Karl Holey

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Karl Holey (born November 6, 1879 in Tetschen , Bohemia ; † March 6, 1955 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect and preservationist. From 1937 to 1955 he was the master builder of St. Stephen's Cathedral .

Life

Parish Church Rust in Tullnerfeld (1947/49)
Parish Church Nikitsch (1931/32)
1923: Parish church of Niederkreuzstetten : New octagonal nave with barrel vaults and deep stitch caps to the Gothic cross-rib vaulted choir from the 15th century
Bishop's throne in Klagenfurt Cathedral , designed by Karl Holey in 1930
Memorial plaque in the crypt of Salzburg Cathedral

The son of a forest controller went to school in Leitmeritz and studied at the Technical University in Vienna, where he also worked as an assistant from 1904 to 1906. From 1908 to 1925 Holey was an official of the Central Commission for Art and Historical Monuments, then from 1915 to 1932 General Curator (title from 1926) of the Austrian-Hungarian. Preservation of monuments or the monument office of the Austrian First Republic. In 1925 Holey was appointed full professor of architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, where he had been an associate professor since 1915.

Karl Holey was primarily a building historian, monument conservator, cathedral builder and, as an architect, primarily a church builder. In the era of Red Vienna, however, Holey was also active in municipal housing. Like his colleague Siegfried Theiss, he stood in a certain contrast to Otto Wagner's school . Holey was closely associated with the corporate state regime and was a member of the federal culture council from 1934. From 1937 to 1938 he was rector of the Vienna University of Technology (voluntary resignation in 1938) and from 1945 was head of the reconstruction of the cathedral in Salzburg. In 1946 he was reappointed rector of the Vienna University of Technology. From 1951 as a retired professor, he remained active in his areas of interest.

He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Awards

Holey received numerous awards, including the Commander's Cross of the Austrian Order of Merit in 1935 . In 1950 he became an honorary citizen of the City of Vienna . From 1930 to 1931 he was President of the Catholic Academic Association, from 1947 President of the Association for Monument and Townscape Preservation, now the Austrian Society for Monument and Townscape Preservation . In 1954 he received the Great Silver Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . In 1965 a place in the Per-Albin-Hansson-Siedlung Nord in the 10th district of Holeyplatz was named in his honor.

Realizations

Publications

  • The principles of modern monument preservation for church restorations . In: ZÖIAV 61.1909, p. 176.
  • Practical monument preservation and homeland protection . In: ZÖIAV 62.1910, p. 32.
  • The Diocletian Imperial Palace in Spalato . In: ZÖIAV 62.1910, pp. 454f.
  • A monument protection law for Austria: Explanations . In: Pamphlets of the association for the protection and preservation of the art monuments of Vienna and Lower Austria. 1911, p. 55.
  • The future of Karlsplatz . Vienna 1911
  • Questions about space and monuments in Vienna. In: Communications from the Central Association of Austrian Architects, 1918, no. 7
  • For the hundredth anniversary of the birthday of cathedral builder Friedrich von Schmidt . in: ZÖIAV 77. 1925, p. 434ff.
  • For the reconstruction of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna . In: ZÖIAV 91.1946, pp. 1–5, fig. 1–5

literature

  • Michael Engelhart: Cathedral builder Hofrat Prof. Dr. techn. Dr. hc Karl Holey - 75 years . In: Journal of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects (ZÖIAV) 99, 1954, pp. 260f., (With portrait).
  • Karl Kupsky : Cathedral builder Hofrat Prof. Dr. techn Karl Holey - 70 years . In: Journal of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects (ZÖIAV) 94, 1949, pp. 181–184, (with portrait).

Web links

Commons : Karl Holey  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  • Inge Podbrecky: The Austrian Institute Building in Rome: Architecture and Identity , in: Roman historical messages, 52nd volume / 2010, 323–371
  1. ^ Karl Holey grave site , Vienna, Central Cemetery, Group 47, Group Extension C, Row 17, No. 5.
  2. ↑ Staff news . In:  Der Wiener Tag , June 19, 1935, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / maintenance / day
  3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  4. ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch - Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs - Burgenland. 2nd edition, Vienna 1980, p. 215, ISBN 3-7031-0493-7 .
  5. ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria, south of the Danube. Part 2, page 1881, Berger Verlag , Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Holey, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Tetschen
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1955
Place of death Vienna