Paul Motz

Paul Motz (born May 4, 1891 in Allmannsdorf near Konstanz , † March 29, 1977 in Konstanz) was a German architect , urban planner , spatial planner and preservationist .

Live and act

Motz's parents were the main teacher Jakob Motz (1851–1926) , who was transferred from Schönwald to the then still independent community of Allmannsdorf, and his wife Emma Motz, née. Roser (1856-1921). His school days at the Konstanzer Gymnasium ended in 1909 with the Abitur ; Martin Heidegger and Bruno Leiner were among the schoolmates with whom he stayed in contact . This was followed by a degree in architecture and the history of architecture and art at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , whose teaching staff were prominent at the time: Motz's professors included Hermann Billing , Josef Durm , Max Laeuger , Friedrich Ostendorf , Adolf von Oechelhäuser and Albert Erich Brinckmann . Immediately after passing the main diploma examination, he was drafted into military service in 1914.

From 1919 to 1924 Motz worked as a government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration) at the Constance district building authority. In this role he was involved in the renovation of the former cathedral propstei in 1919 and, in particular, in the interior restoration of the Konstanz Minster from 1921 to 1923 : Motz completed the classicist design of the high choir begun in 1775 by lining the choir wall based on the model of the choir side walls and the historicist ones Had tracery windows covered. In 1924 Motz left the civil service and started his own business as an architect; At times he was the district chairman of the Association of German Architects (BDA) . He continued to pursue his heritage conservation interests; the regional association Badische Heimat appointed him as an expert for homeland protection , nature protection and monument preservation in the state commissioner area Constance, the Baden Ministry of Culture as honorary district curator for monument preservation in the administrative districts Engen and Konstanz. Other non-professional inclinations were contemporary art and nature conservation: Motz promoted the expressionist painter Hans Breinlinger and supported Ludwig Finckh's resistance to large-scale basalt mining on the Hohenstoffeln .

In 1938 Motz returned to civil service when the Baden Ministry of the Interior appointed him manager of the advice center for local building plans in Karlsruhe; In 1943 he was appointed senior government councilor and building councilor. After being transferred to Strasbourg and temporarily suspended , in 1950 he took over the “regional planning” department at the South Baden Ministry of the Interior in Freiburg . In this function he worked out the exemplary "Kehl spatial planning plan" in 1954; in the same year he was appointed to the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning . In 1956 he retired and in 1957 he moved into a house built according to his plans in Allmannsdorf.

In the last two decades of his life, Motz devoted himself once more to the history of Constance's building . As a knowledgeable citizen in the city building committee and in the Constance working group for the preservation of the cityscape, he warned of the loss of the historical building fabric caused by the modernization of the city center in the post-war decades. It was around this time that the headquarters of the Upper Austrian administration built by Peter Thumb in Konstanz were demolished as part of a new department store. Motz documented the history of numerous Konstanz monuments in small and mostly remotely published essays. He was also a member of the board of the Kunstverein Konstanz and founded together with Dr. Erwin Bundschuh formed the “Rettet den Bodensee” working group, which opposed the impending construction of an oil pipeline on the Bregenz lake shore and the projects to make the High Rhine navigable.

Paul Motz was born with Martha Frey (1891–1972) married. Major parts of his estate are in the Konstanz City Archives.

Fonts (selection)

