Gustava Aloisia Gorton
Gustava Aloisia Gorton (born March 14, 1863 in Treibach , † June 17, 1920 in Strasbourg , Carinthia ), née Countess von Egger, was an Austrian nobleman and landlady of Rottenstein .
Life
Gustava Aloisia was born as the second daughter of Count Gustav von Egger and his second wife Karoline Sichl von Oberburg in Treibach in Carinthia .
Her father Gustav came from the powerful Carinthian trade family of the Counts of Egger and worked as an iron industrialist , tradesman and entrepreneur.
Continuation of the iron industry
After the death of her father, she and her sister Caroline Aloisia von Egger and her half-siblings from her father's first marriage took over his property in Carinthia. These included Rottenstein Castle and St. Georgen Abbey on the Längsee . On September 30, 1884, she married Johann Gorton, a Gurktaler landlord . The wedding took place in the Maria Wolschart church, which her father Gustav had built in 1843.
After the early death of her husband on June 4, 1889, she married one and a half years later, on 29 October 1890 in Rottenstein Castle his cousin Wilhelm , a landowner and mayor in Strasbourg .
She died on June 17, 1920 in Strasbourg and was buried in Weitensfeld in the Gurktal next to her first husband Johann. The Rottenstein Castle, which she brought into the marriage, is still owned by the Gorton family today .
Individual evidence
- ^ Maria Wolschart in: Siegfried Hartwagner: Carinthia. The St. Veit an der Glan district . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-900173-22-2 . P. 150
- ↑ Entry about Rottenstein (St. Georgen / Längsee) on Burgen-Austria
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gorton, Gustava Aloisia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian nobleman and landowner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Treibach |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1920 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg (Carinthia) |