Jakob Lang

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Jakob Lang (* 1822 in Sternberg , Moravia; † June 6, 1892 in Fünfhaus near Vienna ) was an Austrian textile manufacturer.

Together with his wife Franziska, his brother Anton and his wife Katharina, he founded a textile factory in Fünfhaus near Vienna. Together with his family he supported important church and social institutions in Fünfhaus and the neighboring communities.

life and work

Jakob Lang and his brother Anton were journeyman weavers from Sternberg in Moravia, who settled in Fünfhaus near Vienna in 1841, where another brother of theirs, Josef Lang, was already a trader. Jakob Lang married Franziska Rada († after May 25, 1880 and before June 6, 1892), with whom he had a total of 18 children, his brother Anton her sister Katharina. Together they founded a cotton weaving mill, in which Jakob Lang was responsible for administration. Fünfhaus remained the center of the Lang brothers' factory when further branches were opened in other places such as Neustadt, Trebitsch , Hösting and Wojnow-Mestetz.

After the abolition of the manors around 1848/1850, Jakob and Anton Lang belonged to the first community committee of Fünfhaus. Jakob Lang and his family also supported the renovation of the Reindorf parish church dedicated to the Holy Trinity in the neighboring village of Braunhirschen . They sustainably supported some educational institutions and orphanages. When the construction of the parish church of Fünfhaus zur Hl. Maria vom Siege (1868–1875) threatened to fail due to the construction of the Gürtelstrasse on a suitable building site, they purchased a plot of land for it at their own expense and also arranged for it to be rededicated as a building site. They were also involved in the activities of Father Anton Maria Schwartz .

Jakob Lang died in Fünfhaus in 1892 and was buried in the Hietzinger Friedhof in Vienna.

Memorials

  • The Marian Column they donated (consecrated on November 8, 1863; dedicated on January 8, 1864) on Henriettenplatz in Fünfhaus (today Vienna 15) commemorates Jakob, Anton, Katharina and Franziska Lang. The four statues of saints on the shaft of the column are the namesake of the donors
  • After Jakob and Anton Lang, part of Ferdinandgasse in Fünfhaus was renamed Gebrüder Lang-Gasse in 1894. In 1911 the remaining part of Ferdinandgasse, which had already been renamed Tellgasse in 1867 (not to be confused with today's Tellgasse on the Schmelz in Vienna 15), was named after them.

Trivia

The Lang brothers from Fünfhaus (Anton and Jakob Lang) are often confused with the Lang brothers in Sechshaus (Josef Lang the Elder and his sons), who also owned a textile factory, because they have the same name .

literature

  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Vienna 1993, Volume 2 ( Gebrüder-Lang-Gasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna )
  • Michael Hahn: The district of Sechshaus. A description of the localities Braunhirschen, Fünfhaus, Gaudenzdorf, Ober- u. Untermeidling with Wilhelmsdorf, then Reindorf, Rustendorf and Sechshaus in historical, topographical, statistical, commercial and industrial relationships . Ullrich, Vienna 1853
  • Waltraud Zuleger: Culture walks in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus . Part 1: In the vicinity of Reindorfgasse (= Edition Bezirksmuseum 15th ed. By Brigitte Neichl, No. 7). Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-9503795-0-1 , pp. 49–51.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Culture walks in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus , 2016, p. 50f.
  2. ↑ Culture walks in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus , 2016, p. 51
  3. ^ Gebrüder-Lang-Gasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  4. ↑ Culture walks in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus , 2016, p. 49f.
  5. ↑ Culture walks in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus , 2016, p. 50
  6. ↑ Culture walks in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus , 2016, p. 52
personal data
SURNAME Lang, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lang, brothers
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian textile manufacturer, local politician, philanthropist and patron
DATE OF BIRTH 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Sternberg in Moravia
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1892
Place of death Fünfhaus near Vienna