lithograph by Franz Würbel (1822-1900)
Ernst Karl Heinrich, Count Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (18 June 1830, Vienna - 21 August 1903, Ternitz) was an Austrian nobleman, landowner, and politician.
Ernst Karl Heinrich, Count Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (18 June 1830, Vienna - 21 August 1903, Ternitz) was an Austrian nobleman, landowner, and politician.
The Hoyos family was originally from Spain and emigrated to Austria in the 16th century, to serve the Emperor Ferdinand I, who was also of Spanish origin. His grandfather, Johann Ernst Hoyos-Sprinzenstein , was an Imperial Count. [1]
He was an Imperial-royal Chamberlain and, in 1861, was appointed by Emperor Franz Joseph I as a hereditary member of the Herrenhaus of the Austrian Reichsrats. He occasionally served as its Vice-President. From 1874 to 1883, he was a member of the building commission for the new Austrian Parliament Building; constructed on the Ringstraße.
In 1864, he agreed to donate the "Stixensteinquelle" (spring), near the Burg Stixenstein in Lower Austria, to the City of Vienna. This made it possible to build the First Vienna Mountain Spring Pipeline, the city's first major source of safe drinking water. The spring had been passed down in his family since 1555.
His most notable achievement was the reconstruction of the partially ruined Rosenburg Castle. The restorative work, which was partially based on representations from the Topographia Windhagiana (1673), was begun in 1859 and lasted for over two decades. [2] It was made partially accessible to the public before the end of the 19th century, and is still a major tourist attraction.
He was a Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece and, after donating his spring, was named an Honorary Citizen of Vienna.
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