Karl Streit

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Karl Streit
(drawing by Christian Wilhelm Allers )

Karl Stephan Streit (born March 31, 1833 in Münnerstadt , Lower Franconia ; † February 12, 1902 in Bad Kissingen , Lower Franconia) was a Bavarian government auditor , saltworks administrator and art collector.

Life

Streit attended grammar school in Münnerstadt and studied law at the University of Würzburg . He was secretary of the agricultural association, finally a government auditor and was later appointed to the royal Bavarian economic council. After his in the Bavarian nobility raised brother Dr. Ignaz von Streit had become the leaseholder of the bathing facilities in the neighboring Bavarian health resorts Bad Kissingen and Bad Bocklet , Karl Streit took over the supervision of agriculture and the gardening of the Upper Saline in Hausen near Bad Kissingen, which had long been converted into living space .

So it was Streit who furnished Otto von Bismarck 's living quarters in the Upper Saline (today: Bismarck Museum ) from 1876, in which Otto von Bismarck lived a total of fourteen times and Empress Auguste Viktoria with her family once in 1889 during their cure.

Streit was a collector of works of art, especially by the sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider , some of which are now exhibits in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich and the Mainfränkisches Museum in Würzburg . He was also the author of the book Tylman Riemenschneider 1460–1531, Life and Works of Art of the Franconian Carver (Berlin 1888). This preference for Riemenschneider is also expressed by the metal relief Lamentation of Christ in the middle section of his tombstone in the Bad Kissingen chapel cemetery . Streit also donated the rosary picture inside the Bad Kissingen Marienkapelle.

Streit was from 1880 to 1895 a member and board member of the agricultural district and district association, the "Altertumsverein Würzburg" founded in 1893 by Count Friedrich von Luxburg (today: Friends of Mainfränkischer Kunst und Geschichte ), he was an old man of the Corps Moenania zu Würzburg Honorary member of the war club Kissingen and Hausen, where he a. a. He gave speeches of fiery patriotism for the emperor and empire .

Streit was one of the most important advisers and friends of Count Friedrich von Luxburg when it came to buying art for his Aschach Castle .

Honors

Every year he was received by Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria for an audience and table. In 1894, Streit made his place of birth, Münnerstadt, an honorary citizen . A street in Bad Kissingen is named after him.

Publications

  • Tylmann Riemenschneider 1460–1531. Life and works of art of the Franconian carver . Asmuth Verlag, Berlin 1888

literature

  • Gerhard Wulz: The chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen. A guide with short biographies , Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-934912-04-4 , p.
  • Werner Eberth : The economist Karl Streit and his Riemenschneider collection in the Upper Saline . In: Frankenland , 2006, issue 1 + 2, pp.? - ?.

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personal data
SURNAME Quarrel, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Streit, Karl Stephan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian government auditor, saltworks administrator and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Münnerstadt , Lower Franconia
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1902
Place of death Bad Kissingen , Lower Franconia