Valentin Ceconi & Son

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Valentin Ceconi & Sohn was one of the largest construction companies in the Alpine region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was founded in 1863 by the builder and architect family Ceconi, who came from Friuli and who , with their secular and sacred buildings, had a decisive influence on the Wilhelminian cityscape of the Austrian capital, Salzburg , and existed until 1932.

Residence of the Ceconi family (Auerspergstraße 69, Salzburg)
Stucco detail from the Ceconi family home

history

The company was founded by Valentin Ceconi (1823–1888), who settled in the city of Salzburg as a bricklayer in 1857. After the company's founder died in 1888, his son Jakob (1857–1922) took over the management and expanded the construction company into one of the largest in the Alpine region. Under his son Karl (1884–1946), who took over the company in 1922, the decline began after the First World War , accompanied by the turmoil after the war , which finally ended in the company's liquidation in 1932 .

Between 1859 and 1932, under the Ceconis, 522 new buildings were built in the city of Salzburg alone, most of which were not only built structurally, but also planned by the Ceconis. Many of these buildings - single and multi-family houses, public buildings, industrial buildings in all parts of the city, especially in the districts of Andräviertel , Schallmoos , Elisabeth-Vorstadt , as well as on Gisela-, Elisabeth- and Rudolfskai, that have been emerging since 1860 as part of the city expansion decisive for the architectural character of Salzburg and are now a listed building . Outside the city, the company was active in the state of Salzburg and in the entire Alpine region.

The company included a conglomerate quarry on the Rainberg in the Riedenburg , a brickworks in Hallwang , a lime works in Grödig , a plaster works in Scheffau as well as a sculptor's workshop and a large carpentry workshop. Thanks to these affiliated companies, the majority of the building materials required could be produced in-house, which meant that the company was independent of suppliers. The production of components (sewer pipes, chimneys) in stone - an invention by Jacob Ceconi - made him widely known and the construction company was unrivaled for years. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Valentin Ceconi & Son company employed well over 1,000 workers.

In 1876 the construction technician Josef Hannack was the chief engineer.

Well-known builders and architects who worked for or worked with the Ceconi company were, for example: B. Karl Pirich , Josef Wessicken , Paul Geppert the Elder. Ä. and Angelo Comini . The carpenter and politician Josef Schöndorfer , who was mainly involved in railway bridges, also worked closely with the company.

Well-known buildings in the state of Salzburg

The most famous secular buildings - only a few of which can be mentioned here - include the Grand Hotel de l'Europe (1864), the Auersperg and Pitter (1888) hotels, the bazaar building (1881–1882), the building of the Salzburg puppet theater , the Generali-Hof (1893), the Faberhäuser (1875), the Sternbrauerei in the Riedenburg (1898–1907), the supply house in Nonntal , the crematorium and morgue at the Salzburg municipal cemetery , the police barracks, the infantry barracks (1898–1899; today Doppler-Gymnasium) ), the elementary and community school St. Andrä and the elementary school buildings in Itzling and Mülln , the castles Weitwörth and Grubhof near Lofer as well as the villas Ceconi (1870), Schmederer, Baldi (1865), Zwink (1894) in Salzburg and the Villa Mühlberger in Bad Gastein (1876).

The Ceconi company built the Andräkirche in Salzburg (1892–1898), the St. Joseph Monastery , the Guggenthal Church and the St. Antonius Church in Itzling among other religious buildings .

Literature and Sources

  • Walburga Schobersberger: Builder of an Era. The early days of the Ceconi family of builders and architects in the city and state of Salzburg. In: Communications from the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg . Volume 125, pp. 703-729. Salzburg 1985.
  • Builders of an era: Valentin, Jakob and Karl Ceconi . In: Historical Atlas of the City of Salzburg, Salzburg 1999 (series of publications of the Archives of the City of Salzburg No. 11)
  • Adolf Haslinger, Peter Mittermayr (ed.): Salzburger Kulturlexikon. Residenz Verlag . Salzburg-Vienna-Frankfurt / Main 2001. ISBN 3-7017-1129-1

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannack, Josef (1845–1914), construction technician. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 180. accessed on January 23, 2013
  2. ↑ Schöndorfer, Josef (1849–1900), politician and carpenter. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 63. accessed on 23 January 2013

Web links