Ernst Pfretzschner

Ernst Pfretzschner (born February 26, 1882 in Jenbach , Tyrol ; † January 9, 1943 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian architect and engineer who worked in Tyrol and Argentina .

Life

Pfretzschner was the son of the Austrian sculptor and hunting writer Norbert Pfretzschner and grew up on the estate of his grandfather, Norbert Pfretzschner senior , in Jenbach / Tyrol. For his training as an architect and engineer, he attended the technical colleges in Munich and Vienna . At the University of Erlangen he graduated as Dr. phil. with the work The Floor Plan Development of the Roman Baths. After Austrian military service in World War I, he emigrated to Argentina with his wife and sons Paul and Norbert. The daughter Beatrize was born there. The family later returned to Tyrol to the family residence in the Innsbruck district of Hötting, where he died in 1943.

Works

In Tyrol:

• Parish hall and post office in Tscherms b. Meran (1912)
• Wine cellar Schöpf in Lower Maize
• Platsch residence in Milland b. Brixen (1914)
• Fenner monument in the Mühlbacher Klause
• Chapel in the military cemetery in Vahrn b. Brixen (1916)

In Argentina:

• Capuchin Church in Buenos Aires (1925/26)
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tandil (Province of Buenos Aires)
• Catholic Parish Church in Temperley (1927)
• Garrison Church in Puerto Belzano (1928)
• numerous viaducts

Publications

• The ground plan development of the Roman thermal baths, together with a list of the preserved ancient Roman baths. In: On the history of art abroad. 65, JH Ed. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), Strasbourg 1908.

literature

• Pfretzschner, Ernst . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 537 .
• Ernst Pfretzschner: A Tyrolean as a construction technician in Argentina. In: Bergland. Illustrated monthly Alpine magazine. Volume 11, 1929.