Cornelius Wilhelm von Heyl zu Herrnsheim

Cornelius Wilhelm von Heyl; Painting by Franz von Lenbach

Cornelius Wilhelm Heyl , from 1886 Freiherr von Heyl zu Herrnsheim , (born February 10, 1843 in Worms , † September 25, 1923 Schloss Pfauenmoos, Berg SG , on Lake Constance in Switzerland) was a German entrepreneur in the leather industry, politician, art collector and patron .

Life

Cornelius Wilhelm Heyl was a grandson of Cornelius Heyl (1792-1858), who in 1834 was the founder of the Wormser Lederwerke Cornelius Heyl AG . His father Daniel Cornelius Heyl (1818–1844) died at the age of 26 and left a wife, Karoline Friederike Charlotte b. Frommel (1822–1889), and three children.

He was baptized in the name of Hermann Wilhelm Heyl . His oldest brother Cornelius Heyl (1842–1861), named after his grandfather, died at a young age while staying in London, which is why the first name Cornelius was passed on to Hermann Wilhelm Heyl as the second eldest in order to preserve family tradition . At the age of nineteen he took over his grandfather's leather factory. His residence was the Heyls-Schlößchen on Schloßplatz in Worms, which he had increased in 1905.

Herrnsheim Castle

Cornelius Wilhelm Heyl was appointed Privy Councilor of Commerce as the Grand Ducal Hessian . In 1883 he acquired from Lord Dalberg-Acton , the Herrnsheim Castle in the district of Worms Herrnsheim . As the now entails lord of Herrnsheim, he and his brother Maximilian Heyl were raised to hereditary nobility by Grand Duke Ludwig IV as a baron on March 31, 1886 . The brothers established the baronial Heyl family in Herrnsheim . On December 22nd, 1899, the city of Worms granted him honorary citizenship in recognition of his financial and ideal support for the city archive .

He was a member of the Reichstag from 1874 to 1912, member and president of the First Hessian Chamber of Deputies (January 1874 to July 1878, October 30, 1879 to October 1881 and June 1893 to November 1918, National Liberal Party , most recently not with any parliamentary group).

His diaries are just as unpublished to this day as the memoirs written during the First World War.

Gerstruben's summer residence for his hunt near Oberstdorf

Cornelius Wilhelm von Heyl zu Herrnsheim died in 1923 on his Pfauenmoos estate in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. His two leather factories, on the one hand Cornelius Heyl AG in the south of Worms and Heyl'sche Lederwerke Liebenau in the Worms district of Neuhausen , were divided between his two sons Ludwig von Heyl zu Herrnsheim and Cornelius Wilhelm Karl von Heyl zu Herrnsheim , who were already in operation were active.

His death marks the end of an unprecedented era in the leather industry and social development in Worms. He was buried in the Gottliebenkapelle in Worms-Herrnsheim, which he had commissioned, next to his wife Sophie, who died in 1915.

Heylshof art house

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Heyl together with Crown Prince Ludwig of Hessen-Darmstadt , painting by Emil Hünten

Museum Kunsthaus Heylshof (garden side)

Cornelius Wilhelm von Heyl had a villa built for himself from 1881 to 1884 on the site of the medieval bishop's court and the prince-bishop's residence, which was completed in 1725 and destroyed in the course of the events in the wake of the French Revolution. The architect was the Semper student Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli .

On Wednesday, June 23, 1926, this villa was donated to the city of Worms as a bequest by Baron Cornelius Wilhelm and Baroness Sophie von Heyl zu Herrnsheim and it was officially opened as the "Kunsthaus Heylshof".

The museum was partially destroyed in an air raid in the spring of 1945 and restored on a single storey with a hipped roof . Since 1961 it has been open to the public again as the "Kunsthaus Stiftung Heylshof".

With over a hundred paintings, as well as a large number of drawings and porcelain, the art collection is one of the most varied and substantial private collections in Germany. As such, it has a general meaning that goes beyond artistic interest. It is considered a proud monument of the unique culture that documents the bourgeoisie of German cities away from the big metropolises.

Descendants

Cornelius Wilhelm had a total of seven children, 17 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.

