Alexander Fach

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Development plan from 1871 for the expansion of the city of Wiesbaden by Alexander Fach

Alexander Fach (born August 24, 1815 in Wiesbaden ; † March 11, 1883 ibid) was a German civil engineer , architect and municipal building officer . From 1863 to 1873 he was the first city architect in Wiesbaden.

Subject studied at the Bauakademie Karlsruhe , which he left with the passed state examination . He then entered the service of the city of Wiesbaden. From 1853 to 1862 he was entrusted with the technical construction management for the construction of the market church .

In 1863 he was appointed city architect. During this time he made great contributions to the construction of the water supply and the expansion of the city and the military. In 1871, Fach drew up the development plan for the expansion of the city of Wiesbaden, which became necessary after the population of Wiesbaden had risen sharply from the mid-1850s and the resulting new residential areas had to be taken into account in urban planning. The Ringstrasse project was also part of this plan, although it was only implemented after his death in 1894.

Among other things, the Higher Citizens' School on Oranienstrasse, today's Oranienschule , the building of the advance club Wiesbaden (today Wiesbadener Volksbank) as part of the historical pentagon and the Villa Rheinhütte used as the director's house , which is now an industrial monument and part of the Route of Industrial Culture , were built according to his designs Rhein-Main Wiesbaden is. In 1873 Fach retired.

Awards

  • 1872: Prussian Crown Order 4th class with a red cross in the white field on the commemorative ribbon

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Renkhoff: Nassau biography. 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition, Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-922244-90-4 , p. 183.
  2. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments , Sigrid Russ (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen Wiesbaden II - The villa areas (=  monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse ). Springer, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-663-12204-3 , pp. 44 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Market Church . From: wiesbaden.de, accessed on February 16, 2016
  4. ^ Dyckerhoff & Widmann . From: wiesbaden.de, accessed on February 16, 2016
  5. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments , Sigrid Russ (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen Wiesbaden II - The villa areas (=  monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse ). Springer, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-663-12204-3 , pp. 44 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ Orange School . From: wiesbaden.de, accessed on February 16, 2016
  7. ↑ The Villa Rheinhütte . On: sehenswertes-biebrich.de
personal data
SURNAME Fach, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer, architect and municipal building officer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1883
Place of death Wiesbaden