Jules Röthlisberger
Jules Röthlisberger (also Giulio Rothlisberger ; born February 17, 1851 in Neuchâtel NE ; † August 25, 1911 there ) was a Swiss civil engineer .
Life
After studying civil engineering from 1868 to 1872 at the Eidgenössische Polytechnische Schule, later the ETH Zurich , he worked for Ott & Cie. worked in Bern , where he and Moritz Probst were responsible for the planning and construction supervision of three large riveted weld-iron arch bridges . These were the Javroz Bridge near Charmey , the Schwarzwasser Bridge near Guggisberg and the Kirchenfeld Bridge in Bern.
Due to a lack of orders due to the economic crisis resulting from the Vienna stock market crash , Röthlisberger opened his own engineering offices in Bern in 1883 and then in Milan after completing work on the Kirchenfeld Bridge , where he worked with the German Paul Simons . Röthlisberger participated together with Fives-Lille in the competition to build a railway bridge over the Danube in Cernavodă , Romania , but only received a second honorable mention there. The competition was won by Holzmann , who suggested an arch bridge with elevated roadway and brick pillars. The design by Röthlisberger and Simons differed from the winning design in the pillars, which at Holzmann only served as a support for the arches, but at Röthlisberger and Simons they extended to the roadway. The winning project was not implemented, but a design by the Romanian engineer Anghel Saligny , the Anghel-Saligny bridge .
In 1885 Röthlisberger became chief engineer of the Turin- based Società Nazionale Officine di Savigliano (SNOS), which today belongs to Alstom . SNOS was a major industrial company that built locomotives, railroad cars, iron and steel bridges. At SNOS, Röthlisberger was responsible for building numerous bridges in Italy (including the Ponte San Michele over the Adda ), in Hungary and Romania .
In addition to this activity, he worked as a consultant and appraiser. Among other things, he wrote an expertise on the collapse of the railway bridge over the Birs , which went down in Swiss history as a railway accident at Münchenstein .
Web links
- Jules Röthlisberger . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 57/58 , no. 12 , 1911, pp. 163 ( online [accessed May 15, 2015]).
- Emanuele Roncalli: L'Eiffel dell'Adda. In: Orobie. November 2000, accessed May 15, 2015 (Italian).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report of the jury institué pour l'examen des projets du pont sur le Danube et sur la Borcea . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 1/2 , no. 15 , 1883, p. 93-94 ( online [accessed May 15, 2015]).
- ↑ Danube Bridge Competition - compilation of the pillar designs for a high bridge . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 1/2 , no. 18 , 1883 ( online [accessed May 15, 2015]).
- ↑ DRUMUL SPRE ATLANTYKRON / Cernavoda şi Capidava, două diamante neşlefuite. In: Traian Bădulescu. Retrieved May 15, 2015 (Romanian).
- ^ Thomas Fuchs: Jules Röthlisberger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 6, 2014 , accessed June 30, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Röthlisberger, Jules |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rothlisberger, Giulio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuchâtel NE |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1911 |
| Place of death | Neuchâtel NE |