Peter Salm

Peter Salm (born August 14, 1892 in Aachen ; † July 9, 1981 there ) was a German architect and preservationist .

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At the age of 17, Peter Salm passed his apprenticeship carpenter exam at the Kuetgens-Nellessen'schen Institute in Bergstrasse. From 1911 to 1913 he studied at the building trade school in Aachen and graduated with honors. After working in the architectural office of the Heusch brothers, he became technical city secretary in the city administration in 1914. During the First World War , Salm was appointed to the Department of Monument Preservation and Conservation of Historic Buildings of the General Government of Warsaw . From 1922 to 1925 he worked as a community builder in Kornelimünster .

As early as the Second World War , Salm repaired the Marienhospital in Burtscheid and, together with the architect Hans Kuepper, re-roofing the parish church of St. Michael (Aachen-Burtscheid) , its restoration and that of St. Johann (Aachen-Burtscheid) among his main works counting. He carried out the restoration of the abbey church from 1946 to 1966, only interrupted from summer 1948 to May 1949 due to the currency reform of June 20, 1948 . At around the same time, from 1949 to 1960, the abbey gate was repaired.

Around 1936 Peter Salm lived in house Barbarossaplatz 3 in Aachen's southern district and ran his architecture office at Peterstraße 56 until 1975. The architect Peter Geulen had been his employee since 1952 and later his successor.

Memberships

• Reconstruction council of the city of Aachen after the Second World War
• 1947–1951: Board member of the Aachen district group Bund Deutscher Architekten , 1962 honorary member
• Chairman of the Öcher Platt Association

Works (selection)

• Substation in Kornelimünster
• Mortuary at the Breinig cemetery (together with Buchkremer)
• Residential and office building Yorkstrasse 11 in Aachen

year	image	place	object	state	comment
1925		Ulm	Competition design for the development of the Münsterplatz in Ulm	Baden-Württemberg	Competition draft, not executed, together with Joseph Buchkremer
1928		Aachen	Competition design for the Lütticher Straße housing estate in Aachen	North Rhine-Westphalia	Competition design together with Joseph Buchkremer
1928		Cologne	Catholic parish church St. Jakob (Aachen)	North Rhine-Westphalia	Competition draft not carried out (together with his father; awarded 2nd prize)
1936		Korschenbroich- Steinforth-Rubbelrath	Catholic parish church St. Joseph	North Rhine-Westphalia	Extension building, demolished in the 1960s
1936-1937		Aachen	Aachen seminary	North Rhine-Westphalia	New building, together with Franz Wildt
1937-1938		Düren	Catholic branch church St. Joseph	North Rhine-Westphalia	New building
1939		Aachen- Friesenrath	Catholic chapel St. Bernhard	North Rhine-Westphalia	New building, designed in 1933
1939		Braunsrath	school	Extension of the school from 1878
1942-1944		Aachen	Marienhospital	North Rhine-Westphalia	extension
1947-1949		Mönchengladbach- Günhoven	Catholic branch church St. Matthias	North Rhine-Westphalia	Used as Church of the Holy Sepulcher since 2013
1948-1954		Erkelenz	Catholic parish church St. Lambertus	North Rhine-Westphalia	New building
1951		Call	Catholic parish church St. Nicholas	North Rhine-Westphalia	New building
1952		Jülich	Catholic Provost Parish Church St. Mary of the Assumption	North Rhine-Westphalia	New building
1953		Mechernich	Catholic parish church St. John Baptist	North Rhine-Westphalia	New building
1957, 1962-1964		Aachen- Burtscheid	Catholic Lady Chapel	North Rhine-Westphalia	Restoration of the chapel built by Peter Friedrich Peters in 1902/1903
1959		Aachen- Burtscheid	Organ prospectus for the parish church St. Johann Baptist	North Rhine-Westphalia	Organ work by the organ building institute Karl Bach , Aachen
1959-1961		Aachen- Eilendorf	Catholic branch church St. Apollonia	North Rhine-Westphalia	New building
1960–1962		Aachen- Oberforstbach	Catholic parish church of St. Rochus	North Rhine-Westphalia	New building
1964		Aachen- Burtscheid	Catholic parish home of St. Johann Baptist	North Rhine-Westphalia	New building

Fonts

• Contemporary church building in the diocese of Aachen. 1933
• with Franz Wild: The new seminary in Aachen, Festschrift. Edited by the building commission for the establishment of the seminar. Aachen 1937

literature

• Holger A. Dux : The architect Peter Salm and his work in Burtscheid. In: Helmut Doerenkamp (ed.): Contributions to the history of Burtscheid. Volume 1, Aachen-Burtscheid 2003, pp. 211-281.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Address book Aachen 1936.