August Cepl

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August Cepl (born August 11, 1858 in Pribislau , Bohemia, † January 8, 1917 in Vienna ) was an Austrian art locksmith.

Life

Cepl, unmarried and childless, changed his place of residence in Vienna several times. In 1914 he bought the house at Muhrengasse 60 in Vienna's 10th district , where he had set up his apartment and workshop.

The art locksmith built numerous via ferratas on the Rax on behalf of the Reichenau Alpine Club section and the Otto-Schutzhaus long-term tenant Camillo Kronich with the help of his "climbing apparatus" invented around 1903 , for example the Königsschußwandsteig (1906), the Alpenvereinssteig (1910) and the Haidsteig ( 1913) with its two legendary climbing trees.

In the Great Hell Valley , the Ceplwand is named after him.

  • August Cepl climbing apparatus (around 1910)

  • Ladder made by August Cepl at the entrance to the Alpine Club (1910)

  • Single-stile ladder (Steigbaum) made by August Cepl at Haidsteig (1913)

Web links

  • Personal folder for August Cepl (PDF) in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Land of Mountains, 5/1993, p.50f (PDF; 300 kB)
  2. ^ Wolfgang Kos: The conquest of the landscape: Semmering, Rax, Schneeberg ; Falter, 1992
  3. ↑ Rainer Amstädter: Mountaineering: Cultural Organization policy ; WUV University Press, 1996
personal data
SURNAME Cepl, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art locksmith and mountaineer
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Pribislau , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1917
Place of death Vienna