Heinrich Viktor von Segesser

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Heinrich Viktor von Segesser (born August 17, 1843 in Lucerne ; † November 28, 1900 in Cham ) was a Swiss architect , restorer , as well as infantry commander and division general .

biography

Heinrich Viktor von Segesser was the son of Heinrich Segesser von Brunegg (1809–1872) and Maria Magdalena born. v. Sury (1811-1856). He married Margaretha Crivelli (1848–1910), daughter of Friedrich Crivelli, and had a son with her. After schools in Lucerne and Freiburg , studies in architecture and art history in Munich , Besançon , Nancy , and Paris followed from 1862–1871 . Back in Lucerne, he ran his own architectural office from 1871 to 1880 together with Carl v. Balthasar (1841-1889). During this time he built the Lucerne Hotels Gotthard and Europe and the neo-Romanesque private chapel of the Crivelli family in Lucerne. In 1880 he traveled to the Ukraine to build a new palace with branches for Count Schuwaloff. After that he worked again in his own office in Lucerne, where Henry Berthold v. Fischer (1861–1949) was his employee. During a month-long trip to Italy, he studied the church architecture of the Italian Romanesque, which was to shape his further work. In addition to his professional work as a sought-after architect, he went through a remarkable military career. In 1899 he resigned as a colonel general for health reasons. He suffered a tear in his liver when he fell in the mountain service and died of the consequences 19 months later on November 28, 1900 in his own castle in Cham.

Working as an architect

After the buildings in Lucerne from 1869–1870 of the Hotel Gotthard and 1873–1874 of the Hotel Europe and 1874 of the boys' school on Musegg (based on plans by Prof. Bühlmann, Munich), the Crivelli family chapel was the first sacred building. This was followed by the Meggenhorn Castle Chapel near Meggen in 1886–1889 , the parish church of St. Joseph / Crossing in Schmitten from 1886–1896 and, as the most important work, the Bernese Trinity Church from 1886–1898 . He also directed several restorations, for example that of the Battle Chapel of Sempach in 1886 and of the Tell Chapel near Küssnacht SZ in 1898 . He was able to complete the double tower facade of Lucerne's Jesuit Church in 1893. Other buildings were the school building on Musegg and the Villa Ephrussi - Heckenried in Meggen. Segesser's architectural style is more oriented towards southern architecture, in contrast to German historicist churches , which emulated the Rhenish and French medieval styles. The churches of Bern and Schmitten are strongly modeled on Italian models. They are similar to the Basilica of San Zeno in Verona on the outside and to early Christian-Byzantine architecture on the inside. Segesser's work in various parts of Switzerland established his reputation as one of the most important Swiss representatives of historicism in architecture and building art.

Military career

In 1864, at the age of 21, Heinrich Viktor von Segesser was appointed lieutenant, on July 18, 1870, he was promoted to captain of the infantry and in December 1871 to major. As chief of Battalion 41, he was given command of the 14th Infantry Regiment in March 1879, which he held until 1888. From 10 January 1888 he commanded the Infantry Brigade Landwehr 7 and was on January 15, 1892, Supreme Commander of the Gotthard the rank of Divisionärs appointed. On the occasion of his farewell on February 11, 1900, a celebration took place at his own castle St. Andreas near Cham, at which he received great honor and greetings from his former comrades were conveyed by the artillery chief Colonel Fritz von Tscharner (1852-1918).

Social work

Heinrich von Segesser was a member of the local citizens' council and corporation president of Lucerne from 1883–1895. As a shop steward for the conservative party of the city of Lucerne, because of his affable nature as a candidate for counting, he always received many votes. He was president of the Lucerne officers' society and head of many clubs and societies.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Career in the Allgemeine Schweizer Militärzeitung, Jahr1900, No. 51, pp. 426–427
  2. ↑ resignation ceremony in General Swiss military newspaper, Jahr1900, No. 8, p. 63
personal data
SURNAME Segesser, Heinrich Viktor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Segesser von Brunegg, Heinrich Viktor von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1900
Place of death Cham