Frickhinger (gender)
The Frickhinger is one of the oldest and still existing families of the former imperial city of Nördlingen .
history
The sex has been traceable since 1331, which from 1363 belonged to the council of the imperial city of Nördlingen. The Frickhingers became prosperous through the barch trade . The family is related by marriage to the patriciate and lower nobility of Augsburg and Ulm . Several generations of the Frickhinger were successful in the cloth trade. Since the second half of the 17th century, the profession of pharmacist has been hereditary within the sex. Some family members became famous in the fields of pharmacy , botany, and geology . This includes Ernst Frickhinger .
In Nördlingen, between the Berger Tor and the Old Bastion, there is the Frickhinger facility with a rosarium, a teaching park with native and foreign tree species.
The family grave of the Frickhingers is on the Nördlinger Friedhof .
literature
- Hermann Frickhinger: Genealogy of the Frickhinger family in Nördlingen. A contribution to the history of the Nördlingen families, Nördlingen 1907
Web links
- Wilhelm Zwölfer: Frickhinger. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 435 ( digitized version ).
- http://www.stolch-trochtelfingen.de/ahntaffrickh.html