Ferenc Reitter
Ferenc Reitter (born March 1, 1813 in Temesvár ; † December 9, 1874 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian architect , engineer and town planner .
Reitter completed his engineering studies in Budapest and worked until 1844 on regulatory plans for the Tisza and Maros and then also on those for the Danube in the area of the capital. Reitter played a significant role in the planning for the large radial road of Andrássy út in view of the Hungarian millennium . In 1867, he proposed making navigable and stabilizing the water flow of a shallow Pest branch of the Danube through a canal project with locks . After long debates, the great ring road ( Nagykörút ) was instead built in several stages from 1872 to 1896 , following the course of the former tributary.
In 1865 Reitter became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . As head of the engineering department of the Metropolitan Council for Public Works, Ferenc Reitter drew up plans in 1872 for the completion of the east side of the castle garden on the Danube.
In 2014 an asteroid was named after him: (271009) Reitterferenc .
literature
- Ferenc Vadas: Budapest city planning in the 19th century , in: Peter Csendes , András Sipos : Budapest and Vienna: Technical progress and urban boom in the 19th century . Budapest, Vienna 2003, p. 19ff
- The first general regulation plan for Budapest in: Die Alte Stadt (magazine), Volume 12, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1985, especially p. 133 ff
Web links
- Short biography , in: Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon ( Hungarian )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reitter, Ferenc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian architect, engineer and urban planner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Temesvár |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1874 |
| Place of death | Budapest |