Hermann Weyer

Hermann Weyer (born November 10, 1830 in Groß Schönebeck , Niederbarnim district , Brandenburg ; † December 6, 1899 in Cologne ) was a German architect and construction clerk , he worked as Cologne city architect from 1872.

Career

Weyer attended the Berlin Building Academy from 1852 to 1855 and left it for a legal clerkship as a government building manager . After the second state examination, he was appointed government builder ( Assessor ). In 1861 he took positions in Salzwedel and Pomerania before he was appointed city ​​architect in Cologne, the city where his uncle Johann-Peter Weyer was one of his predecessors .

Act

In Cologne he stood out particularly through his restoration of the buildings, some of which were still medieval. He continued the work on Cologne City Hall (1872) and its Spanish building (1880) and Gürzenich (renovation 1875–1886) that had been started by Julius Carl Raschdorff , who had previously left the Cologne service . The Overstolzenhaus , which his uncle had already rebuilt, was also thoroughly restored by him from 1874 to 1878. One of the new buildings is the Oppenheim Children's Hospital (1883, not preserved). His school buildings in Cologne have not been preserved either. He dedicated his last works in 1889/1990 to the Cologne council chapel St. Maria in Jerusalem , before Friedrich Carl Heimann from Cologne became his successor in 1890.

literature

• Hermann Weyer. In: Ulrich S. Soénius (Hrsg.), Jürgen Wilhelm (Hrsg.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ historical street view  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 5, 2012