Theodor von Hallberg-Broich

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Theodor von Hallberg-Broich

Karl Theodor Maria Hubert Isidore Freiherr von Hallberg to Broich , also known as the hermit of Gauting (* 8. September 1768 to house Broich at Jülich ; † 17th April 1862 at Schloss Hörmannsdorf in Landshut ) was a German writer, explorer and eccentrics from the Hallberg family . The Hallbergmoos colony was founded in Hallberg .

origin

Theodor von Hallberg-Broich was the son of the court chamber councilor Tilmann Peter von Hallberg-Broich and his wife Anna Rosa Quadt von Wickrath. The colonel in the Spanish service, Franz von Hallberg-Broich , was his older brother; the Bavarian lieutenant general Karl Theodor von Hallberg-Broich his cousin and Heinrich Theodor von Hallberg († 1792), the electoral-Bavarian ambassador in Vienna , a cousin of his father.

Life

Personal coat of arms as holder of the Grand Cross of the Bavarian Order of St. Michael

Even as a child, Hallberg developed an urge to travel further afield . At the age of 10 he escaped from school in Cologne with a boatman on the Rhine to England. There he earned his living as a sailor and came to Trieste as such . There he was recruited for the cadet school in Vienna . At the age of 15 he entered the service of Duke Karl Theodor as a lieutenant in Jülich . Sponsored by his employer, Hallberg-Broich attended the military academy in Metz for several years .

After the death of his father in 1793 he moved into his family's ancestral palace. From here he traveled to England, Scandinavia, Russia, Constantinople, Syria, Greece, Sicily, Tunis and Spain. Further large trips were to be added well into old age, which took him to Persia and India. In 1810 Theodor von Hallberg-Broich bought the Attenbach house in Hennef. As a general, he made a name for himself in 1814 as the Feldobrist of the Bergisches Landsturm , when he deserted eighty and arrested marauding Cossacks in the Lohmar and Wahlscheid area .

In 1811 he married the 15-year-old Caroline Freie von und zu Olne. The marriage, in which the young woman suffered from the peculiarities of her husband, had two children. If one believes the zoologist and natural scientist Franz Gistel , Hallberg-Broich's first biographer, he is said to have asked his wife to show his love again and to have instructed her to jump out of the window on the first floor of the Birkeneck Castle, which they inhabit . She died in Bad Adelholzen in September 1832 , allegedly from the consequences of the fall, according to Gistel, and from a feverish illness according to another source. In Constantinople he married his second wife Jolanta in 1837, the daughter of an Armenian merchant, who died shortly after the wedding of the consequences of a plague.

Hallberg-Broich and his family had already settled in Bavaria in 1819. He acquired Fußberg Castle , which he lived in until 1826. His extraordinary way of life and his appearance contributed to the nickname of the Hermit von Gauting , although he by no means led a hermit existence. Numerous articles in newspapers and magazines such as "Bayrische Volksfreund", "Der Nationalkorrespondent", "Der Reiseende Teufel" or "Der Bayerische Landbote" are known from his time in Gautingen. His project to drain and cultivate the moorland northeast of Munich also matured in Gauting. For this purpose he changed his place of residence and settled in Schloss Birkeneck near Freising. The place Hallbergmoos , which was created during the drainage campaign, bears his name in his honor, as does the Hallbergstrasse there . King Ludwig I, his duo friend, supported Hallberg's activities very generously, which is why many streets in the community are named after members of his family (e.g. Ludwig-, Theresien-, Maximilian-, Mathilden- and Ottostraße).

Hallberg-Broich is considered to be the author of the so-called Gautinger address of devotion to King Ludwig I , who at the end of 1831 polemicized in sometimes drastic terms against the liberal-constitutional opposition in the Second Chamber of the Bavarian Estates Assembly. In the Augsburger Tagblatt edited by the opposition journalist Valentin Österreicher , an article by the liberal MP Dr Franz Lang from Mischenried , which was later reprinted several times, appeared on March 20, 1832 , entitled "Die Gautinger", who criticized the blind devotion of the residents and Hallberg-Broich .

As a writer, Hallberg-Broich left almost 30 books. Mainly travel reports, but also those about his politically controversial, anti-constitutional, political assessments. He also wrote a cookbook, stories and a prayer book for the Hallberg colony - apart from his countless journalistic articles and comments in the Munich press.

His outward appearance caused a sensation his entire life. In addition to a white beard that reached to his belt, he wore fancy uniforms richly hung with medals, often also a fez . In old age he went blind and died in the no longer existing Schloss Hermannsdorf in Lower Bavaria at the age of 94.

In 2013 an apple variety was named after him.

Honors

Works

  • Journey through Scandinavia: Denmark, Sweden, Norway in 1817. Cologne 1818
  • Rhapsodic views and motifs for poor colonies. Frauendorf 1829.
  • Journey through Italy. Augsburg 1830.
  • France - Algiers: for the good of the colony. Munich 1837.
  • Journey to the Orient: to the best of the Hallberg colony in the Freisinger Moos. Stuttgart 1838.
  • Germany, Russia, Caucasus, Persia 1842–1844. Stuttgart 1844

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ North Rhine-Westphalian Main State Archive Düsseldorf, Governor General Berg, No. 1684, Sheet 131 ff.
  2. ^ Website on the Hallbergmoos community and its founder
  3. ↑ Web site on the Freiherr von Hallberg apple ( memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.obstzentrum.de
personal data
SURNAME Hallberg-Broich, Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Broich, Karl Theodor Maria Hubert Isidor Freiherr von Hallberg to; Gauting, hermit of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, explorer and eccentric
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH at Jülich
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1862
Place of death at Landshut