Karl Joseph Berckmüller

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Portrait of Berckmüller by his friend Franz Xaver Winterhalter , oil on canvas, 1830

Karl Joseph Berckmüller (* 11. December 1800 in Karlsruhe , † 6. April 1879 ) was a German architect and Grand Duke of Baden construction officer, Mr .

Life

Berckmüller was baptized on December 12, 1800, the day after his birth, in the St. Stephen's Church in Karlsruhe . He came from a respected Karlsruhe family, whose ancestors had been civil servants in prominent positions. As the grandson of master builder Dominik Berckmüller, he was familiar with the direction of his profession. So he studied from 1817 to 1822 at the building school of Friedrich Weinbrenner , which shortly afterwards in 1825 in the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe . As an excellent student, Berckmüller was able to accompany his teacher on a trip to Düsseldorf and the Netherlands in 1821. From 1823 he went on study trips to Germany and Austria, Paris, London and Italy for four years.

In 1829 Berckmüller passed the state examination for construction interns and married Caroline von Eichthal, the daughter of the industrialist David von Eichthal . He moved to St. Blasien and from then on worked full-time as a manager in his father-in-law's arms, machine and textile factory in the secularized St. Blasien monastery . After the company soon focused entirely on textile production, competition from newly founded Swiss textile manufacturers increased massively from the mid-1830s. At the beginning of the 1840s, the slump in sales threatened Berckmüller's existence to such an extent that he returned to Karlsruhe and entered the civil service. His father-in-law gave him all of his property in St. Blasien in 1845 in order to save some of his property from bankruptcy. Although Berckmüller founded the St. Blasien spinning mill with the main creditors of Eichthals , this could not prevent the end, so that bankruptcy had to be initiated in 1851.

During his time as factory director, Berckmüller created several drawings and various building designs, some of which were implemented. These included a high altar case for the Karlsruher Stephanskirche (replaced in 1882), the renovation of the chapel of Heiligenberg Castle (not implemented), monuments for Johann Peter Hebel in the castle garden of Karlsruhe and for Georg Stulz in Kippenheim (both preserved) as well as various tombs.

Even before Berckmüller was appointed district master builder in Karlsruhe in 1845, he had taken over the new building of the Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul in Bonndorf in the Black Forest in 1844 , which was to keep him busy until 1850. He held the office of district master builder until 1853. He was then promoted to building officer and took over the management of the court building department. He was responsible for restoring the interior of the castle. From 1845 to 1862 he also worked as a military master builder. He gave up the management of the court building department in 1864, but took it over again in 1876 for three years. In 1862 he was promoted to senior building officer. From 1868 until his retirement due to a kidney disease in 1878, he was a member of the building management in Karlsruhe.

Railroad structures

Melchior Berri , a Swiss architect and friend of Berckmüller, who had traveled to Italy with him in 1826/27, was responsible for the first draft of the first Badischer Bahnhof in Basel . After Berri's early death the following year, Berckmüller is likely to have continued these plans. The contact with Berri has deepened through his appointment to the board of the Grand Ducal Building Construction Office, which worked closely with the Directorate of Water and Road Construction.

In the years 1853, 1855 and 1856 Berckmüller was released to erect high-rise railway structures on the Badische Hauptbahn from Haltingen to Waldshut. The obvious conclusion that he designed and executed these could not be confirmed by Spitzbart in 1999. In addition, he was responsible for the building inspection of the buildings along the railway lines of the Karlsruhe directorate.

reception

In 1920 a street was named after him in the Oststadt .

His estate is in the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering , and plans can also be found in the General State Archives in Karlsruhe .

buildings

Residential development on Friedrichplatz in Karlsruhe

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Details on Carolus Josephus Berkmueller. In: Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558–1898. FamilySearch.org, accessed April 18, 2016 (FHL microfilm 1,053,796.).
  2. ^ Arthur Valdenaire: The art monuments of the city of Karlsruhe. The town planning and the castle district. Edited from the estate by Joachim Kleinmanns (Writings of the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering, Volume 4). Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2014, pp. 181–198. ISBN 978-3-7319-0003-0
  3. ^ Werner Stutz: Railway stations in Switzerland. From the beginning to the First World War. Orell Füssli, Zurich / Schwäbisch Hall 1983, ISBN 3-280-01405-0 , p. 153 f.
  4. ↑ Spitzbart, p. 173
  5. ^ Katja Förster: Karl Joseph Berckmüller. stadtlexikon.karlsruhe.de, 2013, accessed on February 8, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Berckmüller, Joseph Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berckmüller, Josef; Berckmüller, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, building official of the Grand Ducal Baden
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1879
Place of death Karlsruhe