Schürmann Architects (Münster)
Schürmann Architects ( Schuermann Architects ) is an architecture office in Münster that has been run by members of the Schürmann family for three generations. The office specializes in the planning and construction of cycle racing tracks .
history
The founder of the architectural office, Clemens Schürmann (1888–1957), was an active racing cyclist ( sprinter ) before his time as an architect and was one of the top class at the time, so he knew exactly what he was building for whom and for what purpose , and "One can almost say that there are hardly any noteworthy railways in the world that do not bear the 'Schürmann stamp' [and] have become 'temples', which today are widely admired”. The Bielefeld cycling track, which he planned in the early 1950s , was entered in the list of monuments in August 2012 .
He was succeeded in managing the office in 1950 by his son Herbert (1925–1994) and in 1985 by his grandson Ralph Schürmann (* 1953). The planning of the cycling tracks is still based on the findings of Clemens Schürmann, which have since been incorporated into a self-written computer program.
In 1932, for example, Clemens Schürmann planned the cycling track in the Stadio Nazionale del PNF in Rome , where the World Track Championships were held in the same year and Albert Richter from Cologne won the amateur sprinting title . The railway was later dismantled and rebuilt as the Vigorelli railway in Milan and was nicknamed pista magica . Around 60 years later, Herbert and Ralph Schürmann planned the Cologne bicycle stadium , whose track was again named after Richter in 1996.
The Dortmund cyclist Walter Schürmann ( German amateur road champion 1949) is not related to the Schürmann family from Münster. There are also no family ties to the family of the architect Joachim Schürmann .
description
Since 1925, the office has planned over 140 cycle tracks worldwide, including a. Cycle tracks for nine Olympic Games (Berlin 1936, Rome 1960, Mexico 1968, Munich 1972, Seoul 1986, Barcelona 1992, Beijing 2008, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020), the Vigorelli track in Milan , the track in the Berlin Velodrome and the one in the World Cycling Center of the World Cycling Association Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in Aigle, Switzerland, as well as the Cologne cycling stadium . The last constructions were the track in the Velodrome of Guangzhou in China for the 2010 Asian Games , in the Izu Velodrome in Izu , Japan , which will be the venue for the 2020 Summer Olympics , and the track in the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games 2014 and the Vélodrome National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines , near Paris, where the 2015 UCI Track World Championships were held.
Fonts
- Ralph Schürmann, Gerhard Voss: Velodromes. 1988.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Werner Scharch : Track bike racing. Teningen 1977, p. 42
- ^ New Westphalian v. August 14, 2012
- ↑ Markus Kampmann: The Münster architect Ralph Schürmann plans and builds cycle racing tracks / It all started with grandfather Clemens. In: wn.de. August 6, 2016, accessed August 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Renate Franz: The forgotten world champion. The enigmatic fate of the cyclist . Covadonga, 2007, ISBN 978-3-936973-34-1 , pp. 179 f .