Balthasar Wilhelm Stengel
Balthasar Wilhelm Stengel (born May 19, 1748 in Saarbrücken , † April 12, 1824 in Trier ) was a German architect and builder .
Life
Balthasar Wilhelm Stengel was born in 1748 as the second son of the architect Friedrich Joachim Stengel . From 1766 to 1768 he studied law at the Friedrichsr University in Halle and the University of Jena . From 1768 he worked as an administrative clerk: in 1768 he was accesist, 1770 registrar and finally, in 1773, senior secretary in St. Johann (Saar) . From 1778 he worked as an assessor and from October 1, 1780 as the head of civil engineering in Harskirchen ( County of Saar Werden ). During this time he built a rectory in Oermingen and a bridge in Kirrberg .
On October 1, 1783 he was employed as a bailiff in St. Johann and in the administration. In 1784 he prevailed with his designs in a competition of the prince for the restoration of the Saar Bridge (today Old Bridge ) against the chief building director Johann Philipp von Welling and building director Johann Jakob Lautemann and was director of bridge construction between 1785 and 1787. In 1785, Prince Ludwig appointed him princely Nassau-Saarbrücker chamber councilor and chief building director. In the following years, the prince and his chief building director continued the work of their fathers and supplemented the baroque architecture in St. Johann and Saarbrücken and expanded it: In 1786, Stengel built the large theater on Ludwigsplatz (demolished in 1800) and was busy building Involved Ludwigsberg Palace in Saarbrücken and expanded Karlsbrunn Palace . In 1788 he built a pheasantry on the Halberg , a Protestant rectory in Völklingen and Schönthal Castle in Saarbrücken. In 1791 he was responsible for the planning and implementation of the city expansion in front of the Obertor in St. Johann (today Mainzer Straße).
Stengel spent 1793 on the run from the French revolutionary troops in Mannheim and then lived in Erbach until 1796 , where he mainly drew and painted. In 1796 he became "Engineer en chef" of the Saar department in Saarbrücken. In 1798 he was then commissioned as "Inspecteur Adjoint des mines et usines" to create a mineral topography for the two departments of Saar and Rur and to prepare expert reports on mines. Soon after, he and Carl Philipp Vopelius leased a factory for the production of pitch , resin , oil, alcohol and car grease.
It was not until 1807 that Stengel reappeared as an architect: He drew up plans for the reconstruction of the Saarbrücken Castle , which his father had built. However, the plans were not implemented. From 1811 to 1812, Stengel lived mainly in Wiesbaden, where he, as the authorized representative of the former Nassau-Saarbrücken servants and civil servants, negotiated overdue salaries and pensions with the Ducal Nassau government . During his stay there were drafts for a theater and a house in Wiesbaden, which were not implemented.
In 1813, Stengel became general administrator of the Westphalian domains of the Salm-Kyrburg family . From 1816 on, Stengel was the Prussian government councilor in Trier. He was retired in 1822 and stayed in Trier until his death in 1824.
literature
- Karl Lohmeyer : Balthasar Wilhelm Stengel, the chief building director of Prince Ludwig von Nassau Saarbrücken. Hofer, Saarbrücken 1910 (previously published in Saarbrücker Zeitung ).
- Karl Lohmeyer: Stengel, Balthasar Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 589 .
- Alheidis von Rohr : 26 architectural drafts by Balthasar Wilhelm Stengel in the art library of the Staatl. Museums of Prussian cultural heritage. In: Saarbrücker Hefte. Issue 30, 1969, ISSN 0036-2115 , pp. 55-60.
- Walther Zimmermann : The art monuments of the city and the district of Saarbrücken. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1932, p. 290 (Unchanged reprint. Association for Monument Preservation, Saarbrücken 1975).
- Hans-Christoph Dittscheid, Klaus Güthlein (ed.): The Stengel family of architects. Friedrich Joachim (1694–1787), Johann Friedrich (Fjodor Fjodorowitsch, 1746–1830?), Balthasar Wilhelm (1748–1824). Imhof, Petersberg 2005, ISBN 3-937251-88-X , pp. 219-253.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stengel, Balthasar Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1748 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saarbrücken |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1824 |
| Place of death | trier |