Erdmann Traugott Reichel
Erdmann Traugott Reichel (born November 8, 1748 in Kamenz , † May 30, 1832 in Leipzig ) was a Leipzig merchant and the owner of Reichel's garden .
Life
Erdmann Traugott Reichel was the son of an excise inspector in Kamenz and attended the local lyceum. In 1763 he went to Dresden to do a commercial apprenticeship. In 1771 he moved to Leipzig and worked here in the Schröter & Schmidt trading company . In 1775 he became a partner in the company now known as Schmidt & Reichel . He later managed the house, which now operated under the name Reichel & Richter . The commodities were cut and fashion goods.
In 1776 he took his citizenship oath, in 1780 he received the municipal Kramerrecht. In the same year he married Christiane Sophie Müller von Berneck, descendant of Hieronymus Müller von Berneck , who died in 1782 after the stillbirth of their second child. In 1785 he married Johanna Friederike Seifert, and this marriage resulted in five children.
In 1787 Reichel bought the Apelschen Garten , located on the western edge of the city , which had lost its baroque splendor after a few changes of ownership. Reichel was not interested in the beauty of the garden, but rather saw the favorable location of building land for the expanding city and the associated earnings.
Numerous alterations to the garden were carried out under him. First of all, he had the former Apel factory building on the city side of the Pleißemühlgraben demolished and instead built a long three-story residential building with 41 window axes and three side wings facing the garden, through the northern part of which the garden was accessed. Here he had another large residential building, the middle house, built in the middle of the garden, perpendicular to the main garden axis, through the middle of which the former main path led to the colonnades behind. He also shut down several ponds on the area. While 14 people lived on the site at the time of the purchase of the garden, by Reichel's death there were already 600. Fruit plantations, the leasing of parts of the garden in over 100 smaller plots and the Petersbrunnen bathhouse made further profits .
Reichel's grandson Carl Heine (1818–1888), the son of Reichel's eldest daughter Dorothea (1781–1857) , later developed building activity on an even larger scale and far beyond the garden area .
Reichel was a member of the Leipzig Economic Society and the Altenburg Pomological Society in Leipzig.
literature
- Döring, Traugott Leberecht: Dedicated by a grateful servant to the birth festival of the noble bored Mr. HERRN Erdmann Traugott Reichels, noble merchant and merchant of Leipzig. November 12, 1781 . Büttner, Leipzig 1781.
- Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (Ed.): New Nekrolog der Deutschen 10 (1832), first part. Voigt, Ilmenau 1834, pp. 439-440 ( digitized version ).
- Johannes Georg Hartenstein : Erdmann Traugott Reichel . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig 22 (1938). Matthes, Leipzig 1938, pp. 92-94.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexikon Leipziger Straßeennamen , Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 176
- ↑ New journal for factories, manufactories, action, art and fashion
- ↑ Johannes G. Hartenstein 1938, p. 93.
- ^ New Nekrolog [...] 1834, p. 439.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reichel, Erdmann Traugott |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1748 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kamenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1832 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |