Oskar Winterhelt

Oskar Winterhelt (born December 1, 1873 in Miltenberg ; † April 7, 1958 ) was a German architect , local researcher and collector.

Oskar is the eldest son of Caspar Winterhelt (born March 17, 1842) and Josefa Reichert.

Winterhelt attended the elementary school in Miltenberg and the grammar school in Würzburg . He then completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason in Berlin (including working on the construction of the Pergamon Altar ) and attended the Nuremberg Building School, the Technical University of Stuttgart and the École polytechnique in Paris. From 1897 to 1907 he worked in his father's stonemason and construction company C. Winterhelt in Miltenberg. He then worked as a private scholar and collector and dealt with the history and architecture of Miltenberg and the surrounding area. In doing so, he put together an important collection, including a. of works by the painter Philipp Wirth . In 1912 he succeeded in discovering the Roman fort Miltenberg-Ost , which he also partially excavated as part of the work for the Imperial Limes Commission . The Aschaffenburg Museum acquired parts of its collection as early as 1936 ; after his death, other parts were transferred there from his estate. He lost parts of his collection in Berlin and Miltenberg during the war.

Fonts

• No. 38a. The Miltenberg-Ost fort. In: Ernst Fabricius, Felix Hettner , Oscar von Sarwey (ed.): The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire . Section A, Volume 4. Lines 7 to 9, Petters, Heidelberg / Berlin / Leipzig 1931.

literature

• Main post . 1958, No. 80 (April 8, 1958).
• Aschaffenburger Volksblatt. Miltenberg edition, April 10, 1958.
• Messenger from the Lower Main. April 8, 1958.
• Markus Marquart: On Aschaffenburg museum history from 1854 to 1949. In: Aschaffenburger yearbook. Vol. 27 (2010), pp. 219, 221, 231.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alfred Wiederhold: Strains from Wiederhold from Homberg (Efze), Volume 3, Ac page 57.