Friedrich Setz

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Friedrich Setz (born August 20, 1837 in Sibiu ; † February 26, 1907 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect and construction clerk . As a kk senior building officer, he planned and built numerous post offices in the Austrian half of the empire of the kuk monarchy, and thereby set early standards in the planning of post offices.

Life

Palazzo delle Poste - Trieste Post Palace (1894)

Setz (until 1858 Samuel Setz) was born in Hermannstadt (today: Sibiu , Romania) in 1837 into a Protestant (AB) family. His father was a builder and worked for the parish church in Sibiu . After attending grammar school and high school, Setz studied engineering at the Vienna Polytechnic Institute (1855 to 1859) and at the Munich Polytechnic School (1859 to 1860). Setz then studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1860 to 1862) and was also employed as a draftsman for the Viennese architect Heinrich von Ferstel . From 1863 to 1872, Setz worked as a freelance architect.

In 1872 he began a career at the building management of the Hungarian Eastern Railway in Pest and in 1874 switched to the building department of the General Inspection of the Imperial and Royal Austrian State Railways in Vienna, where from 1876 to 1880 he was head of the specialist office for structural engineering , from 1880 to 1885 chief engineer in the directorate for State railways .

Setz was able to make a name for himself in the planning and construction of the post and court building (1883–1884) in the 3rd district of Vienna, Landstrasse , and was subsequently entrusted with the planning and management of all post and telegraph offices to be newly built in the monarchy. In 1889 he moved to the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Commerce , where he was the director of the office for post offices. Under his management a total of 26 post offices were built in the area of Cisleithania : among others in Bozen , Bregenz , Chernivtsi , Gablonz , Graz , Karlsbad , Krakow , Ljubljana , Lemberg , Olomouc , Trient , Trieste and Troppau , where he was responsible for project planning, execution and financial accounting who was responsible for the building.

In 1892 Friedrich Setz received the title of kk senior building officer and in 1901 was partly responsible for the plans for the renovation and expansion of the main post office building in Prague . From 1902 Hofrat , he retired in 1905. Setz died in 1907 at the age of 69.

plant

Main Post Office Bregenz (1895)
Main Post Office Karlsbad (1904)

Setz was one of the most important Austrian-Hungarian Post's own architects and built over 26 post offices during his creative period. The “Post” building type was still a young building task at the time, which essentially only emerged in the second half of the 19th century. His post office buildings are related to the subsequent post office savings bank buildings by Otto Wagner , in particular the post office halls covered with glass and steel structures became a typical post office type .

Buildings (selection)

  • 1885–1887: Main Post Office, Graz
  • 1887–1889: Main Post Office, Lemberg
  • 1889: Main Post Office, Trient (1929–1934 partially broken off)
  • 1890: Main Post Office, Bolzano
  • 1892–1894: Main Post Office, Gablonz
  • 1890–1894: Main Post Office, Trieste
  • 1893–1895: Main Post Office, Bregenz
  • 1900–1904: Main Post Office, Karlsbad

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b M. Göbl:  Setz, Friedrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 197 f. (Direct links on p. 197 , p. 198 ).
  2. ^ Sandra Rosenbichler: The architect Friedrich Setz (1837-1907). Post buildings in the Austrian crown lands. Diploma thesis, Vienna University of Technology , Vienna 2012, p. 2 f.

literature

  • kk Post and Telegraph Administration : The Post Office in Karlsbad. Historical representation of their development. A. Haafe, Prague 1906.
  • Peter Stachel, Cornelia Szabo-Knotik: Urban Cultures in Central Europe around 1900. Passagen Verlag , Vienna 2004.

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personal data
SURNAME Sit down, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Sibiu
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1907
Place of death Vienna