Georg Wiesend

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Max Georg Wiesend (born November 8, 1807 in Kufstein , † June 19, 1881 in Berchtesgaden ) was a Bavarian lawyer, politician, draftsman, painter, antiquarian and patron.

Life

education

Born in Kufstein, Bavaria, as the son of the district judge Josef Wiesend and his wife Violante, née Freyin von Gumppenberg, Wiesend moved with his parents to Miesbach in 1812 and then to Munich in 1816 . Here he attended from 1817 to 1825 the Royal Institute of Education for Students (Holland Institute) . His favorite subject was drawing, especially landscapes. He copied works by contemporary artists such as Johann Jakob Dorner , Max Josef Wagenbauer , Johann Georg von Dillis , as well as works by the old masters with passion , and for a long time he wavered between his career as an artist and civil service, which he did not choose until 1830. His first job took him to Miesbach, from 1831 to 1838 Wiesend worked as an assistant at the Upper Bavarian Court of Appeal in Landshut.

painting

Wiesend's first oil paintings were bought by prominent collectors, such as his “Obersee” (1830) by Duke Max; “Schloss Tirol” (1830) by Prince Thurn and Taxis; “Brunnenburg im Thale Meran” (1835) by Crown Prince Maximilian; "Mill of Weisbach" (1832); "Gulf of Spezia" (1838); "Gulf of Genoa" (1838) by private individuals. The lawyer went on art trips almost every year. 1824 to Tyrol, 1834 to Upper and Central Italy, 1835 to Carinthia, 1836 to Upper Italy, 1841 back to Tyrol, 1856 and 1875 to the Bavarian and neighboring Bohemian Forest, 1857 to Ramsau, 1859 to Hallein, 1861–1866 to the Bavarian Alps, 1864 in Switzerland, 1867 in the Stubai Valley, 1876 in Styria, 1878 in the Salzkammergut.

Home historian and hobby archaeologist

In addition to his legal work, which soon led him to the Rupertiwinkel , Wiesend not only pursued his artistic inclinations, but also his interest in archeology. In 1844 he published in the Upper Bavarian Archive for Patriotic History (IV. Volume, Issue 1) a treatise on the discovery of a probably Celtic burial place for Prince, k. Titmaning district court (Tittmoning) , after he carried out archaeological excavations from September 16 to 20, 1843 after the accidental discovery of a farmer in his field in the Pietling district. Wiesend was of the opinion that he had discovered the grave of a "high-ranking woman who died at a young age" from the Celtic era.

After numerous further researches in the entire region, for example about old carvings and medieval monuments, Wiesend published a catalog of the antiquities and ground monuments found in 1849 under the title Archaeological finds and monuments in the districts of Titmanning, Laufen and Burghausen .

Political career

On October 30, 1851, Wiesend succeeded the resigned Joseph Daxenberger in the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies , where he represented the constituency of Traunstein until 1855. From November 23, 1853 on he was a member of the committee for the investigation of complaints of violation of the state constitution.

District judge and patron in Burghausen

After his predecessor became blind and thus incapacitated, Wiesend, who had only recently been promoted to district judge in Bad Reichenhall , took up the post of district judge in Burghausen on January 27, 1849 . From then on, the bustling civil servant showed extraordinary civic commitment and, according to the historian Bonifaz Huber, achieved in the Salzach city "in a decade what otherwise might not have happened in a century". On April 1, 1854, at the suggestion of Wiesend in Burghausen, a St. Johannes association was founded to support "newcomers" to which a soup kitchen and "poor employment" were attached. On September 29 of the same year, he founded a rescue and education house for female servants in the monastery of the English Misses .

On May 23, 1855, King Maximilian II commissioned the art-loving district judge with the extensive restoration of the outer palace chapel at Burghausen Castle ("Hedwig's Chapel", built until 1489). The extensive work, including the production of a new interior including organ and altars, as well as six glass windows made in Munich, lasted until 1858. From 1857, Wiesend campaigned for the reconstruction of a chapel in honor of the Wilgefortis on the Hechenberg near Burghausen, which was destroyed in the secularization , especially since one of his predecessors, the extremely church-critical district judge Franz Graf von Armansperg , had promoted the demolition. The renovation of the pilgrimage church was politically highly controversial because of the high costs and its size, but it was completed in 1864 and the building was consecrated a year later. From the roof of the building, Wiesend drew the spectacular view there over Burghausen Castle with the Alpine chain in the background including Untersberg and Watzmann and published the work in 1879 as a collotype in an unusual landscape format of 12 x 170 cm under the title Rundsicht vom Höhenberge, initially Burghausen with indication of the latest, most reliable height measurements in the meter mass, for the mountains according to their highest elevations, for the villages according to the church or tower pavement, also river level. Location of the photo: Platform on the roof of the Kümmerniss Chapel .

