Emilian (aka Emil) Eysank von Marienfeld (aka Marienfels) was born 10. 5. 1840. After the end of his military career in 1872, he started studying at the Technical Military Academy in Vienna, where he graduated with a degree in civil engineering. As early as 1876, he joined the services of the private Vorarlberg-Bahn, Operations Directorate Feldkirch, department V. (railway maintenance), where he held the position of railway master. In this capacity, he was appointed chief engineer in 1880. After his transfer to the Supreme Railway Authority in Innsbruck in 1884, he was appointed head of the Construction Administration Bregenz, which was involved in the construction of the legendary mountain railway Arlbergbahn. In 1886, he was transferred again, this time to the General Directorate of the Imperial Royal State Railways (kaiserlich-königliche Staatsbahnen, kkStB) in Vienna to hold the position of deputy head of department 2/c (superstructure and building construction), where Friedrich Setz was the head of the department. For his involvement in the construction of the imperial royal state railways, Eysank von Marienfeld was awarded the title of imperial building councillor by the emperor on 11. 12. 1889.
As an architect between 1886 and 1896, he signed drawings (“standards”) of buildings for many Austrian and local railways, e.g. for the extensive network of local railways in today’s Slovenia and Carniola – the local Lower Carniola Railways (Unterkrainerbahn, UKB) or the Bohemian-Moravian Transversal Railway (Böhmisch-Mährische Transversalbahn, BMTB). Between 1890 and 1896, we worked for the General Directorate of the Imperial Royal State Railways as head of department 2/c (building constructions). After the establishment of the Imperial Ministry of Railways in Vienna in 1896, he was appointed chief building councillor – deputy head of department 19 (superstructure and building construction). Emilian Eysak died suddenly on 11 September 1897, in his office at the Imperial Ministry of Railways after returning from a holiday.
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