Wilhelm Friedrich Laur

Wilhelm Friedrich Laur

Wilhelm Friedrich Laur (born March 31, 1858 in Lennep ; died February 7, 1934 in Tübingen ) German architect and first state curator for Hohenzollern .

Live and act

The son of Wilhelm Laur (1820–1901) and Maria, geb. Horn (1827–1890) came from a family of architects. The father was a Prussian master builder in Lennep , where Friedrich Wilhelm spent his childhood. In 1866 Wilhelm Laur was transferred to Sigmaringen , where his brother Josef Laur (1817–1886) also worked as a princely Hohenzollern senior building officer.

Wilhelm Friedrich studied architecture from 1876 at the technical colleges in Stuttgart (until 1877) and Vienna (1879–1880), then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (until 1883). After two years at the archbishop's building authority in Freiburg im Breisgau , Laur settled in Sigmaringen as a private architect in 1886. Through the mediation of his father, Laur received the order to inventory the art monuments in the Hohenzollern Lands in 1887 , which he carried out together with the Sigmaringer Hofrat Karl Theodor Zingeler until 1896 . When the work was completed, Laur was appointed state curator of the Hohenzollern Lands, a voluntary activity that he carried out until his death.

The supervision of the architectural monuments was the most important task of the state curator; his reports in the run-up to construction work often led to commissions for the architect, especially in the field of church construction. Conversely, through the work of the architect, art-historical research developed, for example the art monuments volume of the city of Haigerloch (1913) after extensive renovation work on the Haigerloch castle church in 1905/06. Together with Albert Waldenspul , Laur gradually revised the inventory of monuments in the Hechingen district in the following years . As the state curator, Laur was also responsible for securing archaeological finds and works of art that were valuable in regional history. For this purpose, the Hohenzollern State Collection was founded at Hohenzollern Castle on Laur's initiative in 1922 in order to store the antiquities centrally and to be able to present the core of the collection to the public.

After moving to Friedrichshafen (1911) for professional reasons , Laur became involved here as curator of the collections of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , which had moved to the Kreuzlinger Hof in 1912 . Laur had taken on the reorganization of the Lake Constance Museum in the former Württemberg camera office, which was transferred to municipal sponsorship in 1927. In addition, Laur was the Württemberg district monument curator in the Oberamt Tettnang between 1912 and 1931 .

Buildings (selection)

Horb-Neckarhausen, St. Ulrich's Chapel (1889/91); Langenenslingen, parish church of St. Konrad (1889/93); Kaiseringen , All Saints Chapel (1893); Ostrach , Catholic Parish Church of St. Pankratius, neo-Gothic nave (1897/99); Haigerloch- Stetten , St. Michael parish church (1898); Hechingen- Schlatt , St. Dionys branch church (1899/1901); Hechingen- Stein , St. Markus parish church, new tower (1901); Ostrach, monument chapel (1903, Battle of Ostrach 1799); Hettingen , school house (1903); Hechingen- Boll , Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus (1903); Hechingen , Evangelical Parish Church ( Johanneskirche ), extension of the church built in 1856/57 according to plans by Friedrich August Stüler (1904/06); Hechingen, cemetery hall for the Jewish cemetery (1907); Achberg , Hospital (1908/09); Ostrach- Habsthal , St. Stephan parish church (monastery church), remodeling (1909), restoration (1928); Oberndorf am Neckar , mountain chapel (1910); Burladingen , school building (1910); Friedrichshafen , Villa Fehl (1910); Sigmaringen , Josefinenstraße 8, Chamber of Crafts (1913 today Sigmaringen Education Academy); Lautlingen , parish church of St. John the Baptist (1913); Bingen- Hochberg , parish church St. Wendelin (1913/14); Friedrichshafen, extension of the Karl Olga Hospital (1913/14); Langenargen , Institute for Lake Research (1924); Straßberg , parish church St. Verena, nave extension (1922); Forest , St. Bernhard parish church ( monastery church ), restoration (1926/27); Friedrichshafen, St. Petrus Canisius (1927 with Hugo Schlösser ); Burladingen- Hörschwag , St. Mauritius branch church (1928)

Fonts (selection)

• The architectural and artistic monuments in the Hohenzollern Lands , edited on behalf of the Hohenzollern State Committee by Karl Theodor Zingler and Wilhelm Friedrich Laur, Stuttgart: Neff 1896
• The art monuments of the city of Haigerloch . Shown and published on behalf of the Hohenzollern State Committee. by Wilhelm Friedrich Laur, Stuttgart: Meyer-Ilschen 1913
• Esaias Gruber the old and young, two Lindau sculptors. A contribution to the history of Renaissance sculpture at Lake Constance , Lindau: Stettner 1933
• The Hohenzollern State Collection at Hohenzollern Castle. In: Schwäbisches Heimatbuch 19 (1933), pp. 61–66.
• The art monuments of Hohenzollern , vol. 1: District of Hechingen , edit. by Friedrich Hossfeld and Hans Vogel. Preparatory work by Wilhelm Friedrich Laur and Albert Waldenspul. Hechingen: Holzinger & Co. 1939

literature

• Church and secular buildings. Work carried out and drafts by Professor W. Fr. Laur, architect BDA and WB Friedrichshafen and Hechingen. Maximilian Maul, Berlin undated
• Franz-Severin Gäßler: Wilhelm Friedrich Laur. In: Maria Magdalena Rückert (Ed.): Württembergische biographies including Hohenzollern personalities. Volume I. On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-17-018500-4 , pp. 155-157 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Upper Swabia portal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. genealogical table of the Laur family of architects , Sigmaringen State Archives, FAS Sa No. 1080.
2. ↑ Casimir Bumiller: Hundred years of Hohenzollerische Landessammlung. In: Zeitschrift für Hohenzollerische Landesgeschichte 91 (1997), pp. 79–95 ( digitized version ).