Carl Marius
The Carl Marius company was an important saddlery and carriage construction company during the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and an imperial and royal purveyor to the court .
history
Carl Marius (1819–1884) came from Württemberg and came to Vienna as a journeyman to the bourgeois master saddler Jacob Hartinger . Marius took over the Hartingers business in 1851 and married his widow. In 1856 he was officially registered as a citizen of Vienna. Marius was successful with the production of carriage companions, soon also supplied the imperial court with wagons and was appointed kuk court supplier in 1868 . His first verifiable order was the manufacture of a new car on the occasion of the wedding of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth in 1854. From 1865 to 1867 Marius delivered at least four state cars to the court, including the Gala Berlin of Emperor Franz Joseph .
His son Carl Marius jun. (1852–1907) worked in the company since 1869. In 1882 he took over the company from his father. When he died two years later in 1884, Marius jun. to be awarded the title of purveyor to the court and received it. The last verifiable order of the court from the Marius company was a suite landau , which was delivered in 1914. In addition to Jakob Lohner & Comp. and Sebastian Armbruster , the Marius company was the wagon factory most frequently commissioned by the Viennese court during the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
The Wagenburg still has a total of 21 vehicles from the Marius company. In addition to the four-seater, seven-window gala state car of Emperor Franz Joseph I (1865), these include Empress Elisabeth's body landaulette from 1885 and the body coupé from 1887. The latter two were designed by Marius jun. built.
Gala Berlin by Emperor Franz Joseph I.
The high-ranking gala state car ( Berline ) of Emperor Franz Joseph was only used by members of the imperial family on official occasions. Like all gala Berliners, this one is also richly equipped. The car has double suspension, a roof gallery, four lanterns, seven windows and is covered by carved, gilded ornaments that emphasize the high ceremonial rank of the car. The state car (inventory number W 17) was last used at the coronation of Emperor Charles I as King of Hungary in Budapest on December 30, 1916. The emperor's gala berline is very similar to the empress's berline, which was built by Cesare Sala in Milan in 1857 (inventory number W 26).
literature
- Martin Haller: Horses under the double-headed eagle . Olms / Verlag Stocker, Graz 2002, ISBN 978-3-487-08430-5
- Thomas Köppen: From the workshop of the bourgeois saddler Jakob Hartinger to the wagon factory of the kk court saddler Karl Marius in Vienna . In: axle, wheel and carriage. Contributions to the history of land vehicles. 11, 2003, 56-63. Wiehl ( Bergische Axes KG )
Web links
- Empress Elisabeth's body landaulet. Wagenburg, accessed on March 30, 2009 (manufacturer: Carl Marius; 1885).