Joseph Höchl

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Grave of Josef Höchl on the old southern cemetery in Munich location
The Mariahilfkirche built by Höchl's construction business in Munich's Au

Joseph Höchl (born March 6, 1777 in Neumarkt-Sankt Veit , † January 6, 1838 in Munich ) was a Bavarian master builder and brick factory owner.

biography

Joseph Höchl was the son of the bricklayer Martin Höchl from Neumarkt near Mühldorf am Inn .

The residential building Christophstrasse 7, Munich, built by Höchl

At the age of 20 he came to Munich as a journeyman bricklayer and worked for the master builder Schedl, and later for the bourgeois town mason Matthias Widmann (1749-1825) as a parlier (foreman). He married Therese Trisberger (1775–1806), the stepdaughter of his boss. As a result, he achieved the fairness of a master craftsman and, in 1804, also the citizenship of Munich.

After the early death of his first wife, Joseph Höchl married Josepha Widmann (1786–1877), his master's daughter, in 1807. With her he acquired in 1808 from the tax officer Hubertus von Steiner the formerly electoral brickworks, Am Priel, in Bogenhausen , with large clay deposits and soon afterwards a second brickworks nearby. The acquisitions formed the basis for the rise to become the most important Munich brick manufacturer and master builder of his time, who was particularly involved in the development of the Schönfeld and Maxvorstadt . In 1831 he employed 16 foremen and 234 journeymen and was thus the largest building contractor in Munich.

Joseph Höchl lived in a representative house at Rosental 15 in downtown Munich, as well as a country house in St. Emmeram (today Munich- Oberföhring ), Spervogelstraße 12. The entrepreneur had a villa built on the former electoral brickworks in Bogenhausen, which later was rebuilt by his son Anton Höchl, the so-called Höchl-Schlössl .

Many of its buildings were destroyed in World War II. At the Mariahilfkirche (Munich) built by him , only the original tower still stands. The buildings Karlstrasse 21 (today's tax office) and Christophstrasse 7, built independently by Höchl as residential buildings, are typical examples of his functional buildings.

The monastery of the Merciful Sisters, Munich, built by Joseph Höchl, before it was destroyed
Optical institute in Munich's Müllerstrasse , built by Höchl

One of his last projects was the former Munich motherhouse (with built-in church), the Barmherzigen Schwestern , Nussbaumstrasse 5. This monastery building, designed by Friedrich von Gärtner and built by Joseph Höchl, was badly damaged in the Second World War and only rebuilt in a simplified manner. The project was associated with great financial difficulties and was built by King Ludwig I promoted sustainable. Höchl, a devout Catholic, had kept his bills very accommodating and thus made the construction of the monastery much easier. In this context, the king awarded him the silver medal of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown on December 18, 1837 . In the award decree it says: “... in recognition of the charitable and noble civic spirit that has been shown on several occasions for a number of years and in particular the merits and sacrifices made in the building of the motherhouse of the merciful sisters at the city hospital. .. " .

A few weeks later, Höchl died "after receiving the sacraments and a short sick bed," as the obituary states.

tomb

Höchl's grave is located in the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich (grave field 2 - row 7 - place 1/2) location .

progeny

Joseph Höchl's son Anton Höchl (1818–1897) took over his father's construction and brickworks, but was mainly active as a painter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.finanzamt.bayern.de/muenchen/Ueber_uns/Geschichte/Finanzamt_Muenchen_fuer_Koerperschaften.php ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ^ Website of the former monastery
  3. ↑ Andreas Hildman: Munich Churches: architecture, art, liturgy , Schnell & Steiner, 2008, page 338, ISBN 3795418682 ; Excerpt from the source
  4. ^ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria , No. 2, of January 10, 1838
  5. ↑ Joseph Höchl's obituary notice , Munich political newspaper , 1838.
  6. ^ Website of the grave, with a portrait of Joseph Höchl on the grave stone
personal data
SURNAME Höchl, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Builder and entrepreneur in Munich
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumarkt-Sankt Veit
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1838
Place of death Munich