Cluss (family)

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The Cluss family was an influential business family from Heilbronn .

history

The family originally came from Silesia . An early ancestor was the farmer Hans Cluß (1600–1659) from Weyda. His son Stoffel Cluß (1629–1692) settled in Winnenden as a farmer after the Thirty Years' War in 1659 . His descendants were builders for over six generations - stone carpenters, carpenters and architects - and came to Weinsberg with Johann Jakob Cluß (1691–1770) around 1715 .

Georg Andreas Cluß (1750–1822), son of Johann Jakob, came to Heilbronn in 1782, where he worked as a foreman in the service of the Wuerttemberg Prince Elector, acquired citizenship, achieved prosperity and, in 1795, the Cluss'sche house in Klostergasse, one in 1433 dating property, acquired. He had six children, three of whom died young. His son Heinrich Cluss (1792-1857) followed him as a foreman in Heilbronn and took over his father's business in 1822, daughter Caroline (1788-1854) founded a grocery store with her husband Johann Ludwig Reiner († 1831), which from 1820 was successful in tobacco products specialized and under Gustav Hauck maintained several cigar factories after 1870.

Heinrich Cluss (1792–1857) was not only a foreman and building contractor, but also operated viticulture in the so-called "Cluss'schen Kelter" in Klostergasse 40. He introduced the black red and sweet red grape varieties in Heilbronn and tested new locations for the Franconian vine . His wines were awarded. He also traded in land and buildings. In 1817 he donated a baptismal font in Kilian's Church on the occasion of the 300th day of the Reformation. He was involved in the expansion of the city of Heilbronn from 1840, so he built the Wilhelmsbau in Wilhelmstrasse 9 in Heilbronn until 1845 . In 1817 he married Anne Christin, b. Neuz (1796–1827), who bore him five children: Caroline (1817–1858), Carl (1819–1870), Henriette Sophie (1821–1821), Ernestine (1823–1867) and Adolf (1825–1905). In his second marriage, Heinrich Cluss was married to Jacobine Roth (1808–1862). This marriage had three children: Pauline (1830–1911), Marie Henriette (1831–1902) and August (1832–1904).

While Adolf Cluss emigrated to the USA as a young journeyman carpenter in 1848 and became a well-known architect there, his brother Carl studied in Berlin and also embarked on a career in architecture. The sister Caroline Cluss married the Heilbronn city architect Louis de Millas , who in 1839 created the first general building plan for the city of Heilbronn. Marie Henriette Cluss married the director of the Heilbronner Zuckerfabrik, founded in 1853, Andreas Faißt (1821–1878), who founded the Cluss brewery with August Cluss in 1865 , which existed in Heilbronn until Dinkelacker took over the majority of the shares in 1982.

Several listed buildings in Heilbronn are reminiscent of Cluss: the Wilhelmsbau built by Heinrich Cluss , the Villa Faißt where Henriette Cluss lives and the former brewery director's villa . In addition, the Heilbronner Clußstraße is named after the entrepreneurial family, the Adolf-Cluss-Brücke after the architect. A cycling event in Heilbronn is called the Cluss Criterium . In 2005 there was an exhibition in the Cluss-Cubus and historical stations in the city of Heilbronn on Adolf Cluss and the Cluss entrepreneurial family, and a permanent exhibition in the Villa Faißt is dedicated to the Cluss and Faißt families.

gallery

  • Caroline Reiner, b. Cluss (1788-1854).

  • Heinrich Cluss (1792-1857)

  • Adolf Cluss (1825–1905)

  • Henriette Faisst, b. Cluss (1831-1902)

  • August Cluss (1832–1904)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.stadtgeschichte-heilbronn.de/index.php?id=208#/leben_klostergasse/nr_40/