Karl Etzel
Karl (from) Etzel (also: Carl von Etzel ) ( born January 6, 1812 in Stuttgart, † May 2, 1865 in Kemmelbach at Ybbs on the trip ) was a German railway engineer and architect. He created many famous railway lines, bridges and viaducts, including the Bietigheimer railway viaduct.
Life
Karl Etzel was the son of Stuttgart city planner Gottlieb Christian Eberhard von Etzel, the builder of the new wine crate in Stuttgart. Because the father in Heilbronn 1811-1812 built houses for the families of smoke and Mertz, the legend of the place of birth was Heilbronn. Stuttgart is however occupied by the parish register as a birthplace.
The young Etzel studied from 1831 to 1835 with Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret. Starting from 1835, Karl Etzel was the construction in France working, including at the railway Paris ( Saint- Lazare ) -Saint- Germain, with the Seine Bridge at Asnieres ( destroyed during the February Revolution of 1848 and later rebuilt ). In 1837 he was chief engineer in the construction of the Versailles train.
In 1840 he went to Vienna, where he carried out various buildings. Together with Ludwig Förster he built here in the (first) Diana Baths in steel construction, the first swimming pool on the continent. In 1843 he was hired as a town planner in Württemberg, where he worked among other things, instrumental in the construction of the railway and the main Württemberg Geislingen - the first crossing of a low mountain range in Europe - with. He built the first central station in Stuttgart, which was opened on 26 September 1846.
1853 Etzel joined as a construction manager for the Swiss Central Railway, where he conducted the construction of the Hauenstein line with its tunnel.
Then he created his most famous in Austria and greatest work, the Brenner railway (1864-1867), the completion of which he did not live.
Karl Etzel suffered a stroke on November 13, 1864 and therefore asked for his dismissal. During the ride a special train to Stuttgart - Cannstatt where he wanted to be in the built and furnished according to his designs Villa Etzel to retire, he died on May 2, 1865 in the area between Vienna and Linz place Kemmelbach at a second stroke.
In his life Etzel had built independently over 1500 km railways and written next to it larger and smaller literary works, so in 1844 some articles for edited by him Stuttgart Railway Gazette. His published by him instructions are written in an unsurpassable brevity.
Karl Etzel had since 1847 with a daughter of Charles of Gärttner, Marie ( * 1828), who married nursed him until his death and with whom he had a daughter and two sons.
Memoirs
1853 Karl Etzel was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown, which was connected to the personal nobility.
Being from different rocks built by the burner Tomb, which is decorated by a relief portrait, still stands on the Prague Cemetery in Stuttgart.
A monument with a bust of Carl von Etzel was to mark the 25th anniversary of the Brenner railway from kuk Private Railway Company at present station " burner" built. As a result of the annexation of South Tyrol by the Kingdom of Italy after the First World War, it was supplemented by an Italian -language inscription.
A road in Heilbronn's industrial estate since 1912 carries the name Etzelstraße. The city of Innsbruck named in a December 1927 along the railway lines running street after him as Ing - Etzel -Straße. The city of Stuttgart dedicated to him only recently a street at the main station, on the former site of the goods station ( " Carl- Etzel -Straße "). In the city of Graz Karl Etzel - way in the district Wetzel village was named after him.
Writings
- About the character of a rural building. In: General Bauzeitung, born 1842, pp. 15-24 ( text ); 439 (plans ). (Online at ANNO ) Template: ANNO / Maintenance / abz.
- Rail mill of k.k. privileged Southern Railway Company in Graz. L. C. & C. Zamarsky Dittmarsch, Vienna, 1863, obv.
- Austrian railways. Designed and engineered in the years 1857 to 1863 Volume II: . Buildings. S. N., Vienna 1865, OBV.