In 1858 he founded a district hospital in the city's Heiliggeist hospital. Financially well endowed through his legacy and his office, Wiesend was generous towards the city even after leaving Burghausen. During a visit in July 1877, for example, he donated two thousand marks for "teaching and charity purposes".

Late years

In 1862 Wiesend became district administrator in Traunstein , and in 1868 he moved to Landau an der Isar in the same position . On January 5, 1879, after forty years of service and seventy years of life, he was retired, which he spent in Berchtesgaden, where his son worked as an assessor for the district office. Although Wiesend had forbidden himself from any ceremony when he left Landau, a serenade by torchlight was dedicated to him, with "great ovations". Landau made him, like Burghausen in 1862, an honorary citizen.

The multiple award-winning lawyer (including the Knight's Cross of the Order of St. Michael, 1859) is to build a total of two large water pipes in his career, carry out 16 churches and 11 church restorations, build eight new district streets, supervise five major street extensions, build 19 school buildings and the systematic Have suggested regulation of the Isar.

family

Wiesend had seven siblings, including the brothers Peter, Anton and Otto, and the sisters Fanny, Margaretha, Jeannette, Elise and Josephine. In July 1839, Wiesend married Barbara Gerngroß in Munich, the daughter of the chief appeal judge Georg Simon Gerngroß.

Works

  • Georg Wiesend: Old carvings in the church in Lanzing , in: Oberbayerisches Archiv 5 , 1844, pp. 130-133
  • Georg Wiesend: Report on a medieval monument in the churchyard in Waging , in: Oberbayerisches Archiv 5 , 1844, pp. 133-134
  • Georg Wiesend: Treatise on the finding of a probably Celtic burial place for Prince, k. Landgericht Titmaning , special print from the Upper Bavarian Archive for Patriotic History (Volume IV, Issue 1), Munich 1844
  • Georg Wiesend: Archaeological finds and monuments in the district courts of Titmanning, Laufen and Burghausen , Munich 1849
  • Georg Wiesend: Epilog , in: Annual report on the Royal Institute of Education for Students in Munich , 1825
  • Georg Wiesend: Response to the comments by Koch-Sternfeld and Matthias Koch about archaeological finds and monuments in the district courts of Tittmanning, Laufen and Burghausen , in: Oberbayerisches Archiv 12, 1851, pp. 297–303

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data quoted from Bavarikon [1] , accessed on May 4, 2020
  2. ↑ Beda Stubenvoll: History of the Royal. Educational institute for students (Holland'sches Institut) in Munich , Munich 1874, p. 495
  3. ↑ Detailed curriculum vitae in: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich , Vienna 1888, vol. 56, p. 46 [2] accessed May 4, 2020
  4. ↑ Georg Wiesend: Treatise on the finding of a probably Celtic burial place for prince, k. Landgericht Titmaning , special edition from the Upper Bavarian Archive for Patriotic History (Volume IV, Issue 1), Munich 1844, p. 19
  5. ^ Bonifaz Huber: History of the City of Burghausen , Burghausen 1993 (Reprint), p. 397
  6. ^ Bonifaz Huber: History of the City of Burghausen , Burghausen 1993 (reprint), p. 400
  7. ↑ Maximilian Eisenberger: Duke George the Rich: A Bavarian Prince Image. As a historical ceremony for the inauguration of the newly restored outer castle chapel in Burghausen , Burghausen 1858, p. 4 f.
  8. ↑ Traun-Alz-Salzachbote , No. 53, July 3, 1877, p. 1
  9. ^ Official notice of retirement in the Official Gazette of the Royal Ministry of the Interior , Volume 7, No. 2, January 18, 1879, p. 26
  10. ↑ Landshuter Zeitung , No. 36 of February 13, 1879, p. 238
  11. ↑ cf. Obituary notice for brother Peter Wiesend in Der Bayerische Volksfreund , No. 107, May 29, 1842, p. 864
  12. ↑ Announcement in the Bayerische Nationalzeitung , No. 119 of July 28, 1839
personal data
SURNAME Pointing, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiesend, Max Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH before 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Kufstein
DATE OF DEATH after 1855
Place of death Berchtesgaden