Glauburg (family)

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Coat of arms of those von Glauburg

The Glauburg family (also: Glauburger) was a patrician family in Frankfurt am Main .

origin

The family came from the Reichsburg Glauburg (today: community Glauburg ) near Büdingen . After the town-like Glauberg castle complex was destroyed by neighboring territorial lords in 1256, Gertrud von Düdelsheim , whose family came from Gelnhausen , settled in Frankfurt with her son Johann. Her husband Arnold, a Reichsministeriale and Burgmanne, had probably died during the siege of the castle. In Frankfurt, the name of their origin became the new family name.

meaning

Johann von Glauburg was mentioned in a document in 1267. He died in Frankfurt before 1287, his mother between 1287 and 1296.

His son Arnold von Glauburg became a Frankfurt citizen in 1270 and had been a lay judge and member of the council since 1276 . He had the Glauburger Hof built in the old town , which became the first family residence in Frankfurt and, in the 15th century, became the Nürnberger Hof , one of the largest trading centers and exhibition centers in Frankfurt. In 1304 Arnold donated an All Saints Altar in the St. Michael's Chapel , which was part of the Bartholomäusstift . He died before 1308.

The Glauburg family belonged to the Alten Limpurg patrician society , an amalgamation of the five most influential families in Frankfurt. Up until the 18th century, it appointed the Senior Mayor 52 times . In 1520 she donated the new church tower of the Bornheimer church in Bornheim .

An outstanding representative of the family is Johann von Glauburg (1503–1571), a pioneer of the Reformation in Frankfurt, who led the city into the Schmalkaldic League in 1536 and successfully defended it in the prince's war at the siege of 1552.

The family owned significant property in Frankfurt and the surrounding area, including the Niedwald west of the Galgenfeld, the Lichtenstein house on the Römerberg and the Günthersburg in what is now Nordend .

Coat of arms of those von Glauburg

Significant family members

Aftermath

In 1828 the family died out with the death of lay judge Heinrich Ludwig von Glauburg (1753–1828) in the male line, in 1865 the last name bearer also died. The Glauburg family archive is only partially preserved, various legacies are in the Institute for City History and in the Hessian State Archive in Darmstadt .

The Glauburgstrasse between Friedberger Landstrasse and Oeder Weg , a tram stop named after the family and the Glauburgplatz and the Glauburg School in the north end are named after the family.

literature

  • How the Glauburgs came to Frankfurt. In: Helmut Bode: Frankfurter Sagenschatz. Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-7829-0209-2
  • Heinz F. Friederichs: Origin and classification of the von Glauburg family. In: Hessische Familienkunde 4 (1957/59), Sp. 129–140.
  • Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .
  • Franz Lerner:  Glauburg, from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 438 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Franz Lerner: From the history of the von Glauburg family. In: 75 Years of Glauburg School. Frankfurt 1967, pp. 31-33.
  • Hans Philippi : Territorial history of the county of Büdingen. Writings of the Hessian Office for Historical Regional Studies 23, Elwert, Marburg 1954, esp. Pp. 85–89.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How the Glauburgers came to Frankfurt. In: Helmut Bode: Frankfurter Sagenschatz. Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-7829-0209-2