Johann Adam Pruner

Portrait of Pruner (18th century)

Johann Adam Pruner , also Prunner , (born June 22, 1672 in Linz ; † February 7, 1734 ibid) was an Austrian trader, city judge and mayor of Linz.

Life

Johann Adam Pruner was born in 1672 as the younger brother of the well-known Baroque master builder Johann Michael Pruner . His father was the Linz merchant Johann Pruner, his mother was Eva Regina Pruner, née Schernegger. For his school education, the student Pruner received a class scholarship from 1684 to 1688. His father trained him to be a trader, and in this profession Pruner achieved considerable wealth. In addition, at the age of 38, he was already elected as a decree of the princely cities. In 1705 he was appointed parish administrator and put the neglected financial management back in order. In 1713, 1717 and 1718 he was city judge in Linz and then mayor for 16 years until his death. Pruner was also ordained by the fourth estate of the seven princely cities of Upper Austria, he was in the supervisory commission for the Linz orphanage and in the committee for the supervision of the economy to be run by the ordained. He was married to Maria Pruner, née Gross von Ehrenstein. The marriage remained childless.

Pruner pen

The bachelor left his fortune for charity. The Pruner Foundation, established after his death, built a home for orphans and destitute Linzers. After a stay of several days in Linz in the autumn of 1786, Emperor Joseph II issued a handwritten order that the Pruner pen be repealed . Thereafter, the insane asylum was housed in it from 1788 to 1867 and the maternity home and a home for foundlings from 1789 to 1833. Today there is a music school there.

The monastery chapel was closed in 1789 and then used as a granary and magazine. Since 1919 it has been a church of the Old Catholic Church .

Commemoration

Memorial plaque in the old town hall

In the foyer of the Old Town Hall there is a memorial plaque for Pruner created in 1956 by Rudolf Paulczynski and Peter Dimmel . Prunerstraße, named after him, in downtown Linz connects Fabrikstraße and Museumstraße. Until 1869 it was called Prunerstiftsgasse, before that Eggereckgasse and Stiftsgasse.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Pruner, Johann Adam . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 24th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1872, p. 26 f. ( Digitized version ).
Konrad Plass: The Foundation of Johann Adam Pruner in Linz . In: Historical yearbook of the city of Linz 1970 . Linz 1971, p. 33–97 ( part 1 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, part 2 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).

Web links

Bibliography on Johann Adam Pruner in the forum OoeGeschichte.at

Individual evidence

^ Rudolf Lehr : State Chronicle Upper Austria . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85487-331-X , p. 160
↑ Plass 1971, p. 35.
↑ Plass 1971, p. 67.
↑ Plass 1971, pp. 71, 84 and 88.
↑ Provincial Chronicle of Upper Austria. P. 155
^ Linz culture: Johann Adam Pruner memorial plaque
↑ https://www.linz.at/strassennamen/default.asp?action=strassendetail&ID=2703

personal data
SURNAME	Pruner, Johann Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Prunner, Johann Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian politician and mayor of Linz, entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	June 22, 1672
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linz
DATE OF DEATH	February 7, 1734
Place of death	Linz

[1] Rudolf Lehr : State Chronicle Upper Austria . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85487-331-X , p. 160

[2] Plass 1971, p. 35.

[3] Plass 1971, p. 67.

[4] Plass 1971, pp. 71, 84 and 88.

[Landes-Chronik-5] Provincial Chronicle of Upper Austria. P. 155

[6] Linz culture: Johann Adam Pruner memorial plaque

[7] ttps://www.linz.at/strassennamen/default.asp?action=strassendetail&ID=2703