Ignaz Gridl
Ignaz Gridl (* 31 July 1825 ; † 26. June 1890 ) was an Imperial Council , kuk purveyor (k and k court locksmith and Eisenconstructeur..) During the Austria-Hungarian Dual Monarchy .
biography
Ignaz Gridl founded his company in 1862 as the first of its kind in Austria . During this time, the use of steel construction as a technical and architectural component also spread in Austria .
The company's original premises were in Vienna VI. ( Mariahilf ), Esterházygasse 4. Here, iron constructions were carried out both according to drawings submitted and, on request, according to our own drafts and calculations. This innovation within Vienna was well received by experts and the company flourished as a result of the construction work that took place in the course of Vienna's city expansion. Soon the company moved to the more extensive workshops and storage rooms in the 5th district ( Margareten ), to Bacherplatz 3 and to Siebenbrunnengasse 28.
With the use of iron for bridge constructions , Gridl became one of the first, best-equipped and most efficient companies in Austria in this field.
A particular specialty of the company was the construction of iron greenhouses for public institutes, high-ranking personalities, garden lovers and gardeners. Despite fierce competition from abroad, the contract to build the palm house in the botanical garden of Schönbrunn near Vienna was won in 1881 . In 1887–1888 the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden in Graz were built.
The number of theatrical fire disasters forced extensive removal of the wood both in the auditorium and on the stage, so that the company was also innovative in this area in the creation of iron structures for theater technology and architecture. The new kk Hofburgtheather in Vienna offered a brilliant test of their performance , both in terms of the iron construction for the auditorium and ventilation, as well as the stage equipment and machinery. The same applied to the Volkstheater and the Kaiser-Jubiläumstheater in Vienna, as well as the Comedy Theater Vígszínház in Budapest and numerous other newly constructed theaters and opera houses, such as the Graz Opera , the Vienna Volksoper , the National Theater in Christiania (today: Oslo ), the Odessa Opera House or the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb .
The structural development of Vienna with its monumental buildings offered the company the opportunity to further establish itself successfully. Of the iron structures, all made according to our own designs and calculations, the following should be mentioned: the Imperial and Royal University Observatory with the rotating domes, the music club building , roofs and towers for the new town hall (ceilings, roofs, domes, skylights, etc.) for the two court museums ( Natural History and Art History Museum ), for the Palace of Justice and the Imperial Council building , for the Imperial and Royal University (in this also the structural furnishings of the library halls ), for the Imperial and Royal Court Theater Scenery Depot , for the Imperial and Royal Court Theater itself, for the Imperial and Royal Hunting Lodge in Lainz , for the New construction of the Imperial and Royal Hofburg for the Vienna Stadtbahn and the city gas works . Furthermore, constructions for commercial buildings of some credit institutions, such as the Wiener Giro- und Kassen-Verein , the Kk privileged Allgemeine Verkehrsbank, the Bodencreditanstalt u. a., for market halls , department stores and many magnificent buildings of private effect works.
The establishment was also significantly involved in deliveries for war purposes, and enjoyed a high reputation in military circles with the construction of bomb-proof ceilings and shelters, constructions for fortified places, constructions for shooting attempts, large iron pontoons , target stands and the like.
Also in the province and abroad, notably in the Balkans, the achievements of the company were appreciated after a large number of buildings for public and factory purposes, including barracks , Criminal houses, railway stations , turbine houses, town halls, churches , schools and theaters, as well as building for financial institutes and private individuals were provided with constructions for the most varied of purposes, and in particular the colonnade systems in the spa town of Marienbad in Bohemia deserved to be cited as an excellent building in both decorative and structural terms.
The establishment, which before 1900 employed 500 to 600 people in addition to civil servants, comprised an area of 14,400 square meters, on which the machine and boiler house , the forge , judge , locksmith's shop , the large hall for building bridges, the lathe shop and machine locksmith shop are located , Magazines and buildings of the technical and administrative service. Electrically illuminated and equipped for electrical operation, the factory was equipped with the latest and greatest machines, with steam hammers , cold saws , presses , etc., which allowed the greatest development of power, in order to meet the high demands in terms of both quality and delivery time meet.
