Erasmus Rückgauer

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Elevation of the building at Bahnhofstrasse 1 in Aalen

Erasmus Rückgauer (born June 2, 1844 in Nagelsberg ; † May 31, 1907 in Stuttgart ) was a German building contractor operating in southern Germany who specialized in the relocation of buildings .

Rückgauer was a trained carpenter and initially worked as a "mill doctor". Later, he was managing director of the construction business Hangleiter in Stuttgart and then made his own . In 1897 he went bankrupt. His sons Eugen , Otto and Gustav then founded the company Eg. Rückgauer, architect and construction business owner. Erasmus Rückgauer was the manager of this company for some time. From the 1880s onwards, he dealt with the problem of raising houses and designed winches for it, which he patented.

Starting in 1900, Rückgauer raised houses using a procedure introduced from America in order to be able to relocate them or to enlarge them with a floor below them. He carried out the first uplift in 1900 in Nürtingen , the second followed in Mariazell near Schramberg . In the spring of 1903 the “Grüner Baum” inn in Altensteig was raised, and in 1904 the house of master blacksmith Böhler on the corner of Marktstrasse and Geislinger Strasse (Geislinger Strasse 35) in Göppingen was raised and expanded by one floor. The building now contains a bakery. In 1905 the house at Mettinger Straße 19 , then still Mettinger Straße 17, in Esslingen am Neckar was raised and moved 17 meters so that the Schimpf family could move their villa designed by Albert Benz in the desired location.

The collapsed Gasthof Hirsch in Nagold
Rückgauer's signature

Rückgauer's business was very successful until after about 80 successful lifts and one failure - on December 12, 1903, the Café Waldburg in Lichtental (Baden-Baden) collapsed during an attempt to lift - on April 5, 1906, the “Hirsch” inn in Nagold collapsed during the uplift, killing around 50 people and seriously injuring around 100. Rückgauer received a six-month prison sentence for this, which he could no longer serve because he died of a serious illness in 1907. A chapel built in 1907 in the Nagold cemetery commemorates the dead in the Nagold catastrophe .

Even after the accident in Nagold, houses were raised using the same procedure. Another accident with four fatalities and seven seriously injured among the construction workers has been recorded in Heckfeld in 1908 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ [Totenschau] May 30 [1907]. Master builder Erasmus Rückgauer, known for his house elevations, campaigns in 1866 and 1870/71, 63 years old. In: Chronicle of the Kgl. Capital and Residence City of Stuttgart 1907 / ed. from the municipal council. Stuttgart: Greiner & Pfeiffer, [approx. 1908], p. 28 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Hermann Scheurer: The deer disaster in Nagold. Horb 1992, ISBN 3-89264-666-4 , p. 34.
  3. ↑ http://www.goeppingen.de/servlet/PB/menu/1101628_l1/index.html
  4. ↑ Inventory E 151/05 Bü 181 - building police, regulations on the lifting of buildings, collapse catastrophe in Nagold. in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
  5. ↑ http://www.stuttgarter-bohnenviertel.de/strassen/weberstrasse.html
  6. ↑ http://www.schwarzaufweiss.de/Schwarzwald/kapelle_fuer_die_katastrophe.htm
  7. ↑ http://www.boa-bw.de/downloads/frei/e44fe199-9d6c-4167-85ea-0a78a4e5363d/0/schwobablaettle_3-2002.pdf
  8. ↑ Süddeutsche Bauzeitung , 5th year 1908, No. 22, p. 180.
personal data
SURNAME Rückgauer, Erasmus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German contractor specializing in building relocations
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagelsberg
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1907
Place of death Stuttgart