Heinrich von Mattoni

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Heinrich von Mattoni with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Gregory
Advertisement by Mattoni (1873)
Blackboard in the Mattonihof in Vienna
Mattonis grave in Karlsbad

Heinrich Kaspar Mattoni , since 1889 Edler von Mattoni , (born August 11, 1830 in Karlsbad , Bohemia ; † May 14, 1910 in Gießhübl-Sauerbrunn ) was a Bohemian-Austrian industrialist and namesake of the Carlsbad mineral water Mattoni .

Life

Heinrich von Mattoni comes from an old Italian family of traders who had been based in Karlsbad since 1693. Heinrich's father Karl Mattoni was a councilor in Karlsbad and his mother was Maria Theresa nee Voigt. Heinrich Mattoni grew up in privileged circumstances and enjoyed a very good school education. After leaving school, he worked for several years in the Comptoir or as a traveling salesman for larger export businesses in Vienna and Hamburg. After twelve years of apprenticeship and traveling, he returned to his hometown.

From 1857 he leased the city's mineral water from the city of Karlsbad together with Friedrich Knoll, brother-in-law of Karlsbad's mayor Johann Peter Knoll, for 10 years and soon achieved huge sales thanks to a widespread defeat system. As early as 1867 he and Knoll had leased the shipping of the healing water from the Otto spring in neighboring Gießhübl-Puchstein , which he could now fully focus on. In 1858 Mattoni married Wilhelmine, the daughter of Johann Peter Knoll. In 1868 Heinrich Mattoni and Friedrich Knoll began to fill the water in glass bottles, until then clay containers were more common. Later, after Knoll left, he had the glass bottles affixed to paper labels that showed the red eagle, his family coat of arms. By acquiring the mineral moor storage facility near Franzensbad , he also created a flourishing industry for the utilization of spring by-products such as moor and iron lye and moor salt. Due to his success and the excellent quality of his products and services, he was named " kk mineral water court supplier " in 1870 and in 1898 even named kuk chamber supplier to the emperor. In Vienna he had shops at 12 Tuchlauben and 5 Maximilianstraße in the 1st district.

After a seven-year lease , in 1873 he had bought large parts of the town, including the Empress Elisabeth Spring, from Count Czernin. The water bottled under the name Mattonis Gießhübler Sauerbrunnen was handled by modern spring-technical facilities and was world-famous through him. The bitter springs and the Elisabeth bath oven also passed into his possession.

Mattoni had a railway line built to Wickwitz in 1890 for shipping . In comparison, sales in 1872 were 670,000 bottles, in 1897 7,854,727 bottles. In the year he died, the number of bottles shipped was 10 million.

Heinrich Mattoni took over functions in regional, municipal and commercial political organizations until he moved to Vienna in 1878: in 1862 as city councilor, in 1874 president of the Eger Chamber of Commerce , in 1876 first city councilor of Karlsbad and was active in the Sparkasse of Karlsbad. As a member of numerous clubs, especially in the rifle corps , he played a major role in urban life.

In 1878 he was appointed to the imperial council and in 1889 as "Edler von Mattoni" he was raised to hereditary nobility. He received high honors and became an honorary citizen of his hometown. According to contemporary reports, the funeral service for the deceased in the Villa Mattoni on May 17, 1910 was one of the greatest that Karlovy Vary had ever seen. A memorial was dedicated to him in Gießhübl-Sauerbrunn in 1914 . The Mattonihof, a representative Wilhelminian style building at the address Tuchlauben 12, still exists in Vienna today.

On April 19, 1858, he married Wilhelmine Theresia Rosa in the dean's church in Karlsbad, the daughter of Karlsbad's mayor and businessman Johann Peter Knoll , who was born on October 9, 1838 and was not yet of legal age at the time of the marriage . Her descendants include their son Leo Friedrich Karl Edler von Mattoni (1862–1940) and their daughter Maria Juliana (1864–1931). On June 5, 1880, his daughter Rosa Wilhelmine Katharina (1860–1918) married Karl Kohl (* 1848) from Karlsbad, who had a doctorate from Vienna and who was later raised to the nobility as the "Knight of Rodishofen" .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Misc. Award .. In:  Badener Zeitung , January 21, 1899, p. 7, top left (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt
  2. ^ Heinrich Mattoni AG. In: Kaiser-Festnummer Österreichs Illustrierte Zeitung. Verlag Jacques Philipp, Vienna, December 2, 1908, p. 150 / XI , accessed on July 23, 2009 .
  3. ^ Genealogical pocket book of the noble houses of Austria, first year, Otto Maass' Sons, Vienna 1905; 416 ff. ( Digitized version )
  4. ↑ History Kyselky v DATech. Obec Kyselka, May 11, 2009, accessed on May 11, 2009 (Czech, Gießhübl story with a picture of the Mattoni monument).

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personal data
SURNAME Mattoni, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mattoni, Heinrich Edler von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION bohemian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1910
Place of death Kyselka