Christian Adolf Nölting

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Christian Adolf Nölting, probably 1848 on the occasion of his silver wedding anniversary
Henriette Nölting, probably 1848

Christian Adolf Nölting , also Adolph (* July 24, 1794 in Lübeck ; † December 15, 1856 ibid) was a Lübeck merchant, royal Swedish consul and art patron.

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Nölting came from a Hanseatic merchant family based in Hamburg and Lübeck. His grandfather Georg Friedrich Nölting founded a trading house in Lübeck in 1753 that was continued by his father Friedrich Nölting , who was also a senator and mayor of the Hanseatic city, and his uncle Hinrich. After an apprenticeship in Hamburg and an extensive journey that first took him north to Stockholm , then south to southern Italy, Christian Adolf became co-owner of the family business in 1822, together with his cousin, who later became Senator Georg Heinrich Nölting .

In 1823 he married Henriette ( Jette ), b. Duncker (1800–1888), the daughter of the Hamburg insurance salesman Johann Wilhelm Duncker (1771–1843), and in 1829 acquired a large, brick-Gothic house on the corner of Königstrasse and Johannisstrasse opposite the Löwenapotheke . Meanwhile appointed Swedish consul, in the following years he had the interior completely rebuilt while preserving the Gothic facade and individual rooms were decorated with wall paintings in the Pompeian style by Carl Julius Milde . In this way, in the opinion of his contemporaries, he succeeded in combining the greatest comfort and convenience of an apartment furnished on a newer footing and at the same time the decoration with the art of modern wall painting. Together with his wife Henriette, he turned Nöltingsche Haus into a literary and artistic center. Milde moved in here in 1839 and lived in a room on the ground floor facing the garden until his death. Emanuel Geibel was a frequent guest, as was Theodor Storm during his school days at the Katharineum in Lübeck . From December 1849 to May 1850, Jenny Lind lived in Nölting's house, where she signed the contract for her legendary concert tour to the USA. Geibel staged readings of German classics with living pictures : A Faust evening at the Swedish consul Nölting with his living pictures was still bright in his memory until the end. Above all, he will never forget the moment in the garden scene when Cecilia, the star flower in her hand, stood next to him when Gretchen. Afterwards they all went down to the cellar in costume to put the picture from Auerbach's cellar between the barrels. Hugo von Pleßen figured as Mephistopheles, Jette Nölting as Mrs. Marthe.

  • Nölting's house

  • 2. Staircase in the old Nölting house

  • The Milde room before the expansion (1903)

  • The Milde room before the expansion (1903)

The family's summer house was a now no longer preserved country house next to the manor house of Gut Krempelsdorf , which belonged to friends of the Souchay family. This too became a place for literary and musical performances in the summer months. Geibel's later very well-known student song, A Lustger Musikante marched on the Nile, is said to have had one of its first performances here.

After his election as the civic head of the Marienkirche in 1839, Nölting was soon entrusted with the structural supervision of the church. During his term of office there were significant alterations and restorations: a large part of the (re) construction of the building outside on the north and east sides of the church, after the small buildings and sheds that had been added over the centuries had been removed; the expansion of today's prayer chapel in the north ambulatory for the installation of the painting Lamentation of Christ by Friedrich Overbeck ; the restoration of the stained glass windows from the broken Maria Magdalenenkirche (castle church) for the Marientidenkapelle; the construction of the new sacristy in the north ambulatory and the installation of the remains of the Gothic high altar in it; the new construction of the great organ while preserving the historical facade; the restoration of the tabernacle next to the altar; the repair of all pillars in the church and the rearrangement of the stalls. Milde was instrumental in almost all of these projects. His plan to restore the old main door of the church between the towers in as original a form as possible was only carried out later.

Nölting was an active member of the Association for Lübeck History and the Committee for Collection and Preservation of Lübeck Art Antiquities , both subsidiaries of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , which merged in 1854 to form the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology .

The Nölting house was sold in 1903 and demolished. Only one of the rooms Milde had painted could be extended beforehand; it was donated to the Hamburg Museum of Art and Crafts and rebuilt there as a mild room .

Of Christian Adolf and Henriette Nölting's children, Paul Eduard became a businessman and consul in Hamburg; Friedrich (1830–1891) studied medicine in Göttingen and practiced as a doctor in Lübeck from 1858, and Henriette married Wilhelm Mantels .

literature

  • Wilhelm Mantels : Obituary, in: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology. Volume 1, 1860, pp. 410-412
  • Emanuel Geibel: Letters to Henriette Nölting: 1838–1855. Edited by Hans Reiss and Herbert Wegener. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1963 (Publications of the Lübeck City Library; New Series, 6)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Mantels: Obituary, in: Journal of the Association for Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde. Volume 1, 1860, p. 411
  2. ↑ Cäcilie Wattenbach (1815–1883), sister of Wilhelm Wattenbach , Geibel's childhood love, see s: A youthful love of Emanuel Geibel
  3. ^ Hugo Baron von Plessen (1818–1904) was Storm's classmate; 1867–1888 first district administrator of the Schleswig district and owner of the Plessenhof in Schleswig
  4. ↑ Karl Theodor Gaedertz : Emanuel Geibel, singer of love, herald of the empire: a German poet's life. Wigand, Leipzig 1897, p. 113.
  5. ↑ Lübeck's suburbs seventy years ago , in: Supplement to No. 18 of the Lübeckische Blätter from May 2, 1897. Geibel's bachelor party also took place here in 1852.
  6. ↑ The new building erected on this site was demolished only ten years later for the extension of the Karstadt building.
  7. ^ Description from Justus Brinckmann : Museum for Art and Industry. Report for the year 1903. In: Yearbook of the Hamburg Scientific Institutions. Vol. 21, 1903, pp. CLXXII-CLXXVII; As Milde Speckter room from autumn 2011 one of several "Period Rooms" of the "Sammlung Moderne"
  8. ^ Gerhard Wagenitz: Göttinger Biologen 1737-1945: a biographical-bibliographical list. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988 (Göttinger Universitätsschriften, Series C, Catalogs; Volume 2), ISBN 978-3-525-35876-4 , p. 132
personal data
SURNAME Nölting, Christian Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nölting, Christian Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and art patron
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1856
Place of death Lübeck