Georg Meyer (architect)
Georg Meyer (* 24. October 1834 in Coburg , † 8. June 1907 ) was a German architect , builder and building officer in the service of Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. And lecturer and director at the Baugewerkschule Coburg , today Coburg University .
Live and act
The Friedrich Streibsche Institute for building tradesmen in Coburg, founded by Friedrich Streib in 1814 , was expanded in 1852 by his son Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Streib to become the Coburg building trade school . Georg Meyer joined the faculty of the building trade school on February 1, 1857 . Meyer is explicitly mentioned in the school's report on the 1857 semester : From the winter semester 1857/1858, the master craftsman Georg Meyer was given the task of teaching masonry construction.
In the commercial directory of the Coburg address book from 1866, Georg Meyer was mentioned for the first time as a master bricklayer, and in various archives of the Coburg City Archives as a civil engineering contractor . He also appeared as an architect in various houses, but was mainly involved as a master mason with conversions and extensions.
By 1890 at the latest, Georg Meyer was already a ducal master builder and ducal building councilor under Duke Ernst II. On December 15, 1890, he was appointed director of the building trade school. Under his leadership, the number of students rose from 27 in the winter semester of 1888/1889 to 75 in the winter semester of 1893/1894.
Although he was very busy managing his construction business and teaching, Meyer was the head of the city council from 1871 to 1898 and a member of the board of directors of the savings and aid association in Coburg .
plant
Meyer's buildings still shape the Coburg cityscape today and are among the city's listed buildings . In Coburg, the following buildings were planned and executed or rebuilt by Georg Meyer:
- Goethestrasse 11 (extension)
- Grafengasse 7 (renovation)
- Gymnasiumsgasse 1 (extension of the rear building)
- Herrngasse 15 (renovation)
- Judengasse 30 (renovation)
- Ketschengasse 7 (extension 7b)
- Löwenstraße 29 (new building of own house)
- Market No. 5 (renovation)
- Market No. 7/8 (renovation)
- Market No. 9 (renovation)
- Market No. 11 (renovation)
- Upper plant 1 (extension)
- Upper blade 5b (new construction)
- Park 1 (expansion to the Marienschule)
- Pfarrgasse 1 (expansion)
- Stone Gate 2 (conversion)
- Steinweg 24 (renovation)
- Steinweg 45 (renovation)
- Lower plant 2 (conversion of the bear tower / new side building)
- Lower blade 3 (new construction)
- Webergasse 23 (renovation)
- Tine weir 5 (conversion)
literature
- Helmut Wolter: Coburg architects and master builders 1820–1920. (= Space - time - Coburg , volume 1.) Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-937527-38-3 .
- Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (ed.), Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological monuments. (= Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany, Monuments in Bavaria, Volume IV 48. ) Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gernmeister = journeyman craftsman who seeks the master's right (German dictionary by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Volume 5, Leipzig 1860, reprint Munich 1999, page 3729.
- ↑ a b c d Helmut Wolter: Coburg architects and master builders 1820–1920. (= Space - Time - Coburg , Volume 1.), page 101.
- ↑ City Archives Coburg A 15604/2
- ^ Helmut Wolter: Coburg architects and builders 1820-1920. (= Space - Time - Coburg , Volume 1.) Page 100.
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (ed.), Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological monuments. , Page CXXXII.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and contractor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1907 |
| Place of death | Coburg |