!!!Wächtler, Ludwig

Waechtler, Ludwig, b. St. Poelten (Lower Austria), March 9, 
1842, d. Vienna, July 31, 1916, architect. Studied at the Vienna 
Academy; 1865-1869 building supervisor of St. Stephen's 
Cathedral; worked with F. von  Schmidt; from 1869 independent 
construction work in Austria, Bohemia and Hungary; later also worked 
on the maintenance of monuments. Apart from churches (Au, Lower 
Austria), public monuments (Sopron, Lednice), apartment buildings and 
tombs (Ebreichsdorf, Gars am Kamp), specialised in palaces (Buchberg 
am Kamp palace chapel, Ottenstein, Ebreichsdorf, Aspang, etc.). Worked 
with H. Ernst on numerous occasions (interior of Grafenegg palace, 
Breuner palace, Vienna).


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