Karl Pelnöcker

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Symposium Kaisersteinbruch 1997, Eva and Karl Pelnöcker, before that Karl Tschank and Mrs. Amelin

Karl Pelnöcker (born December 7, 1919 in Linz ; † October 27, 2002 in Eisenstadt ) was an Austrian architect and Lower Austrian state official.

Life

Karl was born as the son of Leopold and Marie Pelnöcker, née Riedl, in Linz-Urfahr and graduated from secondary school in Linz, Fadingerstraße in 1938 . He was drafted for military service in the 45th Infantry Division - 65 intelligence department. After serving in the Polish campaign, France and Russia, he became a recruit trainer in Znaim , where he met his future wife Eva. On April 5, 1945 he was wounded in the Battle of Vienna near Biedermannsdorf.

After the end of the war he studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology with Karl Holey and Erich Boltenstern .

Lower Austrian Provincial Service

In 1950 Pelnöcker joined the Lower Austrian regional service. The first planning projects were the rest home for state officials on Erlaufsee and the administrative building of the Horn district administration . In 1959 he directed the restoration and adaptation of the Haydn House in Rohrau into a memorial. In the mid-1950s, Newag / Niogas (the forerunner of EVN-Energieversorgung Niederösterreich ) planned to relocate its corporate headquarters to Lower Austria. In Maria Enzersdorf near Vienna, office buildings and apartments for employees were to be combined in a "garden city south". For the Lower Austrian spatial planning department , Karl Pelnöcker, Walter Blaha and Wilhelm Körner presented a planning concept in 1959 that was based on the established structures of the surrounding communities and provided for direct integration of the Badner Bahn . However, the client gave preference to the grid-shaped satellite settlement designed by the architects Wilhelm Hubatsch, Franz Kiener and Gustav Peichl , not least because the Newag office building with its strictly axial alignment to a central shopping street and the flanking apartment blocks was of increased importance.

Lower Austrian provincial exhibitions

Hampelhaus in Sommerein

In 1962 Pelnöcker designed the Lower Austria state exhibition " Friedrich Gauermann and his time" in the Servite monastery Gutenstein-Mariahilferberg together with Ernest Süss and Irmgard Grillmayer under the direction of Rupert Feuchtmüller , followed in 1963 by the Lower Austria state exhibition " Paul Troger and Austrian Baroque Art " in the renovated monastery Altenburg , also under the scientific direction of Feuchtmüller.

Summer

At the beginning of the 1960s, he worked on the agricultural commissioning to Sommerein , which has since been repopulated after being converted to a military training area between 1939 and 1945. Pelnöcker acquired the ruinous baroque "Hampelhaus", which he restored over years of work and provided with sgraffiti himself . Further work in scratch-plastering technology on summer houses followed.

In 1967 he started his family.

In addition to his professional activity, he acted as chairman of the Lower Austrian non-profit building and settlement cooperative for workers and employees until his retirement.

  • District administration Horn

  • Red Cross station in Schwechat

retirement

After twelve years as head of the regional building authority I, he retired as a lecturer in 1983 . In recent years his commitment has been to the preservation of the small monuments in Sommerein, which were restored by the market town of Sommerein in 1998/99 through his initiative .

In 2000, together with his son Ivo, he designed the Holy Cross Chapel on the new part of the cemetery in Sommerein.

death

Karl Pelnöcker died on October 27, 2002 in Eisenstadt Hospital, where two years earlier, on August 4, 2000, his wife Eva had died of cancer at the age of 64.

Works

Selection:

  • Recreation home at Erlaufsee in Mitterbach (1955).
  • Official building of the district administration in Horn (1958). Equipment Franz Simmlinger.
  • Memorial to the victims of both world wars in Horn (1958).
  • St. Leopold's Chapel in Mönichkirchen (1962), together with Ernest Süss.
  • Red Cross Station in Schwechat (1963).
  • Heilig-Kreuz Kapelle in Sommerein (2000), together with son Ivo.

Awards

See also

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Pelnöcker, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 2002
Place of death Eisenstadt