Lorenz von Köstler

Lorenz Johann Adam Köstler Edler von Stromberg (born January 7, 1807 in Eger , Kingdom of Bohemia ; † January 29, 1888 there ) was a well doctor and honorary citizen of the spa town of Franzensbad ( Františkovy Lázně ) and the town of Eger ( Cheb ) in western Bohemia .

Council family Köstler

The Köstler family, also called Kestler, Kessler or Kastler, is one of the oldest patrician families in the city of Eger. Since the middle of the 14th century it can be found in the records of the city's archives and in the church records of the parish of Sankt Niklas. From the 14th to the 16th century, the Köstler owned the Köstelhof named after them, an extensive estate northeast of the former Reichersdorf castle complex with what later became Reichersdorf Castle, today's Hradiste-Cheb.

At the end of the 17th century the Köstelhof was called "Kesselhof" in a deed of purchase and was called "Kestlhuaf" in the Egerland dialect.

Since the end of the Second World War , the Köstler have been widely ramified outside of the Egerland. Descendants of the main tribe live in the neighboring Upper Palatinate in Neualbenreuth .

Life

Lorenz Köstler was born in Eger No. 528 as the son of Dr. med. Georg Adam Köstler and Antonia, a daughter of Johann Woywoda von Stromberg from Prague, were born.

He studied medicine at the Charles University in Prague , continued his studies at the University of Padua , where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1833. Returning to Eger, Köstler became a practicing doctor and fountain director in Franzensbad and published balneological works on Franzensbad and articles on hygienic issues in spa treatments. His publication The healing effect of the Eger - Franzensbader mineral springs and the iron salt moor appeared in 1866 in the 14th edition.

In the revolutionary year of 1848 with his thoughts on freedom, Lorenz Köstler was elected chairman of a citizens' committee for the city of Eger, which campaigned for the Austrian Emperor Ferdinand I of Habsburg to separate the German-speaking Egerland from the Kingdom of Bohemia . The Egerland and the former Free Imperial City of Eger should become their own country with its own parliament, which should be elected by all inhabitants of the Egerland.

The so-called double language regulation of the Austro-Hungarian Prime Minister and Interior Minister Kasimir Graf von Badeni in Vienna, which the government in Prague was preparing and attempting to implement, embittered the Egerlanders because all official processes had to be formulated in German and Czech. This led to a popular uprising in Eger in 1897, about which the politician and scientist Peter Glotz, who was born in Eger, gives an overview of the reactions and consequences in the book The Expulsion - Böhmen as a lesson .

Köstler von Stromberg was appointed Imperial and Royal Councilor for his medical and political services . He was a member of societies for the promotion of science, became an honorary citizen of the city of Eger and the spa town of Franzensbad and was a knight of the Danish Order of Dannebrog . In 1861 he was raised to the Austrian hereditary nobility as Edler von Stromberg with the nobility predicate of his mother, a born von und zu Eltz called Faust von Stromberg.

literature

• Karl Siegl : The catalogs of the Egerer city archive. Eger 1900.
• Church registers of the parish Saint Niklas in Eger in the State Regional Archives in Pilsen .
• Egerer Landtag eV Amberg in the Upper Palatinate (Hrsg.): Heimatkreis Eger - history of a German landscape in documentaries and memories. Amberg 1981, pp. 438 and 560.
• Peter Glotz : The expulsion - Bohemia as a lesson. The uprising in Eger in 1897 and its connections in the multi-ethnic state of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . Ullstein Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-550-07574-X , pp. 51-64.
• Vinzenz Prockl: Eger and the Egerland. 1877.
• Egerer yearbook. 12, pp. 123-144.
• Cheb Newspaper. January 31, 1880.
• Wiener Zeitung. (Evening Post) January 31, 1880.
• German gender book . Volume 217, Waidhas family from Eger in Böhmen, Köstler p. 484 and 487. CA Starke Verlag , Limburg an der Lahn 2004.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Taufmatrik Eger, St. Nikolaus, 1798–1815, fol. 83