Adolf Freiherr von Büsing-Orville

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Adolf Freiherr von Büsing-Orville (born June 17, 1860 in Frankfurt am Main , † April 13, 1948 in Locarno ) was a very wealthy entrepreneur and builder in the German Empire at times .

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His great-grandparents were Jacob Philipp d'Orville (1773-1842) and Anna Gertrud Pottgießer (also Pottgeisser) (1783-1820). Together with his brother Peter George d'Orville (also Pierre) (1778-1829) he founded a branch of the Bernard brothers in Regensburg , which later became the headquarters.

His maternal grandfather was Adolph Heinrich d'Orville (1808-1883), member of a family of tobacco manufacturers in Offenbach am Main , the 1835 Emilie Louise Rosine Krafft (1810-1880), daughter of Philipp Casimir Krafft (1773-1836), also a tobacco manufacturer in Offenbach and Louise Christiane Heintz, married.

His father was Friedrich Alexander Alverich Büsing (born June 6, 1820 in Südende / district of Rastede / Ammerland district ; † August 22, 1894 in Hamburg). At the age of 38, he married 21-year-old Bertha Justine d'Orville on August 21, 1858 in Offenbach am Main (born June 8, 1839 in Offenbach am Main; † October 4, 1914 there).

Adolf Freiherr von Büsing-Orville was married to Louise Wilhelmine Pauline Aurelie Laura, Countess von Bothmer (born January 14, 1885), who was 25 years his junior. She was the daughter of the Bavarian general Felix Graf von Bothmer (1852-1937). This second marriage ended in divorce in 1924.

Bernardbau in Offenbach (from 1883)

The property and the company passed to Adolf Freiherr von Büsing-Orville, son of Bertha d'Orville and the Hamburg businessman Friedrich Büsing. From 1883 he had large administrative and warehouse buildings, which are known today as the Bernard Building and which house the city archives, the House of City History and various offices, built on the opposite side of the Herrnstrasse from the Büsing Palais .

Büsing-Palais in Offenbach (1899–1920)

From 1899 on, Baron Adolf von Büsing d'Orville, who was ennobled as a baron in 1901, had the architect Prof. Wilhelm Manchot redesign the old, traditional company headquarters into a manorial residence in the Neo-Rococo style. The work of Manchot, who was a professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, dragged on until 1907, as the rooms remained inhabited during the renovation. Comforts that were rare in Offenbach at the time were now finding their way into the buildings: central heating , lighting and bathrooms. The gate to the inner courtyard of the Büsing-Palais created by Franz Brechenmacher was shown at the world exhibition in Chicago in 1893 . In 1920 the baron offered the city's Büsing Palace for sale. The snuff factory of the Bernard Brothers company, which had been based in Offenbach since 1733, moved to Kinzing near Regensburg in Bavaria .

Zinneberg Castle near Glonn / Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg (1898–1927)

Zinneberg Castle with its elongated wing with a central projection was built by Leo von Klenze in the classical style at the beginning of the 19th century and renovated by Friedrich von Thiersch in 1904/05 . To the west are the remains of the late medieval (1640) castle, renovated around 1905 and after a fire in 1938; on the eastern part a transverse stepped gable building with a passage, built by Thiersch around 1905 in the style of the Inn-Salzach town houses; This was followed by an orangery in baroque forms, also built by Thiersch in 1904. It has an English-style park, south and north, from the 19th century, and a Monopteros , around 1900, south of the castle. There is a chapel on the north-eastern park wall, around 1900. During the economic crisis of 1923 , the goods for 735,000 Reichsmarks passed into the possession of the Good Shepherd Sisters on September 14, 1927 . Today, under their sponsorship, the castle serves as a youth welfare facility for girls from difficult backgrounds and also houses a kindergarten.

Schlossbrauerei Egmating des Zinneberger beer

On the night of August 20-21, 1911, the economic buildings of Adolf Freiherr von Büsing-Orville's castle brewery Egmating burned . In order to secure and increase their sales, he bought up surrounding farms such as Berganger, Schönau, Moosach (old landlord), Wildenholzen (cellar landlord), Bruck, Glonn (post landlord), shooting range.

Stegmühle as a waterworks

In 1903 he bought the "Stegmühle", a sawmill from Glonn, and had it converted into a waterworks over the next few years. So he secured the water supply for his Zinneberg Castle.

