Aloys Resch

Georg Joseph Aloys Resch (* 1779 in Bamberg ; † after 1849 probably there) worked as a lawyer for a royal Bavarian civil servant and part-time as a historian and art historian mostly in Regensburg.

Aloys Resch worked in the Kingdom of Bavaria as a lawyer and government official in 1809, initially as district secretary in Straubing , and from 1810 was commissioned to carry out the secularization in Regensburg. There he had the task of advising the experts dealing with the measures and decisions of secularization as a state supervisor. His responsibilities included libraries, archives, works of art and archaeological excavations. Resch quickly gained extensive knowledge of the Regensburg cultural landscape at the time and also of the history and art history of the city of Regensburg, with which he occupied himself in his free time. In 1830 he was given the task of showing King Ludwig I the sights of Regensburg when the king visited on the occasion of the inauguration of the Walhalla . Resch developed into an educated citizen in the transition period to the 19th century and made friends with Eduard von Schenk , who was appointed General District Commissioner (District President) in Regensburg from 1831 and was also active as a poet. Resch began to build an extensive collection of graphics with more than 1000 sheets about Regensburg, which is still preserved today. In 1830 Resch was a founding member of the Historical Society of Regensburg , then became active as a writer and wrote monographs on Regensburg buildings of the Middle Ages. In addition to a monograph on the Steinerne Brücke printed by Manz , an elaborate, hundred-page manuscript on the Regensburg Cathedral was also created in 1834 , which was illustrated in three booklets with 216 graphic sheets. The three illustrated volumes were lost, but the original illustrations in the holdings of the Princely Central Archives Thurn und Taxis could be identified, indexed and then assigned to the passages cited in the monograph by Resch. The Resch monograph on Regensburg Cathedral is divided into 4 sections:

• Preface (contains the building history of the cathedral, 15 pages)
• 1. The exterior of the cathedral (four chapters corresponding to the four sides of the cathedral, 15 pages)
• 2. The interior of the cathedral (four chapters and one chapter on the towers with bells and inscriptions, 75 pages)
• 3. The view from the cathedral (four chapters corresponding to the four cardinal points, 7 pages)

Why the Resch monograph on Regensburg Cathedral, dated 1838, was not printed and published at the time is unclear. The monograph was created during the dismantling measures initiated by King Ludwig I in 1834 and completed in 1839 to restore the Regensburg Cathedral to the "stylish" Gothic state of the Regensburg Cathedral, which was referred to as purification. So Resch knew the old condition of the cathedral and that makes his monograph particularly interesting. 10 years after the Resch monograph, the extensive monograph on Regensburg Cathedral was published by Joseph Rudolf Schuegraf . Some statements in his monograph are already anticipated in the Resch monograph. At that time, however, Resch probably had too little reputation to be able to finance the printing of his monograph with the extensive illustrations that symbolically accompany the text, especially since he had to finance the expenses for the creation of the drawings himself.

When Resch wanted to leave Regensburg at his own request in 1839, he tried to sell his cathedral monograph, which he described as the keystone of his historical research. However, he did not find a buyer in the then Bishop Franz Xaver Schwäbl , nor in King Ludwig I, who was very taken with the manuscript, but sent it back. In December 1839, Resch offered the manuscript with the illustrations to Prince Maximilian Karl von Thurn und Taxis as a gift for his court library, where his extensive collection of graphics in Regensburg had already been added. The prince paid him an honorary salary of 15 ducats for his scientific literary research. Today the Resch-Dom manuscript, which is one of the first detailed written discussions about the Regensburg Cathedral, is in the holdings of the Bavarian National Museum and, together with the collection of views of the Regensburg Cathedral, represents a unique complex that belongs together. An edition of the cathedral - The Resch manuscript has now been published by the Regensburg Historical Society. In 1839 Resch was transferred to Ansbach and in 1844 on to Würzburg. In 1849 he was released into retirement at the age of 70. He probably died in Bamberg, but the date of death is not known.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Markus T. Huber, Regina Simmerl: The rediscovered cathedral script by Georg Resch from 1838 “Addition to the historical topographical description of the cathedral in Regensburg by Georg Aloys Resch, Königl. Bay. Rath et al. Government Assessor 1838. With three additional sheets ” . In: Negotiations of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg . tape 154 . Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, 2014, ISSN  0342-2518 , p. 71-78 .
2. ↑ Markus T. Huber, Regina Simmerl: The rediscovered cathedral script by Georg Resch from 1838 “Addition to the historical topographical description of the cathedral in Regensburg by Georg Aloys Resch, Königl. Bay. Rath et al. Government Assessor 1838. With three additional sheets ” . In: Negotiations of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg . tape 154 . Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, 2014, ISSN  0342-2518 , p. 79-133 .