Andreas Jordan

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Andreas Jordan

Andreas Jordan (born August 25, 1775 in Deidesheim ; † November 21, 1848 there ) was a Bavarian politician and winemaker. He was a member of the Second Chamber of the State Assembly of the Kingdom of Bavaria and a pioneer in the introduction of quality viticulture in the Palatinate . Jordan was the mayor of his hometown Deidesheim and ran a winery there.

family

Andrew Fountain

Jordan's father was Peter Jordan (1753–1795). He had moved from Roschbach to Deidesheim and married Apollonia Reichardt († 1797) from Forst , who came from a wealthy family.

Jordan had four siblings, including Peter Heinrich († 1830), a winery owner, and Maria Barbara (1783-1842). In 1806 he married the wealthy Josefine Stengel (1789–1834), whose family came from Haigerloch . His wife's half-sister was the noble Anna von Szent-Ivanyi (1797–1889), who also lived in Deidesheim and ran a winery. The cousin of the two was Barbara Tillmann (1818–1889) from Freinsheim (daughter of Johann Baptist Tillmann, the mother's brother) was the second wife of the politician Heinrich von Gagern .

A close connection between the Jordan and Buhl families from Ettlingen was established through three weddings : Jordan's sister Maria Barbara married Franz Anton Christoph Buhl (1779–1844), member of the Baden Chamber of Representatives . Their son Franz Peter Buhl (1809–1862) married Jordan's daughter Josephine (1813–1872) in 1836; Jordan's only son Ludwig Andreas Jordan (1811-1883) married Franz Peter Buhl's sister Seraphine in 1838.

Jordan's youngest daughter Auguste Margarete (1816–1889) married Friedrich Georg Deinhard in 1844, the son of Johann Friedrich Deinhard , who founded the wine wholesaler Deinhard & Co in Koblenz , which still exists today as a sparkling wine and winery.

Four years after Jordan's death, his son Ludwig Andreas Jordan, who like his father was now mayor of Deidesheim, and his family donated the Andreasbrunnen in honor of Andreas Jordan. The fountain is on Deidesheim's market square.

Life

Early years

Jordan was born on August 25, 1775 in Deidesheim. He studied philosophy for a few semesters at the Electoral Academy in Mainz and got to know the methods of viticulture in the nearby Rheingau , where Germany's best wines were produced at the end of the 18th century. When the French people's armies invaded Deidesheim in 1794, almost all of their property was robbed of his family. Soon after, his parents died. Jordan had to take over his parents' winery and run it alone, as his siblings were not yet grown up.

Viticulture

Jordan made use of his experiences, especially the knowledge of the value of late harvest of noble rotten grapes, and also implemented quality efforts in his winery. Appropriate measures to increase the wine quality were waiting for the right harvest time , planting high-quality grape varieties , especially Riesling , the selection - this meant separating the grapes according to quality class, as well as separating the grapes according to location . The careful treatment of the wines in the cellar was also part of it. Jordan also lavishly designed artificial southern slopes that favored the ripening of the grapes. As a new marketing measure, in 1802 he used the “Deidesheimer Geheu” location to label his wines for the first time in addition to the vintage and grape variety and he was the first to advertise the advantages of the Palatinate quality wines to the wine trade.

Jordan was able to achieve quality wine prices with the sale of his wines, which exceeded the usual prices by three to four times, and thus became a wealthy man; In 1813 Jordan was one of the most highly taxed citizens of the Dürkheim canton . This enabled Jordan to expand his winery considerably through constant acquisitions. The free land market introduced under the French benefited him; Jordan, on the other hand, made little use of the auctions of former church goods initiated by the French. In 1816 Jordan bought the former aristocratic residence Ketschauer Hof , which was diagonally across from his winery and from then on formed the center of the Jordan winery.

With his measures, with which he achieved enormous qualitative improvements in his wines, Jordan achieved an outstanding significance for the entire Palatinate viticulture and is considered the founder of quality viticulture in the Palatinate; He was a role model for the other winegrowers in the area, who emulated Jordan's quality efforts, so that around 1830 quality winegrowing was common on the Mittelhaardt .

Political offices

Jordan's reputation also helped him when he took on political offices, for example Jordan was mayor of Deidesheims (1819-1834) and represented Mittelhaardt in the Chamber of Deputies (1831-1843). At the beginning of his term of office supported the radical-liberal attitude of Friedrich Schülers , later he made less of an appearance.

death

Gravestone in the Deidesheim cemetery

When Andreas Jordan died on November 21, 1848, he had not drawn up a will. Therefore, his property was divided equally between his three children. In addition to the vineyards, this also included fields, meadows, gardens, houses, government bonds and shares.

Jordan's brother Peter Heinrich had also run a winery; he had died in 1830. He left his property to the children of his sister Maria Barbara, namely Franz Peter Buhl and his sister Seraphine, who was married to Jordan's son Ludwig Andreas Jordan . Before Andreas Jordan's death, Franz Peter Buhl and Ludwig Andreas Jordan had jointly continued his winery under the name of P. H. Jordans Erben. Now - after the death of Andreas Jordan and in the course of the division of his inheritance - the situation made it possible to finally divide up the inheritance of Peter Heinrich Jordan.

By dividing the hereditary estate of the two brothers, the so-called Jordanian division or Jordanian inheritance division, three wineries were created: The Jordan House remained with around 62  acres of vineyards, which was now run by Jordan's son Ludwig Andreas. The second was the Buhl house under the direction of Franz Peter Buhl, whose vineyard property also comprised around 62 acres, and the third was the Deinhard house with around 25 acres of vineyards, which was managed by Friedrich Georg Deinhard. These three wineries still exist, today they are called Privy Councilor Dr. von Bassermann-Jordan , Reichsrat von Buhl and von Winning . The three wineries subsequently developed independently, although they essentially had common interests.

The Neustadt entrepreneur Achim Niederberger acquired all three wineries between 2002 and 2007, which were once again in one hand; Today they belong to the group of companies he founded. In this way Niederberger reversed the Jordanian division in a certain sense.

literature

Web links

Commons : Andreas Jordan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Alfons Schäfer: Oberrheinische Studien , Volume 2, 1973, page 317; Excerpt from the source
  4. ^ Gagern, Wilhelm Heinrich August Freiherr von (with the Tillmann family relationships). Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ↑ Kermann, tendencies of economic ... , p. 232
  6. ↑ Kermann, tendencies of economic ... , p. 232
  7. ↑ Kermann, tendencies of economic ... , p 231
  8. ↑ a b c B .:  Jordan, Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, p. 507 f.
  9. ↑ Ludwig von Bassermann-Jordan: The Holy Roman Empire's wine cellar . In: The Great Palatinate Book . Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1959, p. 38 .
  10. ^ Fritz Schumann : Jordan, Andreas (1775-1848). Society for the History of Wine eV, accessed on January 22, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Fritz Schumann: From the wild grape to the wine cooperative . In: Kurt Andermann, Berthold Schnabel (Ed.): Deidesheim - Contributions to the history and culture of a city in the wine country . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-0418-4 , p. 312 .
  12. ↑ Kermann, tendencies of economic ... , p. 232
  13. ↑ Jordan, Ludwig Andreas. House of Bavarian History, accessed on January 22, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Kermann, tendencies of economic ... , p 233
  15. ↑ Kermann, tendencies of economic ... , p 233
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jordan, Ludwig Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mayor and winemaker in Deidesheim
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Deidesheim
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1848
Place of death Deidesheim