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Theresia Helm , married Theresia Bruckner (born April 6, 1801 in Sierning ; † November 11, 1860 in Ebelsberg ), was the mother of the composer Anton Bruckner .

Life

Neuzeug tavern, house where Theresia Helms was born, Theresia-Helm-Str. 28
Old rectory of Wolfern

Theresia Helm arrived on April 6, 1801 in Sierning, Nz. 1 (= Neuzeug no. 1), to the world and was born on April 7, 1801 at 10 [pm] early in the parish Sierning baptized, godparents were merchants , namely H [err] Jos. and Ms. Theresia […] Bauhofer . Her father, Johann Ferdinand Helm, was the administrator, host and hostess of the rafters in the inn "Zum Krößwang" in Neuzeug 1 (now: Taverne Neuzeug, Theresia-Helm-Straße 28), her mother Anna Maria, born Mayrhofer, was also a native from new stuff.

Theresia grew up in a wealthy household because her father had ample property, received income as the administrator of the Gschwendt estate in Neuzeug, ran the above-mentioned inn and also had the knife and publisher justice . Her mother died when Theresia Helm was ten years old, whereupon her father married a second time, but he himself passed away after a few years. Now her stepmother also married a second time, in 1821, after which Theresia Helm had stepparents from that point on.

1817 she has been a housekeeper in the rectory Wolfern detectable led in 1820 temporarily her widowed paternal uncle the budget, be but has returned to the parsonage Wolfern 1822, where she her future husband, the elder by ten years teacher Anton Bruckner (sen.) got to know. On September 30, 1823, she married Anton Bruckner (senior) in Ansfelden , with whom she had eleven children, only five of whom survived. At the baptism of their first child Joseph Anton , who was born on September 4, 1824 at 4:15 a.m. in Ansfelden and at 5:00 p.m. on the same day in the parish church for St. Valentin was baptized, her origin is mentioned again. After the death of her husband, who died in 1837, Theresia had to vacate the official apartment within two weeks and moved to Ebelsberg with her four younger children, her remaining possessions that fit on a handcart, and her blind sister-in-law to Ebelsberg , where she worked as an assistant maid and laundress worked while she placed her son Anton Bruckner in the St. Florian Monastery as a choir boy.

Theresia Bruckner, b. Helm, on her death bed, November 11, 1860

Theresia Bruckner died on Sunday, November 11th, 1860 in Linz-Ebelsberg (Ebelsberg No. 70) of tuberculosis . Anton Bruckner, who had supported his mother financially, adored her and always had a photo of her hanging in his respective apartment, then had a photographer brought from Linz to have his mother photographed on her deathbed. He wrote to his sister Rosalia: “Dear Sali! Unfortunately I have to report to you that the matter had a surprising outcome. Our good mother went to the better afterlife today (November 11th) at 4 a.m. The corpse is Tuesday morning, and I hope you will. Perhaps the brother-in-law will also come… ” As Bruckner's pupils report, the photograph by the Linz photographer was then hung up behind a green curtain in his apartment. He prayed in front of this picture of his dead mother, especially in times of crisis. Theresia Bruckner was buried in Ebelsberg near Linz, but was reburied in 1924 and buried in her husband's grave in Ansfelden .

Anton Bruckner mentioned his mother several times in his letters. In a letter to Leopold Hofmeyr in Steyr z. As he remarked in 1882 that he on 15 October ( St. Teresa of Ávila ) always [...] d [as] my late mother so dear feast day celebrating [...]. He informed his friend Josef Kluger that in 1872, in memory of his mother, he had composed the Andante (Misterioso) in the Adagio of his 3rd Symphony on her name day.

Honor

In honor of Theresia Helm, the market town of Sierning named a street after her.

literature

  • Andrea Harrandt, Otto Schneider (Ed.): Letters 1852–1886. Vienna 1998 ( Anton Bruckner, all works in 24 volumes, edited by the General Directorate of the Austrian National Library and the international Bruckner Society , under the direction of Leopold Nowak ), Volume 1, ISBN 3-900270-42-2 .
  • Franz Graefinger : Anton Bruckner. Building blocks for his life story. Reinhard Piper & Co. , Munich 1911.
  • Gerhard Hartmann: Additions to Anton Bruckner's ancestral list. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 124a, Linz 1979, pp. 135–141 (PDF)
  • Elisabeth Maier : Anton Bruckner as Linz cathedral and city parish organist. Aspects of a calling. (Anton Bruckner, Documents and Studies. Volume 15). Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-900270-72-8 . (With a contribution by Ikarus Kaiser: The cathedral and city parish bandmaster Karl Borromäus Waldeck and the organ of the city parish church in Linz. )
  • Elisabeth Maier: hidden personality. Anton Bruckner in his private notes. (Anton Bruckner, Documents and Studies. Volume 11, 2 parts). Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-900270-60-0 .
  • Elisabeth Maier: Anton Bruckner; Stations of a life . With the collaboration of Renate Grasberger and an essay by Wolfgang Winkler. Linz 1996, ISBN 3-85214-654-2 .
  • Heinz Schöny : News about Anton Bruckner's ancestors. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 108, Linz 1963, pp. 251–255 (PDF)
  • Othmar Wessely : Contributions to the family history of Anton Bruckner. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 100, Linz 1955, pp. 143–151 ( PDF )