• Ernst Baer. A draftsman of old Konstanz building views . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings . Volume 94, 1976, pp. 125-127. Digitized
• Doors and portals of Constance in the cityscape . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 92, 1974, pp. 189-193. Digitized
• Excavations on the upper Münsterhof in Constance, April – June 1931 . In: Helmut Maurer: Constance as an Ottonian bishopric. On the self-image of the clergy in the 10th century (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History . Volume 39). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1973, Anh. II, pp. 82-85.
• From the eventful history of St.-Stephans-Platz . In: Konstanzer Almanach . Volume 17, 1971, pp. 12-16.
• The building history of the old rectory in Konstanz-Allmannsdorf . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 87, 1969, pp. 151-155. Digitized
• The broken down house "Zum Weisse Pfau" in Kontanz, former seat of the anterior Austria. Provincial government, then the Austrian city governor and later the Baden lake district government, was the work of the famous builder Peter Thumb . In: Newsletter of the preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 12, 1969, pp. 42-49. Digitized
• The parish church of St. Nikolaus in Allensbach . In: Allensbacher Almanach . Volume 18, 1968, pp. 20-23.
• Überlingen, an old imperial city on Lake Constance . In: Ekkhart . Volume 46, 1966, pp. 17-42.
• Together with Erich Hofmann (ed.): The old Konstanz in pictures by court photographer German Wolf from the years 1860 to 1918 . Stadler, Konstanz, 1966 (3rd edition 1978).
• Allensbach in historical reports . In: Allensbacher Almanach . Volume 14, 1964, pp. 14-17.
• The Neugasse in Constance, an urban planning 700 years ago . In: Newsletter of the preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 7, 1963, pp. 34-37. Digitized
• Constance in the Austrian period. Its importance as the cultural center of the Lake Constance area . In: Konstanzer Almanach . Vol. 8, 1962, pp. 17-32.
• The former parish church of St. Paul in Konstanz . In: Newsletter of the preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg . Vol. 5, 1962, pp. 1-6. Digitized
• The new buildings of the former Benedictine and imperial abbey Petershausen near Konstanz in the 18th century . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 79, 1961, pp. 26-51. Digitized
• For the demolition of the houses “Zum Weisse Pfau” and “Zum Weingarten” in Konstanz . In: German art and monument preservation . Volume 19, 1961, No. 2, pp. 132-138.
• The cityscape of Constance through the ages. The development of the city plan in words and pictures . In: Konstanzer Almanach . Volume 4, 1958, pp. 22-35.
• Building history of the Hohentwiel Fortress . In: Herbert Berner (ed.): Hohentwiel. Pictures from the history of the mountain . Thorbecke, Konstanz, 1957, pp. 170-184.
• Constance town houses of the Middle Ages . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 69, 1949/50, pp. 175-191. Digitized
• The houses "Zum silbernen Schild" (Marktstätte 22 and Münzgasse 13) in Constance . In: Upper Rhine Art. Yearbook of the Upper Rhine Museums. Volume 9, 1940, pp. 63-77.
• The department store in Constance . In: The beautiful Konstanz on Lake Constance and the Rhine, the old city in the south of Germany . Volume 24, 1937, Issue 11, pp. 202-210.
• Meersburg. The "former prince-bishop's residence city of Constance". In: Ekkhart . Volume 23, 1936, pp. 252-257.
• Cityscape, construction method and building history, with special consideration of Pfullendorf . In: Ekkhart . Volume 21, 1934, pp. 321-337.
• The old Hegaustädte Engen, Aach, Blumenfeld and Tengen . In: Badische Heimat . Volume 17, 1930, pp. 64-83.
• Preservation of monuments in Constance. A contribution to the history of the upper Münsterhof and the pilgrimage site Loretto . In: My homeland . Volume 16, 1929, pp. 106-115.
• The council and guild houses in Constance . In: Badische Heimat . Volume 13, 1926, pp. 51-59.
• (Ed.): Constance, its development in terms of building history and traffic management . Reuss & Itta, Constance, 1925.
• The churches and monasteries in Constance . In: Konstanz, its development in terms of building history and transport management . Konstanz, 1925, pp. 49-95.
• Guide through the Konstanz Minster . Oberbadische Verlags-Anstalt, Constance, 1923.

literature

• Herbert Kölsch: Memories of Paul Motz. On the 20th anniversary of the artist and architect's death . In: Konstanzer Almanach . Volume 43, 1997, pp. 38-43.
• Helmut Maurer : Martin Heidegger as a classmate . In: Ernst Ziegler (Ed.): Art and culture around Lake Constance. Ten years of the Langenargen Museum. Ceremony for Eduard Hindelang . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1986, ISBN 3-7995-4099-7 , pp. 343–361, from p. 347 based on materials from the Motz estate.
• Helmut Maurer: Paul Motz, building historian, monument conservator, born May 4th, 1891 Allmannsdorf, died March 29th, 1977 in Konstanz . In: Bernd Ottnad (ed.): Badische Biographien , New Series, Volume 1. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, pp. 215-216.
• Helmut Maurer: Paul Motz, the building historian and monument curator of the Baden "Seekreis" in memory . In: Ekkhart , Volume 58 (1978), pp. 463-470; with a complete list of publications on pp. 466–470.
• Ulrich Leiner : Paul Motz 1891–1977 . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. Volume 96, 1978, pp. IX-XI. Digitized
• Ulrich Leiner: Paul Motz . In: Hegau, magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance , Volume 34 (1977), pp. 175–182.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan King: The redesign of the choir east wall . In: Ulrike Laule (Hrsg.): The Constance Minster of Our Lady. 1000 years of the cathedral - 200 years of the parish church . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2751-1 , pp. 102-106.
2. ↑ Die Zeit , No. 37 of September 11, 1964 ( digitized version )