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Priests and Preachers

In former times, if a wealthy peasant had more than a son who could take over his farm after his death, they sent the second eldest one to a higher level school to study theology and to become a priest. Thus, they always had direct theological assistance and a bonus for their afterlife – they thought.

Likely, this also happened to Johann Baptist Hutsteiner learned and studied at the royal lyceum in Passau since 1839 and got his ordination in Passau on 13.8.1852.

First he had been cooperator (preacher) in the cathedral of Passau, St. Stephan, until 1858. From 1859 to 1870 he acted as cooperator in the parish Fürstenzell. There, he was reported heavily carrying  water buckets during a fire which burnt a house in Pilzweg (Fürstenzell) in April 1870.

On 2nd of November 1870 he became expositus in Haardorf (Osterhofen).

In January 1874 he was appointed pastor in Gottsdorf, a neighbouring village to his home town Wegscheid, where he acted until his death in November 1889.

By the way: his sister Anna Hutsteiner, who never unmarried, died as a virgin in Haardorf in 1872. Likely she was his parish housekeeper, also quite a common behaviour, that unmarried sisters of priests moved with him.

Piety

Some of our Hutsteiner family members were evidently very pious. Some donation letters to the church and parish in Wegscheid have remained from them. Thomas Hutsteiner was one of them, also he donated several times. With his first  donation letter from 1791 he donated 50 Gulden and asked to a hold a church mass for him and his wife every year on 27th of October. For the pastor there were 45 Kreuzer (1 Gulden = 60 Kreuzer), for the Organist 12 Kreuzer and for the acolytes 2 Kreuzer calculated, which resulted in about 50 years of church masses prepaid.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 1600 Wolfgang Hutsteiner donated candles for the church in Pfarrkirchen i.M. / Upper Austria.

 

 

A bank director

Hutsteiner Hans,born 1884 in Stuttgart, was director of the Allbank, later Dresdner bank, in Stuttgart after WW2.

 

As already written before one of our family members had been a famous painter: Rudolph Huthsteiner.

Just look at: http://hutstein.org/2019/07/28/a-famous-painter/

But there is also one more painter in our family, already well known in Germany: Chris Huthsteiner.

And there are some musicians:

Thomas Hutsteiner from Austria was at the drums for the band Prochoice from 1994 to 1999 

Michael Hutsteiner is an Austrian composer and engineer who specializes in electronic and computer music.

 

Getraud Hutsteiner had been actress in the 1940s : An actress | HUTSTEIN Origins

An actress

Gertraud ‘Traudl’ Hutsteiner had been a theater actress in the city of Hof, Bavaria, in the 1940s.