Carl August Menzel
Carl August Peter Menzel (born May 18, 1794 in Breslau ; † October 21, 1853 in Greifswald ) was a German architect and publicist at the Schinkel School .
Life
The son of the Breslau doctor Joseph Menzel attended the Catholic grammar school in his hometown, which he graduated from in 1808 with the final examination. Then he learned the profession of bricklayer at the building school in Breslau until 1812 and then went to the building academy in Vienna . In 1813 he interrupted his studies to take part in the wars of liberation as a volunteer . From 1815 he studied at the Berlin building academy , where he became a surveyor in 1817 and qualified as a building inspector in 1820. From 1819 to 1830 he was an unskilled worker for the Oberbaudeputation in Berlin under Karl Friedrich Schinkel . After a short freelance work as a privately trained publicist, in 1832 he became a building inspector at the University of Greifswald and the Agricultural Academy in Eldena , which was still in the planning phase , and whose teaching building (1849), built according to his plans, is one of the few buildings he has left, albeit in a modified form. He retained his position as an academic builder until his death.
The location on the edge of the Baltic Sea in Greifswald in the predominantly agricultural province of Pomerania meant that, for reasons of financial scarcity, Menzel's plans were more sophisticated than actual buildings. And so the focus and importance of his work lies more in his diverse journalistic work as a planner and author. Menzel taught agriculture and road construction as well as construction-related basic subjects at the Eldena Agricultural Academy.
The University of Greifswald had extensive agricultural land ownership and had thus caused in a number of villages Vorpommern and the patronage over the village churches so that Menzel also worked in the University associated Gutsdörfern by conservation measures.
For the city of Greifswald, he built the Steinbecker Tor, which was demolished in 1951, from 1833 to 1834 .
In Vorpommerschen National Archives in Greifswald his work for private clients such as Prince are Malte I to Putbus documented. Only two of the plans for private clients were implemented, but are no longer preserved today. This included an eccentric bath house for the Countess von Küssow auf Quitzin , the remains of which were recently rediscovered in the park.
Menzel received an honorary doctorate from the University of Greifswald in 1847 and was appointed professor in the philosophy faculty in 1849.
Fonts (selection)
- CA Menzel (Ed.): Yearbook of Architecture and Building Science in Germany , Volume 1, Eisleben: Verlag von Georg Reichardt, 1844; Digitized via Google books
- The practical bricklayer. Halle 1847. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
- The construction of the ice cellar, both in and above the ground, involves peat, straw or reed and the storage of the ice in it. Halle 1848. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
literature
- Michael Lissok: The work of the architect CAP Menzel (1794 to 1853) in Western Pomerania. In: Heimathefte für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern , Heft 4, 1996, S. 8-12.
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl August Menzel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Carl August Menzel in the state bibliography MV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Reddemann : The listed old cemetery in the university and Hanseatic city of Greifswald. Part III, Greifswald 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-027660-6 , pp. 207-208.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Menzel, Carl August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Menzel, Carl August Peter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and architecture journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1853 |
| Place of death | Greifswald |