Balthasar Philipp Rosenmeyer

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Portrait of Balthasar Ph. Rosenmeyer, around 1780
1975 reconstructed facade of the Rosenmeyer house on Markt 19 in Warburg
The Stern house, Sternstrasse 35, seat of the Rosenmeyer family and descendants 1787–1920
Tomb of the son Antonius Joseph Rosenmeyer (1768–1850)

Balthasar Philipp Rosenmeyer (born May 11, 1714 in Brakel ; † August 7, 1800 in Warburg ) was a German businessman and local politician in Warburg.

Life

The Rosenmeyer family was mentioned in the Minden bishopric as early as 1644 . Balthasar Philipp's grandfather, Burchard Rosenmeyer , was born in Vössen near Holtrup on the Weser in what was then the Hochstift Minden. He was married to Kiliane Hatteisen . Their son Franz Theodor Rosenmeyer († 1730), bailiff in Brakel, had married Maria Agnes Elisabeth Meyer († 1739) in 1699 . They had two children: Marianne († 1789) and Balthasar Philipp , who grew up in Brakel.

Balthasar Philipp became a businessman and moved to Warburg around 1740. There he married the widow Anna Maria Runthen, who came from a long-established Warburg family Koch. The couple acquired the Aleman'sche Haus on the west side of the old town's market square, now number 19, had it demolished and replaced in 1746 with a stately three-storey new building. He had the following inscription with a chronogram carved into the sill beams :

OMNIA CVM DEO ET NIHIL SINE EO
SISTE GRADVM INVISOR, DIVINO LIMINA HONORI,
HAEC TIBI LVDIBRIO SED MIHI STRVCTA BONO:
LIMINA ENIM SINE TE NVLLA STRVENDA, SCIAS .:
TE C TA V ORA X LI GN I S HAE C STR VC TA NE C A V FFERAT I GN I S
NE C VI BRENT TA L ES F VLMI NA Q V AESO L ARES
HAS AEDES BALTHASAR PHILIPPVS ROSEMEYER ET ANNA MARIA RVNTHEN CONIVGES EXSTRVI CVRAVERVNT. 9nâ AVGVSTI

Translation:

Everything with God and nothing without him
Keep pace, visitor and shine on divine honor,
This is built for your pleasure and me for the good:
Because you should know that nothing can be built without enlightenment
Covered with wood, let this building not fall to the voracious fire
You should still wash it away with raging thunderstorms.
The couple Balthasar Philippus Rosenmeyer and Anna Maria Runthen took care of the construction of this house in August (1746).

In Warburg, the family ran an apparently successful wine and spice trade . In addition, Balthasar Philipp was also active in local politics. In 1747 he was deputatus in the then still independent council of the Warburg old town, 1748/49 treasure collector , 1750–1752 Camerarius and - with interruptions - 1753–1786 finally mayor of the old town.

His marriage to Anna Maria Runthen had two daughters. In 1763 he married again. With Maria Anna Clara Margarethe Spancken he had eight sons, seven of whom reached adulthood, including Ignaz Rosenmeyer (1764-1830), Philipp Rosenmeyer (* 1766), Antonius Joseph Rosenmeyer (1768-1850) and Ferdinand Rosenmeyer (* 1771) .

In 1787, Balthasar Philipp from Wormeln Monastery , which had run into financial difficulties as a result of the Seven Years' War and for which his niece Humbelina Rosenmeyer had been abbess since 1783 , acquired the Stern house , a former aristocratic court in New Town in Warburg. The Rosenmeyer family moved to Neustadt and used the manorial house as a retirement home. In 1804 his son Antonius Joseph acquired the neighboring Mönchehof , the former Warburg branch of the Hardehausen monastery, which was secularized in 1803 .

Balthasar Philipp's wife Maria Anna survived her husband for almost 30 years. She bequeathed the Stern house along with the adjoining Stern garden , the grandmother’s garden and some other properties to her eldest sons as the main heirs, with Ignaz the upper floor and Antonius Joseph the first floor.

literature

  • Westfalenblatt Warburg : The owner was elected to the mayor's office 14 times , Warburg 1974
  • Franz Mürmann: The Golden Star. Series of publications of the Museum Association Warburg, Vol. 1, Warburg 1988, pp. 15–28

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://gedbas.genealogy.net/person/show/1126018349 GEDBAS
  2. ↑ City Archives Warburg, Protokollum camerale of 29 July 1746 and Council Minutes 1746
  3. ↑ http://gedbas.genealogy.net/person/show/1171173312 GEDBAS
  4. ↑ Mürmann 1988, pp. 22-28
personal data
SURNAME Rosenmeyer, Balthasar Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1714
PLACE OF BIRTH Brakel
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1800
Place of death Warburg