Michael Miebach

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Portrait Michael Miebach (around 1910)

Michael Miebach (born June 11, 1828 in Cologne ; † August 25, 1916 there ) was a German building contractor in Cologne-Kalk .

Life

Miebach was born the son of the bricklayer Peter Miebach and his wife Christina Becker and grew up in Cologne-Langel on the right bank of the Rhine . After attending school, he learned his father's craft and became a master mason. In 1863 he married Anna Maria Becker from Langel. He then worked as a master mason in Bensberg for six years . After the birth of his two sons, he settled in Cologne-Kalk, a district that had developed from an insignificant village into a prosperous industrial location at that time. There he founded a construction business at Kalker Hauptstrasse 285 and built for the citizens of Kalk and Höhenberg as well as for industry and the Catholic Church. At the end of the 19th century he ran a successful company that included a joinery , a ring kiln brickworks and several large gravel pits . He also ran an artificial stone shop including a studio for grave monuments. Before the First World War he had given his business to his sons. In 1916 he died very old in his house in Cologne-Lindenthal .

Buildings (selection)

Buildings

  • from 1877–1883: St. Nikolaus in Bensberg
  • 1882/83: Catholic Hospital St. Joseph in Cologne-Kalk
  • 1896: Higher boys' school ( Progymnasium ) in Cologne-Kalk
  • 1900–1902: Catholic parish church St. Joseph in Cologne-Kalk
  • 1908–1910: Catholic parish church St. Elisabeth in Cologne-Höhenberg

Pictures of the buildings (selection)

  • St. Joseph Hospital in 1896

  • Progymnasium for boys in 1902

  • St. Joseph's Church was rebuilt after the Second World War

  • St. Elisabeth in Cologne-Höhenberg

Tombs

  • 1900: Tomb of Mayor Thumb (1844–1900), Kalker Friedhof in Merheim (Fl. 13, No. 13)
  • 1900: Mülhens / Häussermann / Müller tomb, Cologne-Melaten cemetery (Fl. 84, No. 117–118)
  • 1901: Sibilla and Michael Betz tomb, Alter Kalker Friedhof (No. 34)

Pictures of the tombs (selection)

  • Tomb of the Kalker Mayor Aloys Thumb, Kalker Friedhof in Merheim

  • Mülhens tomb, Häussermann, Müller, cemetery Cologne-Melaten (Fl. 84, No. 117–118)

  • Tomb of Sibilla and Michael Betz, Alter Kalker Friedhof (No. 34)

  • M. Miebach's company sign at the Betz tomb, Alter Kalker Friedhof (No. 34)

literature

  • Jürgen Huck: History of the Miebach family , written on September 3, 1966 for the 100th anniversary of the Anton Miebach company in Porz-Zündorf, Porz 1966

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Eberhard Becker / Michael Werling : The old cemetery in Cologne-Kalk . Past, present and future, a documentation in text, picture and drawing, Cologne 2008, p. 171 ff., ISBN 9783935735070
  2. ↑ Peter Simons : Illustrated history of Deutz, Kalk, Vingst and Poll . A contribution to the history of the Electoral Cologne Office Deutz, Cologne-Deutz 1913, p. 322
  3. ↑ Historical Archives of the City of Cologne (HAStK), Best. 864, No. 60, Bl. 8 f.
  4. ↑ cf. Church guide St. Elisabeth in Cologne-Höhenberg, Cologne o. D.
  5. ↑ Portrait of Mayor Aloys Thumb , accessed on March 29, 2013.
  6. ↑ Kalker cemetery, Kratzweg 1 Retrieved on March 29, 2013
  7. ^ Marianne Vogt-Werling / Michael Werling: The Melaten cemetery in Cologne . All monuments and their future. With a DVD with the occupancy plan and digital tours of all monument-worthy graves, ed. by the city curator of the city of Cologne, Cologne 2010, ISBN 9783774304710
personal data
SURNAME Miebach, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Building contractor in Cologne-Kalk
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1916
Place of death Cologne