Franz Niederer
Franz Niederer (born October 27, 1903 in Frankenfels , † March 29, 1948 in Josefsberg ) was an Austrian musician , founder of several music groups and the victim of a rampage .
Life
Franz Niederer was born the son of Maria Pacher (* 1883) in Frankenfels. On February 8, 1909, she married Johann Niederer (* 1879), who was descended from the Unter-Massing farm at Rosenbühelrotte 12 in Franconia and assumed the paternity of Franz Niederer on February 15, 1909.
In 1924 he was one of nine founding members of the Hölzl music band, from which the Frankenfels Trachtenmusikverein later emerged.
On April 30, 1928, he married Leopoldine Niederer, b. Winter (* 1903) from the Ober-Hofstatt homestead in the frankenfelser Karrotte 2, with whom he had 14 children, some of whom played music with their father at an early age. In 1928 he bought the small house Unter-Nestlberghäusl in the Franconian Ödrotte 11.
From 1946 to 1952, five of his sons (Franz (* 1929), Josef (* 1931), Anton (* 1932), Hubert (* 1934) and Adolf (* 1938)) joined the Frankenfels Trachtenmusikverein.
The Unter-Nestlberghäusl was also called Fröschlhäusl because of its previous owner, Fröschl . For this reason, the family with two of his sons was initially called the Fröschl-Trio , later the Fröschln and Die Niederer-Buam . The music association Ötscherland, founded in 1959, later emerged from these formations.
Rampage
On March 29, 1948, an Easter dance was planned in a Josefsberg pilgrim inn owned by tenant Ignaz Haiderer in the Mitterbach am Erlaufsee community, where Niederer and his sons Franz, Josef, Anton and Hubert were engaged. At around 11:30 p.m. a Soviet occupation soldier fired a machine gun into the crowd after previous differences and physical fights, with Franz Niederer and Laura Jorda from Annaberg fatally injured and 19 other people, including three of Niederer's sons, seriously injured.
Franz Niederer left behind his wife and 14 children. The family's livelihood could also be financed by making music. To commemorate this event, the Jorda and Niederer families set up a memorial with the Ötscherland music association in 1973, where annual commemorative ceremonies and ecumenical services are held.
Web links
- Website of the Trachtenmusikverein Frankenfels
- Website of the music association Ötscherland
- Article about the course of events and the commemorations in the Niederösterreichische Nachrichten
- Baptismal register of the parish of Frankenfels from 1884 to 1905 on Matricula online, the archive of the diocese of St. Pölten
- Wedding book of the parish of Frankenfels from 1927 to 1938 on Matricula online, the archive of the diocese of St. Pölten
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish Frankenfels: Baptismal register 1884–1905 . Frankenfels, folio 211
- ^ Bernhard Gamsjäger and Ernst Langthaler (eds.): The Frankenfelser book . Frankenfels 1997, page 473
- ^ Parish Frankenfels: Baptismal register 1884–1905 . Frankenfels, folio 211
- ↑ Musikverein Ötscherland: 50 years Musikverein Ötscherland 1959–2009 . Frankenfels 2009, page 4
- ^ Bernhard Gamsjäger and Ernst Langthaler (eds.): The Frankenfelser book . Frankenfels 1997, page 474
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Niederer, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankenfels |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1948 |
| Place of death | Josefsberg |