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Theodor Sandel | |
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_portrait_c._1890s.png) Sandel, c. 1890s | |
| Born | 2 October 1845 Heilbronn, Kingdom of Württemberg |
| Died | 1 June 1902 (aged 56) Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire |
| Occupations | Architect, surveyor |
Theodor Sandel (2 October 1845 – 1 June 1902) was a German architect and surveyor who emigrated to Ottoman Palestine.[1] He surveyed large parts of southern Palestine and served as mayor of the German Colony in Jerusalem.[2]
Life
[edit]Sandel was the son of the physician Christian Gottlob David Sandel (1817–1879), who had moved from Schwäbisch Hall to Heilbronn in 1844 and was in contact with the Temple Society from the early 1850s. In 1858 the family moved to the Kirschenhardthof near Marbach am Neckar, a trial settlement built by the Templers.[3] Sandel studied architecture at the Stuttgart Polytechnikum from 1863 to 1866 and also trained in surveying; he then worked as a government building officer on the railway in the upper Danube valley.[2]
His family had already moved to Jaffa in 1869, where his father worked in the hospital founded by Peter Martin Metzler, and Sandel followed them in 1871.[4] Commissioned by Plato von Ustinow, he produced the first maps of the town of Jaffa and of the Wadi Musrara marshes; the map appeared in the journal of the German Palestine Exploration Society in 1880.[5] He then settled in the Templer colony on the Rephaim plain near Jerusalem, and as its mayor he was received in audience by Kaiser Wilhelm II at Jaffa on 28 October 1898 during the emperor's Palestine journey.[6]
As an architect and cartographer, Sandel helped lay out the new Templer settlements in Haifa, Jaffa and Sarona, and worked on the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway, the mission station in Gaza City, the hospice of the German Catholic Palestine Mission in Jerusalem (1885–1888) and several churches. He was the first to map large areas of southern Palestine.[2]
From 1874 Sandel was married to Klara Hardegg (1850–1885), a daughter of the merchant and Temple Society co-founder Georg David Hardegg; they had four sons and a daughter, including Benjamin Sandel (1877–1941), who also worked as an architect in the Holy Land, and Georg David Sandel, likewise an architect. After his first wife's death he married Lucie Sabine Bertsch (1851–1933) in Jerusalem in 1886; they had one son.[7]
He died in Jerusalem on 1 June 1902.[1]
Works
[edit]Buildings designed or supervised by Sandel in Jerusalem include:[8]
- His own house in the German Colony, Emeq Repha'im Street 9
- The Lämel School (designed and built 1902)
- The Deaconesses' Hospital (construction supervised 1892–1894; now part of Bikur Cholim Hospital)
- The Sha'are Zedek Hospital of the German-Dutch halukka (designed and built 1897)
- The Hotel Howard, from 1907 the Hotel Fast (designed and built 1891; demolished 1975)
References
[edit]- 1 2 Schmolz, Helmut; Weckbach, Hubert (11 January 1969). "Bedeutende Heilbronner (III)" [Notable Heilbronners (III)]. Schwaben und Franken, local-history supplement of the Heilbronner Stimme (in German). 15 (1).
- 1 2 3 Eisler, Ejal Jakob (1997). Der deutsche Beitrag zum Aufstieg Jaffas 1850–1914. Zur Geschichte Palästinas im 19. Jahrhundert [The German contribution to the rise of Jaffa 1850–1914: on the history of Palestine in the 19th century]. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins (in German). Vol. 22. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-03928-0.
- ↑ Eisler, Ejal Jakob (1997). Der deutsche Beitrag zum Aufstieg Jaffas 1850–1914 (in German). Harrassowitz. p. 100. ISBN 3-447-03928-0.
- ↑ Carmel, Alex (1997). Die Siedlungen der württembergischen Templer in Palästina 1868–1918 [The settlements of the Württemberg Templers in Palestine 1868–1918] (in German) (3rd ed.). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer. p. 38. ISBN 3-17-016788-X.
- ↑ Schwarz, Gottfried (1880). "Jaffa und Umgebung" [Jaffa and surroundings]. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins (in German). 3: 44–51.
- ↑ Eisler, Ejal Jakob (1997). Der deutsche Beitrag zum Aufstieg Jaffas 1850–1914 (in German). Harrassowitz. p. 116. ISBN 3-447-03928-0.
- ↑ Eisler, Ejal Jakob (1997). Der deutsche Beitrag zum Aufstieg Jaffas 1850–1914 (in German). Harrassowitz. p. 134. ISBN 3-447-03928-0.
- ↑ Strobel, August (1998). Deine Mauern stehen vor mir allezeit. Bauten und Denkmäler der deutschen Siedlungs- und Forschungsgeschichte im Heiligen Land [Your walls are always before me: buildings and monuments of German settlement and research history in the Holy Land]. Biblische Archäologie und Zeitgeschichte (in German). Vol. 7. Gießen: Brunnen. ISBN 3-7655-9807-0.
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