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The Ortner House on Erdinger Schrannenplatz is a gem.
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Theodor Ortner was mayor of Erding 140 years ago at a time of great economic boom.
A street is also named after him.
A search for clues.
Erding – During his time in office, Erding experienced a great economic boom: Theodor Ortner (1823-1919).
A street is also named after the former mayor.
Today we are introducing the personality behind it in our series.
The quiet residential street, named after Theodor Ortner, is located in the northeastern part of Erding near the new development area “Am Poststadl”.
The future mayor was born on November 1, 1823 in Bogen near Straubing and learned the profession of gold worker (today a goldsmith).
In Erding, at the age of 34, he married the widow Magdalena Greckl, who also brought the house at Schrannenplatz 6 into the marriage.
So the former Greckl House became the Ortner House, which at that time still had a relatively plain facade.
Only later were decorative elements including coats of arms and artistic window decorations added.
Theodor-Ortner-Straße branches off from Friedrich-Herbig-Straße in Erding and leads into a residential area.
The flat yellow building on the left was once home to the Schranner dance café.
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The widow Greckl brought two children into the marriage, and she had four more children with Theodor Ortner.
She died in 1882, exactly one year after her husband was elected mayor of Erding.
The widower remained unmarried for the remaining 37 years of his life.
In 1881, the people of Erding elected the goldsmith as mayor, and he remained mayor for 18 years until 1899. During his term in office, the city experienced an economic boom that was previously unimaginable.
This so-called Prince Regent period is considered Bavaria's last golden age, in which Erding also experienced years of deep peace, stability and progress.
An outstanding innovation was the construction of the municipal power station at the Reißermühle in Altenerding.
As the first three-phase system, it was technically one of the most advanced plants in Bavaria, with which the city and the district could be quickly electrified.
During Ortner's term of office, the first gymnasium was built, a new municipal slaughterhouse was built and the household school of the poor school sisters (today Heilig Blut girls' secondary school) was opened, as well as an agricultural winter school was founded.
Goldsmith Theodor Ortner was mayor of Erding from 1881 to 1899.
© Repro: Peter Gebel
In 1900 the mayor was granted honorary citizenship.
After the great upswing, he then had to witness how prosperity was destroyed again by the First World War and the subsequent inflation.
Theodor Ortner died on April 5, 1919 at the age of 95.
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Ortner's son Theodor maintained the goldsmith tradition in the Ortner house, but he soon leased the business, which was run by Fritz Matisseck until the 1970s.
Today there is an internet provider and the Tchibo store in the Ortner House.
A grandson of the mayor also contributed to retaining the term Ortnerhaus.
Ludwig Ortner, born in 1896, studied medicine and ran his practice on Schrannenplatz.
A sign on the house provided information about the branch: “Practitioner and obstetrician Dr.
Ludwig Ortner”.
The doctor died in 1980. One of the mayor's daughters, her name was Elise, married the neighbor's son Raimund Kraus and established the close connection between the two families.
This means that the book about the history of the Kraus am Eck fashion house by senior partner Hermann Kraus also contains a lot of information about the Ortner family.
The two families are not far apart in the St. Paul Cemetery either.
The Ortner grave is in the immediate vicinity of the Kraus grave.
There are many apartment blocks on Theodor-Ortner-Straße in Erding; the street branches off from Friedrich-Herbig-Straße as a dead end and was a much-frequented address until the end of the 1980s.
The legendary Schranner dance café, also known as the “Lonely Hearts Club”, was located there.
The contact was made very quickly in the Schranner - and if necessary, the boss herself arranged the dance partners, you can read on social networks, where many former visitors still mourn the good times.
Sources: Hermann Kraus: “A house tells its story” and others.