Heinrich Ferdinand Schuberth

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Heinrich Ferdinand Schuberth (* around 1789 in Pühlau, in the district of Oels ; †  November 13, 1861 in Breslau ) was a German engineer whose designs significantly influenced the military fortifications of the Prussian city ​​of Cologne .

Live and act

Heinrich Schuberth was already listed as a sub-lieutenant in the ranking of the Prussian engineering corps in 1813 , as prime lieutenant in 1816 , as captain 2nd class in 1817 and promoted to captain 1st class on May 11, 1822 , and finally promoted to major in 1837 . During the wars of liberation he was involved as an engineer geographer in the siege of some French border fortresses. It was not until 1819 that he belonged to the Prussian ranking list for the 2nd Fortress Brigade based in Breslau. Up to and including 1823, however, he was assigned from there to fortification work on the Rhine. When building the Koblenz fortress , he was involved in Fort Konstantin , among other things . From 1824 to 1837 he was garrison construction director at VI. Army Corps in Wroclaw. On October 21, 1837 he received his appointment as a place engineer of Erfurt . On March 24, 1839, he was transferred to Cologne in the same position. There, however, he was replaced by Carl Schnitzler in 1844 . Schuberth took over the management of the 2nd fortress inspection in Neisse in Upper Silesia, where he was retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel on January 27, 1846. Schubert received the Order of the Red Eagle , 3rd class with ribbon, on January 22, 1843 .

As a Cologne square engineer, in 1841 he presented designs for various fortifications that were to be built in the city declared a fortress. According to Schuberth's plans, revised by Ernst Ludwig von Aster and Carl Ferdinand Busse , a number of new military installations were built, which were placed in a ring along new, outer wall sections in front of the medieval city ​​wall . The plans that were then implemented concerned the facilities of the forts I, III, V, VII, IX, XI on the left bank of the Rhine , the “peace powder magazines ” 3 and 6, as well as those of the forts of the New Prussian army (1807-1919) on the right bank of the Rhine .

The construction of the guard house on Waidmarkt was based on design work by Schuberth, which he carried out for the Prussian military administration in 1842 , and as early as 1840 he was drafting plans for buildings at the armory and the Heumarkt, these designs being significantly modified by Busse, who was an employee of Karl Friedrich Schinkel was. Remnants of these buildings, which were built in the late classicism style , are still preserved today.

  • Fort I

  • Fort V

  • Old guard at Waidmarkt, relic of the gable frieze

  • Old guard at the armory

literature

  • Henriette Meynen (ed.): Fortress city of Cologne. The bulwark in the west. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89705-780-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archives: Garrison Church Book Breslau. Stock: Burial book, born 1823-1868. Document: Page 412. Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin. 11/13/1861. Signature: MKB 1480.
  2. ↑ a b Henriette Meynen (ed.): Fortress city of Cologne. The bulwark in the west. Directory of persons p. 507 f.
  3. ^ Udo von Bonin: History of the engineer corps and the pioneers in Prussia . tape 2 , 1878.
personal data
SURNAME Schuberth, Heinrich Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Pühlau, district of Oels
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1861
Place of death Wroclaw