Mauritia Mayer

Mauritia Mayer, photo from 1867

Mauritia "Moritz" Mayer (born September 25, 1833 in Unterwössen , † March 1, 1897 in Obersalzberg ) was a German hospitality entrepreneur . She was the founder of the Moritz Pension in Obersalzberg, which hosted numerous prominent guests, and is therefore considered a pioneer of modern tourism "in Germany and Central Europe".

Live and act

Mauritia Mayer's parents ran a guesthouse in Bad Reichenhall , where Mauritia Mayer got to know and appreciate the very young Richard Voss , who was 18 years old, as a lifelong friend. The later writer set her a literary monument with Judith Platter as a main character in his novel Zwei Menschen (1911).

Although, according to A. Helm, “she had never married because of her beauty,” on the other hand she “enjoyed” animals, especially her two St. Bernard dogs.

As far as is known, her professional career began as a housekeeper for a woman from Lindwart in need of care, whom she had met in Bad Reichenhall and who accompanied her on longer trips. At the age of almost 40, four years after the death of her father, she acquired the Schieberlehen farm estate (today: Schifferlehen ) from Johann Gschoßmann for 6000 guilders in Mitterbach on February 3, 1873 , which she rented out with an annex that same year expanded to guests and also continued it as a farm. Because of the constant anger with an alcoholic neighbor, Mayer sold the Schieberlehen on April 12, 1875. She then traveled to Merano and worked there as the “decision maker ” of a Villa Neuhaus .

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Pension Moritz around 1900

On September 10, 1877, she acquired the “old” Steinhaus am Obersalzberg farm, including the half of the Kehlalpe am Kehlstein belonging to it, from Joh. Hofreiter. She redesigned this property as the Pension Moritz , later expanded it to include the Hoher Göll guest house , which was successful and had an impact far beyond the region. Thus, A. Helm points out, "that Moritz Mayer great merit in the promotion of tourism has and did much for the announcement of the Obersalzberg as a resort. [...] Later on, her endeavors also succeeded in having guests on the Obersalzberg even during winter and spring, yes, she is perhaps the first to get her guests excited about winter sports [...]. "She accommodated Moritz in her guesthouse numerous prominent guests: in addition to Richard Voss and her long-term friend . a. also Clara Schumann , Johannes Brahms , Joseph Joachim , Peter Rosegger , Ludwig Ganghofer , Ludwig Knaus , Franz von Lenbach , Gustav Spangenberg , Theodor Weber and Carl von Linde . In addition, members of the Austro-Bavarian and Prussian royal families were their "diners".

In addition to the acquisitions and construction work mentioned under Pension Moritz , she acquired the remnants of the lacquer mill, which was no longer in operation, from Anna Amort on September 21, 1885 for 2,600 Mk in order to have timber cut from the associated 6- day forest. On July 13, 1892, she also acquired the remains of Agnes Sunkler and Josef Wein at a price of 5,600 Mk. The Riemerlehen (house number 4), from which, after the previous owner moved out, she had some walls broken off to store hay. In addition to the access roads to Pension Moritz , they also widened and improved the road to Resten zum Riemerlehen .

On March 1, 1897, Mauritia Mayer died of a stroke . Her grave is provided with its own commemorative plaque made of Untersberg marble on the grave of her grandfather Moritz "Moriz" Mayer, which was offset by about 10 m in September 1928, and is located on the southeast corner of the Old Cemetery directly in front of the Franciscan Church in Berchtesgaden . Bruno Büchner , the later owner of Pension Moritz , which he renamed Hotel Platterhof , added the words “Judith Platter Obersalzb.” To the memorial plaque in brackets in 1928 and had a replica of the memorial plaque set up at the Hotel Platterhof .

On her tombstone you can read:

“Moritz Mayer, granddaughter of the k. b. District Court Physician Dr. Moritz Mayer, great-granddaughter of Edeln von Hasel auf Fürstenstein, founder of the Moritz Pension. "

- A. Helm : Berchtesgaden through the ages . P. 216.

Including the following verse by Richard Voss in her memory:

“Faithful in friendship, wise in council;
kind in heart, powerful in action "

- A. Helm : Berchtesgaden through the ages. P. 216.

Not far from Pension Moritz , on the footpath to the Scharitzkehlalm, a stone tablet is set in a boulder with the following two texts:

“Moritz Mayer is joined by
femininity and masculinity
.
Peter Rosegger "

- A. Helm : Berchtesgaden through the ages. P. 217.

