Martin Mayer (architect)

Martin Mayer (born March 25, 1878 in Ellwangen ; † Whitsun 1925 while hiking in the mountains near Mittenwald and buried in the Prague cemetery in Stuttgart ) was a German architect . He lived in Stuttgart and worked for the Württemberg state railways . His father Emil Mayer (1845–1910) was last city planner in Stuttgart.

education

Mayer attended the Technical University of Stuttgart from autumn 1896 . During his semester break he drew for the series of publications "The Art and Antiquity Monuments in the Kingdom of Württemberg".

public relation

As a member of the Württemberg Bund für Heimatschutz, founded in 1908, he also represented the issues of monument protection in lectures and publications and - in the case of existing buildings - the choice of local building materials and a style based on the respective landscape and tradition. Also in lectures and publications, Mayer advocated close cooperation between engineers and architects in the development of concrete structures, especially bridges, with the aim of giving these structures a shape and surface that is compatible with the environment, the latter by adding stone material and / or a stonemason-like surface treatment.

His buildings (selection)

After stints in Berlin and Hamburg , Mayer was involved in the development of the high-rise buildings of the Württemberg railway from 1910 as the building construction department in Stuttgart . According to Mayer's plans, most recently in the rank of senior government building officer, residential buildings for railway employees, railway bridges, station reception and post offices were built, including the railway bridge called Rosenstein Bridge over the Neckar between Stuttgart and Bad Cannstatt in 1911/14 and the subsequent new railway tunnel on the left bank of the Neckar, both concrete structures , 1913 to 1916 the stations in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt (Bahnhofstrasse 30) and Obertürkheim (part of Stuttgart since 1922) and from 1917 to 1923 the post offices in Obertürkheim (station 4), Gerabronn (Schulstrasse 1), Backnang (Bahnhofstrasse 8) , Tübingen (Europaplatz 2/1) and Langenburg (Hauptstrasse 125). Of all these, the Reichsbahndirektion Stuttgart (Heilbronner Str. 7) was the largest building in Stuttgart from 1911/14. Some of Mayer's buildings have fallen victim to the changes in the area around Stuttgart's main train station , most recently three wings of the railway management in 2012/13 to facilitate the construction of the main tunnel for the planned Stuttgart-21 through station.

Stuttgart, Railway Directorate, construction of Martin Mayer from 1911/14 after three wings were demolished, as it was in 2017

Characteristic of the architecture

Train station in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, built by Martin Mayer in 1914

Mayer usually gave residential buildings and public buildings in small and medium-sized towns a design in the homeland style . Outlines in neoclassicism , then popular for metropolitan administrative and commercial buildings, he chose for the Stuttgart Railway Directorate , here lavishly with Ionic colossal pilasters , and for the train station in Bad Cannstatt , there cautious to businesslike.

literature

Frid (olin) Rimmele: Martin Mayer +. In: Schwäbisches Heimatbuch 1926, pp. 68–74 with a portrait photo on p. 68.

Individual evidence

↑ birth register, city archive Ellwangen; Obituary notice In: Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt dated June 8, 1925.
↑ Register list, Stuttgart University Archives.
^ The art and antiquity monuments in the Kingdom of Württemberg. Jagstkreis. Eßlingen 1907, pp. V ff.
↑ F. Rimmele: Martin Mayer +, 1926, pp. 70f; M. Mayer: The preservation of the Pliensauturm in Esslingen. In: Construction newspaper for Württemberg, Baden, Hesse, Alsace-Lorraine. 8 Jg., 1911, pp. 273-276, 278f.
↑ Martin Mayer: The aesthetic development of concrete structures [summary of his lecture at the Architects and Engineers Association in Hamburg]. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung, Volume 42, 1909, p. 318f; ders .: Bridge building and art form. In: Journal of the Association of German Architects and Engineers' Associations, 5th year, 1916, pp. 21–23.
↑ F. Rimmele: Martin Mayer + 1926, pp. 70f.
↑ Geraldine Buchenau: Concrete and its growing role in the preservation of monuments. Part 3: More than 100 years of exposed concrete in building construction in Baden-Württemberg. In: Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume 46, 2017, pp. 309f.
^ The new train station in Stuttgart-Cannstatt. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung 50th Jh., 1916, p. 269f; The new train station in Obertürkheim near Stuttgart. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung, vol. 52, 1918, p. 418; F. Rimmele: Martin Mayer 1926, p. 70ff; Lists of cultural monuments, maintained by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the Monument Protection Authorities, as of 2017 (not recorded: Post Office in Gerabronn and Tübingen).
^ Stuttgart General Directorate of the Railway Administration. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung, Volume 47, 1913, p. 410; Frid (olin) Rimmele: The new administration building of the general management of K. württ. State railways in Stuttgart. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 34th vol., 1914, pp. 582-586 u. 594-597; List of cultural monuments Stuttgart Mitte.

personal data
SURNAME	Mayer, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	March 25, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ellwangen , Baden-Wuerttemberg
DATE OF DEATH	1925
Place of death	near Mittenwald , Bavaria

[1] rth register, city archive Ellwangen; Obituary notice In: Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt dated June 8, 1925.

[2] Register list, Stuttgart University Archives.

[3] The art and antiquity monuments in the Kingdom of Württemberg. Jagstkreis. Eßlingen 1907, pp. V ff.

[4] F. Rimmele: Martin Mayer +, 1926, pp. 70f; M. Mayer: The preservation of the Pliensauturm in Esslingen. In: Construction newspaper for Württemberg, Baden, Hesse, Alsace-Lorraine. 8 Jg., 1911, pp. 273-276, 278f.

[5] Martin Mayer: The aesthetic development of concrete structures [summary of his lecture at the Architects and Engineers Association in Hamburg]. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung, Volume 42, 1909, p. 318f; ders .: Bridge building and art form. In: Journal of the Association of German Architects and Engineers' Associations, 5th year, 1916, pp. 21–23.

[6] F. Rimmele: Martin Mayer + 1926, pp. 70f.

[7] Geraldine Buchenau: Concrete and its growing role in the preservation of monuments. Part 3: More than 100 years of exposed concrete in building construction in Baden-Württemberg. In: Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume 46, 2017, pp. 309f.

[8] The new train station in Stuttgart-Cannstatt. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung 50th Jh., 1916, p. 269f; The new train station in Obertürkheim near Stuttgart. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung, vol. 52, 1918, p. 418; F. Rimmele: Martin Mayer 1926, p. 70ff; Lists of cultural monuments, maintained by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the Monument Protection Authorities, as of 2017 (not recorded: Post Office in Gerabronn and Tübingen).

[9] Stuttgart General Directorate of the Railway Administration. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung, Volume 47, 1913, p. 410; Frid (olin) Rimmele: The new administration building of the general management of K. württ. State railways in Stuttgart. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung 34th vol., 1914, pp. 582-586 u. 594-597; List of cultural monuments Stuttgart Mitte.