers (bricklayers and day laborers), mainly from the area around Udine (Friuli). Bufler decided not to have his own fleet of vehicles and instead placed a large number of orders for the transport of stones, cement, iron and other building materials with the local haulier Anton Gruber. 1902–1903 Josef Bufler built his retirement home with a villa on Sandbühl, which he could only enjoy for one year. Pp. 49, 50, 54
Christian Bufler
Georg Bufler's older brother Christian (from his father's first marriage) took over a construction company in Immenstadt in Oberallgäu in 1898 and was also successful as a builder of Art Nouveau-oriented villas, hotel buildings and church renovations, also in the vicinity of Weiler im Allgäu (see villa of cheese wholesaler Johann Baptist Wachter in Ellhofen).
Works by Georg Bufler
Georg Bufler built numerous residential and commercial buildings, public buildings, a teaching dairy, and renovated church buildings in Weiler and the surrounding area, and shaped building activities on site. S. 535, 683 His works before the First World War in particular can be assigned to the typical reform architecture of the time with echoes of neo-baroque and art nouveau .
"Bufler took over Art Nouveau elements early on, but remained indebted in its forms to the local building traditions and the home style of the turn of the century."
In his designs, Bufler tries to achieve a well-rounded overall impression. So he did not limit himself to the external architecture with the basic construction, roof and facade, but also designed essential parts of the interiors down to details such as vases, decorative ornaments, etc. His buildings also do not show a continuous pure Art Nouveau. He liked to borrow from the neo-baroque style for his striking curved main and transverse gables.
- 1902: Heim department store , Fridolin-Holzer-Straße 13, later Prof. Karl Hummel's botanical collection
- 1903–1904: Villa Nicolò Inama , Bahnhofstrasse 14, later Café Bader, Villa Galen, Villa Lessing
- 1904: Salettl , Georg Bufler built the Salettl (an elongated garden pavilion) with two pagoda roofs for the Hotel Post on the east-facing green space, a small attraction that took into account the emerging tourism and only disappeared again when the hotel-inn was renovated in 1926.
- 1904/1905: Hotel Post , Fridolin-Holzer-Straße 4, for Jakob Huber demolition of the side wing in Bahnhofstraße, installation of a further floor with a new, flatter roof structure and adaptation of the facade in harmonious Art Nouveau to the overall complex
- 1907: Milz and Karg straw hat factory , Jakob-Lang-Straße 2, later Binder-Rist knitwear factory and medical practice
- 1908: Boy's house , structural expansion of the boys' school (building no longer exists)
- 1909: Baldauf office building , Bahnhofstrasse 9, later Raiffeisenkasse, photo Hill, photo Wiest, post office pharmacy
- 1909: Stadelmann office building , Bahnhofstrasse 10, later Hörmann, Feinkost Betzler, men’s beverage market
- 1910: Josef Herz's dental studio , Bahnhofstrasse 6, later the S. Sinds drugstore and textile store, travel agency, the former post-pharmacy in the extension at Bahnhofstrasse 8
- 19xx: Director's house of the canvas, linen and cotton weaving mill L. Stromeyer , Kristinusstraße 11 (19xx), later the Ennemoser residential building with a medical practice on the ground floor
- 1910: House Eschenlohr , Fridolin-Holzer-Straße 1, later Schuhhaus Netzer, milk bar Vogler, exhibition shop Faller, sports shop desk, nail salon
- 1912: Post office building , Bahnhofstrasse 7, later residential building
- 1912 Old kindergarten , Stromeyerstraße 23, later Albinger house
- 1912 gymnasium , Stromeyerstraße 25, later Protestant Kreuzkirche
- 1920: Zum Hirschen , Hauptstraße 14, conversion of the brewery into the first town hall, later the traffic office and documentation center of the Lindau district for local history
- 1922–1923: Imperial Austrian office and later “Zum Lamm” inn, conversion to the new town hall
- 1922: Warrior Memorial Chapel on the north-western entrance side of the parish church of St. Blasius is considered a successful urban development work (report by Theodor Fischer )
- 1926 Brauereigasthof Post Fridolin-Holzer-Straße 4, renovation of the inn for Anton Zinth using the old malthouse and post office
- 1927: staircase to the church portal and the warrior memorial chapel with a curved granite staircase
- 1929–1930: Sennhof , teaching dairy ()
