Karl Pilhal

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Karl Pilhal (born April 10, 1822 in Vienna , † December 19, 1878 in Vienna) was an Austrian officer and military engineer .

Life

Pilhal was the son of the merchant Franz Pilhal (* 1787 in Austerlitz ) and Theresia, née Auhl (* 1797 in Timisoara ) , born in Vienna, where he studied at the engineering academy between 1934 and 1840 and then joined the army as a lieutenant . In 1841 he was appointed to the military technical committee, or staff of genius , to which he served for the remainder of his tenure.

He was assigned to various fortification construction sites and from 1844 worked on the construction of barracks and warehouses in today's countries of Serbia ( Petrovaradin ), Croatia ( Pula ), Hungary ( Komorn ) and Romania ( Alba Iulia ).

In 1850 he was promoted to captain and employed as a teacher in the engineering academy that had been transformed into a genius academy and moved to a former monastery in Znojmo . From 1851 to 1853 he was in charge of the construction of the cavalry barracks and then until 1856 the construction of the Franz Joseph barracks in Vienna, built according to the plans of the genius captain Baron von Scholl . During the Sardinian War he commanded the repair of the forts in Malborghet and on the Predil Pass in Friuli .

From 1860 to 1870 Pilhal was director of the staff of genius in Vienna, from 1861 he was a permanent military member of the “City Expansion Commission”, which dealt with the construction of the Vienna Ringstrasse and in 1868 was promoted to colonel . He designed the projects of the “KK Artillery Main Laboratory” (today Wöllersdorfer Werke ) near Wiener Neustadt , the Geniedirektionsgebuude and the Kronprinz-Rudolf-Kaserne (today Rossauer Kaserne ), where he also supervised the construction.

During the construction of the Kronprinz-Rudolf-Kaserne, the most famous work of Pilhal, difficulties arose with the “I. Wiener Maschinziegel-Gesellschaft ”, which led to the fact that he was suspended from work as the person responsible after the building was completed.

From 1871 Pilhal worked as chief genius at the military command in Zara , retired in 1873 and died five years later in Vienna.

Works

Rudolf barracks (1864–1869)
  • 1851–1853: additions to the cavalry barracks in Meidling, Vienna (execution; removed in 1973)
  • 1856: Franz-Joseph-Kaserne Vienna (assistance, construction management; demolished in 1900)
  • 1862–1864: kk Geniedirektion (today Chemical Institute of the Technical University), Vienna (planning and management)
  • 1864–1869: Rudolfskaserne (today Rossauer Kaserne), Vienna (planning and overhead management)
  • 1868: Expansion of the KK artillery main laboratory (today Wöllersdorfer Werke), near Wiener Neustadt (planning and overhead line)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rossauer Kaserne on the website of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (.pdf) accessed on May 17, 2014
  2. ^ Architects' Lexicon Vienna 1770 - 1945
personal data
SURNAME Pilhal, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer and military engineer
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1878
Place of death Vienna