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Adalbert Lanna the Elder

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216: 345: 84: 141: 552: 479: 288: 417: 432:. This more than a kilometer long bridge was then the longest bridge in Europe for the next sixty years. In 1850, a law enabling the establishment of Chambers of Commerce and Industry was issued in the entire monarchy, and Adalbert Lanna the Elder became the founder and first president of České Budějovice Chamber of Commerce and Industry. A year later, České Budějovice Chamber of Commerce and Industry sent him to the Vienna Customs Congress, where he successfully 20: 116:. He returned home and worked as a crew member on ships sailing salt from České Budějovice to Týn nad Vltavou. He was also gradually taught shipbuilding by his father, he was in charge of selecting suitable trees in the forests and managed their processing. In 1825, he passed the exam authorizing him to be in charge of river shipments. In the same year, he sailed out for the first time with his own cargo along the 539:. The palace was built right next to the Prague Railway Station, which Lanna had helped to build thirteen years before. Because of the move, he also sold his south Bohemian estate in Vrcov. He had already sold the castle in Poříčí with the surrounding land five years earlier to obtain funds for the construction of the Kladno foundry. 248:
In May 1836, the first child of the Lanna couple was born in their house near the shipyard – a son Adalbert Lanna the Younger. The whole family was gradually gaining wealth as the value of all goods that traveled from Budějovice further down the Vltava river tripled just between the years 1832
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However, the economic results of the Prague Ironworks Company fell short of expectations, and the construction of the Western Railway was further postponed. The company gradually lost its ability to repay its debts. The general meeting of the company in 1862 therefore decided to transform into a
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Adalbert's mother died in June 1832, half a year later the Lanna family celebrated a double wedding. Adalbert's sister Terezie Lanna the Younger married a lawyer Tomáš Mikosch, and Adalbert married Filipina Peithner from Lichtenfels two days later. After a year and a half of marriage, Filipina
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In 1848, he was elected the leader of the České Budějovice national guard, which was established together with other guards after Saint Wenceslaus convention. In the same year, a daughter was born to the Lannas, whom they named Filipina after her aunt, who died prematurely. Abolition of
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at the beginning of the 18th century. He was the second child of shipmaster Tadeáš Lanna and Terezia Lanna Sr. Like his older brother Jan and younger brother Ferdinand, Adalbert attended the České Budějovice gymnasium after high school. Jan went to Prague to study law in 1818, and the
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Lanna's health began to deteriorate, but he continued to devote himself to business. Lanna's family company together with the Klein brothers took part in the construction of the railway between Liberec and Pardubice and together with Jan Schebek in construction of the railway between
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As early as the 1930s, Adalbert Lanna the Elder was leased all river structures on the Vltava river between České Budějovice and Prague, and was responsible for their construction and maintenance. In 1833, Lanna's gained a lease of all river structures on the Vltava river and
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Zum dankbaren Andenken an die Rettung aus den Wasserfluthen bei dem am 2. Juli 1824 hier vorgefallenen Schiffsbruche. Der Vorsicht Gottes ewig weises Walten, Ergründet nie der Mensch in seinem Wahn, Was sich durch Zufall scheinet zu gestalaten, Ist ein Ohngefaehr - ist ewiger
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In English: In grateful remembrance of the rescue from the weir during the shipwreck here on 2 July 1824. The providence of God rules wisely forever, it does not influence man in his decisions, what happens by chance is thanks to God without danger, that's the eternal plan.
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river, for a river cruise along the Vltava river. This cruise was intended to help Lanna demonstrate the necessity and finished and planned regulatory constructions. In the same year, he seized the opportunity of Emperor Francis II's visit to České Budějovice on his way to
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has been preserved thanks to a contemporary lithograph by F. Wolf. This costly undertaking certainly contributed to the fact that Adalbert Lanna the Elder was one of the six burgers of České Budějovice who were awarded a distinction by the emperor.
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With the vision of the imminent construction of the Western Railway and in anticipation of easy sales, the Prague Ironworks Company began to invest massively in the expansion of its foundry. The number of blast furnaces increased to six, a new
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and steam-powered blowers were built. In order to have better supervision over the entire company, Adalbert Lanna the Elder decided to move with his family to Prague, where Jan Ripota built for him a new representative palace in
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had been discovered not long before. Apart from his older partners from the coal company, he invited the sugar maker Florentin Robert and the industrialist Hermann Dietrich Lindheim and together they founded
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was fully finished. Adalbert Lanna the Elder managed to secure a lease for the operation of the entire railway for a few years, which helped him greatly in importing salt from Austrian
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In his native České Budějovice, the Monument of Adalbert Lanna the Elder was commissioned shortly after his death. The author of the monument Franz Pönninger unveiled it in 1879.
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joint-stock company, and Adalbert Lanna the Elder, who was attributed the greatest share of the blame for the company's indebtedness, was forced out of its management.
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On 2 July 1824, the then nineteen-year-old Adalbert Lanna the Elder sailed on a ship loaded with merchant goods on the Vltava weir in Horní Lipovsko (today part of
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in Kladno. Therefore, in 1853, Lanna founded the company Buštěhrad Railways, which during the next two years established a railway connection between Kladno and
