Ruprecht Pullacher
Ruprecht Pullacher (also Puellacher , first name Rupprecht ) († June 11, 1563 in Sankt Joachimsthal ) was a Habsburg - Bohemian mint master , collector and royal councilor. As a mint master from 1544 until his death, he played a key role in the minting of the Joachimstaler in the mountain town of Sankt Joachimsthal in the Ore Mountains .
Live and act
Pullacher left the first traces of his work in Linz , where he was appointed mint master of the Linz mint in 1534 , after having worked there as a mint administrator for a number of years. In this new role he enjoyed great trust from King Ferdinand I , especially since he had ties to the Fuggers . In 1544, Pullacher was appointed to succeed the mint master Wolfgang Roll in Joachimsthal, supported by Ferdinand I, who advocated an extraordinary bestallbrief. In addition to this position, he remained mint master in Linz, where his brother Wolfgang managed the business until the mint closed. He also kept his residence, the noble estate Weingarting .
He minted coins in Joachimsthal for almost 20 years. His mint mark was a bridled camel's head, which also appeared in his coat of arms. Since 1546 the Joachimsthal coins showed a year. In Joachimsthal, too, he was a highly respected personality, whom Mathesius also commemorates several times in his Sarepta . He was also a member of numerous commissions. In Bleistadt he took over at the instigation of Ferdinand I. Anton Rotter from Leipzig to Erzkauf, the later continued by his son Georg. After Pullacher's death, his brother Wolfgang took over the office of mint master for a short time.
Pullacher was married three times, the longest being Lerchenfelder, born Anna from a Regensburg patrician family. He had five sons, two of whom died shortly after birth, and two daughters. His son Georg was tithe in Joachimsthal from 1591 to 1596 . His two daughters married in a double wedding on November 6, 1559 in St. Joachimsthal: Ursula married Georg (Görg) Geitzkhofler von Gailenbach at Hausheim and Most (1526–1577), mint master and royal collector, and Salome married Hans Hienerkopf from Neukirch .
From Pullacher and his family - including the deceased - an image of an epitaph as well as his seal and his handwritten signature have come down to us. He is buried in the hospital church in Joachimsthal, where his tombstone is the only one to be set directly, but without inscription, in the stone floor of the hospital church.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Puellacher, Rupprecht (in the family article) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 24th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1872, p. 58 ( digitized version ).
- Eduard Fiala: Allocations to Bohemian mint masters and mints . In: Numismatic Journal . tape 28 (born 1896), 1897, Rupprecht Pullacher (also Puellacher), p. 235–246, panel XIV ( digitized ).
- Hans Lorenz: Pictures from Alt-Joachimsthal , St. Joachimsthal 1925, p. 238.
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Wilflingseder : The noble seat Weingarting in Linz . In: Historical yearbook of the city of Linz 1971 . 1972, p. 20th f . ( online (PDF; 3.2 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
- ↑ WR Zartner: The lead mining in the western Bohemian Erzgebirge, Bleiberg . In: lotus . tape 76 , 1928, pp. 80–81 ( PDF (773 kB) on ZOBODAT ).
- ↑ first marriage register of St.Joachimsthal 1531-1554 , Editor: Lutz Kühnl; Association of Sudeten German Family Researchers, 2012 yearbook, 2852/1471/961
- ↑ From R. Pullacher's epitaph (digitized version )
- ↑ AquaViva, p. 17 (PDF; 4.1 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pullacher, Ruprecht |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Puellacher, Rupprecht |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Habsburg-Bohemian mint master |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century or 16th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1563 |
| Place of death | Saint Joachimsthal |