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“Boder Jogal” and his wife Gertrud

A “Båder (=barber surgeon) Jågerl” (dialect for Jakob) is a grotesque figure in the clothes of a soldier in the middle of the 18th century. It wears a tricorn and a powdered plait.

A proclamation paper of 1872 that was distributed on the occasion of the marriage of the “Jågerl “ and his wife reports that the head of the “Jågerl” was carved by a carver from Passau in 1742. The two daughters of Mr. Dogmayr from Bad Ischl liked the head so much that they took it back home. Jågerl got married for the first time in 1773. In 1809 the French kidnapped his wife and took her to France. He then had to move to the trader Martin Kogler. In 1876 the by then grumpy Jågerl was married to the virgin Gertraud Grisnmayr. Gertraud was the model of all virgins made by the sculptor Josef Eisl called “Wagner Sepl” in Eglmoos No. 24. Barber surgeons were known to be charlatans and miracle doctors. Ethnologically they often had the role of a witchdoctor. ”Båder-Jågerl” also was present at the birth of a son and heir in the district of Gries/Bad Ischl. The figures date back to the 19th century, but the background story is a lot older.