Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwin Mäckler

Stud book of the Mäckler family

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwin Mäckler (born September 25, 1852 in Koblenz , † December 18, 1913 in Cologne-Nippes ) was a German architect and municipal building officer who worked from 1886 to 1913, initially as a city ​​architect and later as a city ​​planning officer for the city of Koblenz.

Life

origin

The origin of the Mäckler family has not yet been proven by written documents. According to family tradition, the oldest ancestor came from Silesia or Upper Saxony , today's Saxony , to the Rhine in search of work . Another message speaks of immigration from Tyrol or South Tyrol . In each case, it was construction specialists who had initially found work in the reconstruction of the baroque fortress Ehrenbreitstein, which was blown up by the French occupation troops after 1800 when they withdrew . Later generations not only had manual skills, they were even builders and architects, and finally also building contractors .

Surnames

The question of the correct spelling of the family name (Mäckler, Maeckler, Meckler) cannot be answered clearly. Even the royal and town planning councilor changed his own family name at times in the course of his life - and even used it in two different spellings in an existing document (Mäckler and Maeckler). Family relationships with other families with the name Mäckler (from which several well-known architects have emerged) in the town of Vallendar near Koblenz have not yet been proven.

ancestors

From the Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwin Mäckler family, the great-grandfather Johann Meckler became particularly well-known, as he built the Koblenz City Theater , which still exists today , as a master bricklayer and building contractor (based on plans by Peter Joseph Krahe ) in just seven months . The grandfather Johann Castor Meckler (1788–1831), also a mason and building contractor, was in turn entrusted with work on the Koblenz city theater. The father Johann Anton Maeckler (1820–1886) was also a master bricklayer, also a master carpenter, finally even a building contractor and also a city ​​councilor . Large-format paintings by the father and mother (by the painter Friedrich Caspar Heising) have been bequeathed to the family in the Middle Rhine Museum in Koblenz since 1967 .

Education and own family

Mäckler first attended an elementary school in the old town of Koblenz and then switched to the city's royal high school, where he passed his Abitur in autumn 1873. He then worked for a year in the office of the Koblenz building inspector Hermann Cuno - probably in preparation for a later degree . From autumn 1874 he studied at the Berlin Bauakademie , where he passed the state examination in both fields in February 1878 , with which he acquired the qualification as a site manager for structural engineering. From 1879 to 1881 there was a two-year period of service in the state sector, during which he was entrusted with building new barracks in Brandenburg an der Havel . He passed the second state examination at the end of 1884 or beginning of 1885, and on January 17, 1885 he was appointed government master builder ( assessor in public construction). From 1885 to 1886 he was an employee of the garrison building inspector Heckhoff in Trier and was entrusted with the planning of sewer works for barracks, drainage and the construction of water pipes.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwin Mäckler married Maria Mathilde Henriette Fastnagel (1863–1914) from Koblenz. The four children came from the marriage: Rudolf Herbert Maria Mäckler, forester (killed in the First World War), Auguste Maria Magdalena Mäckler (welfare worker, unmarried), Johann Georg Maria Mäckler (field medical officer, killed in the First World War) and Anna Maria Agnes (called Annemarie ) Mäckler (social worker, later married to Rudolf Otto Kaspar Maywald, district judge, killed in World War II). Due to the lack of male offspring, this line of Mäckler died out in Koblenz.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwin Mäckler succumbed to an incurable disease on December 18, 1913. His burial took place in the large family crypt, probably built by him, in the Koblenz main cemetery , which is now owned by the city of Koblenz as an honorary grave.

