Johann Nepomuk Bürkel

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Johann Nepomuk Bürkel (born December 16, 1864 in Munich ; † February 24, 1951 in Winterthur ) was a German architect and builder .

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Johann Nepomuk Bürkel came from a family of builders. After attending primary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and draftsman and trained at the Royal Building Trade School in Munich and the Polytechnic University of Munich . From November 1890, Bürkel worked as a teacher at the building trade school in Holzminden . On October 19, 1891, he joined the teaching staff at the Mittweida technical center . From 1893 he taught not only at the technical center, but also in the technical drawing school of the Mittweida trade association.

From 1891 to 1899, Johann Nepomuk Bürkel also worked as an architect and builder in Mittweida. The outstanding buildings include a. the "Electrotechnical Institute" of the technical center (1893–1894), the Mittweida water tower and the machine house of the waterworks (1896–1898), the new rectory (1896–1897), the entire ensemble “City of Chemnitz / European Court” (1896–1899) and the Spruce School Mittweida (1896–1900). The former sports hall of the school was converted into a multi-purpose hall and has been used as the Bürkel hall since 2006 . The conversion of a building to the town hall of Mittweida according to the drafts submitted by Bürkel in 1894 and 1895 could not be realized for cost reasons.

In October 1894 he married the Swiss Emilie geb. Keller, and in 1897 their son Hans was born. In 1899 Johann Nepomuk Bürkel and his wife left the city of Mittweida. She returned to her homeland in Winterthur, where he first went on a one-year study trip to Moscow . During the trips to the “interior of Russia” he made over 200 drawings of historical architecture. The Gewerbemuseum Winterthur showed some of these works in the exhibition “Russian Architectural Sketches by JN Bürkel”.

After his return, Bürkel worked in the construction business of the company "Walser & Co." in Winterthur, one of his first works in Winterthur was the Ruhtal villa. In 1901 he and Robert Rittmeyer participated in a tender by the "Deutsche Solvay-Werke AG Bernburg" for the construction of a workers' settlement. Both architects were awarded a prize. His daughter Helene was born on January 30, 1901. In 1907 he founded his own company in Winterthur, which specialized in factory buildings, tall chimneys, machine foundations and the like.

From 1926 to 1945 Bürkel worked for the Historisch-Antiquarian Verein Winterthur as “curator” of the nearby Mörsburg . In March 1934, Bürkel carried out the first excavation work on Fort Vitudurum . In autumn 1936 he carried out security work on the Alt-Wülflingen castle ruins in Winterthur and the installation of a staircase to climb the tower. Between 1939 and 1943 he repeatedly toured the canton of Graubünden and made over 170 architectural sketches of the “Bündner bay windows ”. A selection was exhibited in the Winterthur Trade Museum in 1943.

In his old age, Johann Nepomuk Bürkel no longer took part in the business activities of the company he founded; he died in 1951 in the residential and office building he designed and built on Neuwiesenstrasse in Winterthur.

literature

  • Jan-Peter Domschke, Hansgeorg Hofmann, Marion Stascheit, Werner Stascheit: Johann Nepomuk Bürkel - teacher at the technical center, architect for Mittweida, entrepreneur in Winterthur. Mittweida University; City administration Mittweida (ed.). Mittweida 2007.
  • Bürkel, Johann Nepomuk: Catalog for the exhibition "Russian Architecture Sketches" . 1929.
  • Bürkel, Johann Nepomuk: Bay windows and facade details from Graubünden: 1939–1943. Cantonal Monument Preservation Graubünden, Chur 2003.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in swissbib
personal data
SURNAME Bürkel, Johann Nepomuk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and builder
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1951
Place of death Winterthur