Karl von Müller (engineer)

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The memorial plaque to Karl Ritter von Müller on the Oswald promenade in Bozen
Entrance to the Müller Volksbad in Munich
Bust and memorial plaque in the Müller Volksbad

Karl Müller , from 1901 Ritter von Müller , (also: Carl ; born March 1, 1821 in Benediktbeuern ; † July 4, 1909 in Gries near Bozen , Austria-Hungary ) was a German engineer , school founder and benefactor of the cities of Munich and Bozen.

Life

Karl Müller was born in Benediktbeuern in March 1821 as the son of the royal building officer Jakob Müller and his wife Elisabeth Neyer. After studying civil engineering , the only 24-year-old was entrusted with the layout of the railway line through the Mühltal from Munich to Starnberg , one of the first railway lines in Upper Bavaria . In 1846 he was in charge of road construction to Hohenschwangau Castle .

In Dornbirn Müller shortly thereafter founded a technical-commercial private educational organization even after its relocation in 1851 to Innsbruck and Vienna continue to operate was. In Innsbruck he did the same on December 1, 1848, as the authorities did not support him, but had to be stopped a year later.

Numerous buildings such as the Chain Bridge and the railway bridge over the Inn near Mühlau and the introduction of new building regulations fell into a three-year employment (1850-1853) as Innsbruck's municipal building inspector .

After many private buildings, he took on the same tasks in Munich and between 1861 and 1863 he built a rental and commercial building complex on his own, which was known as the "Müller houses".

After his successful career had brought him considerable wealth, Müller traveled extensively to Africa and Asia and finally retired as a reindeer in Gries near Bozen at the age of 73 . There he built a house in the middle of a vineyard in 1889. He was twice widowed and had no children. Müller is buried in Weilheim , the last residence of his parents.

Müller was a supporter of the social reform bathing movement . In 1894 he donated the Müller houses to the city of Munich, valued at 1.5 million marks at the time, with the stipulation that they should be sold and that the proceeds would be used to build a public bath, mainly for the poor. From 1897 to 1901, on the banks of the Isar, the Müller Volksbad was built according to a design by Carl Hocheder in Baroque Art Nouveau style, which was opened on May 1, 1901. The washing facility was one of the largest in the world at the time. On April 29, 1901, Prince Regent Luitpold appointed Müller Knight of the Royal Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown .

Karl Ritter von Müller bequeathed his house and the considerable vineyard and garden property to the Bozen-Gries Curverein, founded in 1874, in a will to improve the spa conditions . Due to the existence of pension recipients, this legacy could not be liquidated until 1937 . The Bolzano spa administration was able to use this money to extend the Oswald promenade from Peter-Ploner-Weg to St. Magdalena and also to help finance the construction of the municipal swimming pool (Lido). In 1969 a memorial plaque was erected at the crossroads of the Oswald promenade.

Web links

literature

  • Norbert Mumelter: Carl Ritter von Müller. A great benefactor of Bolzano on the 60th anniversary of his death , in: Der Schlern 1969, pp. 322–327.
  • Eduard Widmoser: South Tyrol A – Z , Volume 3 ( Kr – N ). Südtirol-Verlag, Innsbruck 1988, p. 364.
  • Michael Stephan: Karl (Ritter von) Müller - a life between Munich and Bozen , in: Hannes Obermair et al. (Ed.): Regional civil society in motion - Cittadini innanzi tutto. Festschrift for / Scritti in onore di Hans Heiss. Folio-Verlag, Vienna-Bozen 2012. ISBN 978-3-85256-618-4 , pp. 462-482.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Dornbirner Realschule ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Dornbirn Lexikon , accessed on February 26, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lexikon.dornbirn.at
  2. ↑ Josefine Justic: The beginnings of "trade school" , in: Innsbruck City News, October 14, 1982 p. 16
  3. ^ A modest final rest: Prominent graves , at Münchner Merkur , October 31, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Johann Carl Bernard Ritter von (full name); Müller, Karl Ritter von; Müller, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, school founder and patron
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Benediktbeuern
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1909
Place of death Gries near Bozen