Georg Sigmund Count Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden

Georg Sigmund Graf Adelmann, 1946

Georg Sigmund Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (born November 29, 1913 in Bitburg ; † October 26, 1991 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German art historian and from 1972 to 1977 the first president of the newly established Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office .

Life

Adelmann came from the old Swabian noble family of Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden . He was a son of the district president of Cologne , Sigmund Maria Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden and brother of the politician Raban Adelmann . He grew up in Cologne. The 1000-year exhibition of the Rhineland and its art treasures in 1925 and the so-called “Adelmann's Madonna” shown there impressed him. He looked after the art treasures of his father, who died in 1926, in the family. The active and charitable mother, but also the various suggestions that came from the circle of the ten siblings, were decisive for the further course of life.

He first studied philosophy in Frankfurt and then art history in Cologne, Berlin and Munich. He received his doctorate in 1946 under Georg Weise with a thesis on the influences of German late Gothic on Mannerism.

In 1946, Count Adelmann was able to take up a position at the Württemberg State Office for Monument Preservation . First he was the editor of the inventory of the art monuments in the former Oberamt Wangen im Allgäu . After it went to press (1954), he began to take inventory in the Mergentheim district, but then had to break it off in favor of practical monument preservation. Initially under the guidance of state curator Richard Schmidt , he then worked in building and art monument preservation. Since 1955, Count Adelmann was responsible for this area of ​​responsibility at the State Office for Monument Preservation in Stuttgart. As such, he advocated the principle that buildings would only be eligible for historic monuments from the age of 100. In 1969 he was appointed head of the Stuttgart Monuments Office, and in 1972 he was appointed the first head of the newly created State Monuments Office of Baden-Württemberg.

Count Adelmann had been the second chairman of the Swabian Homeland Federation since 1958 ; 1962 City Councilor in Ludwigsburg; 1965 district councilor; 1969 member of the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg ; Member of the German National Committee of ICOMOS; Member of the Association of State Monument Preservators in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Count Adelmann married Gabrielle von Waldburg zu Zeil and Trauchburg (1922–2005), a granddaughter of Wilhelm von Waldburg-Zeil, at Zeil Castle in 1949 . The family initially lived in Heutingsheim , from 1961 he was based in Ludwigsburg , where he himself lived in a monument. He had five children. He himself named history, regional studies, genealogy and heraldry as hobbies.

Services

Count Adelmann supervised the renovation of numerous important architectural monuments, for example the Ellwangen collegiate church , the Schöntal and Neresheim monastery churches, and the Ulm Minster . His name is closely related to the restoration of the Seyfer altar in the Kilian's Church in Heilbronn .

As the first president of the State Monuments Office , which was newly established after the Baden-Württemberg Monument Protection Act was passed , he played a key role in establishing the state preservation of monuments.

Part of his estate is kept in the Baden-Württemberg State Archive under the signature PL 13.

Publications (selection)

• The family of the Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden . Schwabenverlag, Ellwangen 1948.
• The survival of Gothic motifs of expression and movement in the art of Mannerism . Tübingen research on art history 9, Tübingen 1954 (= dissertation).
• Castles and palaces in Württemberg and Hohenzollern: based on old models . Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1959.
• Monument preservation . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1963.
• Stadtpfarrkirche Sankt Georg, Isny: former Benedictine abbey church . 4th edition. Schnell and Steiner, Munich, Zurich 1977.

Web links

• Entry about Adelmannsfelden, Georg Sigmund Graf Adelmann von in the central database of bequests
• Gregor Brand: Georg Sigmund Count Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden. Art historian and monument conservator from Bitburg. In: Eifelzeitung from April 1, 2015. [1]

Individual evidence

1. ^ Judith Breuer: Lost, but not forgotten: the Schocken department store in Stuttgart ... In: Denkmalpflege in Baden - Württemberg, Volume 48, 2019, pp. 154/155
2. ^ The Baden-Württemberg preservationists (1) . In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg . No. 1 , 1972, p. 5 ( online [PDF; accessed on February 28, 2014]). online ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2013 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.  
3. ^ Maria Magdalena Rückert: Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Department State Archive Ludwigsburg - Holdings PL 13: Family History Collection Georg Sigmund Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden - Introduction. December 2004, accessed January 5, 2014 .