Waldkirchener wheel deflector
Waldkirchener Radabweiser is the name given to figures made from local granite referring to historical people. It is a special type of wheel deflector .
In the middle of the 19th century, the stonemason Matthias Hausbäck in the Lower Bavarian town of Waldkirchen created a granite wheel deflector in the form of a dashing young man in Biedermeier costume , presumably representing a marriageable, young boy from the area who was on an unsuccessful bridal gaze ; the "Eternal Bride" was born. The "Stoanerne Hans" as he was also called, was regretted by the passers-by, often also because of his sad expression, so that one should definitely end his hopeless bridal show and bring him a young woman.
When the town was raised in 1972, the “Stoanernen Gretl” on the opposite side of the street was a wedding woman from the hand of the Waldkirchen artist Manfred Werner. The dashing Trachtenmadl with the Passau gold bonnet can look him in the eye, but they don't come together, the distance is far too big.
In 1999 another symbolic figure was carved in stone with the “Herr Marktrichter ” and placed on the lower market square in front of the former town hall. In memory of the market rights that were granted early, “Market Judge Days” take place every two years with a re-enactment of events from that time.
In 2000, the Waldkirchen landlord with the wheel deflector in front of the Gasthaus Lampersdorfer was given a monument for his role as a communication carrier.
The Waldkirchen market square is the location of the weekly market. A wheel deflector was dedicated to market woman Maria Hackinger and was set up in 2008.
The portrait of the surgeon Johann Caspar Staudenhöchtl, who lived and worked in Waldkirchen until 1835, has stood in front of the Marien-Apotheke since 2009.
On the occasion of the “1000 years of the Goldener Steig ” anniversary in 2010, the salt merchants were honored. At a corner of the house on the lower market there is a statue with the typical mule costume, jacket, hooded cape and bicorn. His companion, the pack horse, looks over his shoulder. In Waldkirchen the mule drivers stopped on their way to Bohemia .
Opposite him is the gatekeeper since October 1st, 2011. At the exit of the market square, he guarded the market town of Waldkirchen, which was surrounded by a circular wall, and its gate. When the curtain wall was partially demolished after the great fire in 1862, the gate system also fell victim to the pickaxe. The figure refers to the guard duty of bygone times.
On September 8, 2012, a wheel deflector placed a monument to the merchant and cloth merchant Joseph Crusilla at Marktplatz 21. With his business relationships that reached as far back as Italy in 1810, he was able to achieve enormous sales with his weaving products. He was a "highly esteemed trader, who at that time already carried the name of his home town of Waldkirchen far into the country and even beyond its borders." The tenth and youngest stone was completed in October 2018. It shows Johannes Antonius Loraghi (1711–1782), who from 1746 worked for 35 years in Waldkirchen as pastor and dean .
The "Stoanerne Hans" - The Eternal Wedding
The "Stoanerne Gretl"
The "Mr. Market Judge"
The "Herr Wirt"
The "market woman" - Maria Hackinger
Johann Caspar Staudenhöchtl - surgeon not Bader
The salt mover with his pack horse
The "goalkeeper" - gatekeeper
The "merchant" - Joseph Crusilla
Web links
- Homepage City of Waldkirchen
- Alt-Passauer-Goldhaubengruppe eV
- Marktplatz Brunnen Radabweiser, spherical image, format: swf File size: approx. 7 MB
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dean Johannes A. Loraghi is the tenth wheel deflector. Passauer Neue Presse , October 28, 2018, accessed on November 23, 2018.