Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld

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Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld

Joseph Ernst Ritter von Koch-Sternfeld (born March 25, 1778 in Wagrain , † June 29, 1866 in Tittmoning ) was a Salzburg-Bavarian civil servant , geographer , historian and writer .

Life

Joseph Ernst Ritter von Koch-Sternfeld was the son of Johann Koch, who was the castle keeper in Wagrain , later a district judge in Radstadt, and castle keeper and feudal provost in Mittersill . His mother, Anna Theresia, geb. Salzmann, came from a farming family from the Pinzgau with possessions near Saalfelden and Zell am See . His father's mother, Johann, was born in Konhauser von Sternenfeld, a family that died out towards the end of the 18th century.

After attending high school in Salzburg, Koch-Sternfeld initially studied mining and mineralogy at the University of Salzburg , but switched to law studies. At the age of 21 he was admitted to practice at the Salzburg City Court in 1799, and a year later he found his first state employment as an accessist at the Gastein Regional Court. From 1802 to 1820 he made a steep career as an ennobled court official, which ended shortly before his appointment as minister. Subsequently, he worked for the Academy in Munich until 1828, only to devote himself to writing until his death.

From 1810 until the divorce in 1824 he was married to the daughter of the Salzburg protomedicist Josef von Barisani (* 1756). Their marriage was the birth of their son Josef (born July 19, 1811 in Salzburg, later district judge in Altötting) and their two daughters Ida (born March 24, 1816 Munich, † August 14, 1884 ibid) and Emma (born December 14, 1817 Munich, † February 20, 1843 Munich).

After the end of his career as a royal Bavarian civil servant, he often changed his place of residence. From Altötting he moved to Geratsdorf, from there to the Au am Inn monastery , which he had bought. He then stayed for a long time in Lampoding Castle on Waginger See and in Höglwörth Monastery near Anger . In 1847 he finally bought a house in Tittmoning , in which he housed his valuable collection.

He died on June 29, 1866 in Tittmoning.

Act

Civil service career

In 1802 Koch-Sternfeld was appointed to Salzburg, appointed secretary of the court council and raised to the nobility. When Salzburg and Berchtesgaden fell to Bavaria in 1810 , he was appointed royal Bavarian Finance Council and at the same time he was entrusted with the administration of the archive. For this purpose, he collected the files from the various offices, which had been greatly reduced by the chaos of war, and set up the central archive in Salzburg.

Appointed director of the newly founded Bavarian historical-statistical-topographical office in Munich in 1815 and entrusted with the evaluation of Montgelas' censuses , he published the " Journal for History, Geography and Topography of Bavaria " (Munich 1816/1817, 8 volumes) out.

In 1817 he was assigned as general commissioner of the border regulation commission with Austria.

Already in prospect of a ministerial post, Koch-Sternfeld was made available for " availability " in 1820 , which meant the abrupt end of his civil servant career. Personal idiosyncrasies such as excessive ambition, stubbornness and incompatibility were cited as the cause.

Academy and writing

Parallel to his official career, Koch-Sternfeld was academically active and published numerous books that dealt in particular with the history, geography, cultural history and political system of today's Bavarian and Austrian regions.

During his beginnings in Salzburg from 1802 he learned a. a. the Syndikus Hieronimus von Kleimayrn (son of the court chancellor, lawyer and historian Johann Franz Thaddäus von Kleimayrn ) and the school director, historian and writer Professor Franz Michael Vierthaler , who made it possible for him to publish his first literary works. Among other things, he presented a basic work in three volumes on the history of the Berchtesgadener Land as early as 1815 with the history of the principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works .

In 1812 he was elected a member of the Munich Academy and in 1826 was appointed honorary professor of geography and statistics in Munich. But as early as 1828 he gave up his teaching post in order to devote himself more to his writing activities.

After moving a few times, he bought a house in Tittmoning in 1847 , in whose annex he set up a library and an extensive archive. In 1863, at the age of 85, three years before his death, he published his last book. Some of his historical works have received harsh criticism from the specialist field.

Bibliography (selection)

Poetry

  • Rhapsodies from the Noric Alps, with melodies by J. Brandstetter (1805, 3rd edition 1848; the only poetic work)

