Emil Lochner
Emil Lochner (born November 30, 1832 in Burtscheid , † January 22, 1900 in Aachen ) was an Aachen cloth manufacturer and contributed significantly to the cityscape of Aachen. Lochnerstrasse in Aachen is named after his father.
family
Emil Lochner, son of Johann Friedrich Lochner and Julie Friederika Erckens (married on August 14, 1830), a sister of the cloth manufacturer Oskar Erckens , was married to Leonie Haniel (1846–1911), daughter of the manor owner Max Haniel and his wife Friederike, née . Cockerill (1816–1854), daughter of the steel entrepreneur James Cockerill . They had two sons: Max Lochner , hippologist and owner of numerous patents, and Erich Lochner , automobile racing driver and aircraft designer. His nephew Rudolf Lochner was an important Aachen entrepreneur.
Julie Lochner's grave is located in the former and listed Protestant cemetery on Monheimsallee. Emil Lochner and his wife Leonie found their final resting place in Westfriedhof I in Aachen.
Live and act
Emil Lochner was a member of the Aachen City Council from 1874 to 1879 and from 1882 to 1900 and from 1858 until his death a member of the Club Aachener Casino, founded in 1805 . He was also active in a large number of other social institutions and, like his father, promoted music (including co-founder of the instrumental club in Aachen).
On April 25, 1881 Emil Lochner, together with the mayor Carl Eduard Dahmen , the secret councilor Leopold Scheibler , the councilor Robert Kesselkaul, the legal advisor Robert von Görschen as well as the cloth manufacturer Konrad Starz, Franz Carl Freiherr von Nellessen and others played a key role in the decision that today's Einhard-Gymnasium was built in Aachen. This opened on May 1, 1886.
For his numerous professional and social services, Emil Lochner was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle and the Order of the Prussian Crown in the fourth class.
Ventures
After the father Johann Friedrich Lochner had already acquired the ailing cloth factory from the heirs of the Aachen cloth manufacturer Ignaz van Houtem as well as the nearby Junkersmühle with the associated water rights in 1857 and led this company back to an economic boom, Emil Lochner took over at the end of the 1870s and later his brothers Fritz (1835–1904) and Rudolf Lochner (1847–1918) took over the shares in the parental cloth factory Lochner . Emil Lochner later adapted the company to the new times with serious changes; under his aegis, it became one of the largest textile factories in Aachen. In 1873 Lochner laid out the Lochnerstrasse, named after his father, and thereby greatly changed the previous surroundings of his parents' Lochner villa. Next to the old factory buildings of Lochner's cloth factory of the Aachen civil engineer and university teacher was based on plans Otto Intze built a crowned in the castle style with towers and battlements new factory building, which was rebuilt after 1961 and which now houses the Department for itself Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology of the RWTH Aachen is .
The factory owner Lochner's residence and factory were on what is now the area between Lochnerstrasse and Karlsgraben. The Lochnertor at Karlsgraben 55 still bears witness to this today. This area also housed the Plattenbauchmühle , a fulling mill and dye works from the 16th century, whose sewage was directed into the nearby Johannisbach .
fire Department
Emil Lochner had been a member of the Aachen fire brigade since March 4, 1859 and was appointed Colonel and Commandant on February 1, 1866. By virtue of his new office, Lochner published a memorandum on December 19, 1866 after a fire in the Toenius cloth factory , which burned down completely due to the lack of the ability to deploy the fire extinguishers quickly and made 300 people unemployed, with the following demands:
- Establishment of a fire telegraph
- Establishment of a guard post (guard room with syringe) with twelve men of service who should be constantly on standby
- Construction of a practice house (Steigerturm) for leader exercises
- Division of the fire brigade into three barracked companies on site
On November 1, 1871, Emil Lochner's demands were largely implemented. On October 26, 1871, the Aachen professional fire brigade was founded under Lochner. He was later promoted to fire director in 1881 and was appointed honorary fire director after his retirement. From 1871 he also financially supported the reorganization of the fire brigade. He built two fire brigade barracks (Oligsbendengasse and Kasernenstrasse) on his own account without any subsidies from the city, rented the property at Klosterbongard 3 to 5 for the fire brigade, procured uniforms and equipment on his own account and also paid part of the costs for the fire telegraph.
