Maria Sybilla Josepha Zais

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Maria Sybilla Josepha Zais , née Maria Sybilla Josepha Schalch (born May 3, 1770 in Schelklingen , † June 13, 1844 in Wiesbaden ) was a German hotelier.

Life

Her father was Thaddäus Petrus Justus Schalch (baptized May 6, 1728 in Schelklingen), administrator of Franz Ludwig Schenk von Castell , the Malefizschenken . Her mother was Maria Anna von Staab . There are already differences with this name. After Struck it was called "von Staab", Rexroth names it "von Kyphinger" with a question mark and suspects that "von Kippenheim" is more correct. But the work "The families and civil status cases of Schelklingen and Origining Monastery", edited by Immo Eberl in 1987 , shows that Thaddäus Schalch married Maria Anna Kirfinger, widowed von Staab, on April 17, 1769. She probably came from Ringingen . In the older literature it was assumed that her father was a Swiss. But this information has to be corrected: his parents were the court master of the Urspring Monastery, Franz Xaver Schalch , who married Maria Gertrud Hafner, the daughter of the sun host in Schelklingen, on June 7th, 1710. Thaddäus Schalch had been an inheritance holder and miller on the grinding mill in Schelklingen in front of the city on the Aach since April 15, 1769. When he was able to become the office administrator of Count Schenk von Castell in Oberdischingen in 1770, he sold the mill to Count Schenk for 5,000 fl. The date of death of Thaddäus Schalch is not yet known, but the place of death is likely to have been Oberdischingen , the residence of the Schenken von Castell.

Christian Zais had left the Karlsschule in 1791, continued his education while traveling and worked as a freelance private architect in Stuttgart. At the end of the 18th century, after the endless wars, there were only a few construction contracts, which is why he also took on work for state authorities and for the church council. He was busy with the appraisal and mapping of the church council groves. He was in the areas of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren "for two summers because of measuring business" .

On Sundays he frequented Pastor Brecht's house in Berghülen . His daughter was known to Josepha Schalch. As a geometer of the consistory and a student of forest sciences with a view to the commissioner's office in Tischingen, he got engaged to Josepha Schalch on June 6, 1796. Both married on June 11, 1797. Building director Johann Jakob Atzel (1754-1816) wrote to Carl Florian Goetz that “he (Zais) could have made a rich marriage according to worldly wisdom, but he took a poor good girl”. Later it became clear that Christian Zais had made a good choice.

In 1805 Christian Zais received an appointment as a master builder in the Duchy of Nassau. So the family moved to Wiesbaden, meanwhile two children were born. There were seven more children. A house was built and guests have already been catered for. The next major private project is the “Vier Jahreszeiten” hotel. Shortly before completion, Christian Zais dies at the age of 50. Josepha Zais takes on large mortgages and overwhelming debts. Mismanagement would not only have meant the loss of this project, but also the loss of all the family's properties and all of the property. In the fight for the necessary funds, she was supported by her brother-in-law Wilhelm Zais from Cannstatt and Chief Finance Officer Julius Simon von Nördlinger from Stuttgart. She succeeded in completing the project and she was happy when her son Wilhelm Zais had finished his medical studies and was now able to assist her.

Despite the great burdens, the widow Zais appeared as the third largest taxpayer in Wiesbaden in 1827. The hotel developed very quickly into a top class hotel. In 1825, Schaller described this in his book.

She grew with her tasks, first as a mother, then as a hotelier's wife, who had to cope with increasing representation tasks in the social life of Wiesbaden. Dealing with the honorable guests, because tsars, royal highnesses and princesses frequented the Hotel "Vier Jahreszeiten", was not difficult for her.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf Heino Struck, Christian Zais to his son Wilhelm - the architect of classicism in Wiesbaden in his family. Nassauische Annalen , Vol. 2, 1981.
  2. ^ Franz von Rexroth: The ancestors of Christian Zais. In: Der Uhrturm , Issue 15, 1936, pp. 290–295.
  3. ^ The families and civil status cases in the parishes of the town of Schelklingen (1602-1621, 1692-1875) and Urspring Monastery (1657-1832). Ed. Stadt Schelklingen, edit. Prof. Immo Eberl, Irmgard Simon and Dr. Franz Rothenbacher, 2nd edition. 2012.
  4. ↑ http://www.swp.de/2943825
  5. ↑ Wolf Heino Struck, s. o. letter of August 4, 1819.
  6. ↑ Wolf Heino Struck: Wiesbaden in the time of Goethe. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1979.
  7. ↑ General German Biography, Volume 43, 1898.
  8. ↑ oberwschwaben-portal.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.oberwschwaben-portal.de  
  9. ^ C. Schaller: Fleeting remarks on a trip from Nuremberg via Würzburg, Frankfurt, Mainz and Koblenz to the baths of the Taunus in 1825. Nuremberg at Riegel and Wießner, 1826.
  10. ^ Thomas Weichel: The citizens of Wiesbaden. From the country town to the “world spa town” 1780–1914. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1997.
  11. ↑ Hildegard Ey: God will do it, Josephine Zais 1770–1844, From “poor girl” to active entrepreneur. In: Frech & Fromm, 2000 years of FrauenLEBEN in Wiesbaden. Catalog for the exhibition from March 8 to March 29, 2001 in the Wiesbaden town hall
personal data
SURNAME Zais, Maria Sybilla Josepha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schalch, Maria Sybilla Josepha (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hotelier
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Rogue blades
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1844
Place of death Wiesbaden