Christian August Jannowitz

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Christian August Jannowitz, portrait in the Triebeler town or main church, which was destroyed in 1945

Christian August Jannowitz (* 1772 in Triebel , Niederlausitz , † September 29, 1839 in Berlin ) was a Berlin cotton manufacturer. In 1822 he built the Jannowitz Bridge, which was later named after him .

Training and first job

Not much is known about the origins of Christian August Jannowitz. A Martin Janovsky was the organist in the Triebel town church until 1670. Presumably this is an ancestor of Christian August Jannowitz, and the family name has changed from Janovsky to Jannowitz over the years. Around 1820, a Jannowitz is mentioned as the house and land owner of the property at Muskauer Strasse 25 (from 1928 no. 19) in Triebel. This house can be seen as the birthplace of Christian August Jannowitz.

Jannowitz probably completed an apprenticeship in a Sorau textile company before he emigrated to Berlin before 1800. As early as 1799 he was listed in the Berlin address book as a cotton manufacturer at Scharrenstrasse 6 on the square at the Petrikirche . Jannowitz came into this possession by marrying into a family of textile entrepreneurs. Scharrenstrasse 6 and 7 were apartments, factories and shops until 1822. From 1804 to 1820 Jannowitz worked as a deputy for poor relief in Alt-Cölln .

Jannowitz becomes a building contractor

On February 1, 1822, Jannowitz sold his “factory and dealership” to Ferdinand Burckhardt, who continued it under his own name. Jannowitz wanted to dedicate himself to a new project, because he realized that as a result of the growth of the new districts east of the Spree, another river crossing was required in addition to the Oberbaumbrücke and Waisenbrücke bridges, which are almost three kilometers apart . Therefore, on December 10, 1821, he sent a request to the Minister for Trade “to build a bridge from the Wusterhausen wood market to the Stralau glut” with private funds. Upon request, Friedrich Wilhelm III. on February 14, 1822 a decree approved the construction of the bridge by a public company. With 28,000  thalers , Jannowitz then founded the Brückenbau-Aktiengesellschaft, which built a wooden yoke bridge with a seesaw for shipping at the designated point . The inauguration of the driving bridge took place on September 29, 1822. Bridge tolls could be levied to refinance the construction, the AG had determined that pedestrians had to pay "half a jute jroschen" and carriages a "janzen jute jroschen". The Spree crossing, later named after its builder Jannowitzbrücke , was the second private bridge to be built by a stock corporation after the Ebertsbrücke built in 1820 . On September 29, 1822, the wooden bridge with a seesaw for the ships was opened after a construction period of six months.

From October 1, 1822, the bridge tariff was levied on Jannowitz and his shareholders. After the time required for refinancing had expired, the bridge, built with private capital, fell to the state in 1831 and the public limited company was dissolved. The bridge, initially known as the "Second Actien Bridge in Berlin", was named Jannowitzbrücke on May 8, 1825, and the road leading there became Brückenstraße .

Financial support for the city of Triebel

After Jannowitz had become a rich man through the construction of the bridge, he was also able to financially consider his hometown and make donations of over 6,000 thalers to the Triebel city or main church in order to decorate it “tastefully and richly” in 1830/31. He also commissioned the Hirschberg organ builder Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Buckow (1801–1864), who had already repaired and expanded the large organ in the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Görlitz in 1829 , and to which Jannowitz became aware in Berlin newspapers, with the construction an organ with 32 registers at his expense. However, Jannowitz made the donation subject to the condition that one painting each of him and his wife be attached to the organ gallery. For the consecration in 1831, two oil portraits of the Jannowitz couple were attached to the organ choir and an inscription plaque was attached to the organ. The medieval main church and the country church, which was built in 1560, were completely destroyed along with the furnishings in February 1945.

Last years of life

1835 Jannowitz put definitively to rest, pulling a reindeer in the street Unter den Linden . There he bought house no.67 in 1839.

Christian August Jannowitz died on September 29, 1839 at the age of 67. In the official gazette of the Prussian government in Frankfurt / Oder of the year 1839 a message appeared on the occasion of his death, in which it said: “The merchant Christian August Jannowitz, who recently died in Berlin, has bequeathed a legacy of 300 thalers to the Triebel church , the interest of which is for maintenance and for any necessary repairs to the organ he had built earlier. ”Jannowitz's wife, ten years his junior, died in 1852 at the age of 70.

literature

  • Frank Eberhardt: On, above and below ground. Berlinische Monatsschrift, Berlin 7 (1998) H. 7, pp. 71-77, ISSN  0944-5560
  • Erich Schwärzel: A businessman from Triebel in Berlin. Sorauer Heimatblatt, Dortmund 39 (1990) H. 7, p. 14; H. 8, p. 13; H. 9/10, p. 16
  • Hans Erich Kubach; Joachim Seeger: The art monuments of the Sorau district and the city of Forst. (Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Brandenburg, Volume V 6) Ed. By the Brandenburg Provincial Association, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1939, p. 242 ff. And 404

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Friedrich Conradi; Johann Gottlob Worbs: Church, preacher and school stories of the lordships of Sorau and Triebel. Winkler, Sorau 1803.
  2. ↑ Schwärzel: Sorauer Heimatblatt , 39 (1990) H. 8, p. 13.
  3. ↑ a b Brief information in the Berliner Zeitung , January 30, 2017, p. 14.
  4. ↑ Wilhelm Mila: Berlin, or history of the origin, the gradual development and the current state of this capital, in terms of location, constitution, scientific culture, art and trade, according to the most trusted writers and own research. Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin a. Stettin 1829, p. 472 f. ( Google book search )
  5. ↑ Landesarchiv Berlin, Rep. 00-02 / 1, No. 611
  6. ^ JGA Ludwig Helling: History-statistical-topographical pocket book of Berlin and its immediate surroundings. Logier, Berlin 1830, p. 179
  7. ^ Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl; J. Scheu: Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg with the Markgraftum Nieder-Lausitz in their history and their current existence. Berlin 1861, pp. 572-594
  8. ^ Fritz Hanschke: The rule Triebel. (Reprint of the Sorau edition 1891), Rauert & Pittius, Sorau N.-L. 1920
  9. ↑ Schwärzel: Sorauer Heimatblatt , 39 (1990) H. 7, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Jannowitz, Christian August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cotton manufacturer, builder of the Berlin Jannowitz Bridge
DATE OF BIRTH 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Triebel
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1839
Place of death Berlin