Johann Peter Weyer

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Johann Peter Weyer, painting (1859)
Carl Joseph Begas - Self-Portrait with Johann Peter Weyer (1813) Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne
Weyer grave
St. Gereon in Merheim

Johann Peter Weyer (born May 19, 1794 in Cologne ; † August 25, 1864 there ; full name: Johann Peter Joseph Weyer ) was a German architect and Cologne city ​​architect .

Career

Johan Peter Weyer was the son of a wealthy cloth merchant and studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1817 the Cologne council, Johan Peter Weyer, decided to give the Kgl. To propose the government to succeed Peter Schmitz for appointment as city architect. Weyer had been employed by Schmitz as an assistant ( adjunct ) since 1816, but his permanent appointment did not take place until 1822.

Cologne, Wallrafplatz

Weyer initiated a fundamental structural reorganization of the city and thorough renovation of the same. Most of the buildings were in a poor condition. Large areas of the old town were still unused or garden land, the built-up streets, on the other hand, often fell into disrepair, ramshackle and without any sewer system or adequate lighting. He summarized his concept in a 19-point program, which he then implemented.

During his service as a city architect until he left in 1844, Weyer had a lasting impact on the urban development of Cologne . With his extensive urban planning, the insight into the requirement of urban green spaces (Stadtgarten, 1833) , his distinctive individual buildings ( Appellhofplatz 1824–1826, Wallrafplatz 1833, warehouse Ahren 1836, poor administration and community hospital 1842, Queen Augusta Passage, parish church St. Gereon in Merheim ; see picture) but also his sense of the preservation and value of monuments ( Overstolzenhaus ), Weyer performed great urban development work for Cologne. He also changed the cityscape in detail by translating the Parisian continuous row of window axes into a “three-window house” that was compatible with Cologne and was intended to determine the house fronts of Cologne's streets for the coming decades. The street planning , such as the radial arrangement of the traffic routes at the Church of St. Severin, can be traced back to Weyer (the model was certainly the Place de l'Étoile in Paris). His urban planning ideas are still present in Cologne's old town today.

Life in Cologne

In the 1830s, Weyer built a classicist house at Rotgerberbach 1, at the corner of Waisenhausgasse, to which he added a gallery wing in the 1840s. Having become wealthy through property and stock market speculation, Weyer founded Cologne's first private gallery in this house with almost 600 works by renowned painters, which was accessible to the population like a normal museum. He acquired the remains of Albertus Magnus from the parish church of Saint Johann, which he gave to St. Andrew's Church on November 12, 1859 . Two years before his death, he lost large parts of his fortune through bad speculation, which forced him to sell part of his art collection.

His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (lit. G, between lit. B + C).

Works (selection)

Publications

literature

  • Weyer, Johann Peter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 480 .
  • Konrad Adenauer: Johann Peter Weyer In: Franz-Josef Heyen (Ed.): Rheinische Lebensbilder , Volume 13, Cologne 1993, pp. 115-136.
  • Karl Josef Bollenbeck: Johann Peter Weyer, architect - city architect - entrepreneur ; Reprint from: Johann Peter Weyer “Kölner Alterthümer” commentary.
  • Joseph Klersch : From Imperial City to Big City - Cityscape and Economy in Cologne 1794–1860 ; Cologne 1924 (reprint in: Heimatverein Alt-Köln (Hrsg.): Contributions to Cologne history, language and individuality. Volume 72).
  • Arnold Stelzmann: Illustrated history of the city of Cologne. Verlag Bachem, Cologne 1958, publisher number 234758 (11th improved edition with Robert Frohn, 1990)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Prüssen (linocuts), Werner Schäfke and Günter Henne (texts): Cologne heads . 1st edition. University and City Library, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-931596-53-8 , pp. 80 .
  2. ↑ named after Augusta von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach ; As the wife of Kaiser Wilhelm I, she was German Empress and Queen of Prussia
  3. ^ Tobias Müller: The influence of the milieus on the political and social rise of Konrad Adenauer to the mayor of Cologne . GRIN Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-638-90911-2 , p. 8 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Painting - Bürgerhospital Cologne ( Memento of the original from December 13, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.koelnarchitektur.de

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personal data
SURNAME Weyer, Johann Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weyer, Johann Peter Joseph (= full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and master builder
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1864
Place of death Cologne