Eduard Hechler

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Eduard Hechler's grave in the Chemnitz municipal cemetery

Philipp Gottfried Benjamin Eduard Hechler (born March 16, 1838 in Rohrbach near Darmstadt ; † December 23, 1910 in Chemnitz ) was a German architect and municipal building officer .

Life

Hechler studied at the University of Giessen . At first he was a city architect in Darmstadt . He later went to Chemnitz and was the second town planning officer in the municipal building administration. There, Hechler was primarily concerned with the engineering mastery of the basic supply for the rapidly growing city.

In Chemnitz he built the slaughterhouse on Wettinerplatz (from 1881 to 1883), the Chemnitz market hall (1891), the dam in Einsiedel (from 1890 to 1893), the secondary school on Wielandstraße in 1892 from 1893 and the dam Neunzehnhain (from 1903 to 1909). His buildings also included the new town hall on Beckerplatz , built in 1889 , which was destroyed in 1945. In all of his buildings, he used the elegant forms of the Neo-Renaissance Italian style.

After the municipal building department was divided in 1900 , Richard Möbius , who came from Dresden , was responsible for building construction. Until his retirement in 1909, Eduard Hechler remained responsible for civil engineering and the technical systems of the municipality.

Honors

For his work in Darmstadt on June 20, 1870 he received the Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Merit (Philipps Order) in the form of Knight II class.

On July 23, 1872 he was awarded the Grand Ducal Hessian Military Medical Cross.

When he left, the street leading from the castle pond to the Küchwald was given the name Hechlerstraße.

Fonts (selection)

  • The structural development of the city of Chemnitz in recent years . In: Memorandum of the 25th Building Trade Day in Chemnitz on 15. – 17. September 1889 . Association of German Building Trade Masters, Chemnitz 1889, pp. 36–45.

literature

  • Albrecht Hoffmann u. a .: Life pictures from dam construction in Central Europe at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. A contribution to the 150th birthday of Otto Intze on May 17, 1993 . Self-published, Marburg 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung Munich, 1870, p. 3074.
  2. ↑ Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1870, Supplement No. 25, p. 376; Grand Ducal Hessian Order List, 1907, p. 72.
  3. ↑ List of persons decorated with Grand Ducal Hessian orders and decorations, 1875, p. 117.
personal data
SURNAME Hechler, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hechler, Philipp Gottfried Benjamin Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and municipal building officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Rohrbach near Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1910
Place of death Chemnitz