• His son Cornelius Wilhelm Karl von Heyl zu Herrnsheim (1874–1954) later took over the leather works. In 1907 he married Princess Mathilde zu Ysenburg and Büdingen , daughter of Bruno Prinz zu Ysenburg and Büdingen and Bertha Countess zu Castell -Rüdenhausen.
• Another son, Ludwig von Heyl zu Herrnsheim (1886–1962) was from 1924 to 1927 a member of the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse for the DVP . He married Eva Maria von der Marwitz-Stein (1889–1959). The marriage had six children, including Marie-Elisabeth Klee (1922–2018).
• Erwin von Heyl zu Herrnsheim (1877–1940), diplomat
• Maximilian von Heyl zu Herrnsheim (1884–1952), landowner
• Martha Cornelia (1870–1954) married Hugo Freiherr von Leonhardi (1864–1922), Grand Ducal Chamberlain and Senior Chamberlain in 1891 . D., Oberburg , Heldenbergen

Works

• On the history of the Leutz von Eberbach family . Printed as handwriting. [Winter], Heidelberg 1915 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Gerold Bönnen : The von Heyl family and their work (approx. 1850 to 1980) . In: The von Heyl industrial family in Worms . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2010. ISBN 978-3-88462-304-6 , pp. 35-186.
• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 73 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
• Ines Heisig: “Special letters concerning art” - Insights into the networking of Cornelius Wilhelm and Sophie von Heyl in the art market during the German Empire . In: The von Heyl industrial family in Worms . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2010. ISBN 978-3-88462-304-6 , pp. 487-498.
• Uwe Hinkfoth: Theodor Fischer and the Cornelianum . In: The von Heyl industrial family in Worms . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2010. ISBN 978-3-88462-304-6 , pp. 355-360.
• Jörg Koch: The Heylshof zu Worms: From the upper-class palace to the museum . In: The von Heyl industrial family in Worms . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2010. ISBN 978-3-88462-304-6 , pp. 467-486.
• Jörg Koch: Worms 100 years ago. Erfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-95400-020-3 , pp. 91-93.
• Günther Kriegbaum:  Heyl, Wilhelm Freiherr Heyl zu Herrnsheim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 82 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Margit Rinker-Olbrisch: On the archival transmission of Heyl's company and family legacies . In: The von Heyl industrial family in Worms . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2010. ISBN 978-3-88462-304-6 , pp. 21–34.
• Ferdinand Werner : Of houses, country houses and villas . In: The von Heyl industrial family in Worms . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2010. ISBN 978-3-88462-304-6 , pp. 187-312.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of baronial houses, 1921, p.379

Web links

• Literature by and about Cornelius Wilhelm von Heyl zu Herrnsheim in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Cornelius Wilhelm von Heyl zu Herrnsheim in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
• Freiherr Heyl Herrnsheim, Cornelius Wilhelm in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Cornelius Wilhelm Freiherr Heyl zu Herrnsheim . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
• Website of the Kunsthaus Heylshof
• History of the Worms City Library
• Heyl zu Herrnsheim, Cornelius Wilhelm Freiherr von. Hessian biography. (As of February 10, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heyl, Daniel Cornelius Friedrich. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Nobility Lexicon.
3. ↑ Michael Rademacher: Rademacher's German Biographical Archive 1871-1945. viphey.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
4. ↑ Jörg Koch: Bismarck monuments and Bismarck commemorations on the Upper Rhine. Marble, stone and bronze speaks. Ubstadt-Weiher et al. 2015, p. 106 f.
5. ↑ Gerold Bönnen: History of the City of Worms . 2nd Edition. Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 567 .
6. ↑ Bernd Altmann: My motto for life remains Renaissance - the architect Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli. In: Dissertation University of Trier. September 20, 2000, accessed November 25, 2006 . 
7. ↑ Wolfgang Schenkluhn (Ed.): Stiftung Kunsthaus Heylshof. Critical catalog of the painting collection. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1992, ISBN 3-88462-087-8 .
8. ↑ Cornelius Baron Heyl zu Hernsheim on thepeerage.com , accessed on August 21, 2015..