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Villa Falkenhorst, Thüringen, Austria
Falkenhorst and the Douglass-Poellnitz-Jehly dynasty (Translated
from the original in German)
You gave her the name
Falkenhorst because the falcons and faith circled high above her with
wild cry. (Grete Gulbransson, loved shade)
In 1837 John
Douglass, who came from old Scottish nobility in Thuringia, founded the
“k. k. Privileged cotton spinning spiney and Webery ”(together with A.
Escher and P. Kennedy). At that time, John and his wife Jane Douglass
also had their place of residence "Falkenhorst": not far from the
factory, the stately villa, the style features of English country houses
and which represents a beautiful example of Vorarlberg architecture from
the time of industrialization and the Biedermeier.
In 1838 John
Sholto Douglass was born on Falkenhorst. In addition to his work as a
manufacturer, Sholto achieved a national reputation, especially as a
pioneer in the field of alpinism and as a local researcher. His
influence in the merging of the German and Austrian Alpine Association
is just as legend as the climbing of the Zimba with the baron of
Sternbach. His research on the early history of Vorarlberg still pays
attention to science today.
With his wife Wanda of Poellnitz-she
came from a German-English aristocratic connection-Shholto had a total
of four children. Norman Douglas, born in Falkenhorst in 1868 and died
on Capri in 1952, has been handed down to posterity as a travel writer.
Sholto's father -in -law Ernst von Poellnitz resided at Babenwohl Castle
in Bregenz (part of today's state library). Poellnitz actively
participated in the foundation of the Vorarlberg State Museum
Association and the emergence of the Protestant community in Vorarlberg.
The contacts of Douglass to public life were numerous, which is why
Falkenhorst repeatedly became a focus of social life in Vorarlberg. Due
to his early death, which he chose him in the hunt in the Klostertal in
1874, the name Douglass quickly became myth. Wanda married the Bludenz
painter Jakob Jelyy in 1879. Her daughter Grete, who later married the
well-known Norwegian cartoonist Olaf Gulbransson, contributed to the
glory of the Dynasty Douglass-Poellnitz-Jeelly [Dynastie Douglass-Poellnitz-Jehly].
Thuringian textile factory The Thuringian waterfall and the
associated possibilities to build a spinning mill bought the old smithy
and the area around the waterfall in 1832.
Further basic
purchases followed in 1834 and the construction of the spinning mill was
finally started in autumn 1835.
In 1837 it was started with part
of the company. From 1850 John Douglass was the sole owner of the
company.
His son John Sholto Douglass took place in the early
1960s when John Douglass retired to England or Scotland.
In 1904,
his son John Douglass Junior finally sold the property to Heinrich
Wintsch Junior, who in turn sold the property to the textile
manufacturer Ing. Rudolf Kastner five years later.
In 1985 the
municipality of Thuringia bought the factory situation, which was
partially converted into a residential complex.
See also:
• Douglas of
Tilquhillie • The Douglass Hut
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