Edgar Hauster just sent this message to Jerome and I:
“I’ve discovered an interesting article for our section “The Temple at Czernowitz”, released by “Allgemeine Bauzeitung” in Vienna for the year 1882. The article (pdf) covers the building history adding 5 very fine drawings (jpg’s).”Kudos go to Edgar for his research skills in finding this excellent article. Click on the link below to view the article and click on the thumbnails with this post to view the excellent drawings of the Temple.Bruce Reisch1882 Temple Article
Temple drawing - image 3
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Image 1 - Temple drawing
So we have both the name of the architect/constructor who must be also the author of the paper and Mr. Gregor the Baumeister who executed the building during five years. I wonder if the Gregorgasse (2 minute walk from the temple) is in his name. Or was there a Ritter von Gregor?The article is of high technical standard both considering the functional and especially the structural explanations. But the German army officer who dynamited the roof probably did not need to know the design.On the first page, the end of another paper published in the same issue of the Bauzeitung deals with the calculation of moments in continuous beams including initial non horizontal encastration. It looks like a first time application of the virtual displacements theory. But no relation to the actual displacement of the roof some 60 years later.
thanks Bruce for posting this; it is magnificent!And of course, Thanks to Edgar for finding it.Sent from the woods by my iPod touchJerome