Eduard Riedel
Eduard Riedel ( born 1 February 1813 in Bayreuth Riedelberg; † August 24, 1885 in Starnberg ) was a German architect and Bavarian construction officer, Mr.
Riedel was the son of a royal Bavarian county and government architect. He studied architecture at first in Bayreuth, then at the Art Academy in Munich. In 1834 he passed his final examination in architecture and received a fellowship, the 1839/40 a trip to Italy provided him. In 1842 he married. After graduating, he took over the management of the new building of the women's pin at the Ludwig street, then he built residence and palace garden for King Otto of Greece in Athens. By 1850, he was court architect, after he moved to Munich, where he completed the Propylaea along with Leo von Klenze. From 1852 to 1857 was Riedel professor at the Polytechnic. In 1853 he was appointed Hofbauinspektor and 1872 he was head of the royal court architect and Hofbauintendanz.
Among the works of the architect, the buildings in the Hellenistic, Moorish, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance style designed that belongs to Wolfram von Eschenbach Monument in Eschenbach, numerous wells in Schleißheimer Palace Park, Munich officials relic institution, the Bavarian National Museum as well as numerous plans, among other things, for the Cistercian monastery Mehrerau in Bregenz, a new university and a new coin. He was also responsible for the restoration of numerous castles.