Martin Weber (architect)
German architect, especially in the field of Catholic sacred architecture (1890-1941)
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Martin Weber (9 December 1890, in Frankfurt am Main – 27 February 1941) was a German architect who designed Catholic churches.
Martin Weber | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 December 1890 |
| Died | 27 February 1941 (aged 50) |
| Occupation | architect |
Life and work
After training in construction, he went to the building and art school in Offenbach am Main. In 1914-1915 he worked for Friedrich Pützer in Darmstadt, who built the Evangelical Church in Hesse, and then for Dominic Bohm in Offenbach am Main. During 1919-1921 he lived as an Oblate (Brother Maurus, OSB) in the Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach. From 1921 to 1923 he ran a "studio for church architecture" with Bohm. In 1924 he established himself as an independent architect in Frankfurt. In 1935 he founded a "Study Circle of Sacred Art" with Rudolf Schwarz.
He built mainly many Catholic churches, and became one of the leading church architects of the time.
Style
Work
Frankfurt
- 1924-1925: Capuchin monastery (downtown)
- 1925-1927: Parish Church of St. Boniface (Sachsenhausen)
- 1928-1929: Holy Cross, Bornheim (until 2025 seat of the Holy Cross – Centre for Christian Meditation and Spirituality of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg)
- 1930: emergency church of Christ (Praunheim)
- 1930-1931: Church of the Holy Spirit (Riederwald)
- 1931: Chapel of St. Boniface (Bonames)
- 1932: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew (Zeilsheim)
- 1932-1933: Parish Church of St. Albert (Dornbusch)
- 1934-1935: Sancta Familia Parish Church (The Holy Family) (Ginnheim)
Elsewhere
- 1927/1929: Extension of Ursuline convent and school of St. Angela in Königstein im Taunus (Taunus Hochtaunuskreis)
- 1930-1931: parish "St. George's Court" in Limburg (Lahn)
- 1932: Enlargement of the parish church of St. Margaret in Dorndorf (Limburg-Weilburg)
- 1932/1933: Extension of the parish church of St. Catherine in Nievern (Rhein-Lahn-Kreis)
- 1935-1937: Parish Church of St. Kilian in Wiesbaden
- 1936: The parish church of Holy Trinity (Trinity Church), Großholbach (Westerwaldkreis)
- 1936-1937: Parish Church of St. Bruno in Gizycko (East Prussia)
- 1937-1939: Parish Church of St. Barbara in Lahnstein-Niederlahnstein (Rhein-Lahn-Kreis)
- 1922-1923: Benedictine Abbey of St. Benediktusberg in Vaals (Netherlands)
- 1922-1923: Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul in Dettingen (Kreis Aschaffenburg)
- 1922-1923: Parish Church of St. Paul in Offenbach am Main
- 1922-1923: Parish Church of St. Mary's Assumption and St. Peter and Paul in Großwallstadt (Kreis Miltenberg)
References
- Gille, Hermann; P. Helmut Schlegel: Katholische Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche Frankfurt-Bornheim. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7954-6808-8.
- Seib, Adrian: Der Kirchenbaumeister Martin Weber (1890-1941), Leben und Werk eines Architekten für die liturgische Erneuerung. Quellen und Abhandlungen zur Mittelrheinischen Kirchengeschichte Bd. 91, Selbstverlag der Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, Mainz 1999 (ISBN 3-929135-25-6)
- Seib, Adrian: Martin Weber. Seine Anfänge als Kirchenbaumeister. In: Michael Pfeifer (Hrsg.): Sehnsucht des Raumes. St. Peter und Paul in Dettingen und die Anfänge des modernen Kirchenbaus in Deutschland. Verlag Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 1998 (ISBN 3-7954-1180-7), S. 33-40
- Seib, Adrian (1992). "Der Kirchenbaumeister Martin Weber". Architektur-Jahrbuch (in German). 1: 84, 188–191. ISBN 3-7913-1152-2. ISSN 0942-7481.
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