Karl Schabik

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Karl Schabik (born October 31, 1882 in Leobschütz , district of Leobschütz ; † November 1945 in Altschewsk , Soviet Union ) was a German architect , town planner and municipal building officer who was the town planning officer for the town of Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia from 1919 to 1945 . Schabik was a member of the Catholic German Center Party .

Live and act

Karl Schabik was born in Leobschütz in Upper Silesia in 1882 and attended grammar school there. He studied architecture at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg and received the academic degree of graduate engineer in 1906 . In 1910 he passed the 2nd state examination and was appointed government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration). In the First World War Schabik took part as a soldier. He then worked in Siegburg in the Rhine Province and from there applied for the city building council in Gleiwitz. He was elected to this office on May 22, 1919. When he took office in autumn 1919, he resigned from the Prussian civil service.

As a city planning officer, he made a significant contribution to the urban development of the city of Gleiwitz, he created road extensions and expanded the infrastructure, initiated numerous architectural competitions , created several public facilities and closed gaps in the inner city. In addition, after the division of Upper Silesia, the city had to create living space for the large number of refugees from Eastern Upper Silesia .

The idea of ​​a three-city unit of the cities of Gleiwitz, Beuthen and Hindenburg was supported by Schabik on the part of the Gleiwitz city administration. Under this concept, common infrastructures were created instead of independently of one another as before . A zoning plan was created for the three cities and the neighboring communities.

The Markgrafenstrasse, which runs across Wilhelmstrasse, was expanded and turned into an avenue. Plans for a city expansion were developed for the northern end, the Reichspräsidentplatz. This system is now also known as the "Schabik axis". A new administrative center with a new town hall was to be built here, but the planning remained. In 1932 Karl Schabik was re-elected as town planning officer. He held this office until the city was occupied by the Red Army .

On February 8, 1945, Schabik was arrested by the NKVD and then deported to the Soviet Union for forced labor . Shabik died in Alchevsk of complications from dysentery . His grave is unknown.

plant

buildings

formerly Eichendorff-Oberlyzeum, today part of the Technical University Gliwice / Gleiwitz
  • Extension of the Holy Cross Church in Gleiwitz
  • Eichendorff-Oberlyzeum in Gleiwitz (1928–1930)

drafts

  • New town hall in Gliwice

Green spaces

Central cemetery in Gliwice / Gleiwitz

Urban planning

  • City expansion around the Reichspräsidentplatz
  • Area allocation plan for the area of ​​the city of Gliwice

Monument preservation

Fonts

  • (with Georg Geisler and Alfons Warlo): Gleiwitz, an Upper Silesian city. 1925.
  • (as co-author): Gleiwitz. (= Monographs of German cities. ) Deutscher Kommunalverlag, Berlin-Friedenau 1925.
  • (as editor): Gleiwitz. (= Germany's urban development . ) DARI-Verlag, Berlin-Halensee 1928.
  • (with Albert Stütz and Moritz Wolf): Dreistädteeinheit Beuthen, Gleiwitz, Hindenburg. (= New Urban Art . ) FE Hübsch, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1929.

literature

  • Gazeta Miejska Gliwice Zabrze , born 2013, number 618

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 30, 1910, No. 59 (from July 23, 1910), p. 389.
  2. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 39, 1919, No. 97 (from November 29, 1919), p. 577.
personal data
SURNAME Schabik, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schabik, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and municipal building officer, town planning officer in Gleiwitz
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Leobschütz , Leobschütz district
DATE OF DEATH November 1945
Place of death Alchevsk , Soviet Union