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The Mautner Schlössl

15. November 2017/in Georg II. Anton Mautner von Markhof /by Viktor Mautner Markhof

Das Mautner Schlössl um 1910

Mautner Schlössl Gartenseite 1955

Built by Georg I Heinrich Ritter Mautner von Markhof in 1900 for his son Georg II Anton was originally built in the secessionist style, but was baroqueized by him after the death of his father in 1909/10 and the original flat roof was changed to the current hipped roof. The side wing, which originally housed the stables, was also extended. Since then, the former family residence has been popularly known as the “Mautner Schlössl”. The farmyard with garages and stables was located behind the residential building with its extensive park. On the site of today’s Pollak farm were the training track and paddock for brother Theodor I‘s trotting horses. Georg Anton died in 1934 and his widow Emilie (née von Reininghaus) only moved to Gaaden when the first bombs were dropped on Floridsdorf in 1944. After the war, the building was bought by the municipality and initially served as a replacement for the badly damaged office building. In 1953, the local history museum moved into the premises and since 1960, the first floor of the beautiful building at Prager Straße 33 has served as a district museum for the Floridsdorf district. The coats of arms of the Mautner Markhof and Reininghaus families still adorn the main entrance today.

Die Wappen derer Mautner von Markhof (links) und von Reininghaus (rechts) über dem Eingang des Mautner Schlössls

If you fancy a tour, the doors are open every TU 15:00 – 18:00 and SO 09:30 – 12:30. If you ask for the manager, he will be happy to show family members the documents about Mautner Markhof and the brewery that the archive houses. These are mainly around 40 – 50 photographs with old shots of the St. Georg brewery and the Mautner Schlössl. There are also a few pages of text in a brochure, as well as some posters that were used for an exhibition.

Heimatmuseum Frontseite, 2013

Heimatmuseum Parkseite, 2013

Gedenktafel im Mautner Schlössl

Written by Viktor Mautner Markhof

Family Tree / Genealogy

3. March 2017/in Family Chronicle /by Viktor Mautner Markhof

A few years ago, I decided to offer the members of our family the opportunity to explore their widely ramified relatives online via a systematically prepared family tree. We only include descendants of Adolf Ignaz Mautner Markhof and their spouses among the family members, which is why the genealogy can only be made accessible to this limited group of people.

Anyone who belongs to this group of people and is interested can request access to vmm-family.com at any time by contacting Viktor Mautner Markhof at vmm.family@yahoo.com.

Viktor

Written by Viktor Mautner Markhof

Coat of arms of the House of Reininghaus

9. November 2016/in Reininghaus/Line 1 /by Beate Hemmerlein

Reininghaus Wappen gemalt vom Wappenkünstler und Heraldiker Ernst Krahl (* Dresden 1858 –† Wien 1926)

The Reininghaus coat of arms was certified on March 21, 1884. Submissions were examined by the so-called coat of arms censor (in this case Mr. von Lucki), who had to determine whether it corresponded to “the art and the state of honor”. The description in the document papers was made twice, the second time in slightly different wording by the coat of arms censor.

Special feature: The coat of arms was probably described upside down at the time, as the description shows the horse on the left and the tower on the right.

Wappenantrag Johann Peter von Reininghaus, 21.3.1884

Das Wappen von Johann Peter von Reininghaus

Dr. Paul and Maria von Reininghaus

4. November 2016/in Reininghaus/Line 5 /by Beate Hemmerlein

Maria von Reininghaus, née Eisl¹ (*Graz 11.8.1860 / † St. Radegund 23.9.1945), the young widow of Gustav I, married Dr. Paul Reininghaus on 22.8.1888 in Schloss Rabenstein in her second marriage. (*Graz 20.4.1859 / † Gainfarn 18.10.1920), the second son of Julius and Emilie Reininghaus and cousin of her husband. She brought the children Emy and Gusti into the marriage, followed by their children Werner, Margit and Harald Reininghaus.

¹The Eisl family had moved from Radkersburg to Graz in 1820, where Alois Eisl (1794 – 1854) was able to build up an influential banking business. His marriage to Josefa (née Lister) produced the children Cornelia, Reinhold and Adolf. Reinhold Benedikt (1830 – 1908) was a gifted engineer, built the viaduct near Sessana, the Graz-Fiume railroad line and designed and calculated the equestrian statue of Archduke Karl on Heldenplatz. He is also at the top of the Golden Book of Engineering/Graz. He and his wife Maria (née Winkler) were the parents of six children: Cornelia, Reinhold, Alfred, Maria “Mitzi”, Hermann and Martha.

In total, the Eisl family married into the Reininghaus/Mautner Markhof family three times.

Maria “Mitzi” was married in her first marriage to Gustav I, the eldest son of Johann Peter and Therese von Reininghaus. This marriage produced two children, Emilie “Emy” (married to Georg II Anton Mautner von Markhof) and Gustav II. After Gustav’s early death, Maria married his second cousin Paul Reininghaus, a son of Emilie and Julius Reininghaus.

Maria’s youngest sister Martha married Theodor I Ritter Mautner von Markhof in 1896 at the age of 21.

Both brothers’ Hermann Eisl, married to Ernestine (née Mayer), was in turn the father of Elisabeth, Herwarth, Melitta and Herbert. Gerhard Mautner Markhof married his cousin Elisabeth in 1926 (Elisabeth’s father Hermann and Gerhard’s mother Martha were siblings).

The Eisl family crypt has been under the care of the MMFG since 2017.