Luigi Cargnelutti

Luigi Cargnelutti (born November 7, 1804 in Gemona , Friuli , † December 18, 1855 ) was an Italian bricklayer and builder .

Cargnelutti's Klagenfurt house on Kardinalschütt No. 3

Life

In the first half of the 19th century, several Friulians made it to renowned master builders in Klagenfurt . Christoforo Cragnolino acquired the house Kardinalschütt No. 3 in 1816. His later works manager Domenico Venchiarutti went into business for himself after a few years and worked successfully in the city from 1828 for three decades.

After Venchiarutti left, Cragnolini employed the bricklayer Luigi Cargnelutti in his company at the latest by the beginning of the thirties and left him an apartment in his house. He was the son of a landowner and was born on November 7, 1804 in Gemona . He founded the household with Catharina Morandini, who also came from Gemona. In 1841 he received from the city the authority to carry out stone carving in connection with the construction of buildings. In 1846 the master mason and mason bought a house on Viktringer Damm (Viktringer Ring No. 26) and moved there with his family. The homeowner immediately started to expand the property and increased it. He used the outbuilding as a horse stable and depot for building materials. In addition, a small stonecutter was set up there.

In 1852 he lost his wife, who had given birth to ten children. She was only 49 years old. A year later Cargnelutti married Josefa Scheriau, who was 20 years younger and who was born in Tarvisio, for a second marriage. It only lasted for a short time, as the builder died two years later on December 18, 1855, from a lung disease. He made one day before his death in the presence of a notary and in the presence of witnesses Vincent Gollner , bell-founder, and John Dark , a master carpenter , his Testament . The terminally ill man made his nine-year-old son Karl the universal heir. The 35-year-old widow was to continue the company until the stepson came of age, but after four years she turned her back on Klagenfurt and made a bond with the 52-year-old local surgeon and property owner Josef Wuzi from Tarvis, who was also widowed.

Luigi Cargnelutti's more important building creations date from the last years of his life. As part of the construction of the ring roads laid out in the area of ​​the filled-in former city moat, he built the municipal market hut depot (St. Veiter Ring No. 10) in the St. Veiter suburb in 1847 . The single-storey warehouse building in classicist rustic style is better known under the name Napoleonstadel and today forms the house of architecture . In the 1940s, the builder redesigned the building at Burggasse No. 3 on the street side for a renovation. In 1854 the extended house at Karfreitstrasse No. 16 was given a new front side, with special attention being paid to the eaves. In the same year, the Musil-Haus on October 10th Street received artistic facade decorations. As a final eye-catcher, Cargnelutti designed a frieze made of stylized edelweiss flowers .

Works (selection)

• Napoleonstadel , erected in 1847, warehouse building on St. Veiter Ring No. 10 in Klagenfurt . Municipal market hut depot.
• Redesign of the street-side facade of the building at Burggasse No. 3 in Klagenfurt.
• New facade of the building at Karfreitstrasse No. 16 in Klagenfurt.
• Artistic facade decoration on the front of the Musil-Haus (pastry shop) in the 10.-Oktober-Straße in Klagenfurt.

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Footnotes

1. ↑ Carinthia I 1993, p. 517 ff.

literature

• Eduard Skudinigg: Monuments in Klagenfurt , Scientific Publications of the City of Klagenfurt, Volume 5, Klagenfurt, 1984