Wilhelm von Traitteur

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Wilhelm von Traitteur, 1830

The master builder Wilhelm von Traitteur (born February 1, 1788 in Mannheim , † June 17, 1859 in Mannheim) is considered a pioneer of iron architecture and bridge construction . In Russia the architect was named as Vasily Karlovich Traitteur , or Wilhelm Guillaume Traitteur .

family

Wilhelm von Traitteur was the son of the Palatine court judge and court librarian Karl Theodor von Traitteur from his first marriage to Maria Magdalena von Rogister. He had a sister and three half-siblings through his father's second marriage. His uncle was Johann Andreas von Traitteur . In 1827 von Traitteur married Pauline von Baranoff , daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Joachim von Baranoff from Väätsa ( Estonia ). 1829 birth of son Nikolaj Ioahim Fedor in Väätsa, 1837 of daughter Karoline Stephanie Alexandra in Mannheim.

Military and professional career

In 1813 he entered the service of Tsar Alexander I as an officer and from 1816 was a member of the corps of Russian traffic route engineers in Saint Petersburg . Here he advanced to the rank of general until 1831 . Honored with high Russian medals, he returned to Mannheim as major general .

Constructions

Plan of the city of Mannheim around 1813, a drawing by Wilhelm von Traitteur

He became known for his chain bridges , which followed the English tradition, but were significantly improved by him. His main works, the Panteleimonowski Bridge over the Fontanka and the Egyptian Bridge in Petersburg, were initiated by the Russian Office for Transport Routes and its director, Duke Alexander Friedrich Karl von Württemberg . These were the first chain bridges in St. Petersburg, which can also be classified as a Europe-wide pioneer of a new type of suspension construction . In a publication he found that the suspension bridges are of an elegance that could not be achieved with any other system.

In addition, Traitteur was known as an architect, draftsman and co-founder of lithography in Russia. His lithographs deal with contemporary construction history and early iron architecture.

Works

  • Potschtamtsky Bridge
  • Egyptian Bridge (successor): Detail from the original bridge
  • Griffin Bridge
  • Details of the Griffin Bridge
  • Details of the Lion Bridge

Unrealized drafts

Electoral Palatinate Bridge in Mannheim (1824)

Awards

Wilhelm von Traitteur received the following awards:

literature

  • Friedrich Walter (historian, 1870) : Mannheim in the past and present. From the transition to Baden (1802) to the establishment of the empire. Mannheim 1907, pp. 229-231.
Ditto: Bridge building in two centuries; Mannheim Electoral Palatinate Bridge 1948–1950. (Municipal Civil Engineering Office, Mannheim 1950 pp. 13–37)
  • Sergej G. Fedorov: Wilhelm von Traitteur. A builder from Baden as an innovator in Russian architecture, 1814–1832 . Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-433-01255-5 .
  • Badische Heimat issue 3, September 2003/83. Vintage; S 433–441, Peter Galli: “New kind of bridges”. Traitteurs project of a chain bridge in Mannheim 1823/24.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ grave number. 73. (The tombstone is no longer preserved) in the main cemetery in Mannheim
  2. ↑ Traitteur Vasily Karlovich (Wilhelm, Guillaume; 1788-1859) in the online encyclopedia Saint Petersburg (English, Russian )
  3. ^ Sergei G. Fedorov: Wilhelm von Traitteur. A builder from Baden as an innovator in Russian architecture, 1814–1832 . Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-433-01255-5 (page 303)
  4. ↑ Badische Heimat Heft 3, 2003, S 370, Mannheim becomes Badisch
  5. ^ Plan of the city of Mannheim; Storage location: Heidelberg University Library, by Wilhelm v. Enlarged caterer drawing
  6. ^ Sergei G. Fedorov: Wilhelm von Traitteur. A builder from Baden as an innovator in Russian architecture, 1814–1832. Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-433-01255-5 , page 305.
personal data
SURNAME Caterer, Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder, pioneer of iron architecture and the art of bridge construction
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1859
Place of death Mannheim