!!!Etzel, Karl von

b. Heilbronn (Germany), Jan. 6, 1812, 
d. Kemmelbach (Lower Austria), May 2, 1865, railway engineer and 
architect. 1839-1843 lived in Vienna and built the  Dianabad swimming 
pool, designed numerous railway lines in Wuerttemberg, Switzerland, 
Hungary and Croatia. 1859 became general director of construction for 
the southern State Railways. He did not live to see the completion of 
the Brenner railway (1864-1867), which he had designed.

!Literature
OeBL; NDB.



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