Johann Georg Hagenauer

Hagenauer'sche Grablege (crypt 52, Petersfriedhof Salzburg ), in which Johann Georg Hagenauer and Wolfgang Hagenauer are buried

Johann Georg Hagenauer (* 20th February 1748 in Strasbourg , Archbishopric Salzburg , today Upper Bavaria , † 6. April 1835 in Salzburg ) was an out of the Principality Salzburg originating architect .

Life

Johann Georg Hagenauer was born in 1748 as the youngest of eleven children at Aman (n) gut in Straß (Ainring) in Hagenau. His famous brothers were the Salzburg architect Wolfgang Hagenauer , who was in charge of the entire building trade of the Archbishopric of Salzburg, and Johann Baptist von Hagenauer , who was initially also in the service of the Salzburg Archbishop and was then appointed head of the Academy in Vienna from 1774 .

During the initial training with his eldest brother Wolfgang in his private drawing school in Salzburg, the art-loving Archbishop Sigismund Graf von Schrattenbach became aware of him. Like his brothers before, he sent Johann Georg Hagenauer to Vienna, where he studied architecture at the academy between 1768 and 1771 . When he returned to Salzburg, he found a job as a draftsman and later as an architect at Schrattenbach. After Schrattenbach's death, however, the new Archbishop Hieronymus von Colloredo canceled this donation. Hagenauer's older brother Johann Baptist had a dispute with the new archbishop and left Salzburg. So it was easy for Johann Georg to turn his back on Salzburg. Only the oldest brother Wolfgang, who had already built up an existence and had a family in Salzburg, stayed. The Gurk Bishop Joseph Franz Anton Count Auersperg liked Hagenauer's work, became friends with him and was to become a patron and lifelong friend to Johann Georg . With the title of episcopal court building director, Hagenauer traveled to Carinthia with Auersperg, who had recently been elected Bishop of Gurk . There Johann Georg Hagenauer created, among other things, one of the most important early classical palace buildings in Austria. The residential castle Pöckstein in Pöckstein-Zwischenwässern (Carinthia) with a large park was built between 1778 and 1782 according to his plans. His brother Johann Baptist was responsible for the sculptural equipment of the castle. The judgment of the contemporaries about the artistically and technically consequently thought-out building was not always very flattering. An article in the historical journal of Carinthia from 1855 reports that the tower-shaped shape of the building led Emperor Josef II (who was friends with Auersperg) to the "painful but apt parable that it looks like a canary birdhouse". Hagenauer took Josef II's joking remark very calmly, even though it was his first large building.

When Auersperg was elected Prince-Bishop of Passau in 1783 , Hagenauer accompanied him there. In Passau he built the theater and the Redoutensaal, and in 1784 the Strass Castle for the dean Thomas Count von Thun. In 1790 he built Haidenhof Castle for the canon Leopold Freiherrn von Hanxleden and finally in 1792 Freudenhain Castle with its magnificent park for Prince-Bishop Auersperg, who had been elevated to cardinal in 1788 . After the death of his friend, benefactor and client Auersperg in 1793, Johann Georg von Hagenauer remained in Passau under the new Prince-Bishop of Passau Thomas Johann von Thun and Hohenstein . For him he worked on the expansion of the Hacklberg brewery and the Holztrift on the Ilz, as well as the expansion of the Passau porcelain factory. After only 11 months of reign, the new bishop died of a fall from his horse. With Leopold Leonhard Raymund von Thun , the cousin of the late Prince-Bishop, Passau got another successor in office and thus a new client for Hagenauer.

When the Passau bishopric, the secular domain of the diocese, was abolished on February 22nd, 1803 by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the archbishop's court architect returned to Salzburg. This was also possible because the Archbishop of Salzburg, Hieronymus von Colloredo, with whom the architect Hagenauer had fallen out at the time, had already fled from the French to Vienna in 1800. Colloredo stayed there until his death, as Salzburg was secularized as early as 1803. In Salzburg, Hagenauer became the official successor of his brother Wolfgang, who died in 1801, in the electoral camera construction office. He became imperial councilor and worked as electoral building director for his cousin, the Salzburg abbot Dominikus von Hagenauer in Abtenau and Hallein . Accepted into Austrian service in 1807, he was quiesced by the Bavarian government in 1812 and retired in 1819. Towards the end of his long life - he outlived his wife by 45 years and was a stately 87 years old - Johann Georg von Hagenauer became increasingly blind and deaf. As the last of the artistically gifted Hagenauer brothers, Johann Georg died in Salzburg on April 6, 1835 and was buried in the Hagenauer'schen Grablege (arcade crypt No. 52) in the Petersfriedhof Salzburg , in which Wolfgang Hagenauer is also buried.