Non-fiction

  • Historical-geographical repertory on the impartial treatise on the State of Salzburg, on Juvavia and the diplomatic appendix to the latter work . 1802 (for "Iuvavia" by Johann Franz Thaddäus von Kleimayrn).
  • Attempt at the food and livelihood of a civilized state . Munich 1805.
  • Salzburg and Berchtesgaden, in historical, statistical, geographical and political economic contributions , two volumes.
  • About road and hydraulic engineering and soil culture in the Duchy of Salzburg and the Principality of Berchtesgaden . 1811.
  • History of the principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works . 1815 Munich.
  • History of the principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works. Volume 1. In commission of the Mayer'schen Buchhandlung, Salzburg 1815 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • History of the principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works. Volume 2. Joseph Lindauer, Salzburg 1815 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • History of the principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works. Volume 3. Joseph Lindauer, Salzburg 1815 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Historical-geographical repertory of the state administration of Bavaria . 4 volumes Munich 1815.
  • Salzburg under the Romans . 1815.
  • Wedding party of Carl, Archduke of Austria, with Maria, Princess of Bavaria, anno 1571 . 1816.
  • About the war history of Bavaria . 1816.
  • The Tauern . 1820.
  • Illumination of the Sartorian Chronicle. In relation to the history and geography of the Tauern . 1821.
  • Historical-state-economic views of the elements of the German state organism . 1822.
  • About Arn's, Archbishop of Salzburg , documentary legacy relating to Bavarian regional and folklore . 1823.
  • Contributions to German studies of countries, nations, customs and states . 3 volumes. 1825.
  • Basic lines for general political science . 1826.
  • About the struggle of landed property against landlordship . 1833.
  • The German, especially the Bavarian and Austrian salt works . Munich 1836.
  • On the Bavarian princes, folk and cultural history . 1837.
  • Biographical sketches by Alois Wiguläus, Baron von Kreitmayr . 1838.
  • The kingdom of the Lombards in Italy . 1839 Munich.
  • Reflections on history, its attributes and its purpose as an ongoing task of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (academy speech) . 1841 Munich.
  • Home and world life in Lampotingen and their circumstances . In: Upper Bavarian Archive for Fatherland History (Historischen Verein von Oberbayern, ed.), Volume 4, Munich 1843, pp. 297-315 ( online ).
  • For a closer understanding of the lineage and history of the Counts of Sulzbach. Munich 1848. ( digitized version )
  • The Hagenau dynasty, co-founder of the Seitenstätten abbey in Austria , 1849 ( e-copy )
  • Documented news from the Weiland women's monastery on Nonnberg , in Isengau and the surrounding area. 1850.
  • Cultural-historical research on the Alps, initially on the dynastic, ecclesiastical, economic and commercial element on the Mur, Gurk and Drau . 2 volumes. Munich 1851/52.
  • Review of the prehistory of Bavaria . Munich 1853.
  • Justification for the oldest profane u. Church history of Bavaria and Austria. 1854.
  • Christianity and its expansion especially in the Alps . 1855.
  • Four legacies - for the sake of critical and worthwhile historiography in Bavaria. At the same time, supplement on the history of the long-celebrated dynasty of Count Abo von Abensberg etc. in its honorable and scientific character . Regensburg 1858 ( full text ).
  • Brief chronicle and topography of the cities in the Salzach region . 1859.
  • To preserve the history of the city of Reichenhall and the surrounding area. 1859.
  • Bavaria and Tyrol in cultural-historical sketches, from a personal point of view and from the most reliable sources, interpreted and presented critically . Munich 1861.
  • The foundation and the most important historical moments of the former imperial monastery and today's principality of Berchtesgaden . Munich 1861.
  • The fishing ( jus picandi) in Bavaria and Austria on the Enns according to the most ancient land law; juxtaposed pragmatically: the "fish woad in the Bavarian lakes according to cultural-historical sketches by Hartwig Peetz : Munich 1862" . Munich 1863 ( full text ).

Posthumous appreciations

  • A long connecting road between Salzburger-Strasse and Bergwerk-Strasse in Berchtesgaden and a cul-de-sac to Saag-Strasse in Tittmoning have been named after Koch-Sternfeld . In the Salzburg district of Riedenburg , the former Feldgasse was renamed Koch-Sternfeld-Gasse in 1935. Koch-Sternfeld-Gasse is almost 190 m long and connects Eduard-Baumgartner-Strasse with Reichenhaller Strasse.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptism Book - TFBV | Wagrain | Salzburg, rk. Diocese | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b c Joseph Anton Eisenmann: The knight JE von Koch-Sternfeld history of the principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works: in three volumes; Salzburg 1813 . Reference to a review from 1816 in the ÖBV's online catalog
  3. ↑ Google Maps Scalable city map of Berchtesgaden with Koch-Sternfeld-Straße
  4. ↑ Google Maps Scalable city map Tittmoning with Koch-Sternfeld-Straße
  5. ↑ Google Maps Scalable city map Salzburg-Riedenburg with Koch-Sternfeld-Gasse
  6. ^ Franz Martin : Salzburg street names. List of streets, alleys, squares, paths, bridges, gates and parks with an explanation of their names. 5th, substantially revised edition by Willa Leitner-Martin and Andreas Martin. Announcements of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , 25th supplement, self-published by the Society, Salzburg 2006
personal data
SURNAME Koch-Sternfeld, Joseph Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch-Sternfeld, Joseph Ernst Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Salzburg-Bavarian civil servant, geographer, historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Wagrain
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1866
Place of death Tittmoning