Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Streib

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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Streib (born December 31, 1822 in Coburg ; † October 9, 1888 there ), in literature also only Wilhelm Streib , was a German architect and builder in the service of Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha .

Eckardtsturm

Live and act

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Streib, the eldest son of state master builder Friedrich Streib, attended the Casimirianum high school in Coburg and began studying architecture in Paris in 1841 after completing school . The course he completed in 1845 also included practical training in Paris church buildings.

Court architect

Through his father's mediation, on July 29, 1845, Streib was hired as an assistant at the ducal building authority in Coburg. His first order was to prepare a construction plan for the construction of the burned down church in Neustadt near Coburg . Just four months later he was promoted to construction manager and sworn in as head of court construction in April 1847. His area of ​​responsibility included a total of 76 areas for which he was responsible. In addition to observing the general state of preservation of buildings, paths, wells and other realities as well as the Lauterbrücken, Streib was responsible for arranging repairs to seven ducal castles, the royal stables , the castle guard (today the monument ), the stately palace in front of the Ketschentor (destroyed in 1945) and a series of houses that were inhabited by relatives, servants and other well-known persons of the court . In August 1849, Duke Ernst II appointed Wilhelm Streib as court architect .

Now, in addition to the tasks mentioned, he also dealt with the reconstruction of burned down chamber buildings in Oeslau and the reconstruction of the Luther chapel on the Veste Coburg (1851), which was in danger of collapsing . Soon after his father's death in April 1852, his duties as a master builder were also transferred to Wilhelm Streib. In August of the same year, at the Duke's behest, he made a first draft for the construction of an artificial ruin on the Eckardtsberg, a little south of the fortress, but this was initially postponed by Ernst II.

Despite constantly growing tasks, Streib's salary was kept within very modest limits. In 1851 he asked for a raise, which was rejected. However, he also received a toll-free card so that he no longer has to pay the toll on his business trips out of his own pocket .

Outside employment

Always looking for an extra income, Wilhelm Streib founded the non-profit building association in 1857 , which received the praising approval of the duke, but developed little building activity. Only a house was built in front of the Ketschentor and some barns were moved from the Judentor to the Pilgramsroth . From 1860 at the latest, the activities of the competing Alexandrine Building Association under the protectorate of Duchess Alexandrine , wife of Ernst II, opposed the goal of building workers' houses set in the association's statute .

Big jobs

Between 1851 and 1876 Wilhelm Streib was entrusted with further special tasks: In 1851 he made new building plans for the dilapidated Bürglaßbrücke and designed the facade for the riding hall on Schloßplatz. From 1860 he was in charge of the work in the Callenberg Castle's economy courtyard . At the same time he planned and built the new country hospital at Allee 7 , which was inaugurated in 1862. For this he received the Gold Medal of Merit, but again no salary bonus. It was only granted to him in 1867.

Ernestinum Coburg

In 1872/1873, Streib's plans for a tower on the Eckardtsberg were finally implemented in a simplified version. Then he devoted himself to his biggest project, the construction of the new secondary school on the Glockenberg . The foundation stone was laid on July 19, 1873 and the school was able to start teaching just 23 months later.

Teaching

Wilhelm Streib's father founded the Friedrich Streibsche Institute for building tradesmen in Coburg in 1814 , a forerunner of the later building trade school and today's university . As early as 1839, two years before graduating from school, Wilhelm Streib took on tasks at his father's educational institution. In 1851/1852 he made the drafts for the expansion of the institute into a building trade school and was officially listed there as a teacher from the semester 1856/1857. In 1868 he was given the management of the school, which he ran alongside his professional duties until 1876.

Gotha time

In 1877, Duke Ernst Wilhelm Streib awarded the Knight's Cross, 2nd class, of the Saxon Ernestine House Order in recognition of his services . At the same time he was transferred to Gotha to take over the management of the castle administration , the name for castle administration at the time.

In Gotha in 1880 he got caught up in a corruption affair during the renovation of the ducal private house. It was assumed that a company in Halle had paid out a 50% commission. The duke requested an investigation and in 1882 handed the matter over to the public prosecutor in Gotha. Ultimately, Streib was acquitted by the Gotha Regional Court and the appeal applied for at the Reich Court in Berlin was also rejected in 1883. The acquittal was final, but Streib's reputation was gone. He submitted for his retirement, which was granted to him immediately.

Publications

Immediately after his retirement, Wilhelm Streib lived again in Coburg in house Festungsstrasse 3 and from 1887 in house Zinkenwehr 1. At the beginning of 1888 he published his lithographic work Das alten Coburg, consisting of several portfolios, with drawings and descriptions related to them.

Jacob Lindner , at the same time ducal building inspector in Coburg, accused Wilhelm Streib of plagiarism after his work was published . Lindner claimed that, apart from a few minor details, Streib composed five sheets, most of them exactly according to his own drawings. This accusation could no longer be refuted, as Streib died shortly afterwards in October 1888.

The publisher Emil Rädlein announced in 1918 that the collection of the sheets autographed by Streib was already completely out of print and a new edition was impossible.

Buildings

Streib's buildings still shape the Coburg cityscape today and are among the city's listed buildings . The following buildings were planned and executed in Coburg by Wilhelm Streib:

literature

  • Helmut Wolter: Space - Time - Coburg Volume 1: Coburg architects and builders 1820-1920 . Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-937527-38-3
  • Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments . Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48. Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Wolter: Space - Time - Coburg Volume 1: Coburg Architects and Builders 1820-1920 , Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2011, page 114
  2. ^ A b Helmut Wolter: Space - Time - Coburg Volume 1: Coburg architects and builders 1820-1920 , Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2011, page 115
  3. ^ Walter Föhl, The History of the Coburg Fortress , Coburg 1954
  4. ^ A b Helmut Wolter: Space - Time - Coburg Volume 1: Coburg architects and builders 1820-1920 , Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2011, page 116
  5. ↑ Plan-ready draft W. Streib, Coburg City Archives, 1921, 26
  6. ↑ Helmut Wolter: Space - Time - Coburg Volume 1: Coburg Architects and Builders 1820-1920 , Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2011, page 117
  7. ↑ Helmut Wolter: Space - Time - Coburg Volume 1: Coburg Architects and Builders 1820-1920 , Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2011, page 118
  8. ↑ a b c Helmut Wolter: Space - Time - Coburg Volume 1: Coburg architects and builders 1820-1920 , Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2011, page 119
  9. ↑ Helmut Wolter: Space - Time - Coburg Volume 1: Coburg Architects and Builders 1820-1920 , Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2011, page 119/120
  10. ^ Address book from 1885 for the city of Coburg
  11. ↑ Helmut Wolter: Space - Time - Coburg Volume 1: Coburg Architects and Builders 1820-1920 , Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2011, page 120
  12. ↑ Landesbibliothek Ehrenburg, Cob. Q 56, 65a
  13. ^ Emil Rädlein, Alt Coburg , 18 pen drawings by Emil Maurer, historical explanations by Emil Rädlein, Riemannsche Hofbuchhandlung, Coburg 1918
  14. ^ Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments. Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48., Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, page CXXXIII
personal data
SURNAME Streib, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Streib, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and builder
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1888
Place of death Coburg