Sonnenhausen stud farm

In 1901 he commissioned the Munich architect Wilhelm Spannagel to build the new Gestütshof Sonnenhausen. The stable was designed for breeding horses for around 50 half-bloods. There was also a sick stable and bathing rooms for the horses. For equestrian festivals he had a riding arena built with a spectator gallery and a music box. In 1905 he had the stud farm significantly enlarged by the construction of a riding hall by the star architect Friedrich von Thiersch .

Lower Lake Estate

In 1907 he commissioned Friedrich von Thiersch with the conversion and expansion of the Niederseeon estate into a riding stables.

Rifle house

In 1910 he had a new fire shooting range with a shooting range built for the Glonn-Zinneberg fire rifle association, which still held its shooting at Zinneberg Castle.

Steinsee

The Steinsee - it belonged to the Petzinger fishery in Wildenholzen - bought Adolf Freiherr von Büsing-Orville and immediately surrounded his new property with a picket fence. The earlier audience remained locked out. As a result, there was an "open letter" in which the baron was asked to reopen "the seaside resort of the common people".

Purchase of courtyards and floors

Gradually he bought up farms and farmland in the vicinity. In some cases, plots of land or entire farms were offered for sale by the local farmers. In 1912, his entire estate already comprised around 900 ha, later even 1200 ha. He brought a total of 38 farms and houses into his possession. A citizens' committee against large estates has already been formed .

Chateau de Prangins castle near Nyon / Switzerland (1925–1940)

This property, originally built in the 17th and 18th centuries by Baron Guiger Prangins, was acquired by Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte II (1830–1893), son of Jerome Bonaparte and the cousin of Emperor Napoleon III in 1859 . After several changes of ownership, the last Emperor Karl and his wife Zita bought their home here in 1919 . From 1925 to 1940 it was owned by Baron Adolf von Büsing-Orville. After it was confiscated by the military, Prangins Castle has been the French-speaking seat of the Swiss National Museum since 1998 and presents the recent history of Switzerland with its exhibitions and events.

Place of death

Adolf Freiherr von Büsing-Orville died on April 13, 1948 in Locarno on Lake Maggiore as a Liechtenstein citizen.

  • 1883 Bernard building in Offenbach

  • 1883 Bernard building in Offenbach

  • Architect Wilhelm Manchot (1844–1912) Büsing-Palais

  • Büsing-Palais Offenbach

  • Entrance Büsing-Palais Offenbach

  • Scheintor Park Büsing-Palais Offenbach

  • Fountain Park Büsing-Palais Offenbach

  • Monopteros in Büsingpark Offenbach

  • Sonnenhausen stud farm

  • Sonnenhausen stud farm

  • Sonnenhausen stud farm

  • The Steinsee

  • Château de Prangins

  • Muralto waterfront

Web links

Books

  • Ernst Ernst; Büsing-Palais Offenbach / Main. For the opening of the rebuilt house on September 21, 1984, Offenbach, Magistrat, 1984
  • Koller, Wolfgang; Twelve hundred years of Glonn. History and stories. Images and image selection by Laszlo Schwarzenberger, Munich-Glonn. Allgäuer printing. 1974
  • Etching: Offenbach, Büsing Palais by Kunstverlag Christoph Falk, artist Bloch
  • Schnupftabakfabrik, Martin Angerer Hrsg., Museums der Stadt Regensburg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-935052-65-8
  • The tobacco and manufactured tobacco products, including d. History, d. Cultivation, d. Nature u. Production, d. Treatment, d. Chemistry and Classification, d. Trade, d. World statistics, d. tax, social u. hygienic importance d. Tobacco, and d. Processing of the same to cigars, cigarettes, smoking, chewing u. Snuff; Leipzig: Bernh. Friedr. Voigt, 1922, 2nd rework. Ed.
  • 100 years of the Glonn Monastery School: 1902–2002; Past and present / Rudolf Gerer, Ed .: Culture and Enhancement Association Glonn, 2002
  • Swiss National Museum, Chateau de Prangins, Discovering History, 1998, ISBN 3-908025-81-8
personal data
SURNAME Büsing-Orville, Adolf Freiherr von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Büsing-d'Orville, Adolf Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1948
Place of death Locarno