Heinrich Thormann

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Heinrich Thormann (born April 18, 1816 in Wismar ; † February 15, 1890 there ; full name: Heinrich Gustav Thormann ) was a German architect .

Life

Heinrich Thormann was born on April 18, 1816, the third of six sons of the merchant and fur man Joachim Christian Heinrich Thormann at Dankwartstrasse 31 in Wismar. His mother Elise was the daughter of the small blacksmith Christian Müller.

Dobbertiner monastery church, view of the nun gallery 2014

He trained as an architect from 1836 at the General Berlin Building School, which later became the Building Academy , under Wilhelm Stier and Friedrich August Stüler . After completing his studies, the 23-year-old Thormann returned to Wismar and founded his own construction office there in 1839.

With the first competition design for the theater at the end of 1838, which he built on Mecklenburger Strasse from 1840 to 1842, he began his successful career as a private architect. Because after the closure of the theater in the town hall in 1836, the council decided to build an independent theater. A competition was announced in 1838 on the recommendation of the Schwerin court architect Georg Adolph Demmler . The competition commission recommended the council, the draftsman, to each his own for the preparation of the construction plans. The then still young architect Heinrich Thormann hid behind this author. After a fire in 1948, the building was later completely demolished.

In addition to many urban buildings in Wismar, Thormann earned a high reputation with mansions for the Mecklenburg nobility and agricultural buildings in Mecklenburg .

Another highlight of his tireless work was the internal restoration of the monastery church in Dobbertin from 1853 to 1857 .

Wismar water art on the market square 2010

One of the most important public buildings in Wismar is the water art on the market square , which is now a listed building . The water art fountain, completed in 1602 according to plans by Philipp Brandin , with a water pipe system made of wooden pipes, was in danger of collapsing around 1860. In the spring of 1861 Heinrich Thormann was commissioned by the councilors to renovate and enlarge the building. The seven-storey warehouse, the Thormann warehouse, built by him at the Old Harbor for his older brother, the wholesale merchant, ship owner, secret commercial councilor and Senator Johann Christian, is also characteristic of the cityscape . After 1879 the Swedish commandant's house at Markt 15 was restored in the style of the Dutch Renaissance for his eldest brother, the merchant David . David Thormann donated his rich art treasures and pictures to the Schwerin Museum . Since 1930 the house has been used by the Sparkasse, today Sparkasse Mecklenburg-Nordwest .

Since 1858 he was married to Mathilde Reimers, the daughter of the general practitioner in Reinfeld in Holstein. They had six sons and three daughters and lived in the villa on Lindengarten, which they built according to their own plans in 1864, later the officers' mess, at Bauhofstrasse 1 in Wismar.

With the death of his father in 1857, Heinrich Thormann had a family grave built in the Wismar cemetery on Galgenberg right next to the Martens Chapel, where he was buried. The builder and architect Heinrich Thormann recalls a four-meter high and crowned with cast iron obelisk of granite . It stands on a two meter high plinth and the other thirteen family graves are surrounded by a wrought iron fence.

Thormann Foundation

In his will, which was handed over to the orphan court on February 1, 1889, Thormann bequeathed 9,000 marks to the city of Wismar for a foundation that was to bear his name. The purpose of the donation was to make it easier for ambitious young craftsmen in this city to attend a technical college, a foreman school or a technical center . The establishment of the foundation was announced by the Wismar city secretary Paul Martens on June 22, 1890 in the Mecklenburger Tageblatt, Wismarsche Zeitung, No. 143 . The City Councilor Fritz, as administrator of the Thormann Foundation, was informed on November 25, 1946 that the Soviet occupation authorities had also removed and lost foundation securities when the lockers in the steel chambers of the former Sparkasse der Seestadt Wismar were emptied. Accounts for the period from April 1, 1948 to July 31, 1951 were returned by the control and auditing department of the city of Wismar on August 4, 1951 to the head of the city's social and welfare office as administrator of the Thormann Foundation.

