House of Robert Mayer
The Robert Mayer house was the house in Heilbronn where Robert Mayer lived and worked from 1842 until his death in 1878. It was located on the Kirchhöfle next to the Nikolaikirche until it was destroyed .
history
Use during Mayer's lifetime
On July 6, 1841, Christian Jakob Mayer, Robert Mayer's father, bought building no. 956 and 956 B in Kirchhöfle, later Kirchhöfle 13, from master carpenter Martin David Gimmi for 6150 or 2400 guilders. Both were three-story houses. Robert Mayer lived in house no. 956 until the end of his life. According to the purchase contract of July 6, 1841, the house no. 956, later Kirchhöfle 13, had three floors and two vaulted cellars; plus a small courtyard. House No. 956 B and house No. 956 A formed the rear building, also three stories high, with the main facade facing the avenue. This house also had a vaulted cellar. In the house on Kirchhöfle, Robert Mayer's father moved into the first floor of the main building No. 956; Robert Mayer lived on the second floor. The floor plan shows the wood chamber, feed chamber, coach house, a stable and two rooms on the ground floor. The rear building was rented out. Robert Mayer also had his doctor's practice in his apartment on the second floor. He also had five rooms and a kitchen in his apartment.
From 1842 until his death in 1878 he lived and worked in the house in Kirchöfle No. 13. In his study hung above the table a saying that his father wrote for him on March 7th, 1832 in the register: “Have you become master of yourself, then you live freely and independently of all places. "
Further use until it was destroyed in 1944
In 1901 the Association of German Engineers put a bronze plaque in honor of Robert Mayer on the house:
“Robert Mayer, who discovered the law of the conservation of power, lived in this house from 1842 until his death. Nov. 25, 1814 to March 20, 1878 "
As early as 1910, Robert Mayer was honored as a museum in the Heilbronner Fleischhaus with a Robert Mayer room, in which objects from his estate were exhibited. In 1938 they even set up their own Robert Mayer Museum in his former home in Kirchhöfle. However, the museum was soon abandoned and the estate was returned to the historical museum in the meat store. The house was destroyed in the air raid on December 4, 1944 .
Today's buildings reminiscent of Mayer
At the end of 1957, a corner house was built on the site of the residential building of Robert Mayer von der Stadtsiedlung based on plans by the architect Herbert Alber . The wing on Sülmerstraße had to do without a higher zoning because of the Nikolaikirche:
“ The building site is old historical soil. The excavators, construction huts and building materials were not in any random place. The birth house of Robert Mayer, the famous Heilbronn doctor and physicist, whose theorem of the conservation of energy is still absolutely correct today and on which the development that has now become possible is based, stood until its destruction The use of nuclear power has led to ... It was not easy to build over this place again. In cooperation with the municipal building authorities and other builders, the urban development and its architect, Mr. Alber, try to make the best of the unusual task in terms of traffic and urban planning "
In 1958, a wall object made of iron and light metal was attached to a house in the Heilbronn AG urban estate at the corner of Sülmerstraße and Turmstraße, which bears the name Robert Mayer - Conservation of Energy and was made by the painter Walter Maisak and the master blacksmith Werner Holzbächer . This wall object is supposed to remind of the former house of Robert Mayer:
“ The task for this mural was“ Robert Mayer ”. The artist tried to symbolize the well-known Robert Mayer theorem of the conservation of energy. This meant a complete revolution in the physical thinking of his time. Its effects are reflected in the research of Einstein and Planck to this day. Fortunately, Walter Maisak avoided depicting the abstract theme with just such forms or stringing together senseless decorations, and chose a stylized representation that is, however, very precise. It represents the energy force in a highly abstracted person, the force is converted into heat, which is symbolized by a flame shooting upwards. The heat converted into movement is expressed in rotating wheels . "
Individual evidence
- ^ Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Robert Mayer. His life and work in documents. Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1964, pp. 44–50 ( publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn. Volume 12), on this p. 45
- ^ Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Robert Mayer. His life and work in documents. Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1964, pp. 44–50 ( publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn. Volume 12), on this p. 46–47.
- ^ Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Robert Mayer. His life and work in documents. Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1964, pp. 44–50 ( publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn. Volume 12), on this p. 48.
- ^ Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Robert Mayer. His life and work in documents. Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1964, pp. 44–50 ( Publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn. Volume 12), on this p. 50.
- ↑ GAVolz: Great Leader by Heilbronn and the surrounding area , Heilbronn 1926 [Fourth Edition]. In: Christhard Schrenk (ed.): Heilbronn in early color photographs. A tour of the city in the late 1930s. 2008. (Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives 55), p. 27.
- ↑ 31 apartments gained and a painful vacant lot closed. "Kirchhöfle" apartment block available in November . In: Heilbronn voice . No. 218 , September 20, 1957, pp. 4 .
- ↑ Heilbronn and the art of the 50s (see literature), p. 94 u. 96
literature
- Heilbronn and the art of the 50s. Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1993, p. 94 and 96, illustration no.129
- Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Robert Mayer. His life and work in documents. Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1964, pp. 44–50 ( publications from the archive of the city of Heilbronn. Volume 12)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 42.2 ″ N , 9 ° 13 ′ 20.6 ″ E