Cramer from Clausbruch

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Cramer of Clausbruch

Cramer von Clausbruch is the name of an old city dynasty of the free imperial city of Eger , whose direct line of trunks with Rüdelein Kramer ( Crahamer , Cramer ), citizen of Eger, begins around the year 1300 and has spread to Electoral Saxony , Lower Saxony and the Rhineland since the 16th century spread.

history

Two brothers, Erasmus and Caspar Kramer , citizens of Eger, received a letter of arms in 1541.

The Cramer merchant family, originally based in Hattingen , achieved considerable prosperity in three family lines in the course of the 16th century:

Heinrich Cramer , from 1571 “Cramer von Clausbruch” , first settled in the Netherlands and then in Electoral Saxony and, through entrepreneurship and speculation, made it one of the richest merchants and landowners in Saxony. In 1578 he acquired Meuselwitz Castle .

His brother Dietrich , also ennobled in 1571, founded a trading company in Cologne and the Netherlands, which expanded into northern Germany in the following generations.

Another brother of Heinrich and Dietrich was a master shoemaker in Cologne and had a son, Ruprecht , who also entered the trade following the example of his uncles and founded a vitriol shop in Goslar . His son Henning Cramer von Clausbruch became a councilor there in 1620, took over the family business in 1625 and was mayor of the free imperial city from 1626 to 1646 during the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War , although his imperial sentiments often got him into trouble. Emperor Ferdinand II raised him and his brothers Johann and Heinrich in 1629 to the imperial nobility as "Cramer von Clausbruch" and Ferdinand III. enfeoffed him in 1638 with Werlaburgdorf .

Nobility uprisings

  • Imperial letter of arms on May 17, 1541 in Regensburg for the brothers Erasmus and Caspar Kramer , both citizens of Eger.
  • Imperial nobility with improved coat of arms on September 10, 1571 in Vienna for the brothers Heinrich and Dietrich (Cramer) von Claußpruck .
  • Imperial nobility with an increase in the name of “von Clausbruch” on January 30, 1629 in Vienna for Henning Cramer , mayor of the imperial city of Goslar , and for his brothers Johann and Heinrich Cramer .

Coat of arms (1629)

Split; on the right in a field divided by black and gold an inward-facing lion of confused color, on the left in a field divided by gold and black an inward-facing crane of natural color. On the helmet with black and gold covers, the crane growing between two eagle wings divided by black and gold across the corner .

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