Professional activities in Koblenz

On July 1, 1886, the city of Koblenz had re-advertised the city master builder position . FWL Mäckler is also likely to have read it during his work as a government master builder in Trier and then applied in Koblenz. Due to excellent reviews, he was actually shortlisted and eventually even elected - although he was only 34 years old. On July 1, 1886, he became an employee of the city of Koblenz on notice with the title city ​​architect . On April 1, 1889, he was finally employed for life. By resolution of the city council, he later received the title of city ​​building officer . Due to the extensive range of duties, his salary was recently even the second highest in the city, even before the first deputy .

buildings

Former slaughterhouse, Koblenz

House in Koblenz-Oberwerth, Rheinau

Carolaturm in Koblenz-Lay

St. Castor Koblenz

Portal school building Hohenzollernstrasse 67

FWL Mäckler was the top construction officer in the city of Koblenz, reporting directly to the mayor. With a few exceptions, the city council was responsible for both the planning and the execution of the buildings. His new buildings were mostly executed in the contemporary styles of the Neo-Renaissance or Neo-Gothic . His area of ​​responsibility was determined by the job description of March 10, 1884. It comprised the following areas:

• Civil engineering
• Urban drainage
• port
• Urban forests
• graveyards
• Urban properties
• Softening and expansion of the city
• Railway and bridge construction
• tram

In detail, there were the following projects:

• 1888/1890: City slaughterhouse (revision of the preliminary draft by the provisional city architect Georg Breiderhoff for the public slaughterhouse and final execution)
• 1889: Service building for the municipal calibration office on Nagelsgasse
• 1889: Youth hostel of the city of Koblenz on Nagelsgasse
• 1889/1890: Redesign of the Rheinkavalier, Rheinzollstrasse, the Rhine and Mosel shipyards, construction of the weighing house on Florinsmarkt, restoration of the Schöffenhaus on Florinsmarkt and the southern tower and choir of the Liebfrauenkirche
• 1889/1896: Exterior restoration, renewal of the right side wing, new construction of the south aisle wall and the south sacristy as well as interior restoration of the Catholic parish church of St. Kastor (today: basilica)
• 1890/1891: Grain magazine on Eisenbahnstrasse
• 1890/1891: Schenkendorf School (elementary school) and residential building at Schenkendorfstrasse 15
• 1890/1891: Renovation work on the city's citizens' hospital (chapel, choir of the old monastery church, new administrative building in neo-renaissance forms)
• 1890–1893: Restoration building on the Rittersturz
• 1891/1892: Renovation of the drinking hall in the Kaiserin Augusta facilities , repair of the city theater, drainage of the municipal high school building ( town hall ), new construction of the head forester building at Kastorhof and the regional court
• 1892/1893: Steam crane at the free port, installation of a masking shop, triumphal arch in Schlossstrasse for the reception of Kaiser Wilhelm II, peace powder magazine, stone substructure for the Rizzadenkmal
• 1893/1894: Hohenfeld School on Löhrstraße, planning in the "station question" for the construction of a new main station
• 1894: Farm building for the Rhine facilities (today: residential building Adamsstrasse 5)
• 1894/1895: People's shower bath in the Bassenheimer Hof , conversion of the old grammar school into the town hall
• 1895/1896: Municipal gas works in Rauental , elementary school in Koblenz-Neuendorf
• 1895/1896 and 1905/1906: Construction and renovation of the Hohenzollern School (elementary school Hohenzollernstraße 67)
• 1895/1896: Carolaturm on the steep drop to the Moselle in today's Koblenz-Lay district
• 1896/1897: Werftbahn
• 1898/1900: Restoration work on the old castle
• 1901/1903: Construction management at Josefinenstift in Koblenz-Lützel
• 1901/1903: Thielenschule (elementary school)
• 1902: Control box in front of the main train station
• 1904: Pump station II of the municipal waterworks , Jahnstrasse 42
• 1904: Extension of the restoration building on the Rittersturz
• 1905: Service villa of the waterworks director, Jahnstraße 40 (demolished around 1980)
• 1905/1907: Main planning and construction management for the municipal secondary school with secondary school (meanwhile Kaiser-Wilhelm grammar school , today Eichendorff grammar school )
• 1911/1913: Livestock hall on the municipal slaughterhouse
• 1912/1913/1915: Construction management for the administration building in the area of ​​the old school building and the auditorium of the former Jesuit college (based on plans by Friedrich Neumann; today the town hall building with the historic town hall)

A special task was the investigation and partial recording of the remains of the medieval Koblenz city wall still preserved at the time , which Mäckler undertook at the request of the Koblenz archivist Max Bär when he published the received building bills.

