Anton Lang (textile manufacturer)

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Anton Lang (born March 4, 1820 in Sternberg , Moravia; † May 25, 1880 in Fünfhaus near Vienna ) was an Austrian textile manufacturer in Fünfhaus near Vienna, a local politician , philanthropist and patron . Together with his wife Katharina, his brother Jakob and his wife Franziska, he founded a textile factory in Fünfhaus near Vienna. Together with his family he supported important church and social institutions in Fünfhaus and the neighboring communities.

life and work

Anton Lang and his brother Jakob were journeyman weavers from Sternberg in Moravia who settled in Fünfhaus near Vienna in 1841, where another brother of theirs, Josef Lang , was already a trader . Anton Lang married Katharina Rada († after May 25, 1880), with whom he had eight children, his brother Jakob her sister Franziska. Together they founded a cotton weaving mill, in which Anton Lang was responsible for accounting . Fünfhaus remained the center of the Lang brothers' factory when further branches were opened in other places such as Neustadt , Trebitsch , Hösting and Wojnow-Mestetz (German: Münchsberg) .

After the abolition of the manors around 1848/1850, Anton and Jakob Lang belonged to the first community committee of Fünfhaus. Anton Lang and his family also supported the renovation of the Reindorf parish church dedicated to the Holy Trinity in the neighboring village of Braunhirschen . They sustainably supported some educational institutions and orphanages . When the construction of the parish church of Fünfhaus zur Hl. Maria vom Siege (1868–1875) threatened to fail due to the construction of the belt on a suitable building site, they purchased a piece of land for it at their own expense and also arranged for it to be rededicated .

Anton Lang died in Fünfhaus in 1880 and was buried in the Hietzinger Friedhof in Vienna. The estate was handled by his widow Katharina and his brother Jakob.

Memorials

The Marian Column donated by them (consecrated on November 8, 1863; dedicated on January 8, 1864) on Henriettenplatz in Fünfhaus (today Vienna 15) commemorates Anton, Jakob, Katharina and Franziska Lang . The four statues of saints on the shaft of the column are the namesake of the donors.

After Anton and Jakob Lang, part of Ferdinandgasse in Fünfhaus was renamed Gebrüder Lang-Gasse in 1894. In 1911 the remaining part of Ferdinandgasse, which had already been renamed Tellgasse in 1867 (not to be confused with today's Tellgasse on the Schmelz in Vienna 15), was named after them.

Trivia

The Lang brothers from Fünfhaus (Anton and Jakob Lang) are often confused with the Lang brothers in Sechshaus (Josef Lang the Elder and his sons), who also owned a textile factory, because they have the same name .

literature

  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Vienna 1993, Volume 2 ( Gebrüder-Lang-Gasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna )
  • Michael Hahn: The district of Sechshaus. A description of the localities Braunhirschen, Fünfhaus, Gaudenzdorf, Ober- u. Untermeidling with Wilhelmsdorf, then Reindorf, Rustendorf and Sechshaus in historical, topographical, statistical, commercial and industrial relationships . Ullrich, Vienna 1853
  • Waltraud Zuleger: Culture walks in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus . Part 1: In the vicinity of Reindorfgasse (= Edition Bezirksmuseum 15th ed. By Brigitte Neichl, No. 7). Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-9503795-0-1 , pp. 49–51.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Culture walks in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus , 2016, p. 50f.
  2. ↑ Culture walks in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus , 2016, p. 51
  3. ↑ Culture walks in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus , 2016, p. 50.
  4. ^ Gebrüder-Lang-Gasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  5. ↑ Culture walks in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus , 2016, p. 49f.
  6. ↑ Culture walks in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus , 2016, p. 50
  7. ↑ Culture walks in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus , 2016, p. 52.
personal data
SURNAME Lang, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian textile manufacturer in Fünfhaus near Vienna, local politician, philanthropist and patron
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Sternberg
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1880
Place of death Fünfhaus near Vienna