Maier Household Ulm

Maier, Isaak Aaron, Kaufm [Kaufman], Hermann's father, listed in the address books of Ulm, 1845, at Beim Barfüßerkirchlein*, nun Lagerhaus.

By 1849 (until 1853) A.J. Maier was listed in Köpfingergaßchen. In 1857 it changed to Beim Kirchlein and 1868 to Munsterstraße. The street names appear to have changed over time but the house and address is the same as the original listing: they are all under A171.

The Maier household is in the upsidedown L on the corner of Beim Kirchle and Köpfingergaße. Gustav refers to the narrow downstairs in his writings when he was apprenticing in the family business. Gustav wrote: "…Firma A. J. Maier "beim Kirchle", das des besten Rufes erfreute…." which says that his father's company was located very near the little church**.

The painting above by Michael Neher (1798 – 1876, Munich) shows the Maier house in 1839 -- the year before Aaron Isaak Maier arrived in Ulm. Neher's work is said to be in the Biedermeier style featuring detailed and acurate scenes and architecture.

*In southern Germany (Oberschwaben) an appendix of "le" at the end of a noun is used when it is a little, small one. "Kirch-le" means a little church, in Upper-German "Kirchlein". Barfüßerkirchlein relates to the small church (Barfuesser~) in the street which was destroyed in 1875.
**The Barfüßer church was called Kirchle because it was a very little church compared to the Münster - even before it was completed in 1890 when the Ulm Münster became the world's tallest church at 161.5m.
Incidentally, the Jewish Quarter of Ulm was not far from here but is a separate location as can still be seen on today's map.
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