The history of our Gasthof Alt Paznaun (1)

1681
The house was documentary mentioned for the first time. In the beginning it was part of the „Idhof“ one of the five fees of the monastery “Marienberg” in the Vinschgau – South Tirol – (now Italy)



1758
The so called „Big House of the inner village“ has been built by the tradesman Edmund Kirschner together with his wife M. Katharina Zangerl, daughter of the judge of the village and the customs collector Christian Zangerl. In the following years splendid wooden parlours (= Stuben) with epigraphs testifying the God pleased life of this period have been built into the house.



1759
Oldest “Paznauner Bauernstube” of Ischgl with the epigraph on the door-frame „Quo Vadis ? Mori



1765
"Ischgler Stube" with the epigraph on the door-frame „O Gott und Herr zu deiner Ehr



1766
"Stube Alt Paznaun" with the epigraph on door- and windows-frames „Es kommt der Tod – Darauf das G’richt – Höll oder Himmel – warten auf Dich – und dies o Mensch dau’rt ewiglich



1767
"Handelsherrenstube" with the epigraph on the door-frame „Memento Exitus Tui



1789
The tradesman of Ischgl, Franz Anton Lechleitner, purchased the upper part of the house, No.12. He had two sons, Josef Franz Adam and Johann Nikolaus, both tradesmen in Prague (CZ). The latter named “Prager Herr” who spent old-aged his summer holidays in the “Big House of the inner village” staying in the "Handelsherren Stube"



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