Wilhelm Schmitz (architect)
Wilhelm Peter Schmitz (born January 20, 1864 in Lüttelforst , today municipality of Schwalmtal (Niederrhein) , district of Viersen ; † June 4, 1944 ) was a German architect , construction officer and monument conservator who worked as a cathedral builder in Metz and Trier .
Life
He completed his training and internship between 1877 and 1887 with the architects Hürth, Julius Busch and Heinrich Wiethase . A second assistantship followed from 1890 at Georg Frentzen , during which he worked at the reception building of Cologne Central Station . In the diocese of Metz , Schmitz had the opportunity from 1890 to work as assistant to the local cathedral builder Paul Tornow in the restoration of the cathedral of Metz and to deepen his knowledge.
On June 8, 1898, he succeeded Reinhold Wirtz . Schmitz was a cathedral builder in Trier and from 1906 also in Metz. From 1898 to 1911 Schmitz was a partner in the architectural office of Julius Wirtz (1875–1952) to support the deceased's son. With him he carried out numerous sacred buildings as well as commercial and residential buildings. The focus of his work between 1898 and 1911 was restoring and refurbishing Trier Cathedral.
Due to Tornow's successor in Metz, his contractual relationship was dissolved on August 1, 1908 by the Vicariate General in Trier. Schmitz then worked in Metz as a cathedral builder and Lorraine conservator until 1919. In this phase the restoration of the interior of the cathedral takes place. He then moved to Cologne, where he worked as a Prussian construction officer in the Reich Office for the removal of war damage.
Stephan Mattar was one of his well-known students .
gallery
Trier, Porta-Nigra-Platz 5: representative four-story corner residential and commercial building, historicizing plastered building, inscribed 1905, architects Julius Wirtz and Wilhelm Schmitz
Paulusplatz 5: Catholic parish church St. Paulus; stately neo-Romanesque transept basilica with a corner tower that shapes the townscape, 1905–07, architects Wilhelm Schmitz and Julius Wirtz
Works
- The medieval secular building in Lorraine . Compilation of the remaining buildings from the XII. until the XVI. Century. Wolfrum, Düsseldorf, 1899 ( digitized version )
literature
- Jörg Schmitz: Life and work of the architect Wilhelm Peter Schmitz (1864-1944). Cathedral builder, monument conservator, art writer and Lorraine conservator. A Rhenish architect of late historicism (Aachen, Cologne, Trier, Metz). Volume 1: Biography and illustration part, Tönning 2005, 310 pp., 744 figs., ISBN 3-89959382-0 ; Volume 2: Catalog of works, Tönning 2005, 746 pages, 4 tabs., 1 CD-ROM, ISBN 3-89959383-9 .
- Wilhelm Peter Schmitz: The church baroque buildings in Metz. (= Extended special print from the journal for Christian art) Düsseldorf, 1915.
- Jörg Schmitz: The renovation and late historical redesign of the Trier Cathedral during the time in office of master builder Wilhelm Schmitz , in: Markus Groß-Morgen (ed.) The Trier Cathedral in Transition - The Renovations of the 20th Century. Accompanying volume to the exhibition of the same name in the Museum am Dom, Trier 2014, pp. 13–31.
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| SURNAME | Schmitz, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmitz, Wilhelm Peter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, master builder in Trier and Metz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lüttelforst , Schwalmtal (Lower Rhine) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4, 1944 |