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Sierning parish archives, baptismal register 05, 1785–1812. In: ICARUS4all, Matricula, [1] , picture number S61XXX05_00038.
  2. ↑ Pfarrarchiv Sierning, Taufbuch 10, 1785–1812, p. 75. In: ICARUS4all, Matricula, [2] , image number S61GGGG10_00172.
  3. ↑ At Wessely: […] Herbergsvater der Flößer u. Host "Zum Krößwagen" [sic] in Neuzeug ; Othmar Wessely : Contributions to the family history of Anton Bruckner. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 100, Linz 1955, p. 149, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  4. ↑ Elisabeth Maier: Hidden Personality . Anton Bruckner in his private notes, Vienna 2001 (Anton Bruckner, Documents and Studies, edited by Theophil Antonicek in collaboration with Moritz Csáky , Andrea Harrandt and Elisabeth Maier, Volume 11, Part 1), p. 523.
  5. ^ Ansfelden parish archives, marriage book 3, 1819–1826, p. 5. In: ICARUS4all, Matricula, [3] , image number: A20HHHH03_00006.
  6. ^ After Anton survived and grew up: Rosalia, called Sali (* February 17, 1829; † May 5, 1898 in Vöcklabruck ), Josefa, called Pepi (* March 13, 1830; † July 3, 1874 in St Florian ), Ignaz , called Nazi (* July 28, 1833, † January 4, 1913 in St. Florian) and Maria Anna called Nani (* June 27, 1836, † January 16, 1870 in Vienna ; Nani led Bruckner from 1866 in Linz and Vienna Household). In: Elisabeth Maier: Anton Bruckner as Linz cathedral and parish organist . Aspects of a calling. With a contribution by Ikarus Kaiser : The cathedral and city parish bandmaster Karl Borromäus Waldeck and the organ of the city parish church in Linz , Vienna 2009 (Anton Bruckner, Documents and Studies, ed. By Theophil Antonicek, in collaboration with Andreas Lindner and Klaus Petermayr, Volume 15 ), P. 60f.
  7. ↑ Theresa Bruckner had married the daughter of Ferdinand Helm , a gewes [enes] Executor in Neuzeug , Sierning community and Maria born, Mayrhofer . Ansfelden parish archive, baptismal register 04 (IV), births 1819–1826. In: ICARUS4all, Matricula, [4] , picture number 04_00009.
  8. ↑ Elisabeth Maier: Hidden Personality . Anton Bruckner in his private records, Vienna 2001 (Anton Bruckner, Documents and Studies, edited by Theophil Antonicek in collaboration with Moritz Csáky, Andrea Harrandt and Elisabeth Maier, 2 volumes, Volume 11, Part 1), p. 524.
  9. ^ Elisabeth Maier: Anton Bruckner as Linz cathedral and parish organist . Aspects of a calling. With a contribution by Ikarus Kaiser: The cathedral and parish bandmaster Karl Borromäus Waldeck and the organ of the parish church in Linz. Vienna 2009 (Anton Bruckner, Documents and Studies, edited by Theophil Antonicek, in collaboration with Andreas Lindner and Klaus Petermayr, Volume 15), p. 60.
  10. ^ Upper Austrian regional archive: Linz - Ebelsberg, deaths - duplicates 1860. In: ICARUS4all, Matricula, [5] , image number PfmF090 - 00609.
  11. ^ Elisabeth Maier: Anton Bruckner as Linz cathedral and parish organist . Aspects of a calling. With a contribution by Ikarus Kaiser: The cathedral and parish bandmaster Karl Borromäus Waldeck and the organ of the parish church in Linz. Vienna 2009 (Anton Bruckner, Documents and Studies, edited by Theophil Antonicek, in collaboration with Andreas Lindner and Klaus Petermayr, Volume 15), p. 11.
  12. ^ Anton Bruckner in Austria , Anton Bruckner Institute Linz 1981, p. 7 (pdf)
  13. ↑ Letters 1852–1886 , Anton Bruckner Complete Edition, Volume 1, p. 199.
  14. ↑ August Göllerich : "Vienna: 1886–1881". (Anton Bruckner - A picture of life and creativity, posthumously edited by Max Auer , Volume 4, 1st part). Gustav Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1922–1936, p. 260.
  15. ↑ street map Neuzeug ; Retrieved December 9, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Helm, Theresia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruckner, Theresia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mother of the composer Anton Bruckner
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Sierning
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1860
Place of death Ebelsberg