Jacob Lutz

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Listed house in Meiningen, Werrastraße
Zollingerdach row houses in Meiningen

Jacob Lutz (born March 17, 1884 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † June 7, 1954 in Meiningen ) was a German architect .

Life

Jacob Lutz attended secondary school in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and then started an apprenticeship in a Ludwigshafen construction business. From 1903 he studied architecture at the Stuttgart building trade school . Here he acquired extensive knowledge of the still young construction technology of reinforced concrete construction .

At the end of 1906 Lutz went to the ducal residence town of Meiningen, where he worked as a court building assistant and site manager. Under court building officer Karl Behlert , he mostly supervised the new buildings of the sister school and the court theater in Meiningen, the rectory in Bad Liebenstein and carried out expansion and maintenance work on the castles Elisabethenburg and Altenstein as well as other ducal buildings.

In 1911 Jacob Lutz went into self-employment and founded an architecture and construction office in Meiningen. Until 1933 he was also active in local politics, where he campaigned for the expansion of the Meiningen infrastructure and promoted the construction of the Meiningen airfield . As an architect, he created a number of residential areas, including the Zollingerdach terraced houses in Meiningen , which are listed as historical monuments . On October 8, 1931, Lutz was in charge of the holding team when the Zeppelin LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin landed .

His son Ralph Lutz was a German civil engineer as well as port and senate construction director in Bremen .

plant

Jacob Lutz created commercial and residential buildings as well as some industrial buildings in and around Meiningen. His most famous works:

  • Residential building "Sparkassenhaus" in Meiningen, Werrastrasse (with patented garbage disposal system)
  • Gas works in Meiningen
  • Investment May & Son in Meiningen
  • Terraced house complex with Zollinger roofs in Meiningen, Reinwaldstrasse

literature

  • Thränhardt, Pfannschmidt: Architecture in Meiningen. Verlag Resch, Meiningen 2010, ISBN 978-3-940-295-08-8 .
  • Kuratorium Meiningen (Hrsg.): Lexicon for the history of the city of Meiningen. Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Lutz, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1954
Place of death Meiningen