Max Salzmann

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North front of Bremen Cathedral 1887, documentation for the architectural competition for renovation
North front of Bremen Cathedral shortly after the renovation was completed. The cathedral was Salzmann's most important work, but he did not live to see completion in 1901.

Max Salzmann (born August 20, 1850 in Breslau ; † February 6, 1897 in Bremen ) was a German architect and master builder of the cathedral .

Life

The father was a lawyer and a privy councilor in Breslau. Son Max attended the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium there from 1859 . After graduating from high school in 1869 (together with Max Kalbeck ) he took part in the war against France . He then studied at the Berlin Building Academy , where he passed the building foreman examination in 1874 . In the next two years he worked on various university buildings in Wroclaw. In the Schinkel competition in 1878 he was awarded the second prize for representative architecture.

After Salzmann had also passed the master builder examination, he found work building the new Moabit Criminal Court in Berlin and then as an assistant in the Prussian Ministry of Public Works . In 1879/80 he expanded his architectural knowledge with an eight-month trip through southern France and Italy . Then he was back in Wroclaw and participated in the construction of various public buildings. The new building of the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium there was built under his direction. In 1887 he accepted a job as an assistant in the Marienwerder district government . From here he took part in an architectural competition for the restoration of the west building and the north facade of Bremen Cathedral . The jury, which included Friedrich Adler and Reinhold Persius along with other well-known architects, unanimously awarded Salzmann's designs the first prize.

In 1889, Salzmann began demolishing the already heavily damaged western building. Larger parts of the north tower had to be dismantled than initially planned. The workload increased considerably and the original plans had to be revised. But Salzmann used the opportunity to remedy style breaks and building sins committed in the past with special empathy for the original architecture of the entire building. He placed particular emphasis on using materials of the same origin as the medieval builders, i.e. Obernkirchen sandstone and Portasandstein from the Weser and Wiehen mountains , for the restoration of destroyed or heavily weathered parts of the building .

Raths-Apotheke on Bremen's market square in 1897, one of his secondary orders

In addition to the redesign of the west facade and the north tower, the new crossing tower is also a contribution by Salzmann to the current appearance of Bremen Cathedral. On the basis of scant evidence, Salzmann had assumed such a large crossing tower for the state of construction before the vaulting of the cathedral, but nevertheless initially presented a design with a graceful roof turret on the crossing for the current measures . Franz Ernst Schütte , a wealthy Bremen merchant, carried out the extensive renovation of the cathedral as a patron and builder of the cathedral and managed to get the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen to bear most of the costs. He also insisted on today's massive crossing tower. The extensive restoration of Bremen Cathedral cannot be measured against the current ideas of the preservationists , but it was in line with the general procedure in the late 19th century. Salzmann also redesigned the facade of the Schütting (today Chamber of Commerce), the Ratsapotheke and the west portal of the Church of Our Lady. The master builder could no longer see the completion of all the work on Bremen Cathedral in 1901. He died four years earlier, only 47 years old.

memories

Noah's Ark by Peter Fuchs. Third person from the right: Max Salzmann. Franz Schütte next to it on the right.

He was immortalized twice at Bremen Cathedral together with Franz Schütte , although neither of them expressly wanted it:

  • In the door of the north tower there is the relief Noah's Ark by the artist Peter Fuchs . The third person from the right with a compass is Max Salzmann. To the right of him, with a wallet and hammer in his hands, is Frannz Schütte . On the far right is the artist himself.
  • On the north side of the south tower there is a bust of Max Salzmann at the height of the uppermost window . Opposite him, on the south side of the north tower, is a bust of Franz Schütte .

Works

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Calic: On the edge in the middle: From the three town halls to the English park , in: StattReisen Bremen eV (ed.): Bremen - Walks through history , p. 24f. Sutton Verlag , Erfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-86680-330-5 .
  2. ↑ in: Deutsche Bauzeitung 30, (1896) 74, pp. 466–467
  3. ↑ in: Blätter für Architektur und Kunsthandwerk 10 (1897) 1, p. 2
  4. ↑ in: Blätter für Architektur und Kunsthandwerk 11 (1898), pp. 33 & 35
  5. ↑ in: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen 50 (1900), pp. 295-302
personal data
SURNAME Salzmann, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and master builder
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1897
Place of death Bremen