- 1934: Renovation of the Sebastian Chapel built in 1628
- 193x: Kornhausplatz outer renovation
- 193x: Hausbachbrücke at Kornhaus , demolition and new construction
- 193x: Hausbach bridge at the former "Gasthof Krone"
- 1935: Houses for customs officers in Schweinhöf
- 193x: Houses for customs officers in Neuhaus
- 193x: Customs service and residential building in Weiler
- Shortly before the start of the war, Bildsteinstrasse received Bufler's face among other things
- 193x: Police house
- 193x: Country house for son master builder Rudolf Bufler
- 193x: Marienbrunnen in Fridolin-Holzer-Straße, donated by Fridolin Holzer, renovated in 1991
- 193x: Small pavilion at today's traffic office, Hauptstrasse 14
- Designs for furniture, shop fittings and tombs
Works by Christian Bufler
- 1903 The master builder Christian Bufler from Immenstadt planned the hotel and restaurant "Bayerischer Hof" in Immenstadt for the Salomon Karg brewery in Heimenkirch . The literature source speaks of a strictly symmetrical building and mentions the approval on page 411. The Bayerischer Hof, opposite the train station, with its impressive exterior facade was the first hotel address in Immenstadt at the time, but has been used for other purposes (pharmacy, doctors, bistro, retail) for decades ) utilized.
- 1903 St. Josef Immenstadt monastery church . Master builder Christian Bufler planned and supervised the renovation (expansion) of the too small church of the Capuchin monastery from the years 1654/1655. He extended the church by 7.5 m to the east and raised the top of the wall by 2.5 m. The nave was given a wooden vault instead of a paneled ceiling. The Fidelis Chapel, which previously protruded from the nave to the north and was built in 1730, was extended to the new west wall, which was widened to the north, creating a “side aisle” with four groin-vaulted yokes. In place of the roof ridge (little bell) there was a small helmet tower.
- 1908 or 1910: Villa Wachter Dorfstrasse 65, at the foot of the Straussberg in Ellhofen, villa of the cheese wholesaler Johann Baptist Wachter, later owned by the S. Trenkle family. Open loggia and bay window on the upper floor, elaborate window design, mansard wing, show the playful, somewhat lavish design joy typical of Art Nouveau, which wants to emphasize the position of the client.
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literature
- Gerd Zimmer: Georg Bufler. A major builder from West Allgäu. Article in the yearbook of the Lindau district, 1992 , Wilfried Eppe publishing house, Bergatreutre 1992, ISBN 3-89089-025-3 , pages 49-58.
- Peter Fassl (ed.): Swabian villages. Architectural drawings from two centuries. (Catalog for the exhibition of homeland care of the Swabian district) Kronburg-Illerbeuren 1995.
- Literature on Christian Bufler
- Horst Karl Marschall: Friedrich von Thiersch. (= Materials on 19th Century Art , Volume 30.) Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7913-0548-4 , S. #.
- Angela Fessler: The Salomon Karg brewery in Heimenkirch. In: Andreas Kurz (Ed.): Year book of the Lindau district 2006. Eppe publishing house, Aulendorf / Bergatreutre 2006, ISBN 3-89089-085-7 , pages 101–115.
Web links
- Weblinks to Christian Bufler
- Catholic Church Immenstadt: Reconstruction of the Church of St. Josef ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d see literature Gerd Zimmer: Georg Bufler - A significant Westallgäuer builder
- ↑ a b according to information from Stephan Möller see disc
- ↑ see literature Georg Wagner, Gerd Zimmer: Heimatbuch Weiler im Allgäu.
- ↑ according to Gerd Zimmer, local home attendant
- ↑ a b c see literature Peter Fassl: Swabian villages - architectural drawings from two centuries
- ↑ see literature Horst Karl Marschall: Friedrich von Thiersch
- ↑ see web link of the Catholic Church Immenstadt
- ↑ The statement made by the Swabian Architecture Museum that not Georg but his older brother Christian, who also ran a construction company in Immenstadt, planned and built the Villa Wachter, is confirmed by the original building plans owned by the family.
- ^ Local home nurse from Weiler-Simmerberg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bufler, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German builder and contractor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamlet in the Allgäu |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1950 |
| Place of death | Hamlet in the Allgäu |