“She strived
for the highest. She lived for the best,
accomplished a long day's work in deeds,
God was her longing, people her loved ones.
Her name is written on the rock,
Guarded by fir trees, guarded by the Alps
, The place is consecrated to the coming times!
After honest wrestling, intense arguing
, a fighter conquered life here.
The palm of victory - won peace.
Richard Voss "

- A. Helm : Berchtesgaden through the ages. P. 217.

family

Your great grandfather (father of your grandmother):

• Joh. Bapt. Edler von Hasel auf Fürstenstein (born April 18, 1761; † November 15, 1823), Berchtesgaden court and government councilor and last prince provost district judge of the prince provostie Berchtesgaden .

Family tree of the Mayer family with grandparents and parents:

• Moritz Mayer (different spelling: Moriz Mayer ; * July 20, 1780; † April 2, 1832 in Berchtesgaden ), as state physician and saltworks doctor, the first royal Bavarian district doctor for the municipalities of the Berchtesgaden regional court ∞ Anna, geb. Noble von Hasel auf Fürstenstein (born September 25, 1787 - † November 3, 1859)
  • Johanna
  • Gustav Adolf (different spelling: Gustaph ) (* February 23, 1809 in Berchtesgaden; † March 2, 1869 in Bad Reichenhall), forest actuary in Marquartstein and Rosenheim , most recently chief forester in St. Zeno (Bad Reichenhall) ∞ on March 15, 1833 Anna Maria Winkler (born November 3, 1805; † August 21, 1894 in Bad Reichenhall), landlady of Hütterschlag or Waldbothen von Carlstein
    • Mauritia Johanna Georgia (1833-1897)
    • Anna Johanna (1835-1924)
    • Antonie (1843–1921; later heiress of the Moritz Pension )
    • another sister, name unknown
    • also three brothers who all died relatively early and without children

Posthumous honors

• Mauritia Mayer was the model for Judith Platter as one of the main characters in Richard Voss ' novel Zwei Menschen (1911) , which became a bestseller with 97 editions in over 1 million copies .
• In the Berchtesgaden district of Mitterbach , a cul-de-sac to Vorderbrandtstrasse in Judith-Platter-Weg was named in honor of the character in the novel .

literature

• Hellmut Schöner (Ed.), A. Helm : Berchtesgaden in the course of time. Reprint from 1929. Association for local history of the Berchtesgadener Land. Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973, pp. 214–218.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} A. Helm: Berchtesgaden through the ages . Pp. 214-218
2. ↑ Mauritia Mayer in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved December 15, 2014.
3. ↑ The documentation Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , see 5th paragraph, online at obersalzberg.de 
4. ^ Wolfgang Lindner: Meeting in Reichenhall - Richard Voss and Mauritia ("Moritz") Mayer. In: Heimatblätter , supplement from Reichenhaller Tagblatt and Freilassinger Anzeiger , Easter 2009, see p. 1–4 of 4 pages, PDF file, online at 850-bad-reichenhall.de .
5. ↑ See page 32 in: A. Helm: Moritz Mayer - a picture of the life of the heroine Judith Platter of the novel "Zwei Menschen" by Richard Voss. 1930 (in collaboration with Magdalene Ziemke, 2nd edition 1959)
6. ↑ See page 42 in: Manfred Feulner : Richard Voss in Berchtesgaden. Berchtesgaden 1998.
7. ↑ Table about the appointments of the city and regional court doctors in the Salzach district , In: Königlich baierisches Salzach-Kreis-Blatt: For the year 1814. Duyle Verlag, Salzburg 1814. P. 389-390, online in the collection: Bavarica at bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de
8. ↑ Berchtesgaden smallpox vaccination in 1827 in the Berchtesgadener Anzeiger , online on January 14, 2014 at berchtesgadener-anzeiger.de
9. ↑ ^{a b} obituary , In: Der bayerische Volksfreund - Volume 9, Munich, issue no. 59, April 12, 1832, p. 267/268, online in the collection: Bavarica at bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de
10. ↑ Irene Zanol: The reception of Richard Voss' bestseller Zwei Menschen , seminar work at the end of the winter semester 2009/2010, Institute for German Studies, Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck , PDF file with 29 pages.
11. ↑ Judith-Platter-Weg see google.com/maps