Fürer von Haimendorf

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The Fürers von Haimendorf are one of the oldest patrician families in the imperial city of Nuremberg - first mentioned in a document in 1295. The Fürers were, with brief interruptions, from 1501 until the end of the imperial city period in 1806, represented in the “Inner Council” and belonged to them the “ dance statute ” to the “first admitted” sexes capable of counseling and thus to the Nuremberg patriciate .

The family seat is still the Haimendorf Castle, inherited from Tuchers' property in 1476 (destroyed in the Second Margrave War, later rebuilt on the old foundation walls).

history

Originally probably from Alsace , the Fürer family settled in the imperial city of Nuremberg in the 13th century . In 1295 King Adolf von Nassau pledged the office of Heroldsberg to Konrad Fürer.

The princes achieved prosperity through trade with France and Poland , but forestry and mining were also lucrative fields of activity. Around 1500 they rose to become one of the leading Nuremberg mining companies. Her interest lay particularly in the Mansfeld and Thuringian copper mining and the Saiger trade . The wholesale merchant and councilor Christoph Fürer (1479–1537) founded the Saiger trade cartel in 1534 . In addition, the Fürer operated in the credit business and traded in yew wood for weapons production. At the end of the 15th century, he was appointed to the Inner Council of the Free Imperial City - from now on one helped determine the political fate of Nuremberg.

In 1476, through the marriage of Sigmund Fürer to Anna Tucher, Haimendorf Castle came to the family, which has been their ancestral home since then. In 1599 the family was awarded the title of nobility . Three lines emerged, named after the respective mansions : “Haimendorf”, “ Himmelgarten ” (1568–1844) and “ Steinbühl ” (1630–1677). Only the Haimendorfer main line still exists today. It divided into an older, Catholic (Christoph'schen) branch in Bohemia and a younger, Protestant (Carl-Gottlieb'schen) in Nuremberg.

Both were registered on March 4, 1813 in the royal Bavarian nobility register. From the Bohemian branch, Karl Fürer von Haimendorf and Wolkersdorf owned the Hojeschin estate near Setsch from 1814 to 1839 . Descendants of the two branches live in Haimendorf and Munich as well as in Vienna , near Linz and in London .

The Fürer von Haimendorf family was closely connected to the Gnadenberg monastery for centuries and also provided an abbess in Elisabeth Fürer .

Possessions (extract)

Haimendorf Castle
Haimendorf Castle around 1790
Fürerhaus am Hauptmarkt (Nuremberg) , center-right

The family still owns:

Former possessions (extract)

From 1445 the Fürers' seat in Nuremberg was the “Fürershof” at Maxtor (today the area of ​​the old building of the Johannes-Scharrer-Gymnasium Nuremberg ). For a time they also owned the large house No. 505–508 on the main market .

They also owned:

Known family members

  • Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf (1479–1537), wholesale merchant

  • Christoph II. Prince of Haimendorf (1517–1561), governor

  • Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf (1541–1610), councilor

  • Jacob Fürer von Haimendorf (1560–1587), traveler

  • Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf (1578–1656), Reichsschultheiß , councilor

  • Georg Sigismund the Elder Ä. Fürer von Haimendorf (1612–1677), privy councilor, city governor

  • Christopher VI. Fürer von Haimendorf (1634–1590), councilor

  • Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf (1663–1732), foremost Losunger, poet

  • Sigmund Friedrich Fürer von Haimendorf, from 1791 the last caretaker of the Mendelschen Twelve Brothers Foundation

coat of arms

Family coat of arms: semicircular shield, split by red and silver, in mixed up tinctures half a lily in front, half a wheel behind.

The older line has a quartered coat of arms with the family coat of arms as a heart shield, 1 and 4 in gold a crowned black eagle, 2 and 3 under the head of a cloud shield divided by black and gold, with a crowned lion in confused colors, facing the dividing line. Two crowned helmets, on the first a crowned growing black eagle, split between open flight on the right by red and silver, on the left by silver and red, and each covered with the images of the trunk shield in alternating colors; on the second the lion between two horns, mistaken for black and gold, and each with three peacock feathers at the tips. Cover red-silver and black-gold.

The younger line leads the trunk shield with the first helmet, but with an uncrowned eagle.

literature

See also

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  1. ^ The Bohemian nobility , by Rudolf Joh. Count Meraviglia-Crivelli
  2. ↑ The Hirsvogelsaal owned by the Fürers
  3. ↑ Glossary German-New High German ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved December 30, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / webapp6.rrz.uni-hamburg.de

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