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Because of unrequited love, Georg Essl went out into the world, began collecting all sorts of things to understand history - now the museum and association in the Gailtal are celebrating and have many plans for the future.
The life of its founder is as interesting, exciting and surprising as the GailtalMuseum: Georg Essl I, whose ancestors came from Saxony and came to the Gailtal because of their Protestant faith, came from an idyllic youth as a goatherd on the Reißkofel to the imperial army, but returned to the farm after the death of his brother, only to later go abroad because of an unrequited childhood love. He also got to know Egypt and Palestine with the Jewish traveling teacher Rabbi Weissmann. A love of history grew in the young Gailtaler, which would later culminate in a passion for collecting.
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