Archive of the Hanseatic City of Wismar

The archive of the Hanseatic City of Wismar contains drafts, drawings and views of Thormann's projects, including the

  • Playhouse. Perspective view, floor plan of the ground floor, longitudinal section, cross section through the vestibule and the auditorium, street and main facade, gable view with main entrance, site plan and floor plan of the stage basement, cross section through the stage with description of the stage technology (all undated).
  • Big City School, north wing. Description of the construction work and cost estimate for the extension from 1860, construction and heightening of the trade school (undated).
  • Water art on the market square. Two projects for the renewal of the water art from 1860, description of the project for the new building from 1862.

Work (selection)

  • Old Sammit manor house 2009

  • Lützow Castle 2007

  • Walow Mansion 2009

  • Alt Vorwerk manor house 2009

  • Gamehl Manor 2008

  • Goldenitz manor house 2015

literature

  • Ulrich Hermanns: Medieval town churches of Mecklenburg. Schwerin 1996, ISBN 3-931185-15-X , pp. 133-137.
  • Gustav Willgeroth : Thormann In: Contributions to Wismar family history. Wismar 1932, pp. 167-173.
  • Hanseatic city of Wismar: The listed cemetery of the Hanseatic city of Wismar Wismar 2002, p. 41.
  • Felix Lüdemann: Heinrich Gustav Thormann: Wismar private architect (1816–1890); the rough brick construction is my favorite. Hamburg 2007.
  • Grete Grewolls: Thormann, Heinrich Gustav. In: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. (2011)
  • Sabine Tunn: Heinrich Gustav Thormann. Mansion architect in the 19th century. In: Wismar contributions. Series of publications by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Wismar, Issue 23, Wismar 2017 pp. 70–79.
  • Horst Alsleben : Heinrich Gustav Thormann from Wismar and the Dobbertiner monastery church. In: Wismar contributions. Series of publications by the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Wismar, Issue 23, Wismar 2017 pp. 80–95.

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin
    • LHAS 3.2 - 3/1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin No. 3235 Church, negotiations and expert opinion on the redesign of the church in Dobbertin 1854–1857.
    • LHAS 5.11 - 2 protocols of the state parliament 1823, 1852, 1853, 1855, 1857.
  • Archive of the Hanseatic City of Wismar
    • AWH Dept. III. Rep. 1. Aa (Council files 14th century - 1945) 5924, confirmation and control by the Heinrich Thormann Foundation.
    • AWH Dept. VIII. (Collections).

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Thormann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Willgeroth: Contributions to the Wismar family history. 1932, p. 168.
  2. ↑ Horst Alsleben: Dobbertin's double-towered church. The reconstruction of the church was changed 160 years ago and has remained unique in Mecklenburg. SVZ Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Magazin. October 6, 2017, p. 25.
  3. ↑ Horst Alsleben: Two towers, two builders. The Dobbertin monastery church was re-inaugurated 160 years ago, a journey back in time. Mecklenburgische & Pommersche Kirchenzeitung, No. 40, October 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ Mecklenburger Tageblatt, Wismarsche Zeitung , No. 44 of February 21, 1890.
  5. ↑ Hansa City of Wismar: The listed graveyard of Wismar. 2002, p. 41.
  6. ↑ Wismar City Archives: Heinrich Thormann Foundation , Dept. III., No. 537.
  7. ↑ Wismar City Archives: Heinrich Thormann Foundation , Section III, No. 537.
  8. ↑ cf. Schlie, p. 38.
  9. ↑ Stadttheater Wismar on carthalia (www.andreas-praefcke.de) , last accessed on January 3, 2012
  10. ^ Siegfried Berndt: From Wismars water arts. In: Wismar contributions. 1992, No. 8, pp. 4-11.
personal data
SURNAME Thormann, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thormann, Heinrich Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1890
Place of death Wismar