Hans Staininger
Hans Staininger or Steininger (both spellings have been handed down, * around 1508 in Pfarrkirchen , † September 28, 1567 in Braunau am Inn ) was city governor of Braunau and famous for his extraordinarily long beard.
Hans Steininger was elected mayor of Braunau am Inn six times. His whisker was three and a half cubits (about two meters) long, although it is said he had it cut six times. He is said to have died as a result of a fall after stepping on his beard (which he usually carried rolled up in his pocket). After his death, his beard was removed and kept as a family relic. In 1911 the beard was bequeathed to the city of Braunau and can be seen today in the district museum (Herzogsburg). The authenticity of the beard hair on display has been proven chemically and microscopically.
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The first volume of Benedikt Pillwein's collection of legends contains the story "Hanns Steininger with his long beard in Braunau". Even Joseph Kyselak told in his travelogue Steininger story:
- "A rarity, which the Braunauers count on, makes the beard of one of their former magistrates' councilors, Hanns Steininger, who, as the illustration and year on the Salzburgerthor zu Braunau indicate, in 1567 perhaps made the city less aware of it, how with the beard, reaching down to the tips of his toes, helped to glory. This miraculous beard is more beautiful and permanent in the parish church, carved in life size on a large marble slab, half raised. This Hanns Steininger had to become the victim of his astonished peculiarity; for when he once rushed the usually measured step to show his devotion to a traveling prince, he stepped on his own beard, and by falling in his body, he soon died of the consequences of the injury - as a marauder of his imagined beauty ! "
Illustrations
The epitaph in the city church with the picture of Hans Staininger and his beard inspired a number of artists to create their own works. There is evidence of a lithograph that Antoine-François Lomet made in 1807 when he was a French liaison officer in Bavaria. A small-format painting by an unknown German painter showing Staininger in front of a mountainous landscape has been preserved in the collection of the Louvre in Paris . In 1814, an etching by Staininger appeared in London under the title A true portraiture of John Staininger of Braunau by RS Kirby. In Kempten city archives a life-size oil paintings Stainingers is kept, more pictures are in the Munich Residenz and in the Altenburg detected in Bamberg.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description with illustration of Stainingers on the website of the Austrian National Library ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Sketches of a walking tour through Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Berchtesgaden, Tyrol and Bavaria to Vienna - along with a romantic, picturesque depiction of several knight castles and their folk tales, mountain regions and ice glaciers on this hike, undertaken in 1825 by Joseph Kyselak , vol. 2, p . 201f., 1829
- ↑ rm-ngp.fr: Portrait de Hans Staininger Conseiller de Braunau en Tyrol
- ^ Wellcome Library, London: Johann Staininger, a man with a very long beard. Line engraving, 1814.
- ↑ Walter Geiring: The beard becomes a deadly tripping hazard . In: Passauer Neue Presse, September 27, 2017, p. 27
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Staininger, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steininger, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | City governor of Braunau am Inn |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century or 16th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Parish churches |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1567 |
| Place of death | Braunau am Inn |