Hieronymus Löschenkohl (businessman)

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Hieronymus Löschenkohl (* 1692 in Vienna ; † 1755 there ) was a Regensburg merchant and banker.

Garden Palace Löschenkohl
Löschenkohl Palace

The son from a wealthy, Protestant Regensburg merchant family with Upper Austrian roots, who was born in the family's Vienna branch, married Catharina Johanna Metzger from Regensburg, granddaughter and heiress of a former mayor and banker of the Free Imperial City. Löschenkohl also gave loans to royal courts.

When rulers could not pay, they often compensated their creditors in kind. Löschenkohl received salt from the Bavarian elector to whom he had lent 30,000 guilders, which Löschenkohl sold on at a profit. Löschenkohl imported leather from Russia, stockfish and herrings from the North and Baltic Seas and also traded in iron and steel goods.

At the height of its success, Löschenkohl commissioned Linz city architect Johann Michael Prunner to build two palaces: a summer palace on the outskirts, the Löschenkohl garden palace , and a city palace on Neupfarrplatz . From 1731 to 1733 the four-story Löschenkohl Palace was built on Neupfarrplatz. It included trading offices, warehouses and offices, living and audience rooms and even a ballroom. In 1743 Hieronymus Löschenkohl had to file for bankruptcy.

After the eventful insolvency proceedings, the Palais Löschenkohl returned to the family's possession in 1751, but only as a source of income and rental property.

Löschenkohl himself spent his old age in Vienna, where he died in 1755. The Viennese printing entrepreneur Hieronymus Löschenkohl, originally from Elberfeld , is not closely related to the Regensburg wholesaler.

literature

  • Andreas Kraus, Wolfgang Pfeiffer: Regensburg. History in picture documents. Beck, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-406-04028-4 , p. 119.
  • Minoritenweg 20. Löschenkohl Garden Palace (Rosenwirtsgarten). In: Heinrich Wanderwitz: Regensburg monument profiles. Office for Archives and Preservation of Monuments, Department of Preservation of Monuments, Regensburg 2009, p. 37.
  • Helmut-Eberhard Paulus: The Löschenkohl-Palais. Dresdner Bank in Regensburg, Neupfarrplatz 14. Regensburg, 1988.
  • Carl Oskar Renner: The Palais on Neupfarrplatz. The history of the Regensburg banking house Hieronymus Löschenkohl. In: Herbert Schindler (Ed.): Sceneries of the Rococo. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1969, pp. 139–150.
  • Peter Schmid: History of the city of Regensburg. Regensburg 2000, especially p. 1172

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personal data
SURNAME Löschenkohl, Hieronymus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wholesale merchant and banker
DATE OF BIRTH 1692
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1755
Place of death Vienna