Josef Schömer

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Josef Schömer (born December 8, 1857 in Bábolna , Komorn County , Hungary; † June 26, 1942 ) was an Austrian architect , builder and mayor of the city of Klosterneuburg (Lower Austria) .

Life

Josef Schömer was the oldest son of the native Bohemian builder Martin Schömer. He moved to Vienna with his family in 1870 and from 1873 built the family headquarters in Klosterneuburg (Leopoldstrasse 30), which was also the headquarters of the newly founded construction company from 1874.

Schömer graduated from the building trade school from 1873 to 1875 and from 1876 to 1882 the master school for architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts. Then he was the construction architect responsible for the renovation work in Klosterneuburg Monastery , where his father was already a master builder. In 1890 Schömer obtained the master builder license and completed the renovation and conversion of the Klosterneuburg collegiate church from 1882 to 1892 according to plans by the architect and cathedral builder Friedrich von Schmidt .

Schömer became a citizen of the city of Klosterneuburg in 1893 and was a member of the local council as a Christian social politician from 1897 to 1899 and from 1918. In 1919 he became vice mayor and from 1922 to 1929 he held the office of mayor.

His brother Carl Schömer was also a master builder and owner of a concrete and artificial stone company, which had its headquarters at Agnesstrasse 10.

Realizations

The chapel in Weidlingbach
The converted towers of the Klosterneuburg collegiate church
  • Renovation and redesign of the Klosterneuburg collegiate church (1882–1892; partly as an architect, partly as a builder)
  • Martinskirche in Klosterneuburg ; Regotisation (1895/96)
  • Rectory in Kierling ; two-storey neo-baroque building (1897; as master builder)
  • formerly Nikolaihof in Ottogasse 17, Klosterneuburg; two-storey main building with rich neo-baroque facade (around 1900; as an architect)
  • Klosterneuburg high school; three-story school building in Buchberggasse 31 (1902/03; as an architect)
  • “Rumplerhaus” in Hermannstrasse 12, Klosterneuburg; two-story residential and studio building for Franz Rumpler (1904)
  • Schelhammer Villa in Kritzendorf ; two-story representative building (1906)
  • Secondary school Klosterneuburg, Hermannstraße (1907/08; as master builder)
  • Elementary school in Weidling ; heightened and rebuilt with a new facade (1911)
  • Maria Namen chapel in Weidlingbach, Klosterneuburg (1932; as master builder)
  • Parish church Klosterneuburg-St. Leopold (1936/37; as a construction company Josef Schömer & Sons)

Web links

literature

Alexander W. Potucek: Studies on the artistic reinterpretation of the Klosterneuburg collegiate church "Maria Birth" by Friedrich von Schmidt and Josef Schömer , University of Vienna (diploma thesis), Vienna 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio-Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria, south of the Danube , part 1. Verlag Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X
  2. ↑ a b Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio-Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria, south of the Danube , part 2. Berger publishing house, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8
personal data
SURNAME Schömer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect, builder and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Bábolna (Hungary) , Komorn County
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1942