Karl von Paschwitz (engineer)

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Karl Friedrich Alfred Ritter and Edler von Paschwitz , also Carl von Paschwitz (born July 31, 1837 in Buckenhof near Erlangen , † January 1, 1880 in Kissingen ) was a German engineer .

Life

He came from the von Paschwitz family from the Principality of Bayreuth , whose progenitor Samuel Parsch , court advisor and professor of law at Bayreuth , was elevated to the rank of imperial knighthood on December 23, 1715 , and was the son of the royal Bavarian forester Rudolf Ritter and Edler von Paschwitz (1798–1856) and Friedrike von Lips (1813–1885), provess of a margravial noble fräuleinstift.

After attending the Melanchthon grammar school in Nuremberg (mentioned in 1853), studying engineering and completing his military service, Paschwitz was chief engineer in the construction of the “German-Croatian connecting railway” around 1867 and an engineer in Schweinfurt in 1868 , where he called himself “formerly Lieutenant in k (öniglich) b (ayerischen) Genie character " designated. In 1870 he was registered as a royal Bavarian construction assistant in the Würzburg address book. In 1871 he came to Kissingen as a future district engineer (today: district builder ) and had a house built on the outskirts of the city around 1875 (Salinenstrasse 3).

The Saale "Dampferle" in 1879
(drawing by Oskar von Alvensleben )

On November 15, 1876, in Kissingen, he applied for a license to operate a steamboat service on the Franconian Saale between the Kissinger spa garden and the saltworks at the Untere Saline in what was then the village of Hausen , where Chancellor Otto von Bismarck had also been at his spa since 1874 used to take his bath. Paschwitz must have expected the approval to be granted, because as early as July 7, 1877, his small screw steamer , which he had ordered from the Zurich-based company Escher Wyss AG, which was then leading in steam engine technology , arrived in the spa town as rail freight On August 13, 1877, he began driving on the Saale - initially only on a trial basis. For it was not until October 5, 1877, that he was granted the official license by the State Ministry of the Royal House and Foreign Affairs, so that regular shipping could commence in time for the 1878 season. The small boat, which the people of Kissingen simply called “Dampferle” and named Kissingen, carried 40 passengers and, in keeping with the low water level in the Saale, had a draft of only 75 centimeters. The use of good, little soot- and odor-producing charcoal was prescribed. The crew consisted of three men, one of whom was a stoker. This was the hour of birth of the Bad Kissingen "Dampferle" operation of the Saale shipping company, which - of course with newer ships - has been operating on the same stretch of the river for 130 years.

He assisted his brother Ernst von Paschwitz , major and engineer, who lived in Bodenwöhr and later in Weiherhammer in the Upper Palatinate , in the development of several devices for military use. One was the Paschwitz rangefinder (1867, 1871, 1879, 1882), which has been improved several times and has been used successfully in artillery , for which both received patent number 28.

Paschwitz married as nearly 40-year-old in the May 19, 1877 Bayreuth 16 years younger Helene Baroness von Feilitzsch (born October 14, 1853 in Long home , now part of the municipality Petersaurach , † March 31, 1904 in Nuremberg ). The couple remained childless.

He had been sick from his wedding year in 1877 until his death. Was that why he no longer applied for Kissingen citizenship ? He died on New Year's Day in 1880, aged only 42, and was buried on January 4th.

After the death of her husband, his 27-year-old widow Helene, now the owner of the 25-year operating permit, ran the Saale-Dampferle for two years until 1882 and then sold the concession to the Kissingen master builder Andreas Lohrey .

Publications

  • Modifications of the v. Paschwitz's military rangefinder , in: Polytechnisches Journal , Volume 191, 1869, page 199f. ( Digitized version )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser (Gotha), Alter Adel und Briefadel 1928 , page 439, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1928
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume X, page 178, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISBN 3-7980-0819-1
  3. ↑ Gottfried Herold: Emendationes Herodoteae , part 1, 1853, page XII ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Description of the v. Paschwitz's military rangefinder. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 202, 1871, pp. 235-239.
  5. ↑ Modifications of the v. Paschwitz's military rangefinder. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 191, 1869, pp. 199-202.
  6. ↑ Address manual for the royal Bavarians. District capital and university city of Würzburg , 1870, page 62 ( digitized version )
  7. ↑ It is uncertain whether Karl von Paschwitz had previously committed himself briefly to the construction of the Reichseisenbahn in Alsace-Lorraine in 1871, but soon gave up this task again. However, in the military science reports of the KuK war ministry from 1888, he is referred to as the builder of the Alsatian-Lorraine railway . When this is supposed to have been is not written there.
  8. ↑ Werner Eberth : 130 years of Kissinger Dampferle , in: Saale-Zeitung (Bad Kissingen) from July 19, 2008
  9. ↑ Monthly Issues for Politics and Wehrmacht, Volume 32, Verlag Schneider, 1879, page 90 ( excerpt )
  10. ↑ according to Gotha from 1928
  11. ↑ Obituary from January 1, 1880
personal data
SURNAME Paschwitz, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paschwitz, Karl Ritter and Edler von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and master railroad builder
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Buckenhof
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1880
Place of death Kissingen