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August Stapel (* 1801 in Berlin , † 1871 in Dresden ; full name: Wilhelm Ludwig August Stapel ) was a German architect , construction clerk and draftsman .

Stapel studied at the Berlin Building Academy in the environment of Karl Friedrich Schinkel . From 1832 to 1844 he worked as a city ​​architect in Halle an der Saale . In a list of subscribers published in 1840, he was named city ​​architect and government building conductor . In 1844, Stapel took up a position as a master builder or government master builder in Opole , from which he was transferred to Anklam as a farming inspector between autumn 1846 and spring 1848 . On February 21, 1850 he was appointed city ​​and building councilor to Breslau for a twelve-year term, but left the position prematurely on April 1, 1855.

A sketchbook from Stapel with 182 drawings - 52 of which were Halle motifs - is kept in the Marienbibliothek in Halle as an important witness of the times .

literature

  • Walter Müller: August Stapel. Important architect in the 19th century in Halle. In: Sunday News Halle from November 25, 2001.
  • Peter Findeisen : Early monument documentation and travel sketches. The drawings by the city architect Wilhelm Ludwig August Stapel (1801–1871) in the Marienbibliothek zu Halle (Saale). State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2012, ISBN 978-3-939414-73-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. Gotthard Oswald Marbach (Ed.): Das Nibelungenlied. O. and G. Wigand, Leipzig 1840. ( online as an e-book at Google Books ) ( list of subscribers in the unpaginated appendix, section Halle )
  2. a b Notes of the Architects' Association in Berlin , New Series, No. 2 (1848), p. 28
  3. a b Brief description of Stapel's estate in the Thuringian University and State Library , last accessed on May 29, 2012
    (Stapel's professional stations are obviously not listed here in chronological order!)
  4. ^ Hermann Markgraf: Breslauer Stadtbuch containing the Rathslinie from 1287 on ... In: Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae . tape 11 . Breslau 1882, p. 139 ( poznan.pl [accessed May 30, 2012]).
  5. During this time he lived at Nikolaistraße 44, on Königsplatz, today's plac Jana Pawła II ; Historic Addressbooks: Stapel Breslau. Retrieved May 30, 2012 .
  6. Flyer Hidden Treasures from Halle Collections , p. 4 (PDF document with 633 kB)