Josef Rosenauer
(1735 - 1804) | Technician |
He
came into service of the Schwarzenbergs as an apprentice of the
head of the Červený Dvůr pheasant hunters in 1748. He started his
career in 1759 in the post of a lower forest officer. After
finishing his studies in Vienna, he attained the title of princely
engineer of the Schwarzenbergs in 1771. In 1774 he became a
provincial surveyor. He was appointed to the directorship of boat
transoprt of the Schwarzenbergs in 1791 when the first part of the
Schwarzenberg
navigational canal was put into operation. The construction of
this canal started in 1789, its designer being Josef Rosenauer. In
addition to this most well-known construction, Josef Rosenauer also
directed a canal for wood transport on the Aist river in Upper
Austria, and he also designed the Vchynicko-tetovský canal. He
wanted to modify the Vlatav River bed under the Devil´s Wall (see
Rock
Formations Čertova stěna and Luč) for wood transportation, but
that project remained unfinished. Rosenauer drew the projects to
his water constructions himself, and some of them have been
preserved. There are two memorial tablets on house No. 118 in
Chvalšiny,
one of them dated 1928 and the other from 1991. Josef Rosenauer
owned a house at Latrán
No. 54 in Český Krumlov.
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Further information :
Museum
of Schwarzenberg\'s channel in Chvalšiny