Johann Josef Batlogg

Monument in Schruns

Memorial plaque in St. Anton in the Montafon

Image of Johann Josef Batlogg on a 50 Schilling stamp for the Vorarlberg state administration tax

Johann Josef Batlogg (born October 11, 1751 in Vandans , † October 25, 1800 in St. Anton im Montafon ) was an Austrian governor and military man.

Life

Johann Josef Batlogg from Vandans married Josefa Bitschnau and became an innkeeper at Gasthaus Adler in the neighboring community of St. Anton in the Montafon . During the First Coalition War in 1796, he was involved in the fighting against the French troops in Vorarlberg as Landammann and Captain of the Landwehr .

In August 1796, the district chief Ignaz Anton von Indermauer, who had fled from the French, was murdered in the St. Peter monastery in Bludenz . Thereafter, Landammann Batlogg was accused of having approved this act. It is believed that his political opponent Johann Ignaz Vonier from Schruns promoted these allegations. Batlogg was arrested in December 1796 and imprisoned in Innsbruck and only rehabilitated and released in 1798.

In 1799, in the Second Coalition War against France, Batlogg again organized the defense of the Montafon passes against the French troops in Graubünden and there was a battle on March 24, 1799 at the Schlappiner Joch , which was held.

His early death at the age of 49 was linked to the stresses and strains of his imprisonment in Innsbruck and the war stays in the mountains.

reception

• In 1900, the painter Jakob Bertle suggested a memorial to mark the centenary of his death, where the sculptor Feuerstein, the architect Hanns Kornberger and Jakob Bertle presented their own designs in a competition . The design by Jakob Bertle was implemented from 1906 to 1907 with natural stones and a relief made of Carrara marble, which was erected in Schruns.
• A memorial plaque was placed at the parish church of St. Anton in Montafon by the military, veterans and reservists associations.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Battlogg, Johann Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 22nd part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1870, p. 474 ( digitized version ).
• Grete Gulbransson : Batlogg. Montafon home piece in 6 pictures. Drama, self-published by the Verkehrsverein, Schruns 1932.
• Claudia Helbok: Important Vorarlbergers. 30 life pictures from a series (= Dornbirner Studiohefte. 2). ORF regional studio Vorarlberg, Dornbirn 1967, p. 25 f.

Web links

• Montafon Tourism to the monument in Schruns: freedom fighter Johann Josef Batlogg (1751–1800)