Paul Praxl

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Paul Praxl (born May 17, 1935 in Volary ) is a Bavarian historian, archivist and local researcher.

Praxl had to leave his home Wallern as a child and settled in Waldkirchen on the Bavarian side of the Bohemian Forest . He developed into an expert on the cross-border Mäumerweg, known as the Goldener Steig . In addition to his professional activity as archivist for the Freyung-Grafenau district , he made a contribution to the redesign of the Bohemian Forest Museum in Passau .

Works

Selected Works:

  • On the history of the Goldener Steige. A research report. In: Negotiations of the Historical Association for Lower Bavaria. 97, Landshut 1971.
  • The Prachatitz estate in Wyschehrad. In: East Bavarian border marks. Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde 15, Passau 1973.
  • Salt trade and mule traffic. 2nd edition, Waldkirchen 1989.
  • The golden path. 3rd edition, Morsak-Verlag, Grafenau 1993, ISBN 978-3-87553-420-7 .
  • Golden path. From the mule track to the region. In: Goldener Steig cultural region. Munich 1995, ISBN 3-926303-45-X .
  • Castles and palaces in the Freyung-Grafenau district. Freyung 1998.

Awards

In 1977 Paul Praxl's work was honored with the Culture Prize of the City of Passau for the Bohemian Forests. On March 1, 2012, at the request of the government of Lower Bavaria, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on ribbon.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Praxl in the Historical Lexicon of Bavaria. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ Announcement of the awards from March 1, 2012. In: bundespraesident.de, March 1, 2012, accessed on October 28, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Praxl, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, archivist and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Volary