For these services Ignaz Gridl received the title of imperial purveyor to the court . His factory was now called kuk Hof-Eisenconstructions-Werkstätte, Bridge-Building-Establishment and Locksmith's Shop. Ignaz Gridl Sr. was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery, Group 2, Crypt 1.
Ignaz Gridl junior
Ignaz Gridl junior (* December 24, 1867 - † October 13, 1933) was the son and successor of Ignaz Gridl senior. He himself was an engineer and carried on his father's business. In his time the Viennese gasometers were built. The Krems railway bridge over the Danube near Krems-Stein was built in 1889, one of numerous small and large bridges built by Gridl. After the First World War, further technological developments such as power supply and radio were used to build pylons for long-distance lines in 1920 and in 1930 for Radio Wien. In 1933, shortly before the end of the company, one of the two masts for the Bisamberg transmitter was built by Ignaz Gridl.
Waagner-Biró
One year after the death of Gridl jun. In 1934 Waagner-Biró acquired the Ignaz Gridl company, which was involved in several major bridge and railroad construction projects in the late second half of the 19th century. These included the bridge structures for the Schwechat – Mannersdorf local railway and the Bisenz – Gaya local railway (both in 1883) as well as the Makartsteg over the Salzach in Salzburg and the Danube bridge at Stein-Mauthern.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ignaz Gridl, in: Die Gross-Industrie Oesterreichs. Ceremony for the glorious fiftieth anniversary of the reign of His Majesty the Emperor Franz Josef I, presented by the Austrian industrialists in 1898. Volume 6. Weiss, Vienna 1898, pp. 90–91.
- ↑ Margit Stadlober, KFU Graz: Historic greenhouses of the botanical garden. (No longer available online.) Denkmal-Steiermark, 2010, archived from the original on June 19, 2013 ; Retrieved February 20, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Office building of the Wiener Giro- und Kassen-Verein at Rockhgasse 4, Vienna 1 , see buildings by Emil von Förster
- ↑ See Bank for Tyrol and Vorarlberg .
- ^ Caroline Jäger: Austrian architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries. NWV, Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7083-0263-X .
- ↑ Manfred Wehdorn, Ute Georgeacopol-Winischhofer: Architectural monuments of technology and industry in Austria. Volume 1: Vienna - Lower Austria - Burgenland. Böhlau, Vienna 1984, p. 239. ( View in Google Books .)
- ↑ 150 years of experience in bridge construction. Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG, archived from the original on August 29, 2005 ; Retrieved October 5, 2009 .
- ↑ http://www.waagner-biro.com/de/unternehmen/geschichte-meilensteine
literature
- Manfred Wehdorn, Franz Baltzarek, Renate Wagner-Rieger, Ute Georgeacopol: The construction technology of the Vienna Ringstrasse: with a catalog of technical buildings and systems in the Ringstrasse zone (= The Vienna Ringstrasse. Picture of an era; the expansion of the inner city of Vienna under Emperor Franz Joseph Volume 11). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1979, ISBN 3-515-02482-4 .
- Markus Baumgartner, Alfred Fogarassy (eds.); Nora Schoeller (photos), Markus Wörgötter (design): Ignaz Gridl. Iron structures. Civil engineering and innovation in the late 19th century. Brandstätter, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85033-576-8 .
Web links
- Gridl exhibition in the District Museum Vienna-Margareten
- Ignaz Gridl: A master locksmith from Vienna ...
- Ute Georgeacopol-Winischhofer: "Ignaz Gridl": The heritage of Vienna's most important steel. Workshop, 1880s-1930s. XIII TICCIH International Congress, September 2006, Terni (Italy), Workshop 10 ( PDF; 2.34 MB ; English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gridl, Ignaz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1825 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1890 |