Ferber (patrician family)

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Family coat of arms (1518) on the Ferber portal of the pastorate of St. Mary's Church in Gdansk

Ferber was the name of a German patrician family in Danzig from the 15th to the 18th century.

history

Ferberhaus in Gdansk
Altar painting in the Ferber chapel

In 1415 the long-distance merchant Ewerd Ferber immigrated to Danzig with his half-brother Govel from Kalkar on the Lower Rhine and founded an influential patrician family there. This produced a bishop, six mayors, six councilors, three aldermen and three canons.

In 1786 the family died out.

Members of the family

  • Ewerd Ferber (1387–1451), businessman, progenitor of the Danzig family
  • Johann Ferber (1430–1501), mayor
  • Mauritius Ferber (1471–1537), son of Johann, Bishop of Warmia
  • Eberhard Ferber (1483–1529), son of Johann, mayor
  • Georg Ferber († 1552), son of Eberhard, businessman
  • Constantin Ferber (1520–1588), son of Eberhard, mayor
  • Constantin (III.) Ferber (1580–1654), mayor
  • Constantin (IV.) Ferber (1625–1704), mayor
  • Nathanael Gottfried Ferber (1688–1755), mayor

  • Johann Ferber

  • Mauritius Ferber

  • Georg Ferber

  • Constantin Ferber

  • Constantin Ferber III

Ferberhaus and Ferber Chapel

The family seat was the Ferberhaus at Langgasse 28. The building that is preserved today was built in 1560.

The Ferber chapel in St. Mary's Church had belonged to the family since 1448 and served as a burial place. It contains valuable carved altars from the years 1481/84 and 1501.

Commons : Ferberkapelle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

coat of arms

The family coat of arms showed three severed black boar heads on a gold background. Representations in Gdańsk's Marienkirche show on the helmet with a black and gold helmet cover a natural-colored peacock bump, covered with a black boar's head, between an open golden flight . One variant shows a black boar growing between an open golden flight.

  • Variant with boar

  • Ferber coat of arms.jpg

There was no relationship of the Danzig family to the Mecklenburg noble family von Ferber and to the Saxon barons von Ferber .

literature

  • Theodor Hirsch :  Ferber . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, pp. 622-688.
  • Gotthilf Löschin : The mayors, councilors and shoppers of the Danzig Free State and the patrician families to which they belonged. Reprint, Hamburg 1974.
  • Dorothea Weichbrodt: patricians, citizens, residents of the Free and Hanseatic City of Danzig in family and name tables from the 14th to the 18th century. 5 volumes, Klausdorf 1988.
  • Walter Zernecke: History of the Zernecke family, a Raths dynasty of the former Free Cities of Danzig and Thorn. Graudenz 1900.

Web links

Commons : Ferber (patrician family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Hirsch: The upper parish church of St. Mary in Danzig in their monuments. Volume 1. Danzig 1843. pp. 397-406 .