Carl Arnold Séquin
Carl Arnold Séquin-Bronner (born January 25, 1845 in Uznach ; † November 25, 1899 in Rüti ZH ) was a Swiss architect .
Life
After attending school in Uznach, Rapperswil SG and St. Gallen , Carl Arnold attended the Polytechnic in Zurich from 1863 without graduating. This was followed by training at the Danniek machine factory in Prague. In the early 1870s he took over customer service in Caspar Honegger's loom factory in Rüti.
In 1879 he married Georgine Bronner from Biel . In the same year he opened his own architecture office in Rüti under the name C. Séquin-Bronner. Its specialty were standardized factory buildings, especially for the textile industry.
Together with Hilarius Knobel , he formed the Séquin & Knobel office around 1895. In the almost twenty years from 1881 until his death in 1899, Carl Arnold Séquin-Bronner worked on over 250 factories in Germany and abroad.
Selected Works
- Rote Fabrik , Zurich
- The Rote Fabrik was built in 1892 by the architect Carl Arnold Séquin-Bronner for the Henneberg silk company. In 1899 it was taken over by the Stünzi Söhne silk weaving mill from Horgen .
- 1894-95 mechanical silk weaving mill Conze & Colsman in Bonsfeld, Langenberg_ (Rhineland)
- One of the largest projects of the expanded construction office in Rüti is the spinning and weaving mill on the Proviantbach (Plant III) of the mechanical cotton spinning and weaving mill in Augsburg .
- In addition to an already existing weaving mill, Séquin & Knobel built another weaving mill for 640 looms and a spinning mill building for over 42,000 spindles in 1895/98 - a castle-like brick building, the four floors of which (basement and three floors) are surmounted by three corner towers.
- Factory building at Spinnereistrasse 10 in Hard, Vorarlberg
Web links
- Michael Hanak: Séquin, Carl Arnold. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Séquin, Carl Arnold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Séquin-Bronner, Carl Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uznach |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 1899 |
| Place of death | Rüti ZH |