Martin Weber (architect)

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Martin Weber (born December 9, 1890 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 27, 1941 ibid) was a German architect who stood out primarily in the field of Catholic sacred architecture.

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After training in the building trade , he attended the building and arts and crafts school in Offenbach am Main . 1914/1915 he worked in the offices of architect Friedrich Pützer in Darmstadt , who was then churches - builder of the Evangelical Church in Hessen was, and the architect Dominikus Böhm in Offenbach am Main. In the years 1919–1921 he lived as an Oblate (Frater Maurus OSB) in the Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach . From 1921 to 1923 he ran the “Atelier for Church Architecture” together with his teacher Dominikus Böhm. In 1924 he settled in Frankfurt am Main as an independent architect. In 1935 he and Rudolf Schwarz founded the “Study Group for Church Art” at Rothenfels Castle . He built numerous Catholic churches, especially in his hometown, which made him one of the leading church builders of the time.

Weber's churches see the altar as the center and starting point of the sacred space, because the congregation gathers there to celebrate the sacrifice of the Mass. He therefore designed a uniform church space that did not include multiple aisles. In accordance with its central task, the altar was architecturally highlighted by not only erecting it in a stepped elevation, but also by highlighting it through the lighting.

buildings

The Martin-Weber-Platz before he had built in 1928 the Holy Cross Church in Frankfurt - Bornheim

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In Frankfurt am Main

Martin Weber stands in particular with the churches of St. Bonifatius, Holy Cross and Holy Spirit in addition to the Frauenfriedenskirche and the Limburg Pallottine Church for the new building in the sense of the liturgical movement in the Roman Catholic Church .

In other places

  • 1927/1928 Kolping House in Lorch in the Rheingau
  • 1927/1929: Expansion of the Ursuline convent and school St. Angela in Königstein im Taunus (Hochtaunuskreis)
  • 1930–1931: "St.-Georg-Hof" parish hall in Limburg (Lahn)
  • 1932: Expansion of the parish church of St. Margareta in Dorndorf ( Limburg-Weilburg district )
  • 1932/1933: Expansion of the parish church St. Katharina in Nievern (Rhein-Lahn-Kreis)
  • 1935–1937: Parish Church of St. Kilian in Wiesbaden
  • 1936: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity (Dreifaltigkeitskirche), Großholbach (Westerwaldkreis)
  • 1936–1937: Parish Church of St. Bruno in Lötzen (East Prussia)
  • 1937–1939: Parish Church of St. Barbara in Lahnstein- Niederlahnstein (Rhein-Lahn district)

Buildings of the atelier for church architecture

Works for the Benedictine Abbey Maria Laach , Ahrweiler district

  • 1920 ... 1940: New construction of an economic building
  • 1921–1922: Construction of the forest cemetery
  • 1921 ... 1940: Reconstruction and extensions of the hotel
  • 1928–1929: New construction of the academy wing and redesign of the gate / guest wing of the abbey building

literature

  • Martin Weber: Architect Martin Weber, Frankfurt a. M., Liebfrauenstrasse. 4 , special print from the magazine Neue Baukunst , Maximilian Maul-Verlag, Berlin, no year, approx. 1927.
  • Hermann Gille, P. Helmut Schlegel : Catholic Holy Cross Church Frankfurt-Bornheim. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7954-6808-8
  • Adrian Seib: The church builder Martin Weber (1890–1941). The life and work of an architect for liturgical renewal. (= Sources and treatises on Middle Rhine Church History , Volume 91.) Self-published by the Society for Middle Rhine Church History, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-929135-25-6
  • Adrian Seib: Martin Weber. His beginnings as a church builder. In: Michael Pfeifer (Ed.): Sehnsucht des Raum. St. Peter and Paul in Dettingen and the beginnings of modern church building in Germany. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-7954-1180-7 , pp. 33-40
  • Adrian Seib: The church builder Martin Weber. In: Deutsches Architektur-Museum, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani (ed.): Architektur-Jahrbuch 1992. Prestel, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7913-1152-2 , p. 84, pp. 188–191
  • Adrian Seib: Martin Weber - The churches of the Holy Cross and Holy Spirit in Frankfurt am Main as groundbreaking sacred buildings in the architect's work , in: das münster - magazine for Christian art and cultural studies, 1/2011, 64th year, p. 3 –9, Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2011, ISSN  0027-299X
  • Franz Josef Hamm: Martin Weber and Arnold Hensler - an artist partnership, in: das münster - magazine for Christian art and cultural studies, 1/2011, 64th year, pp. 10–19, Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2011, ISSN  0027-299X
  • Susan R. Henderson. "Building Culture: Ernst May and the New Frankfurt Initiative, 1926-1931." Peter Lang, 2013

Web links

Commons : Martin Weber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ (Arch) bishops of Germany and Austria and the bishop of Bozen-Brixen (ed.): Gotteslob - Catholic prayer and hymn book . Edition for the Diocese of Limburg. 1st edition. Katholische Bibelanstalt GmbH / Lahn-Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart / Kevelaer 2013, ISBN 978-3-7840-0203-3 , Our diocese in history, p. 963 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1941
Place of death Frankfurt am Main