Zoological Garden
In 1882 a committee under Emil Lochner bought the cherry trees in front of the Junkerstor . Here, in 1885, the Lochnergarten, today's West Park , was created, which was to replace the magnificent English garden of the Lochnervilla, which stretched over the area between Lochnerstrasse and Karlsgraben. The magnificent Lochnertor can still be found at Karlsgraben today.
The Lochnerpark, today's Westpark, was created. In the same year, Lochner began building a large glass palace on this site that could accommodate up to 3,000 visitors. This was mainly used as a circus, in which the legendary Buffalo Bill is said to have performed in 1891 , but according to recent source research, the events took place on the grounds of the Yellow Barracks on Düppelstrasse in Aachen. The "Buffalo Bill" guesthouse in Losheimergraben outside Aachen is still a reminder of Bill's stay in Germany after he had hunted big game there in May 1891. The Lochnerpark also housed a zoological garden, which was also laid out on Lochner's initiative and opened in 1885. The project was partially financed through shares. However, the Aachen Zoological Garden was closed again in 1905 for economic reasons. Until 1897 today's Westpark was called Lochnerpark.
In 1917 the Glass Palace, which served as a military hospital during the First World War, burned down , later the West Park Hall was built in the same place. The Westpark was revived when it reopened on May 23, 1920. In 1935 a zoo was added again. In the years before and during the Second World War between 1935 and 1944 (destroyed by air raids) it was called the Tier- und Pflanzengarten Aachen.
Villa Lochner and Lochnertor
The Lochnertor at Karlsgraben 55 is the last remnant of the spacious estate of Count Berghe von Trips in the west of the old town.
Torhaus (Lochnertor) and coach house formerly belonged to the Lochner Palais of the family of cloth manufacturers. The portal formed the end of the courtyard towards the Karlsgraben.
Built in the second half of the 18th century, the late baroque bluestone portal led to a property that belonged to the Dutch equestrian general Berghe von Trips. In 1773 the van Houtem family took over the property, around this time the portal was built according to a design by Jakob Couven . It is framed by two Ionic double pilasters . When the Johann Friedrich Lochner family bought it in 1857, the coat of arms above the gatehouse portal had to be changed. A two-storey plastered outbuilding, the former coach house, built around 1890, is directly connected to it. It consists of one room each on the ground floor and one on the upper floor. The rooms are connected by a spiral staircase.
The small building complex stood empty for a long time and threatened to deteriorate. In 2006, the restoration of the buildings by the Neuman & Esser Foundation , which was brought into being by Klaus Peters' family, was successfully completed. Klaus Peters is the grandson of Oskar Peters (1863–1942) and Martha Peters (1877–1973), b. Lochner, who married in 1897. Today the Neuman & Esser Foundation looks after the preservation of monuments in Aachen. It wants to preserve important architectural monuments of Aachen's industrial history.
literature
- Thomas Lochner: The story of the Aachen cloth manufacturer Johann Friedrich Lochner and his family. Schnell-Verlag, Warendorf 2013, pp. 56–79.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ecology Center Aachen, Johannisbach. ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ History of the fire brigade in Aachen.
- ^ Foundation of the volunteer fire brigade in Aachen .
- ↑ While Bruno Lerho wrote in a newspaper article from 1996 in the Aachener Lokalnachrichten that the "famous western hero made a guest appearance in Aachener Westpark in 1891" - as it often corresponds to the tradition, reports in the Politisches Tageblatt of May 22nd and 27th, 1891 as well as one Advertisement in the Echo der Gegenwart on May 24, 1891 that the event took place in front of the barracks on Düppelstrasse. Only Messrs. Weinreich and Scharfenberg were responsible for the culinary care of the event on the part of the restoration of the Lochnerpark.
- ↑ From the announcement of the Lower Monument Authority Aachen.
- ^ Entry on Karlstor and Kutscherhaus in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association
- ↑ Lochnertor monument, coach house, publication by the city of Aachen.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lochner, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cloth manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burtscheid |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1900 |
| Place of death | Aachen |