Oswald Neumann

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Oswald Neumann , actually Anton Andreas Neumann , (born June 13, 1751 in Krumau (Český Krumlov) , Bohemia; † July 1, 1801 in Hohenfurth (Vyšší Brod) , Kaplitz district) was the 38th abbot of the Hohenfurth monastery in southern Bohemia.

origin

Oswald Neumann had the baptismal name Anton Andreas and was a son from the second marriage of Valentin Neumann, head chef of a Fürst Schwarzenberg family, with Juliane Schwalbin, a daughter of Johann Adam Schwalb from Unterbrand near Sankt Joachimsthal in western Bohemia, from whom the married couple Valentin and Juliane In 1752 Neumann took over the former Goldenkroner house, the later Neumannsche house on the Ringplatz in Krumau, the Lebzeltnerei and the wax candle production of Johann Adam Schwalb. The Neumann house in Krumau remained in the possession of the Neumann family for 120 years and became a hotel after the end of the Second World War in 1945.

Shield of the abbot's coat of arms

Life

Andreas Neumann entered the Hohenfurth monastery in South Bohemia in 1774 and was given the religious name Oswald. In 1786 he became chaplain in the later Passion Play town of Höritz (Hořice na Šumavě) and in Malsching (Malšín) in the Bohemian Forest, in 1784 prelate, then from 1785 to 1801 the 38th abbot of the Hohenfurth monastery and vicar general of the Cistercians in Bohemia . He was buried in the Marienkapelle of the Hohenfurt Monastery in the Bohemian Forest.

family

The sister of Abbot Oswald Neumann Maria, Elisabeth Neumann, born in 1758, died in Krumau in South Bohemia in 1827, was married to the widower Joseph Rosenauer , Prince Schwarzenberg's flood director, who planned the construction of the Schwarzenberg canal and the Trift canals in the Bohemian Forest directed.

The half-sister of Abbot Oswald Neumann, Euphrosina Neumann, born in Vienna in 1741, daughter from the first marriage of Prince Schwarzenberg's master chef Valentin Neumann, married Anton Josef Reising von Reisinger, Prince Schwarzenberg's court cavalier and guardian of the Krumau Castle ( Cesky Krumlov ) in South Bohemia, born in Webrowa in 1728, Krakan parish near Bischofteinitz ( Horsovsky Tyn ) in West Bohemia.

Appreciation

On the gable of Neumann's house on Ringplatz (náměstí Svornosti 12) in Krumau in South Bohemia, the birthplace of Abbot Oswald Neumann, there is a bust of a bearded man with a bishop's cap on his head, which is supposed to represent Abbot Oswald (Anton Andreas) Neumann.

literature

  • Biographical encyclopedia on the history of the Bohemian countries, published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum by Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg and Helmut Slapnicka, Volume III (N - Sch), Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2000, page 39.
  • P. Dominik Kaindl : History of the Cistercian monastery Hohenfurth in Bohemia. 1930, pages 109 to 111.
  • Anton Balling: Two hundred years of family history from 1907, Zuckmantel ( Zlaté Hory ) in Silesia; with additions from 1918 in Römerstadt (Rymarov) in Moravia. (Reproduced manuscript). Family notes and a. to the Neumann in Krumau, Maximilian Reising von Reisinger , Rosenauer and their descendants.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helene Bruscha: The Neumann house in Krumau in Bohemia and the Balling, Ebenhöch, Neumann, Reising von Reisinger, Haslinger and Rosenauer families. In: Archives for family history research. 9th year, issue 1, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg an der Lahn 2005, lineup Neumann in Krumau pages 26 to 28, lineup Maximilian Reising von Reisinger pages 28 to 30.
  2. ↑ Náměstí Svornosti No. 12, the so-called Golden Crown House . In: Online encyclopedia encyklopedie.ckrumlov.cz about Krummau .
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Oswald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumann, Anton Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of the Hohenfurth Monastery in South Bohemia
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Český Krumlov in Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1801
Place of death Hohenfurth (Vyšší Brod) , Kaplitz district