Anton Adolph Schmoll called Eisenwerth
Anton Adolph Schmoll called Eisenwerth (* 1834 in St. Wendel ; † 1918 ) was a German bridge designer and hydraulic engineer .
Live and act
After his professional training in Saarbrücken , the son of a geodesist worked for a company from Paris as a bridge and port designer in France and North Africa for around 15 years . He later went into business for himself in Vienna , for which he had to take two Austrian partners (an iron industrialist from Bohemia and an Austrian engineer) into the company, and specialized in the construction of railway bridges. About 60 bridges originate from him, including in Prague, Salzburg and areas of the eastern KuK monarchy (Yugoslavia, Hungary). His main work was the Vienna Reichsbrücke (at that time still called Kronprinz-Rudolph-Brücke) over the Danube, then the largest bridge-building project of the dual monarchy, opened in 1876. For this he was personally honored by Emperor Franz Joseph as the “Knight of the Franz Joseph Order ”, the Austrian honor for personal merits by civilians. As early as 1875 he built a palace in the style of Vienna's Ringstrasse (which is still standing today) in his hometown in Saarland on a piece of land inherited from his father and later moved with his wife, who was married in Vienna (she came from the Hotel Maria Hilf), along with her parents , her sister and his six children born in Vienna. He later moved to Darmstadt , where his son Josef Adolf studied and obtained his doctorate.
Schmoll has been involved in photography since the 1860s, made a large camera with which he recorded his bridges (this camera is on loan from the Munich City Museum ) and in 1886 developed a latch for his camera .
family
Anton Adolph Schmoll called Eisenwerth was the father of six children, including four sons:
- Josef Adolf Schmoll called Eisenwerth (engineer) (* 1877, † August 24, 1914), he also became an engineer and is in turn the father of Josef Adolf Schmoll called Eisenwerth (1915-2010), a well-known art historian.
- Karl Schmoll von Eisenwerth (1879–1948), an Austrian painter, graphic artist and art nouveau glass artist.
- Gustav Schmoll called Eisenwerth (1881-1916), an architect.
- Fritz Schmoll called Eisenwerth (1883–1963), an Art Nouveau craftsman, interior designer and sculptor.
literature
- Clementine Schack von Wittenau, in collaboration with JA Schmoll called Eisenwerth: Karl Schmoll von Eisenwerth, painting, graphics, glass art. Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-925369-47-3 . . - See here pp. 12-14, 122 and 237.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical Lexicon of Austrian Photographers 1860 to 1900, compiled by Hans Frank, Typescript, o.O. 1980, p. 109.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmoll called Eisenwerth, Anton Adolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmoll called Eisenwerth, Anton Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bridge designer and hydraulic engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Wendel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1918 |