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Anton Burg (* December 25, 1767 in Sobernheim an der Nahe ; † October 9, 1849 in Vienna-Wieden ) was a German agricultural toolmaker and machine manufacturer .

Origin and family

Anton Burg was born as one of ten children of Anton Burg, who came from Reil in the Kröver Reich , and Maria Louisa Theresia, née. Erf was born on December 25th, 1767 in Sobernheim an der Nahe in the then Electoral Palatinate. In 1790, the trained carpenter Burg moved to Vienna, the capital of the Empire, where he married Katharina Wedl, born in 1763, and founded the first factory for agricultural machines in 1798. His eldest son Adam , who later became director of the Imperial and Royal Polytechnic Institute in Vienna, was born on January 21, 1797, Anton, born in 1803, worked in his father's company from his youth and inherited it after his father's death. According to a directory in the Wiener Zeitung of May 9, 1798, the carpenter Anton Burg contributed 1 florin 30 kr. on the war loan written out for 1797. In 1805 Anton Burg and his family lived "Auf der Wieden", an up-and-coming residential and commercial area between the inner city and the Linienwall, in the Alleegasse (today: Argentinierstraße) in the house "zu 2 Schimmeln", in 1810 near the Karlskirche " Beym Mondschein ”(today: Technikerstraße). The Viennese “Handlungsgremien und Fabricken Adress Buch des Oesterreichischen Kaiserthumes” from 1812 referred to Anton Burg as a “machine (economic) and arable toolmaker”, who from 1814 had his own house in Favoritengasse, which also housed the workshop. Adam Burg (1797–1882) received numerous public honors from his sons as a mathematician and promoter of industrial development, Anton Burg jun. (1803–1869) continued his father's work in agricultural machinery and through his social and political commitment in Wieden until his sudden death on New Year's Eve in 1869.

Pioneer of the walking machine

In the summer of 1817, the Baden forest official Karl Drais tried out his running machine between Mannheim and Schwetzingen and between Gernsbach and Baden-Baden and received a Grand Ducal Baden privilege for building the vehicle. But after Karl Drais' request for privileges to the Austrian Emperor was rejected in November 1817, Burg rebuilt the draisine and set up a school for "running exercises on the draisine " opposite the Theresianum in Favoritenstrasse . The enterprising machine manufacturer allowed the necessary skills to be practiced for a fee of 20 kreuzers for a quarter of an hour, 36 kreuzers for half a gulden and one guilder for a whole hour. Burg's draisine cost between 66 and 100 guilders. The Eipeldauer letters from 1818 called the walking machines “Fiakersurrogate”, their users “foot coaches” or “Schnell-Laufer”.

In 1824, the manufacturers Anton Burg und Sohn received a “three-year privilege to invent a machine resting on three wheels, with which one can steer oneself.” The machine had “between the rear wheel and the two front wheels, which to help the direction can be rotated around a vertical axis, a saddle on which the driving person sits so that their toes are still touching the floor, in order to push the machine forward, although carried. "

Achievements and awards

As early as 1822, Burg had invented a machine “which completely imitates the trotting of horses and causes the feelings of those sitting on it and produces the effects, like riding. By artificially and arbitrarily stronger or weaker vibrations, it works against the evils associated with a sedentary way of life for the abdomen. "

Anton Burg found recognition beyond Vienna and Austria, “who had no opportunity to attend a university, but instead acquired his knowledge in workshops and through incessant self-study. He was ... in fact the first in Austria to focus on the production of agricultural machinery. ”From 1797 onwards, he invented, improved and sold useful agricultural implements from seeders to iron plows to mills and water pumping stations, and collected more than 400 models of agricultural products Equipment, some of which he made available for exhibitions in the Franzensmuseen in Vienna and Brno. As a judge on the Schaumburgergrund in the Wieden district, he earned his merit by regulating the streets, introducing street lighting, founding a child care and trivial school as well as through the wise and economical management of the municipal assets, and in 1822 earned the honorary title of one through his charitable commitment "Kk poor father".

For his achievements and merits, the court machinist and owner of the "KK Hofackerwerkzeug- und Maschinenfabrik Anton Burg & Sohn" was granted permission to carry the imperial eagle in 1811, and in 1827 he was granted honorary citizenship by the City of Vienna. In 1876, the City of Vienna gave the connection between Klagbaumgasse and Lambrechtgasse in the Wieden district the name Anton-Burg-Gasse.

A replica of Anton Burg's walking machine and information about the Burg family and the "Anton Burg und Sohn" workshop can be found in the Rheinhessisches Fahrradmuseum Gau-Algesheim .

literature

  • Hans-Erhard Lessing, automobility. Karl Drais and the incredible beginnings, MAXIME Verlag, Leipzig 2003

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appendix to Wiener-Zeitung, No. 37, p. 9
  2. ^ Die Presse, Vienna, January 3, 1870, http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=apr&date=18700103&seite=5&zoom=33
  3. ↑ http://www.fahrradmuseum-rheinhessen.de/200-jahre-entwicklungsgeschichte-des-fahrrads-1817-2017.html
  4. ↑ Zita Breu, The agricultural and walking machine builders Anton Burg & Sohn, http://graz.radln.net/cms/dokumente/11004669_105566718/f23e4e23/breu_burg.pdf
  5. ↑ Description of the inventions and improvements for which patents were granted in the imperial-royal Austrian states and the duration of the privilege has now expired. First volume containing the privileges from 1821-1835, Vienna, 1841.
  6. ↑ Hesperus. Encyclopedia for educated readers, edited by Christian Karl André, Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen, No. 166, July 12, 1822, p. 664.
  7. ↑ Karl Kohn, Retrospectives on the Development of Our Trades, in: Mittheilungen des Nieder-Österreicher Gewerbe-Verein, 1861, November, December, No. 11, 12, pp. 211-215, Vienna, 1861.
  8. ↑ http://www.fahrradmuseum-rheinhessen.de/200-jahre-entwicklungsgeschichte-des-fahrrads-1817-2017/anton-burg-der-tischler-von-der-nahe.html
personal data
SURNAME Castle, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural toolmaker and machine manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Sobernheim an der Nahe
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1849
Place of death Wieden (Vienna)