Axel Huber (local history researcher)

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Axel Huber around 2013
On the left the now demolished Millstätter Hof, the birthplace of Axel Huber

Hans Axel Huber (born June 21, 1942 in Millstatt am See ; † July 27, 2019 in Spittal an der Drau ) was an Austrian chronicler , local researcher and diver . His interest was in the history of Carinthia . He published around 70 specialist articles, many of them in the historical journal Carinthia , as well as three books. Two major thematic focuses of his work were stone monuments, in particular rock carvings ( petroglyphs ) and lent cloths in Roman Catholic churches.

Life

Kreuzstein am Fratresberg

Hans Axel Huber came from a long-established hotelier family in Spittal and was born in Millstätter Hof, which was demolished in 2010 (previously Hotel Burgstaller ). He attended elementary school in Millstatt and Spittal and graduated from high school in Klagenfurt . For some time he studied surveying at the University of Graz and in 1966 moved to the road construction department of the state of Carinthia to the motorway construction department, which was being set up. Huber used his long train journeys as a commuter to Klagenfurt to develop his extensive historical knowledge. From 1986 he worked in the Spittal Road Construction Office. At the end of 1997 he was retired for health reasons. From 1971 to 2019 he lived in Seeboden on Lake Millstatt .

Millstätter Lenten Cloth

At a young age, Huber was also an active scuba diver. In 1967 he became vice European champion in orientation diving on Lake Maggiore . He later worked as a functionary at the First Carinthian Underwater Sports Club, EKUS. Traveling due to historical interest and sporting activities brought him into contact with a research project on the Canarian Guanches early on . Their stone monuments inspired him to analyze special stones in Carinthia such as the Kreuzstein on the Millstätter See ridge near the Egelsee . In 2015 he proposed the Kreuzstein for listing as a possible UNESCO World Heritage Site . Other publications about stone monuments are those about the Hundskirche in the Kreuzen near Paternion or the Knappenstein in the Leppener Alm near Irschen , a whale stone (marking a mineral treasure) from the early modern period. Again and again he worked on a cadastre of rock carvings in Carinthia. This area of ​​interest also includes the publication of worksheets on stonemasons by Hamböck or works on cup stones . As with other areas of interest, he maintained contacts with similar research projects such as B. with Franz Mandl with ANISA to research high alpine desolations in the upper Ennstal . In 1996 he organized and documented a symposium on the Carinthian Fürstenstein in European comparison .

1. Carinthian fishing museum

As a result of an intensive photographic documentation of the Millstätter Lenten cloth, he began to deal with the history of the Lenten cloth. A book was created about the Millstätter Lenten cloth. Another fasting shawl whose history he analyzed is that of Maria Bichl near Lendorf in the Drautal. On the occasion of 400 years of Millstätter Fastentuch he organized a conference in 1993.

As far as time was possible, he was involved in local excavation projects. B. at the ring wall Hochgosch or at the excavation of the oldest Carinthian monastery in Molzbichl . Some contributions were made about the Baldersdorf branch church . He made several contributions to the "Symposium on the History of Millstatt and Carinthia" by Franz Nikolasch . The publication of Robert Eisler's Geschichte von Millstatt , the first comprehensive local history that was not published as a result of the First World War , was a concern of his.

The promotion of local history projects was very important to him, such as the 1st Carinthian Fisheries Museum in his home town or the accessibility of archaeological sites such as the early Christian church in Laubendorf , the ruins of which were filled in again. In 2014 Huber worked on an old chapel in Dellach , which was built by the Jesuits as a symbol of triumph after the Millstatt peasant uprising ( Paul Zopf ) and which later served political purposes again. Further activities were the accessibility of the Millstatt Jesuit crypt in the basement of the Gothic Corpus Christi chapel (Siebenhirter Chapel) in Millstatt Abbey (2015) or the erection of a memorial stone for the victims of Lake Millstatt (2018).

In 1999, he received the Medal of Honor from the Carinthian History Association for his services to the historical regional studies of Carinthia .

Publications (selection)

