National Fame
The Bavarian royalty had spotted Anton Adner, for the inauguration of a brine device at Berchtesgaden. Then, Adner was presented in 1814, at the Frauenkirche cathedral of Munich for Maundy Thursday, as the oldest man of Bavaria. For the occasion, Adner participated in the rite of foot washing. Then, he also attended a theatre for the first time in his life.
During that event, the 110-year-old Anton Adner also managed to climb the 92-meter-high southern tower of the cathedral. A portrait, the Frauenturm, had been engraved for commemorating such deed, but it was destroyed by the World War II bombings. Nonetheless, a painter of Munich, named Kleiber, did a paint of it, which nowadays is exhibited in the museum of Berchtesgaden.
In 1817 at the alleged age of 112 Anton Adner met Emperor Maximilian I who took over for his medical care.
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