Drafts not executed

• 1898: "Project sketch for the construction of a chapel with a morgue in the Coblenz churchyard"
• 1898: Draft for the municipal festival hall on the Rhine (not carried out for cost reasons)

Awards

Mäckler was honored with two medals for exceptional achievements during his service: In 1901 he received the Prussian Red Eagle Order IV. Class as thanks and recognition for the restoration of the old historic castle on the Moselle, which became an ornament. He also received the Baden Knight's Cross, 2nd class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion . In connection with the new construction of the municipal high school, he was awarded the honorary title of (royal) building officer .

There were numerous obituaries after Mäckler's death on December 18, 1913, in which his life's work for his hometown and his personality were honored, especially in the memorial service in the city council, to which everyone present was standing.

In the course of time, however, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwin Mäckler fell into oblivion, as the Koblenz building historian Udo Liessem pointed out in 1981 with the following words: “Friedrich Wilhelm Maeckler, Royal Building Councilor and City Planning Officer in Koblenz (September 25, 1852 to December 18, 1913) today an unjustly forgotten, important architect, who played a decisive role in shaping the cityscape of Koblenz in the time that was so important in terms of urban development after the founding of the empire. Only a few of his works have been published so far ... "

There are probably several reasons for the low level of awareness of this town planning council: First of all, it was certainly its character that was shaped by personal modesty. This is also reflected in the small amount of published work. Another decisive factor was the almost complete loss of Mäckler's personal estate, apart from a few documents, including the complete destruction including the entire inventory of Mäckler's houses and apartments in World War II . As a result, a photo (or painting) of the city planning council could not be found either among the descendants or in city and state archives. One single clue remains: Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwin Mäckler is said to have been of rather short stature.

Fonts

The number of previously known publications by Mäckler is small. Given the abundance of tasks of a city planning council, there was probably no time for further publications.

• Koblenz. Restoration of the electoral castle. In: Report on the activities of the Provincial Commission for the Preservation of Monuments in the Rhine Province and the Provincial Museums in Bonn and Trier , 5th year 1900, pp. 41–54.
• Report of the City Building Council Maeckler on the restoration of the electoral castle. In: Bonner Jahrbücher , 106th year 1901, p. 159.
• The house of the black bear. In: Communications from the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Heritage Protection , 2nd year 1908, issue 2, p. 84 f. (with panel VI)

swell

• Family register for Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwin Mäckler, City of Baurath, and government master builder in Coblenz (in the family archive)
• About 20 family certificates (birth and death notices of the family, testaments, etc., partly as later photocopies; in the family archive)
• Death notification for Johann Maeckler († 1886). His son (the town planning officer) FWL Mäckler, signs with Maeckler (Koblenz registry office)
• Large-format portraits of the parents of the City Planning Council FWL Mäckler, Johann Anton Maeckler and Barbara Maeckler, by the Koblenz painter Friedrich Caspar Heising (1860/1862) (since 1967 as a legacy of the family in the possession of the Middle Rhine Museum Koblenz, Inv.No.M 1861 / I and M 1862/2)
• Laying of the foundation stone of the municipal festival hall dated July 6, 1899 with the signature of the Mäckler city building council (in the Koblenz city archive)
• Proof of salary for civil servants and employees in the residential town of Coblenz for the administrative year 1910, Annex III . Koblenz: StaK Hk5 Be 8109: 55 (Koblenz City Archives)
• Obituaries and obituaries of the mayor of Koblenz and family members in the local daily newspapers "Coblenzer Zeitung" and "Volkszeitung" (1913) (in the Koblenz city archive)
• Personnel file FWL Mäckler (in the Koblenz city archive, signature StAK 623 No. 3844)
• Fritz Michel: The ecclesiastical monuments of the Rhine province. (= The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province. Volume I: The Church Monuments of the City of Koblenz). Düsseldorf 1937, p. 86.
• Frank Schwieger: (Ed .: Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Heimatschutz eV, Cologne / Diss. TH Aachen), Johann Claudius von Lassaulx 1781–1848. Architect and monument conservator in Koblenz Neuss 1968, here p. 80.
• Udo Liessem, Karlheinz Erben: St. Kastor Koblenz. 200 years of restorations. Görres-Verlag, Koblenz approx. 1984, pp. 25-29, 32-35.
• Resting place of the Maeckler family in the Koblenz main cemetery (No. 1–3, row T on Gräberfeld 19), (photos and text on this in Rhein-Zeitung Koblenz, No. 263 of November 13, 1986, p. 24) and an article by Hans Joachim Bodenbach to City Planning Officer Mäckler, in: Koblenz Contributions to History and Culture. 11/12, Koblenz 2001/2002 (2003), pp. 67–84, here p. 83 [with photo of the tomb]
• Friedrich Wilhelm Mäckler. In: arch INFORM ; Retrieved July 12, 2012.