  • Axel Huber: The Millstätter Lent Cloth - 12 scenes from the Old Testament and 29 scenes from the New Testament. Heyn, Klagenfurt 1987, ISBN 3-85366-526-8 .
  • Robert Eisler : History of Millstatt: [Festschrift] 75 years of Austrian Federal Forests 1925–2000. Ed .: Axel Huber. Market community Millstatt, Millstatt am See 2000 (251 pages).
  • Erich Hamböck: Worksheets on stonemasons' marks: attempt to take stock across the board in the federal state of Carinthia, carried out in the years 1950–1965. Ed .: Axel Huber. Seeboden 1993, p. 264 .
  • Axel Huber (Ed.): 400 years of Millstätter Lent cloth: a conference report as well as image texts for every scene of the Millstätter Lent cloth in Italian; [Conference report on the symposium 400 years Millstätter Lent cloth held on April 4, 1993 in Millstatt] = Drappo di Millstatt . Seeboden 1993 (69 pages).
  • Axel Huber (Ed.): The Kärntner Fürstenstein in European comparison: conference report; Symposium Gmünd, September 20-22, 1996 . Seeboden 1997 (246 pages).
  • Axel Huber: Andreas Bühler from Gmünd in Carinthia and his late Gothic church buildings in Graubünden . In: Historical Society of Carinthia (ed.): Carinthia I . 196th year. Klagenfurt 2006, p. 305-328 .
  • Axel Huber: The role of the regional courts as peacekeepers in the high and late Middle Ages. Grin Publishing, 2008.
  • Axel Huber: Considerations for the water supply of Teurnia . A Roman spring outlet in Seeboden . In: Historical Society of Carinthia (ed.): Carinthia I . 208th year. Klagenfurt 2018, p. 67-94 .
  • Axel Huber: The first German-language description of the island of Malta by Hieronymus Megiser (1557-1619) . In: Historical Society of Carinthia (ed.): Carinthia I . 208th year. Klagenfurt 2018, p. 249-258 .
  • Axel Huber: The chronicle of Michael Gothard Christalnick and Hieronymus Megisers Annales Carinthiæ. On the 400th anniversary of Megiser's death (1557–1619) . In: Historical Society of Carinthia (ed.): Carinthia I . 208th year. Klagenfurt 2018, p. 259-268 .

Web links

Commons : Axel Huber (Heimatforscher)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trauerhilfe funeral GesmbH: Axel Huber. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
  2. ^ Camilla Kleinsasser: Obituary. Local researcher Axel Huber has passed away. Axel Huber from Seeboden was an enthusiastic local researcher and chronicler of regional history. In: Small newspaper . July 30, 2019, accessed August 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ European championship title for Oskar habenicht from Klagenfurt. Further top positions for Axel Huber, Georg Gindl and Ing.Franz Medlitsch. Russians as title hamsterers. In: Kärntner Tageszeitung . Klagenfurt August 8, 1967, p. 7 .
  4. ↑ Axel Huber: The "Kreuzstein" on the Fratres. In: The Carinthian Landsmannschaft (KML) . tape 1993/3 . Klagenfurt 1993, p. 14-16 .
  5. ↑ Michael Thun: Will Seeboden soon have a UNESCO World Heritage Site? meinviertel.at, August 12, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Axel Huber: Hundskirchen in Austria, Silesia, Northern Bohemia and in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains as well as an excursus about the Eggerloch near Warmbad Villach and the "Entrische Kirche" in the Gastein Valley . Ed .: Natural Science Association for Carinthia (=  Carinthia I - magazine for historical regional studies of Carinthia . Volume 200 ). 2010, ISSN  0008-6606 , p. 307–352 ( details and table of contents (here: p. 1) [accessed on July 27, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Axel Huber: The Knappenstein in the Leppener Alm. In: The Kärntner Landsmannschaft (KML) . tape 1988/4 . Klagenfurt 1988, p. 12-16 .
  8. ^ Axel Huber / Johann Viertler: New finds of cup stones in Carinthia. Ed .: Carinthia I. 173rd year. Announcements of the history association for Carinthia , Klagenfurt 1983, p. 119-144 .
  9. ↑ Axel Huber: Cranach's woodcut passion from 1509 - its effect on the Millstätter Lenten cloth from 1593. In: Die Kärntner Landsmannschaft (KML) . tape 1991/3 . Klagenfurt 1991, p. 3-8 .
  10. ↑ Axel Huber: Graphic templates for the fasting cloth by Maria Bichl. Ed .: Carinthia I. 189th year. Announcements of the history association for Carinthia , Klagenfurt 1999, p. 201-216 .
  11. ↑ Axel Huber: The "treasure digger" Friedrich Bliem and the tunnels at the Magdalenenkapelle. In: The great story of a small church. The Magdalenenkapelle of Baldersdorf in Carinthia . 1991, p. 174-191 .
  12. ^ Franz Nikolasch: Symposia on the history of Millstatt and Carinthia. Conference reports 1981–2017. Millstatt Abbey Museum , 2018, accessed on July 26, 2019 .
  13. ^ Camilla Kleinsasser: Seeboden wood sample for analysis in US laboratory. In: Small newspaper. June 24, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Wikimedia Commons contributors: Laubendorf parish Millstatt Early Christian Church 2012 filled in protest party. December 25, 2012, accessed August 13, 2019 .
  15. ↑ A chapel with a history. In: Small newspaper. August 26, 2014, accessed July 26, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Michael Thun: Millstatt's Jesuit Crypt soon to be open to the public? meinviertel.at, February 2, 2016, accessed on July 26, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Michael Thun: Memorial stone commemorates victims of Lake Millstatt. meinviertel.at, October 29, 2018, accessed on July 26, 2019 .
  18. ^ Wilhelm Wadl: Axel Huber (* 1942, † 2019). In: Historical Society of Carinthia (ed.): Carinthia I . 209th year. Klagenfurt 2019, p. 771-772 (783 pp.).
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Axel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huber, Hans Axel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chronicler, local researcher and diver
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Millstatt am See
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2019
Place of death Spittal an der Drau