Johann Bertolini
Giovanni Ferdinando Bertolini (born December 28, 1859 in Romallo , Welschtirol ; † December 31, 1931 in Egg , Vorarlberg ) was an Austrian building contractor and road construction pioneer.
Life
Childhood and early adolescence
He spent his childhood and school days in Romallo, in the Non Valley in Welschtirol , which was then part of Austria . He supported his father, who in the summer months worked on construction sites, often far from home. He was involved in the construction of the Pustertal Railway around 1871 as a 12-year-old porter. Then he accompanied his father for 8 years, mostly on road construction projects in Switzerland. He learned the mason trade in the canton of St. Gallen . His teacher was so convinced of his achievements and abilities that he wanted to let him attend the building trade school at his own expense, which his father prevented, however, because he saw his own support at risk. During the construction of the Arlberg railway tunnel from 1880 to 1884, he made it a game leader and received the breakthrough medal for his achievements .
From the Arlbergbahn construction to the Bregenz Forest
From 1885 he built the first structures in the Bregenzerwald as an " accordant ", such as the Schwarzenberg - Andelsbuch arch bridge and the Metzler beer cellar in Schwarzenberg. When Johann Berlinger signed the contract on April 11, 1888, the Amagmach / Egg road was built. On May 28, 1888, he married Anna Maria Nenning. After building a riding arena with stables in Karlsruhe (1888), he returned to Egg and took care of the erection and riveting of the Fluh bridge.
In 1890 the groundbreaking ceremony for the new schoolhouse in Bezau and the foundations of the church tower and the church walls in Egg took place. The Geser beer cellar, Andelsbuch, which is now used as an exhibition area for Handwerk + Form , was built in 1891. The building of the brickworks (with residential house, 1892) in Bezau secured the delivery of bricks in the region. The Egg brewery was established in 1893 and the Löwensaal (right there) in the following year.
During these years the children Maria (1889), Aurelia (1890), Konstantina (1891), Isidor (1892), Gisela (1894) and Emma (1896) were born.
Schwarzenberg– Andelsbuch arch bridge over the Bregenzerach, 1885
Construction of Fluhbrücke Egg with wooden falsework from 200 firs, 1889
House in Bezau and Ziegelei, 1892, based on plans by Kaspar Ritter
Builder of Flexenstrasse
On August 3, 1895, construction began on Flexenstrasse from Stuben over the Flexenpass to Lech and Warth . On October 11, 1897, the first section up to the top of the pass was inaugurated. The street width was initially three meters.
Bregenzerwaldbahn and road construction projects
Hundreds of Trentino workers worked the route of the Bregenzerwaldbahn out of the rock of the Bregenzerach Gorge in 1901 . Bertolini took on the construction of sections such as the Andelsbuch - Bersbuch line and some bridges. With the road construction, such as the Bezau – Bizau road , the Damülser Straße - this existed u. a. from trenches and several bridge structures - the Bayenbrücke Bezau, the road Lingenau -Moos and the Klausenstraße Mellau , other villages in the Bregenzerwald could be connected to the modern transport network. The Langen - Buch wire footbridge across the Bregenzer Ach connected the residents of Buch with the stop of the Bregenzerwaldbahn. The Walserschanzstrasse project with two arched bridges, whose concrete wreaths (based on the principle of Joseph Monier ) take over the pressure load, was carried out in 1908. The viaduct over the Krumbach near Warth (seven wreaths with keystones ) formed the end connection of Flexenstrasse in 1909. With the construction of the competing road Mellau – Hirschau in 1911, the largest traffic obstacle on the line at the time was removed.
Flexenpass road with Hölltobel, approx. 1905
Flexenpass road with bridge over the Hölltobel, 1897
Bregenzerwaldbahn, 1901, Pfisterbach Viaduct Andelsbuch - km 25.01
Klausenstrasse Mellau, 1904; the natural monument "stone with fir in the water" was washed away during the 2005 flood.
