Wallner Panzl memorial
The Wallner-Panzl monument in the municipality of Matrei in East Tyrol is a war memorial erected in 1909 . It was built in memory of the leaders and victims of the coalition wars in Matrei, with the design by Virgil Rainer . The war memorial is one of the 42 listed objects of the municipality of Matrei in East Tyrol ( list entry ).
location
The Wallner Panzl monument is on the church square in the center of Matrei in East Tyrol. It was built on the western wall of the parish church of Matrei in East Tyrol and the Matrei cemetery .
history
At the end of May 1809, after the victories of the Tyroleans against the French troops during the coalition wars, Andreas Hofer entrusted Anton Wallner with the organization of national defense in the Salzburg Mountains, Pinzgau and Pongau . Johann Panzl also took over the leadership of the 2nd Saalfelden Rifle Company and became Wallner's sub-commander. After fighting in Salzburg, Wallner and Panzl returned to Matrei at the end of October 1809 to organize the resistance in East Tyrol. They took part in the fighting in the Iseltal, which led to the peace of Unterpeischlach . After the occupation of East Tyrol, Wallner and Panzl were sentenced to death in absentia. Wallner had already fled before, and Panzl was smuggled out of his hiding place. Instead of Wallner and Panzl, the hostages provided by the Matrei community, the butcher Johann Weber and the Sieberer Franz Obersamer, were executed on December 28, 1809.
monument
The Wallner Panzl memorial was erected on the church square in Matrei in 1909 to mark the 100th anniversary of the struggle for freedom and was consecrated on September 26, 1909. The mighty stone stele by the stonemason Lardscheider has a semicircular end and two relief niches separated by a column with a cube capital. The bronze reliefs were created by Virgil Rainer. They show Johann Panzl on the left (inscribed "JOHAN = PANZL / 1786/1862") and on the right Anton Wallner (inscribed "ANTON = WALLNER 1768/1810 / V.RAINER"). Below the bronze reliefs there is an inscription plate in memory of the executed hostages (inscribed "FRANZ OBERSAMER / 1783-1809 / JOHANN WEBER / 1778-1809")
literature
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): The art monuments of the political district of Lienz. Part III. Iseltal, Defereggental, Kalsertal, Virgental. Verlag Berger, Horn 2007 ISBN 978-3-85028-448-6 (Austrian Art Topography, Volume LVII), p. 127
- Michael Forcher (Red.): Matrei in Osttirol. A parish book for the 700th anniversary of the first mention as market 1280–1980. Tyrolia, Matrei 1980, 1996, pp. 120-125
Coordinates: 47 ° 0 '2.2 " N , 12 ° 32" 28.2 " E