literature

• Udo Liessem: The "Old Castle" in Koblenz. A study of the history of architecture and art. In: Burgen und Schlösser , 16th year 1975, pp. 21–33.
• Busso von der Dollen: Koblenz Neustadt. Planning and execution of a city expansion in the 18th century. (= Urban Research , Series A, Volume 6.) Cologne / Vienna 1979, p. 229.
• Udo Liessem, Karlheinz Erben: St. Kastor Koblenz. 200 years of restorations. Koblenz n.d. (around 1984), pp. 25-36.
• Udo Liessem: Building history of the old morgue and the project of a cemetery chapel. In: Stadtverwaltung Koblenz (ed.): Documentation on the 160th anniversary of the main cemetery. (= Documentations of the City of Koblenz , Volume 9.) Koblenz 1981, pp. 87–93, here p. 92. (Illustration of the project of the non-completed morgue by FWL Maeckler from 1898)
• City of Koblenz, southern suburb and Oberwerth. (= Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate , Volume 3.1.) Schwann, Düsseldorf 1986, p. 38/39, p. 60/61, p. 118/119, p. 136/137.
• Ulrike Grundmann: The hospital in Koblenz (1110–1945). Herzogenaurach 1992, p. 194, p. 205 and p. 213.
• Udo Liessem: Buildings of the 19th Century. In: Ingrid Bátori, Dieter Kerber, Hans Josef Schmidt (Red.): History of the city of Koblenz. Volume 2: From the French city to the present. Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, p. 436, p. 443, p. 448, p. 450.
• Udo Liessem: The "Old Castle" in Koblenz. A facility of the Trier electors. (= Publications of the Koblenz City Library , Volume 36.) Koblenz 1994.
• Reinhard Kallenbach : The Koblenz old town. Development, planning and fate of the historic town houses. Breuer, Koblenz 1995.
• Klaus Weschenfelder (Ed.): Portrait of Johann Anton Maeckler and portrait of Barbara Maeckler. In: The paintings, watercolors and drawings of the 19th century. (Catalog of the Mitterhein Museum Koblenz) Koblenz 1999, p. 40 (Inv.No.M 1968 / I and M1968 / 2).
• Helmut Kampmann: The certificate was in the rubble. In: 100 times Koblenz. Short stories about the history of the city of Koblenz. Koblenz n.d. (around 2000), pp. 121-122.
• Hans Joachim Bodenbach: The Koblenz city planning officer Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwin Mäckler (1852-1913). In: Koblenz Contributions to History and Culture , New Series 11/12, 2001/2002 (2003), pp. 67–84.
• Reinhard Kallenbach: The house of God should be a slaughterhouse. In: Rhein-Zeitung , Koblenz edition, January 6, 2007.
• Reinhard Kallenbach: City forbids slaughtering in the house. In: Rhein-Zeitung , Koblenz edition, No. 113 of May 15, 2012, p. 21 (with 3 images).

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwin Mäckler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Restoration of St. Kastor in Koblenz
• The triumphant advance of concrete and steel ( Memento from August 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• The house of God should be a slaughterhouse ( Memento from August 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max Bär: Building the Wall in Koblenz. Bills 1276-1289. Leipzig 1888. (digitized version)