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built right next to his shipyard and organized a crowd of his employees (river crew members) to hail the glory of the imperial couple. The appearance of this
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His son and successor Adalbert Lanna the Younger had his remains transferred seven years after his death to the newly built family tomb in Prague's
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in 1852 and placed on house No. 13 in Horní Brašov street. A new cross was placed in Lipovsko, which currently stands on a rock above the river.
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In memory of this event, Lanna had a cast iron cross erected on a marble plinth with a description of the event. The inscription on it read:
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for the extension of the northern end of railway from Linecké předměstí part of České Budějovice through the city centre all the way to the
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paper-maker František Josef Pachner. In his new seat in Poříčí, he rebuilt the local brewery so that he could brew beer using the new
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and mechanical engineering. He was however expelled for disciplinary reasons, after disagreements with the director of the institute
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river trade with salt and wood, Adalbert Lanna the elder expanded his business into other areas such as construction, coal mining,
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Významní členové a spolupracovníci Vlastenecko-hospodářské společnosti v království Českém: (k 200. jubileu založení VHS)
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In the summer of 1850, another important bridge in Prague was constructed with the participation of Lanna's company –
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Adalbert Lanna the Elder with his son Adalbert the Younger and his wife Josefína, Josef Kriehuber's gouache from 1847
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was constructed by his company. The completion of this bridge established a direct road connection between
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sixteen-year-old Adalbert Lanna the elder followed him two years later. Unlike his brothers, he chose the
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Karel Chotek and k. k. court engineer Hermenegild von Francesconi who carried out regulatory work on the
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Adalbert Lanna the Elder was also aware of the importance of political favor. In 1835 he invited the
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suddenly died of internal bleeding. Half a year later, Adalbert married her younger sister Josefína.
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and participated with the Klein brothers in the construction of the railway between Prague and
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In addition to salt, Adalbert Lanna the Elder also began shipping construction wood and
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replacing the previous lessee Heřman Martinoves. He even tried to submit a proposal to
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in the Bohemian Forest, which was canceled after eleven years of operation at a loss.
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House of the Lanna family in Čtyři Dvory, undated oil painting by Jan Václav Kautský
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VOLF, Miloslav and the Czechoslovak Agricultural Museum (Prague, Czech Republic).
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and used this trip to learn about operations in the coal and iron regions of
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in Prague began. Lanna's company supplied all the material. Wood was shipped from
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Vojtěch Lanna the Elder was born on 23 April 1805 in Čtyři Dvory (today part of
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and České Budějovice navigable at his own expense in exchange for fifteen-year
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Lanna: příspěvek k dějinám hospodářského vývoje v Čechách a v Československu
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and others. It is the largest tomb in the area of the Olšany Cemetery.
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on river transport along the given section, but his proposal was rejected.
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rivers. A year later, he received a contract for the construction of the
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Zámeček Poříčí v Boršově nad Vltavou. Malá historicko-genealogická práce
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and 1838 and a large part of the profits went to the Lanna family.
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Monument of Adalbert Lanna the Elder in a park in České Budějovice
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From 1843 until his death Lanna was a corresponding member of the
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that he would make the section of the upper Vltava river between
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of the parish near St. Henry's Church in the New Town of Prague
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C. k. privilegovaná pražská továrna na porcelán a zboží hliněné
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horse-drawn carriage railway between České Budějovice and Linz
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However, his main goal at that time was to apply his foreign
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district. At the beginning of the 1930s, the construction of
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C. k. Vlastenecko-hospodářská společnost v království Českém
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and also became a co-founder of an unsuccessful project of
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in his Kladno foundry, which he connected by railway with
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Festive gate at Lanna's Shipyard in České Budějovice, 1835
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Due to the erosion of the bank, the cross was moved to
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In November 1840, Adalbert Lanna the Elder purchased
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Czech
Czech
industrialist
Vltava
iron processing
brewery
Týn nad Vltavou
Kladno

České Budějovice
České Budějovice
Upper Austria
Prague polytechnical institute
mechanics
František Josef Gerstner
Vltava river
Elbe river
Hamburg
house of Schwarzenberg

gouache
Josef Kriehuber
graphite
Český Krumlov
horse-drawn carriage railway between České Budějovice and Linz
salt mines
Kerschbaum
Bohemian land gubernium
Green Branch Inn

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