Felix Mießl

Felix Mießl 1830 by Blasius Höfel

Plaque

Statue of St. Felix in Felixdorf

Felix Franz Anton Mießl, (also Miesl , Miessl ), since 1836 Edler von Treuenstadt (born July 10, 1778 in Platten, Bohemia ; † April 13, 1861 in Wiener Neustadt ) was an Austrian civil servant, mayor of Wiener Neustadt and founder of Lower Austria community Felixdorf .

Life

Felix Mießl was born in the Bohemian mountain town of Platten in the Ore Mountains . His parents were the mayor Joseph Ignaz Miesl and his wife Maria Veronica geb. Horbach. His uncle was the chief administrator and mountain judge Johann Nepomuk Mießl .

Mießl lived in Vienna at a young age and gave private lessons there, including around 1800 with the later composer Carl Czerny , who expressly names him in his memoirs as one of his teachers. After completing his studies, he joined the public service of the Vienna Land Registry in 1801. In 1807 he was employed as a civil servant in the Lower Austrian State Property Administration.

In 1809 he took over the office of administrator of the reign of Mariazell and in 1810 of the reign of Neustadt. During the fighting around Mariazell, he prevented looting by the French. Since he opposed the delivery demands to the French army, he was captured and consequently fell ill with the poor conditions of detention.

In 1816 he was appointed mayor of Wiener Neustadt by the emperor . Among other things, he built a poor house there and promoted the construction of an important road connection to Pöttsching . When the city was cremated in a conflagration in 1834, he sacrificedly tried to alleviate the hardship of the hard hit citizens and founded a district office commission to rebuild the heavily devastated city. One of his achievements is in particular the establishment of the Felixdorf community.

In 1836, Emperor Ferdinand I elevated him to hereditary nobility with the title Edler von Treuenstadt for his services . On August 10, 1848, after 15 years of service in the state and after 32 years of clothing for the mayor's office, he was retired at the age of 70 and was awarded the large gold medal of honor. Felix Mießl died on April 13, 1861 in Wiener Neustadt, leaving behind a son of the same name .

Honors

On June 23, 1823, in the presence of Mießl, a statue of St. Felix revealed.

coat of arms

Shield quartered in gold and black. 1 and 4: in gold on a green lawn, a tinned wall built from natural ashlar stones with an open gate, the protective grille of which is halfway down. There are loopholes on each side of the gate. Above the wall, two round towers, also made of natural ashlar, rise up next to one another, each of which is provided with three battlements and a closed window; 2: in black a youth growing out of the shield division in a long blue coat, with a red belt, his head covered with a green rounded hat with wide brims, in his right hand wielding a silver mace, his left hand resting on his hip; 3: a golden right-facing crescent moon in black, accompanied by five golden stars placed in three rows of one and two. On the shield rests an open, gold-crowned tournament helmet, on the crown of which stands a gold, double-tailed, right-facing lion, with a knocked-out red tongue, in the right front paw a shiny sword on a gold vessel, swinging upwards to make a blow. The helmet covers are black on both sides, covered with gold.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Mießl Edler von Treuenstadt, Felix . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 18th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1868, p. 243 f. ( Digitized version ).
G. Gerhartl : .pdf Miessl von Treuenstadt Felix. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 272.
Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1, Weinmann, Männedorf 1985

Web links

Wikisource: Felix Mießl - Sources and full texts

Entry on Felix Mießl, Edler von Treuenstadt in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )

Individual evidence

↑ http://data.matricula-online.eu/de/oesterreich/wien/wiener-neustadt-neukloster/03-03/?pg=112 Death register of the Neukloster parish in Wiener Neustad
↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , p. 203.
↑ Constant von Wurzbach: Biographisches Lexikon des kaiserthums Oesterreich: contains the life sketches of the memorable people who were born in the Austrian crown lands since 1750 or who lived and worked there . KK Hof- und staatsdruckerei, 1868 ( google.de [accessed on February 10, 2019]).
↑ Austrian observer . A. Strauss, 1836 ( google.de [accessed on March 4, 2018]).
^ Austrian National Library: ANNO, Wiener Zeitung, 1848-08-19, page 11. Retrieved on March 4, 2018 .
↑ Franz Studner: The Lower Austrian district of Wiener Neustadt and its municipalities . Lower Austria. Verlag, 1992 ( google.de [accessed on February 10, 2019]).
↑ Constantin von Wurzbach: Mießl Edler von Treuenstadt, Felix. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (= Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. Volume 18). Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1868, p. 243. ( digital copy )

personal data
SURNAME	Mießl, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Miessl von Treuenstadt, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian civil servant, mayor of Wiener Neustadt
DATE OF BIRTH	July 10, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH	plates
DATE OF DEATH	April 13, 1861
Place of death	Wiener Neustadt

[1] ttp://data.matricula-online.eu/de/oesterreich/wien/wiener-neustadt-neukloster/03-03/?pg=112 Death register of the Neukloster parish in Wiener Neustad

[2] Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , p. 203.

[3] Constant von Wurzbach: Biographisches Lexikon des kaiserthums Oesterreich: contains the life sketches of the memorable people who were born in the Austrian crown lands since 1750 or who lived and worked there . KK Hof- und staatsdruckerei, 1868 ( google.de [accessed on February 10, 2019]).

[4] Austrian observer . A. Strauss, 1836 ( google.de [accessed on March 4, 2018]).

[5] Austrian National Library: ANNO, Wiener Zeitung, 1848-08-19, page 11. Retrieved on March 4, 2018 .

[6] Franz Studner: The Lower Austrian district of Wiener Neustadt and its municipalities . Lower Austria. Verlag, 1992 ( google.de [accessed on February 10, 2019]).

[7] Constantin von Wurzbach: Mießl Edler von Treuenstadt, Felix. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (= Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. Volume 18). Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1868, p. 243. ( digital copy )