Franz Xaver von Mayr

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Franz Xaver Freiherr von Mayr , since 1801 a knight , since 1825 baron (born September 29, 1756 as Franz Xaver Mayr in Vienna , † May 11, 1838 ibid) was an Austrian cloth merchant and patron .

Life

The monument dedicated to Franz Xaver von Mayr in Penzinger Park or Hadik Park. (2013)

Franz Xaver Mayr was born on September 29, 1756 as the son of the cloth merchant Michael Augustin Mayr in Vienna. At an advanced age he took over his father's cloth business and brought it to a great reputation. Above all, the smooth continuation of the business during the Napoleonic Wars was remarkable and was considered exemplary. Mayr, who was an avid supporter of patriotic endeavors, promoted the corps of voluntary Lower Austrian snipers from 1794 to 1800. He spent considerable sums of money on equipping the volunteers and on founding foundations for military and civil hospitals, as well as homes for the disabled, infirmary and orphanages. In 1798 Mayr acquired the local authority and manor of Penzing for 67,000 guilders from the Bürgerspital . Mayr took over the southern part of the imperial tree nursery adjacent to the former fire mill for the establishment of a rulership; the lordship itself was the property of the landlord. The building, which gave way to a new building in 1830, still exists today and is located at Einwanggasse 14 in what is now the 14th district of Penzing in Vienna . In the years up to 1820 he acquired other larger property complexes in what is now the 15th Viennese district Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus in what is now the Rustendorf and Reindorf district .

In 1822 a park was created on the left bank of the Vienna River , which is still known today as Penzinger Park or Hadikpark . There has been a statue in the park since 1840, which is dedicated to Mayr and was erected by a foundation he introduced during his lifetime to preserve the park facilities in Penzing. The figure of Faith standing on a tall square sock with an open book is known today as the Mayr Monument and is one of two works of art in the park , along with the fountain of youth built by Rudolf Panholzer in 1913 . In 1823 Mayr had a school building built at 23 Diesterweggasse in Penzing; around 200 years later there is still a school here. In addition, the then owner of the Penzing estate had the Penzing parish church renovated in 1812 ; Even before his death, he arranged for the church to be renovated again 30 years later. Up until 1894, today's Gyrowetzgasse in Penzing was called Mayrgasse , before it was renamed on July 12, 1894 in honor of Adalbert Gyrowetz . In 1846, eight years after his death, his son Johann Freiherr von Mayr sold all properties to the Schottenstift for 337,500 guilders . Franz Xaver von Mayr died on May 11, 1838 at the age of 81 in the capital Vienna, which was now part of the Austrian Empire.

Honors

For his commerziellen merits Franz X. Mayr in 1801 by the emperor as a knight ennobled . In 1825 Mayr was raised to the baron status and from then on was allowed to call himself Franz Xaver Freiherr von Mayr.

literature

  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch der Freiherrlichen houses 1848
  • Johann Georg Megerle von Mühlfeld: Austrian nobility lexicon of the eighteenth a. nineteenth century …, Vienna 1822, p. 131, restricted preview

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on the statue on vanderkrogt.net (English), accessed on January 12, 2017
  2. ↑ Megerle, Österreichisches Adels-Lexikon, p. 131
personal data
SURNAME Mayr, Franz Xaver von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayr, Franz Xaver Freiherr von; Mayr, Franz Xaver (until 1801); Mayr, Franz Xaver Ritter von (1801–1823)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cloth merchant and patron
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1838
Place of death Vienna