Moises Lackenbacher

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•The Lackenbacher family (sometimes we find their name in the form Lachenbacher) was a determining factor in the town's commercial life from 1790 to 1835.

According to Henrik Villányi, Lackenbacher Moses was born around 1750 in Kanizsa. His father, Lackenbacher Isacher Bernath, migrated from Burgenland (from the settlement of Lakonpack) to the city when Kanizsa ceased to be a castle district (beginning of the 18th century).

Besides Moses, he had three more sons: Heinrich, Ignaz and Israel (he died in 1824).

In the beginning, they marketed the produce of the Batthyány estate, then as a supplier to the army, they first expanded their operations to the counties of Zala and Somogy, then Baranya, Sopron and Vas.

Moses founded the wholesale company Lackenbacher M. et Társai with his brothers. Its purchasing center was in Kanizsa, its office and distribution center (due to their extensive operations) in Vienna. By 1805, the Lackenbacher house had already become one of the largest food suppliers in the monarchy. His companion carts carried food for the army from Milan to the Inn Valley. In 1808 Lackenbacher Moses received the title of Emperor-Royal Patent Wholesaler.

After his death in 1814, the company was continued by Heinrich (Moses' brother). He built this house and its warehouses. . The office of the wholesale company also operated here.

Heinrich died in 1837, and the business was closed in the same year.

In June 1851, in the list of major Kanizsa merchants prepared by the Lower Austrian Handicrafts Association (Nied. Oesterr. Gewerb. Verein), there is only one mention of the Lackenbachers: Lachenbacher Jos. és Társa deals in liquor production and produce trading. According to the surviving documents, Lachenbacher IS and Co. applied for permission to establish a liquor production plant in 1843, promising to employ 12 people. I have no information on where and how long the business operated.

However, even in 1863, this house was called the Lachenbacher house.

•The Vienna office was taken over by the sons of Moses Kanizsa (Bernath 1789, Heinrich 1784); effectively. It soon surpassed the Kanizsa company in importance. Both received imperial nobility (1824) and converted to Catholicism.

•I note here that with the increase in the number of wholesalers, a new branch of occupation appeared in the city.

Hundreds of shoppers (Krobotenfahrer, i.e. carriage messengers) began to travel around Muraköz and Croatia, buying up produce for their clients.

The development of the railway network put an end to the migration routes of the characteristic, long carts pulled by heavy horses. Their descendants worked as agents by train for a few decades, even then as agents of the city's most important industrialists. Their return home every Saturday caused a significant increase in traffic on the railway line in Gyönyesi.