family

In 1786, "Johann Georg von Hagenauer, real court chamber councilor, high-prince building director and architect in Passau", the nobility was confirmed by Prince-Bishop Auersperg and he was granted the right to bear the title of "von". On November 17, 1786, the "well-born Mr. Joh. Georg von Hagenauer, real court chamber councilor, lordly building director and architect" married the "high and well-born Karolina Leopoldina Antonia Freyin von La Marre, kk captain's daughter from Wiener Neustadt " in Passau's Cathedral "(March 18, 1761 - April 21, 1790). She was the daughter of the Imperial and Royal Captain Anton Freiherr von La Marre and Karoline Barbara von Altmannshofen. The von Altman (n) shofen were an old Swabian family that was first mentioned in a document in 1250 with Henricus von Altmannshofen. Karolina's mother (nee Karoline von Altmannshofen) was one of the last of the v. Altmannshofen, which went out in the 18th century. The La Marre (de La-Marre) were a noble military family from Lorraine (France). The great-grandfather Philipp de La Marre was already in the Austrian-Habsburg service in the army of Prince Eugene of Savoy (1691 major, 1704 lieutenant colonel, 1708 sergeant general, 1716 field marshal lieutenant). This tradition was to be continued between the 17th and 19th centuries, and so one finds several officers among the barons of La-Marre, entered in the military lists of the "Austrian Empire" in the "Military Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria", in the " Königlich-Baierisches Regierungsblatt "or in other registers (Philippe 1691, Leopold 1727, Anton 1786, Heinrich 1801, Carl 1826, Anton 1826, Achilles 1836, Franz 1840, Eduard 1846, Adalbert 1867, Arthur 1868, Karl 1870 etc.).

The cathedral dean and auxiliary bishop of Passau, Thomas Johann Nepomuk Graf von Thun und Hohenstein , celebrated the wedding. Groomsmen were the real. secret council and court chancellor Johann Jakob Merian Edler von Molitor (Hagenauer's Schwipp brother-in-law), as well as the court chamber councilor and court curator Christian Schneditz.

Hagenauer's friend, Prince-Bishop Cardinal Joseph Franz Anton von Auersperg, was the godfather of Johann Georg's children, both of whom were named after Auersperg: Josepha von Hagenauer (* December 1, 1787; † April 24, 1792), who died at the age of four, and Franz de Paula II. Von Hagenauer (* December 9, 1789 - December 5, 1843), who married the noble Marie Schlossgängl von Edlenbach on April 28, 1823 in Maria-Plain.

Picture gallery

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  Stadlhof Palace in Carinthia, 1772 - 1780

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  Weitwörth Castle in Salzburg, 1777

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  Pöckstein Castle in Carinthia, 1778 - 1782

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  Kölnhof Palace in Carinthia, 1778 - 1783

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  City Theater in Passau, 1783 - 1784

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  City theater in Passau, boxes

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  Redoutensaal am Theater, 1783 - 1784

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  Schlössl Haidenhof in Passau, 1790

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  Freudenhain Castle in Passau, 1785 - 1792

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  Mirabell Palace, reconstruction 1822 - 1824

literature

• Franz Martin: Hundred Salzburg families , Verlag der Ges. F. Salt b. Regional studies, Salzburg 1946
• Adolf Hahnl: The Gurker, Passauer or Salzburg architect Johann Georg Hagenauer (1748-1835)
• Passau church book, entry November 17, 1786, Passau
• Franz Xaver Weilmeyr: Salzburg, the capital of the Salzach district , Mayr'sche Verlag, Salzburg 1813

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death book: Salzburg Dompfarre, Vol. V, p. 141.