Carl Weigle

This article deals with the architect Carl Weigle. For the organ builder see Carl Gottlieb Weigle .

Carl Weigle (born December 21, 1849 in Ludwigsburg-Hoheneck , † 1932 or October 10, 1931 in Stuttgart or Baden-Baden ) was a German architect .

Live and act

Weigle studied architecture with Christian Friedrich Leins , Adolf Gnauth and Robert von Reinhardt in Stuttgart and worked from 1877 to 1910 in a partnership with Ludwig Eisenlohr and later with his sons Hermann and Georg ( Weigle and Sons' office of senior building officer ). During his studies, he became a member of the fraternity Academic Society Sonderbund Stuttgart .

From 1885 to 1911, Weigle was the publisher of the specialist journal Architektonische Rundschau . In 1889 he was appointed royal building officer and in 1903 senior building officer. In 1920 he became an honorary citizen of Ludwigsburg . His son Hermann Weigle was a government master builder in Stuttgart, where he built some industrial buildings for the company Oberbaurat Weigle und Sons .

Inscription "Eisenlohr & Weigle" on the Villa Kienlin

Buildings and designs

1877–1910 (in the Eisenlohr and Weigle offices ):

• 1881: Conversion of the Villa Louis Link in Heilbronn, Cäcilienstraße 51
• 1884: Crypt chapel of the Barons von Gemmingen near Hornberg Castle in Neckarzimmern
• 1884 ?: Competition design for the gala fountain in Stuttgart (together with the sculptor Wilhelm von Rümann ; awarded 1st prize, but not executed)
• 1885: Competition draft for the Imperial Court in Leipzig (awarded one of two 2nd prizes)
• 1885–1886: Schweinsberg Tower near Heilbronn
• 1891–1892: Villa Kienlin in Stuttgart, Mörikestraße 7/9 (under monument protection)
• 1892–1893: Apartment building Weißenburgstraße 2b in Stuttgart (under monument protection)
• 1895: Kriegsberg tower in Stuttgart-Relenberg
• 1895–1896: Reconstruction and expansion of the Hotel Marquardt (later called Marquardtbau ) in Stuttgart, Königstrasse / Bolzstrasse
• 1898: Villa Clausnitzer in Stuttgart, Gerokstraße 1 (not preserved)
• from 1898: Babstadt Castle in Babstadt near Heilbronn
• 1901–1903: Schiller Archive and Museum (since 1922 Schiller National Museum ) in Marbach am Neckar
• from 1904: conversion of the old castle to the town hall in Tettnang
• 1905–1907: Town hall in Vaihingen on the Fildern
• 1907–1909: Town hall in Feuerbach
• 1909–1910: Kurgartenhotel in Friedrichshafen (demolished in 1971)

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  Villa Link in Heilbronn

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  Villa Kienlin in Stuttgart

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  Town hall in Vaihingen on the Fildern

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  Town hall in Feuerbach

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  Villa Giesler in Stuttgart

from 1910 (in the office of Oberbaurat Weigle und Söhne ):

Factory inn in Oberhausen

• 1911: Competition design for a crematorium in Pforzheim (purchase)
• 1911–1912: Administration building in the Mettingen plant of the Esslingen machine works
• from 1912: Mine Jacobi of Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen - Klosterhardt (not preserved)
• 1913–1914: Gutehoffnungshütte factory inn in Oberhausen, Essener Strasse 3 (listed)
• 1920: Competition design for the main warehouse of Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen (executed according to a different design)

Fonts

• The administration building of the life insurance and savings bank Stuttgart . In: Monthly publication of the Württembg. Association for construction in Stuttgart. F. Weise's Hofbuchhandlung in Stuttgart (until 1900); South German Verl.-Anstalt, Munich (from 1901). Stuttgart 1898-1904, pp. 32-33 ( uni-stuttgart.de ).

literature

• Weigle, Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 282 .
• Bernhard Lattner: Quiet contemporary witnesses. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture. With texts by Joachim Hennze. Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 , p. 114.
• Annette Schmidt: Ludwig Eisenlohr. An architectural path from historicism to modernity. Stuttgart architecture around 1900 (= publications of the archive of the city of Stuttgart. Volume 98.) Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-89850-979-6 .

Web links

• Works by Carl Weigle in the digital collections of the Stuttgart University Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Weigle, Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 282 (died 1932 in Stuttgart). - and other sources.
2. ↑ Christine Breig: The villa and country house construction in Stuttgart 1830–1930. Hohenheim, Stuttgart / Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-89850-964-8 , p. 541 f. (died on October 10, 1931 in Stuttgart or Baden-Baden).
3. ↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 51.
4. ^ Robert Langenberger: Industrial buildings by government master builder Hermann Weigle. In: The builder. 22nd year, issue 12, Georg DW Callwey, Munich December 1924, pp. 77–81 ( [1] PDF).
5. ^ Architectural review. 4th year, issue 10, J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1888, plates 76 and 77 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
6. ^ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . Volume 5, No. 11, March 14, 1885, p. 112 ( digital.zlb.de ).
7. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Volume 32, No. 17, February 24, 1912, p. 112 ( digital.zlb.de ).