Georg Ignaz Weikard

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Georg Ignaz Weikard (born June 26, 1747 in Römershag (today Bad Brückenau ); † April 29, 1824 at the Weikardshof near Weyhers ) was a German bailiff . He is the builder of the listed Weikardshof and founded the history of the Rhönsprudel company with the first well drilling, which was followed in 1818 by a concession to operate a health resort and bathing resort with drinking and restaurant permits .

the Weikardshof (2019)

Life

Weikard, son of the innkeeper and brewery owner Johann Nikolaus Weikard (born June 1, 1719; † 1796) and Sabine Franziska Kluberdanz (born September 11, 1719; † March 10, 1758). He studied law at the University of Fulda and then worked as a lawyer in Fulda. During this time he received a penalty from the prince-bishop's clerical court for calling banishing the devil a superstition. In 1770 he became the Prince-Fuldish bailiff in Weyhers. From 1777 until at least 1814 he was Count of Frohberg's bailiff in Gersfeld . He lived there from 1789. From 1815 the Weikardshof is proven to be the place of residence again. Constant disputes with his rule, Countess Louise von Frohberg (née von Ebersberg ) are proven by Weikard .

During his time as bailiff in Weyhers he had acquired the Ritzelshof . He shared this and built new residential and farm buildings on the Weikardshof around 1812.

Weikard was married to Eva Theresia Freisleben, a daughter of his predecessor in Weyhers, from 1776 until her death on November 15, 1815. They had 13 children together. His daughter Sabina Franziska, (1792 to 1863), was married to the mayor of Fulda, Anton Thomas . His sister Katharina is the mother of the later mayor of Fulda, Daniel Mackenrodt , the doctor Melchior Adam Weikard is his brother. His sister Sabine Franziska Weikard was the mother of the pharmacist and founder of the Orb spa , Franz Leopold Koch .

Document dated October 23, 1818 in the name of His Majesty the King of Bavaria for permission to run a proper spa and bathing facility with the right to drink and drink

Sour well

In the area of ​​the Weikardshof built by Weikard in 1812 there was a sour spring . Weikard himself reports that he had it drilled by a miner in 1782 . However, this was not successful because the source did not come from the depths, but rises from the side of the mountain. Then he had a basin dug. Two wells built by Weikard are still preserved today. They bear the year 1794 as well as his name and that of his wife.

Weikard built a schnapps distillery and a restaurant in part of the buildings in the courtyard, which was newly built in 1812. He had the spring redesigned, the basin provided with ashlar stones and procured several bathtubs. During the short term, for the concession on the right, the courtyard was a popular meeting place for high society. The operation was expanded to include an orchard with 1,500 trees and a potash boiler.

Weikard had taken on himself financially. In 1821 the company went bankrupt . On March 24th it was put up for auction by the Weyhers Regional Court . After no buyer with an acceptable bid for the entire plant had been found on several dates, the company was auctioned in several parts.

Today there is a restaurant in the former horse stable of the Weikardshof and the remaining buildings are used as apartments. The Ritzelshof is a farm run by Oskar Baumgarten . The Sauerbrunnen is the origin of the Rhönsprudel company .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Leopold Koch: "I have encountered such unusual events in my life ..." , Memoirs of Franz Leopold Koch p. 79
  2. ↑ rhoenline.de - there named source for the term of office until at least 1814: State Archives Marburg 112b / 56 (accessed on January 16, 2014)
  3. ↑ "Thomas, Anton". Hessian biography. (As of May 4, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ^ Rainer Erdmann: Weyhers ... our village, 2012, without ISBN, p. 528 and 529
  5. ↑ Franz Leopold Koch: "I have encountered such unusual events in my life ..." , Memoirs of Franz Leopold Koch, pp. 79/80
  6. ↑ Rainer Erdmann: Weyhers ..... our village, 2012, without ISBN, pp. 165–169
personal data
SURNAME Weikard, Georg Ignaz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weikard, Georg Ignazius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German governor and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1747
PLACE OF BIRTH Römershag
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1824
Place of death Weikardshof , today Ebersburg