Leopold Oerley

Leopold Oerley (also Örley , born January 8, 1878 in Vienna ; † December 27, 1936 there ) was an Austrian technician who planned numerous railway, road and tunnel constructions.

Life

From 1895 to 1901 Leopold Oerley studied at the Technical University of Vienna . After brief employment at the university and with a bridge construction company, he joined the Austrian State Railways in 1904 .

As one of the first tasks at the state railways, he was given the planning and construction management of the Salcanobrücke of the Wocheinerbahn . With a span of 85 m, it was the largest stone arch bridge in the world at the time . In 1912 he took over the construction management of the Moltertobel tunnel of the Arlbergbahn , which earned him a reputation as a tunnel builder. During the First World War he was responsible for building the Fiemme Valley and Grödner Railway , both of which had to be completed in a short time due to their strategic importance.

In 1918 he was appointed full professor for railway, road and tunnel construction at the Technical University of Vienna, where he stayed until his death in 1936. From 1924 to 1926 he was dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, 1927/28 rector of the university. In 1925 he refused an appointment at the Technical University of Berlin .

Oerley prepared numerous reports on rail and road construction projects, including a. to the Grossglockner High Alpine Road , and introduced the clothoid as a special curve in road construction. Oerley had planned an underground network for Vienna as early as 1907, and in 1936 he presented the draft for an Austrian trunk road network.

His brother Robert Oerley was a well-known architect.

Works

Salcano Bridge (2010)

1904–1906: Planning and construction management of the Salcanobrücke over the Isonzo
1912–1914: Construction management of the Moltertobel tunnel of the Arlbergbahn
1914–1915: Construction of the second track of the Salzburg-Tyrolean Railway between Taxenbach and Zell am See
1915–1916: Routing and construction of the Val Gardena Railway
1915–1916: Routing and construction of the Fiemme Valley Railway
1917–1918: routing and construction of the Reschenscheideckbahn (never completed)

Honors

Oerley was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna . In Vienna- Simmering the Oerleygasse, in Innsbruck the Oerleyweg was named after him.

Fonts

Experiences and observations during the construction of the 85 m wide arched bridge over the Isonzo near Salcano. In: Journal of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects. No. 33 and 34 (1910)
The decisive working height of the railway: A new index value for assessing the routing and operating mode. In: Organ for the Progress of the Railway System. Issue 3 (1922)
About the movements of the main pillar heads of the Trisanna bridge on the Arlbergbahn. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung. Volume 78 (1922)
The new South Tyrolean narrow-gauge railways Grödenbahn and Fleimstalbahn. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung. Volume 83 (1924)
Tunnel construction art and tunnel construction science. (Vienna 1928)
On the question of the non-electrification of the Salzburg – Vienna route. In: Journal of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects. (1930)
Guidelines for the layout and routing of modern roads with mixed traffic. (Vienna 1935)
The Grossglockner High Alpine Road. In: Die Straße, No. 10 (1935)
The European highway problem and its solution for countries with lower population densities. (Vienna 1936)
Transition bend at road bends. (Berlin 1937)

literature

E. Attlmayr: Oerley, Leopold. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 211.

Web links

Literature by and about Leopold Oerley in the catalog of the German National Library
Portrait in the picture archive of the Austrian National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Bernd Kreuzer: The construction of the motorways and expressways in Austria. In: The motorway network in Austria. 30 years of ASFINAG. Vienna 2012, pp. 11–120. ( PDF; 7.6 MB ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2

↑ City of Vienna: Viennese street names and their historical meaning ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2009 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. @1@ 2
^ City of Innsbruck, Department of Statistics and Reporting (ed.): Street names of the state capital Innsbruck. Innsbruck 2013, p. 46 ( PDF; 274 kB )

personal data
SURNAME	Oerley, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Örley, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian technician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 8, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	December 27, 1936
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Bernd Kreuzer: The construction of the motorways and expressways in Austria. In: The motorway network in Austria. 30 years of ASFINAG. Vienna 2012, pp. 11–120. ( PDF; 7.6 MB ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2

[2] City of Vienna: Viennese street names and their historical meaning ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2009 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. @1@ 2

[3] City of Innsbruck, Department of Statistics and Reporting (ed.): Street names of the state capital Innsbruck. Innsbruck 2013, p. 46 ( PDF; 274 kB )