Carl Hubert Vering

Carl Hubert Vering

Carl Hubert Vering (born November 18, 1834 in Ahlen , † February 9, 1897 in Hanover ) was a German building contractor who was active in the civil engineering and railway construction sectors.

Life

Vering founded C. Vering in 1855. After his youngest brother Hermann Vering joined the company as technical director from 1871, it developed into one of the largest civil engineering companies in the German Empire . C. Vering specialized primarily in the construction of transport routes, initially in large-scale projects in the railway sector and increasingly in port and canal construction projects. Vering founded the railway construction and operating company Vering & Waechter together with the civil engineer Karl Waechter in Berlin in 1885 , which subsequently built numerous branch lines and small railways . In 1896 his son Carl Vering joined his father's civil engineering company, C. Vering.

Carl Hubert Vering was awarded the honorary title of (Royal Prussian) Commerce Councilor . He died in Hanover in 1897 at the age of 62 and was buried in the Stöcken city cemetery. His mausoleum there is a listed building .

Buildings

C. Vering

During the lifetime of Carl Hubert Vering, his civil engineering company C. Vering was involved in the following transport construction projects:

• 1868–1874: Hamburg – Bremen railway line
• 1874, 1877: Earthworks on the Berlin connecting railway
• 1875–1880: Earthworks to raise the Hanover main station and to create the subgrade for the Leinhausen repair shop
• 1875: Earthworks on the Hamm – Warburg line of the Royal Westphalian Railway
• 1876: Earthworks and embankment work on the Insterburg railway line (since 1945 Chernyachovsk in Russian ) - Prosken (since 1945 Prostki in Polish )
• 1876–1877: Earthworks on the Berlin – Blankenheim and Blankenheim – Nordhausen and Nordhausen – Wetzlar railway lines ( Kanonenbahn )
• 1879: Earthworks and dredging work for the 2nd correction of the Trave in Lübeck
• 1880: Earthworks and engineering structures on behalf of the Dutch-Westphalian Railway Company in Utrecht
• 1880: Construction of the railway Neustadt (Holstein) - Oldenburg (Holstein) of the circle Oldenburger railway -Gesellschaft (KOE)
• 1880–1882: Construction of the Lübeck – Lübeck-Travemünde Strand railway line of the Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn- Gesellschaft (LBE)
• 1880–1881: Construction of the Hoya – Eystrup railway line by the Hoya Railway Company
• 1881–1888: Earthworks for the new construction of the main train station in Frankfurt am Main
• 1883: Earthworks, dredging and paving work on the lock canal in the lower reaches of the Main
• 1883: Works for the Hamburg free port area in Hamburg-Veddel
• 1885–1886: Port and pier construction in Warnemünde
• 1885–1890: Conversion of the railway station in Düsseldorf
• 1885–1888: Construction work in the Bremen free port
• 1887–1889: Earthworks to convert the railway system in Cologne
• 1888–1895: Work on the Kiel Canal and its locks
• 1889–1892: Port construction in Norddeich

Vering & Waechter

During the lifetime of Carl Hubert Vering, the Vering & Waechter company opened small and branch lines :

• 1894: Dessau – Wörlitz railway line of the Dessau-Wörlitzer Eisenbahn- Gesellschaft AG (DWE)
• 1894: Bad Krozingen – Staufen – Sulzburg railway line ( Münstertalbahn )
• 1895: Haltingen – Kandern railway line ( Kandertal Railway )
• 1896: Müllheim – Badenweiler railway line operated by the Müllheim-Badenweiler local railway
• 1896: Groß Peterwitz – Katscher railway line (since 1945 Pietrowice Wielkie - Kietrz in Polish ) of Allgemeine Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebs-GmbH (ADEG)
• 1896: Voldagsen – Salzhemmendorf railway line of the Voldagsen-Duingen-Delligsen (VDD) small railway

literature

• Enno Vering: railways, ports and canals. The areas of work of Carl and Hermann Vering, the pioneers of traffic route construction in the 19th century. Heidelberg 1999.
• Enno Vering: C. Vering. The history of the oldest major German civil engineering company. Heidelberg 2001.
• Klaus-Peter Quill: Vering & Waechter. In: Branch and narrow-gauge railways in Germany. ( Loose-leaf collection ) GeraNova-Verlag, 1994–2011.