Bourgeois houses in stone
Soon Bertolini was not only building traffic structures inside and outside the Bregenzerwald, but also public buildings and increasingly bourgeois residential buildings. His clients no longer wanted wooden buildings, but, like Kaspar Ritter in Egg, wanted bourgeois houses made of stone - with appropriately designed facades and roofs. As examples of such modern architecture in the Bregenzerwald, u. a. the Hammerer & Kessler factory building and the savings bank building (both in Egg), Bad Hopfreben in Schoppernau , the Taube inn in Alberschwende , the Capuchin monastery in Bezau and the Egg shooting range from the building boom at that time. The Egg station restoration (1909), built in classic veneering, with visible half-timbering in the tower-like bay of the central projection , the Hotel Dorner in Hittisau - a palace-like building, the entrance portal of which was accentuated with a central projection and arched windows - and the school in Jodok Fink's hometown Andelsbuch Construction in the style of bourgeois historicism fell victim to the pickaxe in the 1970s / 1980s.
House Ritter, Egg, 1899
Egg station restoration, 1909
Building contractor Johann Bertolini, 1922
Electricity works in the Bregenz Forest
In view of the increasing industrialization, modern-minded builders such as Michael Moosbrugger from Bruggmühle in Egg and Franz Josef Natter with Josef Feuerstein in Bezau operated the first electricity works in the Bregenzerwald. In addition to their houses, Bertolini also built the tunnel for the power station in Egg (1907) and a 300-meter-long canal for the Natter power station in Bezau (the first power station in the Bregenzerwald).
Later buildings
Despite the First World War, buildings such as the Wuhrbau Au -Lugen, 1915, and the Natter sawmill and the Wuhrbau Bezau, both were completed in 1916. In 1920/1921 Bertolini extended the Schwarzenberg Church , the interior of which is decorated with the heads of the apostles by the painter Angelika Kauffmann . In 1922 the street Rindberg Sibratsgälle was built , and in 1923 the village square Sulzberg with a centered fountain. The residential and administrative building as well as the Lang factory building in Egg formed the end of Johann Bertolini's construction company in the years 1922–1924. Maria died on August 22, 1925, six years later, on December 31, 1931, Johann Bertolini in Egg.
memory
estate
- Daily shift directory of the customers of the Johann Bertolini company (in the original with a detailed description of the work carried out)
- Sketch and reference book - bourgeois buildings in the shell style
- Login books of workers
Sketch and reference book
Optical level , ca.1890
Breakthrough medal on the occasion of the construction of the Arlberg tunnel , 1884
Bertolini leveling instrument from the Klosterwaldmuseum in Wald am Arlberg
Awards
- Breakthrough medal for the construction of the Arlberg tunnel, 1884.
- Medal of Honor from the Chamber of Commerce, Commerce and Industry for Vorarlberg, 1931.
Appreciation
In 2009, in an exhibition in the Egg Museum entitled Stein auf Stein, Johann Bertolini, 1859-1931, the life of Giovanni / Johann Bertolini (1859-1931) was told: the story of an unusual migrant worker who turned from a wandering construction worker to a busy building contractor and left lasting traces in his adopted home Egg in the Bregenzerwald. Both his own buildings and those of the Trentino builders in the rest of Vorarlberg were shown. It also shed light on a hitherto little known part of the Vorarlberg migration history of the 19th century. There was a report on this in V-Today from July 25, 2009 and in the Vorarlberger Nachrichten of July 31, 2009.
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literature
- Rita Bertolini : Stone on Stone - Johann Bertolini 1859–1931 . Hohenems, Bucher Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-902612-41-0
- Kurt Greussing: And therefore d'Zuokumpft rumplot with G'wault - Giovanni / Johann Bertolini (1859–1931) and the modern age in the Bregenzerwald . In: Culture (PDF; 1.6 MB) 1/2008, p. 46/47
- ORF 2: V-Heute ( MOV ; 4.4 MB) February 22, 2008
- Helmut Tiefentaler: Johann Bertolini 1859–1931 . In: Montfort 60.1 / 2 (2008), p. 129/130
Image sources
Pictures from the estate of Johann Bertolini, useless.
Individual evidence
- ↑ see web link Presentation of the book stone on stone
- ↑ Foreman
- ↑ Subcontractors
- ^ Egger Museum shows Bertolini exhibition on ORF from July 25, 2009, accessed on July 25, 2009.
- ↑ Vorarlberger Nachrichten of July 31, 2009
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bertolini, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bertolini, Giovanni Ferdinando |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian building contractor and road construction pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Romallo , Trentino |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1931 |
| Place of death | Egg , Vorarlberg |