Gustav Adolph Conrad

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Gustav Adolph Conrad (born February 18, 1841 in Leschkirch , Kingdom of Hungary , † 1903 in Sibiu ) was a Transylvanian forest scientist , natural and local historian and founder of Transylvanian forest science.

Life

He was a son of Friedrich Georg Conrad (1795–1855), royal judge of Leschkirch and brother of the Transylvanian diplomat and imperial court agent in Vienna , Franz Conrad (1797–1846). After studying forestry at the University of Cluj-Napoca , Gustav Adolph Conrad first became an imperial-royal district forester and head of the imperial and royal forest and lordship office in Topersdorf . From 1866, after his marriage to the noblewoman Louise Juhász (1846–1893), who came from Broos , he was appointed head of the kuk district forest office in Sibiu. Then he joined the Masonic Lodge “St. Andreas on the three sea leaves in Sibiu ”.

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When Conrad on a leisure trip to Friuli-Venezia Giulia ( Italy came), he visited on the Adriatic , the Miramare Castle . Back in Sibiu, he had a similar tower with a viewing terrace added to the “Villa Conradi” and added an Italian “Giardino” to the English park. This property at the Soldischbastei ("Am Soldisch"), which was built in 1622, was an old family seat in the line of succession after the death of the previous owner Michael Freiherr von Brukenthal (1716–1773), a brother of Baron Samuel von Brukenthal (1721–1803) Gustav Adolph Conrad come.

This large piece of land between the inner and outer city walls extended from the Heltauertor to the Soldischbastei. Two fish ponds and fruit plantations were established there in the 17th century. Later there was also a sawmill and two military houses. The southern part of the property was converted into a city park in 1879 under the guidance of Conrad, and the Lutherhaus (later Romanian Spitalul Luther ) and the Protestant St. John's Church were built on the northern part in 1883 .

As a member of the SKV, Conrad was also significantly involved in the “Hohe Rinne” project (1885–1891). The suggestion for the construction of a Saxon health resort in the area of ​​the Sibiu section of the Transylvanian Carpathian Association (SKV) received the section leadership from the Austro-Hungarian regimental doctor Julius Pildner von Steinburg. In March 1885 he had given a lecture on "The effect of the high altitude climate on human health". Thereupon Conrad was commissioned by the club management to look for a suitable building site in the Făgăraș Mountains or in the Zibins Mountains .

After about six years, with numerous hiking Conrad had then m in the area between the Păltiniş- and Onceşti summit, at a height of 1403, a 13 yoke made large forest track down which, after a nearby spring "Paltinis" - Romanian today Păltiniș - was named. He now undertook the first measurements and made various sketches of the future building site, whereby the special importance of the source for the water supply was included in the project. After the area belonged to the Saxon community Großau at that time, preliminary talks for a lease began on October 21, 1891. The community of Großau was represented by notaries Georg Graef and Michael Hoprich. On the part of the SKV section leadership in Sibiu, chairman Friedrich A. Bell and secretary Robert Gutt were present. On January 1, 1891, the contract was signed for 50 years.

In the spring of 1892, construction began on the first Transylvanian spa house, which was opened on June 10, 1894. The SKV Sibiu section then began building a tourist house in the fall of 1894, which was completed and opened the following year. In the same year, the medical section of the Sibiu Association for Natural Sciences, of which Gustav Adolph Conrad was a member, decided to build a medical home on the "Hohen Rinne". At the same time, the construction of the kuk Franz Joseph military spa, which was also officially opened in 1898, began.

When Conrad died in Sibiu in 1903 at the age of 62, the property "Am Soldisch" - with the English park and the Italian "Giardino" - came to his son Gustav Conrad , a pedagogue, educational scientist and orphanage director in Sibiu.

Literature (selection)

  • C. Sporner: Villa Conradi, 1889, front view. With garden party, pine arbor, garden bastion, garden shed. Drawing u. Etching. Printed by W. Krafft: Hermannstadt .
  • Emil Sigerus : Chronicle of the city of Sibiu, 1100–1929. 2nd edition. Honterus printing and publishing house of the Evangelical Church AB in Romania: Hermannstadt, 1930, p. 14 u. P. 96.
  • Julius Bielz : portrait catalog of the Transylvanian Saxons. Sibiu: Krafft & Drotleff, 1936.
  • Carl Eduard von Closius: Villa Conradi in Sibiu with the Miramar Tower, garden view, tempera, 1937.
  • Hermann Hienz: Sources on folklore and local history of the Transylvanian Saxons. Vol. I. Leipzig : Verlag S. Hirzel, 1940.
  • Otto Czekelius : family tree of the direct line Johann Conrad (1615–1682), pastor in Rosch - Gustav Conrad (1875–1923), head of the orphanage in Sibiu. Reprint, Sibiu, 1953.