Johann August Bruckmann

Johann August Bruckmann (born February 29, 1776 in Heilbronn ; † April 25, 1835 in Ulm ; also Johann August von Bruckmann ) was a German architect , geologist , agricultural master builder , hydraulic engineer , non-fiction author and inventor as well as a developer, later together with his son August Eduard Bruckmann , of drilling methods in connection with the opening up and development of artesian wells .

Life

From 1790 he was trained as a master builder at the Prussian Building Academy in Berlin . Then he returned to southwest Germany, where he found a job as a master builder in 1803. In 1813 he was appointed district building officer in Reutlingen . In this position he was responsible for the construction or remodeling of numerous buildings. Badly ill, he asked to be released in 1822. Recovered, the introduction of artesian wells in Württemberg in 1827 goes back to him. In 1833 he was called back to active civil service as a district building officer in Ulm, but he soon fell ill again and died in 1835.

In the Hof- und Staats-Handbuch of 1815 he is quoted with Johann August von Bruckmann, master builder of the Landvogtei on the upper and middle Neckar.

Works and drafts

• 1816–1818: Catholic parish church St. Afra in Ratshausen in the style of the camera office
• 1817–1818: Reconstruction of the Collegium Illustre
• Office building in Berlin

Artesian well

Bruckmann has dug ten wells in Heilbronn. In 1827 he drilled the first two wells for the Rauch brothers' paper mill and a third for the bleaching facility in Heilbronn. A fourth well followed in 1828 for Gustav Schaeuffelen's paper mill , and in 1829 a well for the Cotta & Co. flax spinning mill. Further wells for the Schäuffelen paper mill and the municipal grinding mills followed. In his own source , he gives two other wells in Erlangen , two in Nuremberg and one in Crailsheim .

family

Bruckmann was born in 1776 as the son of the Heilbronn silversmith Johann Dietrich Bruckmann (1736–1807) and his wife Johanna Susanne née Drauz and as the older brother of the future entrepreneur Georg Peter Bruckmann .

His children included the future artist Alexander Bruckmann and the future architect August Eduard Bruckmann (1810–1884).

Publications

• 1833: Together with August Eduard Bruckmann: Complete instructions for the installation, production and newer use of the drilled or so-called Artesian wells: largely based on personal experience, edited for practical implementation. JD Classische Buchhandlung, Heilbronn am Neckar 1833. 382 p. Second edition 1833

Awards

• Large gold medal of honor, awarded by the King of Württemberg
• Gold Medal of Honor from the Societé d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale 1831
• before 1833: holder of the Royal Civil Order

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JA Bruckmann and AE Bruckmann: Complete instructions for the installation, production and newer use of the drilled or so-called Artesian wells. JD Classische Buchhandlung, Heilbronn 1833. 405 p. U. a. P. 341 , accessed June 29, 2013
2. ^ New necrology of the Germans. Thirteenth year 1835. First part. Bernh. Fr. Voigt, Weimar 1837, 608 pp . 432 and 433 , accessed on June 29, 2013
3. ↑ Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg 3/2009, p. 187, ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 4.8 MB), accessed on June 29, 2013  
4. ↑ p. 28 , accessed June 29, 2013
5. ↑ Bauwelt 18/2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 565 kB), accessed on June 29, 2013  
6. ↑ Bruckmann: Complete instructions, pp. 26–63.
7. ↑ P. 931-938 - digitized version , accessed on June 29, 2013
8. ^ Edition 1833 - digitized version , accessed on June 29, 2013