Carl Listen

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Carl Hör also Carl Hoer (* July 18, 1801 in Vienna ; † February 26, 1850 there ) was an Austrian architect and showman .

Life

Since the 1830s, Carl Hör was the leaseholder, builder, owner and operator of amusement facilities in the Biedermeier, including a horse-drawn railway there. The desire for shows and sensations of all kinds had almost become a psychosis in the imperial city, stated Alfred Niel in 1982. Hör was a kind of super circus director who spared no expense to surprise the Viennese with ever new attractions.

Until 1838, Carl Hör dealt with the rental of lighting elements and decorations for ballrooms and other entertainment venues in Vienna and their improvement. In the advertisement published on November 12, 1838 for the resignation of his company, he gave Kohlmarkt No. 281 (a house with a view of the moat ), first floor, as the seat and address ; there he would also take orders for drafts and drawings. According to an address directory, his lighting and decoration (lending) facility was located in Rauhensteingasse with the house number 937 of the Kärnthnerviertl at the time , which was opposite the confluence with Ballgasse.

Due to his extensive knowledge, Hör was also active outside of Vienna. In August 1845 he was commissioned by the Moravian Estates to organize a large folk festival in Olomouc on the occasion of the opening of the railway to Prague ; the Wiener Zeitung of September 1, 1845 reported on this success. With reference to this, he advertised in the fall of 1845 for further relevant orders.

Inventions

In March 1832, Hör received a patent for the "invention and improvement of a railroad track, whereupon a simple machine car, without the aid of a horse, could be driven back and forth with little effort ..." Today this roadway would be called a railroad track.

In September 1834, Hör was granted a privilege for the "invention and improvement in the devices of all kinds of props, decorations and lighting objects".

In 1836 he received a patent "for the invention and improvement of double and sole railways".

Establishments

In 1834 Carl Hör bought a barely flourishing restaurant beyond the then built-up urban area, in the suburb of Brigittenau , and turned it into the rural Tivoli from June 1, 1834 , then the " Colosseum ". Hör shut it down at the end of June 1842.

The Coloss was a giant elephant made of wood, straw and papier mâché that could hold 50 people. Among others, Joseph Lanner played with his orchestra in the “Colosseum” .

1841/1842 Hör was the leaseholder of the hotel and inn Zur Goldenen Birn in the Viennese suburb of Landstrasse (today's address: Landstrasser Hauptstrasse 31). Ludwig van Beethoven , Franz Schubert , Adalbert Stifter and Nikolaus Lenau , among others, frequented this house, which has existed since the 18th century . Joseph Lanner conducted the carnival events . The house was the subject of Robert Musil's story Der Vorstadtgasthof, written around 1920 in the 1924 Berlin publication Vers und Prosa .

In 1842/1843 the new universe was planned and built by Carl Hör at a location also in the suburb of Brigittenau on a section of Taborstrasse, which was still undeveloped there . He owned and operated it until his death in the “Universum” place of amusement . Thereafter, his widow Theresia Hör owned the universe until 1865. In 1870 the "universe" was demolished because of the construction of the Vienna Northwest Station. Today only the Universumstrasse reminds of it.

Advertisement for the inventory of the Brigittenauer Eisenbahn in the Wiener Zeitung from April 1, 1842

The Brigittenau horse-drawn railway

In 1840 Carl Hör had Vienna's first “mass transport” built, the Brigittenau Railway , a horse-drawn railway. It first operated for the public on July 2, 1840 and drove a distance of approx. 1.8 km from the Danube Canal near the old town to the Colosseum. The horse was clamped between the two wagons so that one of the two was pushed and the other pulled. When the Colosseum closed on June 29, 1842, the railway was discontinued and the transportable inventory was sold. The railway was the forerunner of the horse tramway that appeared in Vienna in the 1860s .

literature

  • Roland P. Herold: Brigittenau - From the Au to the residential district. Mohl-Verlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 978-3900272432 .
  • Alfred Niel: Viennese Railway Pleasure. Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-224-16012-8 , p. 17 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Alfred Niel: Wiener Eisenbahnvergnügen , Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-224-16012-8 , p. 17 ff.
  2. ^ Supplement to Wiener Zeitung , November 12, 1838, advertisement in the left column
  3. ↑ Joseph Ritter von Seyfried: Charitable and exhilarating house calendar for the Austrian Empire ... 1839 , Anton Strauss's blessed widow, Vienna 1839, p. 133
  4. ^ Oesterreichische Eisenbahnen: Das Freudenfest zu Olmütz ... , in: Wiener Zeitung , September 1, 1845, p. 1857
  5. ^ Wiener Zeitung , October 13, 1845, p. 465 top left
  6. ^ Supplement to the Troppauer Zeitung , May 23, 1834, left column
  7. ^ Official Journal of the United Laibacher Zeitung , December 6, 1834
  8. ↑ Klagenfurter Zeitung , July 24, 1836, page 888, left column
  9. ^ Wien.gv.at - History of the area around the Nordwestbahnhof, Colosseum
  10. ^ Colosseum in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  11. ↑ District Museum Landstrasse - The "Golden Pear" on Landstrasse Hauptstrasse ( memento of the original from September 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dasmuseen.net
  12. ↑ Das Gasthaus (with illus .) In the text Popular Guest Houses on the private website ki3.at, accessed November 25, 2014
  13. ^ Wiener Zeitung , January 25, 1842, p. 196, right column
  14. ^ Wiener Zeitung , April 30, 1850, p. 704, left column
  15. ^ Oesterreichischer Central-Anzeiger , October 8, 1865, p. 921, right column
  16. ^ Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 753, keyword Colosseum
  17. ^ Wiener Zeitung , June 29, 1842, p. 1330
personal data
SURNAME Listen, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Listen, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian showman
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1850
Place of death Vienna