Jakob Hainz

Jakob Hainz von Korbest (* 1775 in Arad , Holy Roman Empire ; † March 30, 1839 in Vienna , Austrian Empire ) was an Austrian builder and architect .

Life

Apollo Hall

Rental house, Am Gestade 1 (1823)

Jakob Hainz was the son of the architect Paul Hainz from time to Hungary belonging Transylvanian Arad. We don't know when exactly he came to Vienna. In any case, he settled in the suburb of Mariahilf and in 1806 married the daughter of the city architect Leopold Grossmann, Franziska, with whom he later had two children.

In 1811 he applied for admission to the master craftsman's examination with the guild of master builders and masons in order to qualify as a city master builder in Vienna. This failed for several years, until in 1817 he was able to present a decree from the city administration that he could do any master builder work in the city without further examination. In 1819 he was finally accepted into the guild.

In addition to his work as a builder, Hainz was one of the first to be interested in the new railway system. In 1834 he applied for permission to build a railway line in the vicinity of Vienna, which should not be used as a horse-drawn tram, but rather as a locomotive. The route Meidling , Schönbrunn , Hietzing , Lainz , Atzgersdorf , Liesing , Perchtoldsdorf , Brunn am Gebirge , Maria Enzersdorf , Mödling , Gumpoldskirchen to Baden was planned , i.e. a similar route that the later Vienna-Gloggnitzer Railway (approved in 1838) also used . However, Hainz did not have the permits to expropriate the private property concerned.

In 1835, Emperor Ferdinand I gave Hainz the Korbest estate in Arad County, and he himself was raised to the Hungarian nobility. Hainz died of nerve fever in 1839 and was buried in the Matzleinsdorf cemetery .

meaning

Jakob Hainz mainly built two-story pawlatschen houses in Mariahilf and other suburbs that served as living and working places for craftsmen and home workers. They could be changed relatively flexibly by moving individual walls and adapted to changing needs. As a city master builder, Hainz was able to realize a number of projects by the prominent architect Joseph Kornhäusel as an executive master builder. Hainz benefited from his designs in terms of the room layout and the facade design of his own buildings. Most of his houses have been torn down or redesigned in the meantime, as his Biedermeier houses mostly no longer met the demands of the new era.

Works

• Apollo Hall , Zieglergasse 15, Vienna 7 (later demolished) (1807)
• Rental house , Gumpendorfer Straße 85, Vienna 6 (later changed) (1808)
• Rental house , Ungargasse 32, Vienna 3 (later changed) (1819)
• Rental house , Schimmelgasse 4, Vienna 3 (1820)
• Rental house , Schimmelgasse 18, Vienna 3 (1820)
• Rental house , Stuckgasse 3, Vienna 7 (1820)
• Rental house , Liniengasse 12, Vienna 6 (later changed) (1821)
• Rental house , Am Gestade 1, Vienna 1 (later changed) (1823)
• House at the Golden Angel , Weihburggasse 15, Vienna (later changed) (1829)
• Kleeblatthaus , Tuchlauben 11, Vienna 1 (later changed) (1837–1838)

Web links

• Jakob Hainz. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.