Leo Arnoldi

Leo Arnoldi (Hof-Atelier Adele, Vienna)
Oesterreichische Illustrirte Zeitung , 1898

Leo Arnoldi memorial stone in Puchberg am Schneeberg

Leo Arnoldi (born April 29, 1843 in Arnsberg , Westphalia , † May 4, 1898 in Vienna ) was a German railway civil engineer and entrepreneur.

Life

Arnoldi was an active officer in the Prussian service until 1865 and after his departure he carried out numerous large buildings during an eight-year stay in southern Brazil . On his return to Germany, he managed large railway and tunnel constructions in Thuringia , Westphalia , in the Odenwald ( Krähbergtunnel , 1879–1882), in the Baden Black Forest and in Mainz . From 1892 he worked in Austria-Hungary , where he was involved in the work on the Iron Gate as well as in railway construction in Transylvania . His last work from 1895 was the construction of the Schneebergbahn . He died of a stroke on May 4, 1898 .

Railway constructions

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  Krähbergtunnel (1881), west portal in 2005

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  First Schneebergbahn tunnel (work in progress 1897)

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  Baumgartner station of the Schneebergbahn (1897)

literature

• Otto Wilhelm Ferdinand von Drebber: Master list of officers and medical officers of the 5th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 56 1860–1906 . 1907, p. 37 ( full text in Google Book Search - USA )
• Death. In:  Badener Zeitung , May 7, 1898, p. 2, local news section(online at ANNO ).
• Commercial Councilor Arnoldi. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, May 5, 1898, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).
• Biographical yearbook and German necrology . Volume 5, Berlin 1903, list of dead 1898 , column 7 * ( full text in the Google book search USA ); with the probably erroneous date of death May 5, 1898, apparently taken from the (Leipziger) Illustrirten Zeitung , Volume 110 (1898), p. 594 (not viewed)
• Klemens Hövel: Tunnel construction according to the Belgian construction system in Germany . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 14, No. 27 (April 3, 1880), pp. 142 f. ( Full text in Google Book Search - USA )
• The continuation of the Odenwaldbahn from Erbach to Eberbach . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 15, No. 68 (August 24, 1881), p. 381 ( full text in Google Book Search - USA )

Text snippets

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  Family obituary notice ( Neue Fr. Pr. , May 5, 1898)

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  Badener Zeitung of
  May 7, 1898

Web links

Commons : Leo Arnoldi  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Badener Zeitung of May 7, 1898, which appeared after the funeral (May 6 in Puchberg), mentions May 4. The different date May 5 (in the Biographical Yearbook ... ) is likely based on the information (“tonight”) on the obituary notice in the evening paper of the widespread Neue Freie Presse from May 5. The obituary in the same sheet, however, speaks of "last night"
2. ↑ The builder of the Schneebergbahn †. In:  Österreichs Illustrierte Zeitung , May 15, 1898, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Photos from April 11, 1897 (before the opening) by the bookseller and amateur photographer Emil Czerny for Reinhard E. Petermann's article Puchberger und Schneebergbahn in the Oesterreichische Tourist-Zeitung from May 16, 1897