Friedrich von Schenk

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Johann Carl Friedrich Schenk , from 1820 Ritter von Schenk (born July 1, 1785 in Düsseldorf , † December 12, 1866 in Munich ) was most recently general administrator of the general mine and saltworks administration in Munich. During his tenure as director of the salt works administration, the great fire of Reichenhall fell in 1834 and the reconstruction of the new, now old salt works in Bad Reichenhall .

Life

Water wheels in the machine hall of the old salt works in Bad Reichenhall

Friedrich von Schenk was born in Düsseldorf in 1785 as the son of the lawyer Heinrich Ritter von Schenk . He received his first lessons from him. In 1803 he passed the Abitur at (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich and in 1804 began an apprenticeship as a mountain and hut pupil with the general administration of the Bavarian saltworks . After training in Bergen , Reichenhall and Schwaz , von Schenk became a mountain and saltworks intern in Reichenhall. He studied at the Bergakademie Freiberg between 1808 and 1810 and was appointed Salinenrat in 1810. His study trips took him to Germany, Austria, Poland and Hungary. From 1814 he was saline chief inspector in the salt works in Reichenhall, in 1826 he rose to the position of director of the salt works administration.

He planned the new construction of the Frauenreuth salt works in Berchtesgaden , which burned down in 1820 , and was involved in the construction of the Maximilianshütte in Bergen and the buildings of the Berchtesgaden salt mine.

During von Schenk's term of office, the city ​​fire in Reichenhall fell on the night of November 8th to 9th, 1834, which destroyed the saltworks with all brewhouses, administration buildings and the Brunnhaus chapel as well as 278 of the city's 302 houses. He coordinated the salt production in improvised brewing huts and organized the transport of the brine via the brine pipeline to Traunstein and Rosenheim in order to continue to produce salt in the local salt pans. Two days after the fire, on 11 November 1834 Reichenhaller flowed back through the wooden Sole Deicheln that branch Alinen contributed in the following years the brunt of the Bavarian salt production.

As director of the salt works, the construction of the new salt works, which still exists as the old salt works , fell into his tenure. It has not been conclusively clarified which parts of the new building Schenk designed. It is known that the official building - the administration building of the salt works opposite the brine springs - was built under the direction of the court architect Friedrich von Gärtner , who also designed the structure. The Brunnhaus chapel on the upper floor of the main fountain house of the Alte Saline was made by Joseph Daniel Ohlmüller . Von Schenk designed the technology for the main well, in particular the large overshot water wheels that drive the pumps that transport the brine from the well below the well upwards. These have been in operation without disruption and interruption since commissioning in 1840. For the remaining buildings (main well, brine reserves, brewhouses and stores), von Schenk, as director of the salt works, was at least an administrative function. It is not known whether the designs came from Ohlmüller alone, whether there were building plans drawn up together or otherwise.

Together with the Oberberg and Salinenrat Christoph Schmitz, von Schenk initiated the geological mapping of Bavaria by Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel .

From 1849 to 1855 von Schenk was the general administrator of the Bavarian saltworks. He died on December 12, 1866 at the age of 81 in Munich and was buried in the Altes Südfriedhof .

The paleobotanist August Schenk was his son.

Awards

Others

Friedrich-von-Schenk-Strasse

Friedrich-von-Schenk-Strasse in Bad Reichenhall is named after Friedrich von Schenk and is located in the immediate vicinity of the Neue Saline and the former Trift facilities . It branches off from Kurfürstenstraße as an extension of Hofrat-Harl-Straße in a southerly direction and leads to Holzfeldweg and Großer Grund. The Hammergrund branches off in an easterly direction from Friedrich-von-Schenk-Straße and leads back to it in an arch.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 223.
  2. ↑ Plan of the third brine line on WP commons, accessed on September 22, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Schenk, Johann Carl Friedrich von auf deutsche-biographie.de, accessed on October 2, 2018.
  4. ↑ Johannes Lang : History of Bad Reichenhall. Ph.CW Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch 2009, ISBN 978-3-87707-759-7 , p. 564.
  5. ↑ Johannes Lang: Street names as mirror of the time , Heimatblätter from October 28, 2006, supplement of the Reichenhaller Tagblatt .
personal data
SURNAME Schenk, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schenk, Johann Carl Friedrich Ritter von (full name); Schenk, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION General administrator of the Bavarian saltworks
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1866
Place of death Munich