Peter Schmick

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Peter Schmick (born September 4, 1833 in Rothenbergen , † September 13, 1899 in Frankfurt am Main ; full name: Johann Peter Wilhelm Schmick ) was a German civil engineer who made a special contribution to the construction of bridges and water pipes .

Life

Schmick studied at the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe and was then employed in railway construction, including the construction of the Nassau State Railroad in the Lahn Valley , as well as the construction of bridges ( e.g. Roermond Bridge in the Netherlands).

In 1861 Schmick came to Frankfurt am Main, where at that time a number of projects to channel and regulate the Main and to improve the water supply were planned. However, the annexation of the Free City by Prussia in 1866 delayed the execution of these plans.

The first project was not realized until 1869 with the construction of the Eiserner Steg . For this first model of a stiffened suspension bridge , Schmick received a progress award at the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 .

From 1871 to 1873 the long-distance water pipeline from the Vogelsberg and the Spessart to Frankfurt was built under Schmick's direction . The water from the springs of the Biebertal and the Kasselgrund in the Spessart was collected at the Aspenhainer Kopf with the water from the Vogelsberg. From there it flowed over 66 km to a newly built elevated tank in Friedberger Landstrasse , which supplied the connected households with water.

Between 1872 and 1878, two more bridges across the Main were built to relieve the medieval Old Bridge . First the Untermainbrücke was built from 1872 to 1874 , and the Obermainbrücke (today Ignatz-Bubis-Brücke ) from 1876 ​​to 1878 . At the same time, the banks of the Main in Frankfurt and Sachsenhausen were fortified.

After that, Schmick was mainly employed outside of Frankfurt. Among other things, bridges in Salzburg and water pipes in Bamberg , Salzburg, Goslar , Karlsbad and Hagen were built under his leadership .

Peter Schmick's grave

Schmick died on September 13, 1899 at the age of 66 in Frankfurt am Main and was buried in the main cemetery (Gewann J an der Mauer 465a). His grave is an honorary grave. A bridge and a street in Frankfurt's Osthafen bear his name. It was extremely popular in Frankfurt, as evidenced by the phrase “Kaa Brick without Schmick”, which was coined in the Frankfurt vernacular.

literature

  • Walter Gerteis: The Unknown Frankfurt. Third episode. Verlag Frankfurter Bücher, Frankfurt am Main 1963.
  • Volker Rödel: Civil engineering in Frankfurt am Main 1806-1914. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-79730410-2 .
  • Rudolf JungSchmick, Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, p. 76 f.

Individual evidence

  1. knerger.de: The grave of Peter Schmick