Grach (winery owner)

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Grach is the name of a family in Trier whose main branch, beginning with Emmerich Grach (1753–1826), has owned a number of well-known wineries in the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer wine-growing region since the beginning of the 19th century and operated large-scale wine trade across the Saar , Moselle and Rhine Has. The family is one of the founders of the Mosel Steamship Company. The branch of the family discussed here is extinct. Some of the wineries are still in the hands of their descendants, including the von Othegraven winery and the Wawerner Herrenberg owned by Günther Jauch .

Emmerich Grach

Emmerich Grach (1753–1826) was the second son of the Trier merchant and wax puller Johann Michael Grach (1708–1790). Emmerich Grach worked as an alderman and deputy mayor of the city of Trier, was a merchant, factory owner and winery owner. In addition to the well-known Zum Löwenstein house in Trier, acquired by his father-in-law Welken and converted in 1810 , which was destroyed in World War II, Grach also acquired various wineries. In 1803 he and Ludwig Weyprecht Mohr (1759–1836), who later became the father-in-law of his son Johann Georg, bought one half of the secularized winery of the Trier Imperial Abbey of St. Maximin in Oberemmel with the Oberemmeler Hütte site. In 1805 he acquired from Count Philipp von der Leyen -Hohengeroldseck (1766-1829) his winery in Kanzem, today's winery von Othegraven with the location Kanzemer Altenberg. In 1806 Grach bought the third estate of Baron de Baring in Kues and subsequently the Josef Sproß winery. In 1812 he acquired the Wawerner Herrenberg winery in Wawern from the Trier banker Johann Josef Reverchon , the former estate of the Trier cathedral chapter, which gave the "Herrenberg" its name. The winery was auctioned in the course of secularization in 1805 and initially became an object of speculation. Reverchon had taken it over from the heavily indebted owners three days before selling it to Grach against a mortgage . With his son Joseph Grach ran a wine trade from Oberemmel to Bonn , Cologne , Düsseldorf and Mülheim.

Napoleon cup in the
City Museum Simeonstift Trier
(Johann Beckert III around 1685)

Emmerich Grach is still remembered in Trier today: Napoleon I was proclaimed Emperor of the French on May 18, 1804. He visited Trier on October 6, 1804. At the gates of the city he was expected by the city representatives, including the alderman Emmerich Grach, and an honor guard. Grach presented by his estate Maximinerhof in Oberemmel (now winery Hoevel ) honor the wine in a Ausburger Cup 1683-1685 of Baroque master Johann Beckert III gold-plated silver. This cup, engraved in memory of the memorable event and called the Napoleon Cup, is now in the City Museum Simeonstift Trier . It was auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York City in 2001, together with the accompanying leather case embossed with “Emericus Grach” for the equivalent of around 27,500 euros, and in 2004 it was privately owned and given to the museum on permanent loan . It replaces the reproduction exhibited up until then.

Emmerich Grach also welcomed Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia on July 22, 1817, on behalf of Mayor Recking, who had fallen ill, and gave the address at the large audience the following day. In 1818 Grach, as deputy mayor, issued the birth certificate for Karl Marx . Also in 1818, Grach was one of the three candidates proposed by the city council of the state government for the office of mayor of Trier.

Hövel winery (formerly Grach winery)

Hövel winery

Emmerich Grach's son Johann Georg Grach (1784–1868), married to Maria Catharina Mohr (1788–1834), inherited the Maximinerhofgut in Oberemmel and the Zum Löwenstein house in Trier. The winery was inherited by his grandson-in-law, forester Balduin von Hoevel, and his descendants. Von Hoevel was chief forester in the Schorfheide at the Hubertusstock hunting lodge and Duz friend of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He bought their shares from the other heirs. Today the vineyard includes the Oberemmeler Hütte and Scharzhofberg sites. The winery is now owned by the von Kunow family, descendants of Emmerich Grach. Eberhard von Kunow, Balduin von Hövel's great-grandson, studied viticulture in Geisenheim and took over the business from his parents Irmgard and Friedrich von Kunow, who bought the winery in the 1950s. Since then, the winery's wines have become more and more popular. Through the management of Eberhard von Kunow, the company was able to develop into one of the most famous wineries in Germany. His son Maximilian von Kunow took over the business in 2010. Like Günther Jauch, the winery von Othegraven in Kanzem is run by the 7th generation.

Wawerner Herrenberg estate

Emmerich Grach's daughter Anna Johanna Grach (1784–1856) married the publisher and city councilor of Trier Johann Jakob Lintz (1776–1848). She inherited the Wawerner Herrenberg winery, the former estate of the Trier cathedral chapter. It remained in the hands of the Lintz publishing family in Trier for several generations. Widow Lintz died in 1856 and the estate was auctioned off among the heirs. Friedrich Lintz (1813–1889) became the new owner. His son Jakob Lintz (1845–1918) bought the estate from his father in 1885 for 90,000 gold marks in order to avoid later dismemberment among the heirs. After the death of his wife in 1919, a quarter of the three surviving children were heirs and an eighth of the two children of their son, Captain Josef Lintz, who died in 1915. Lieutenant Colonel a. D. Alfons Claessens, husband of co-heiress Gertrud Lintz (1875–1964), managed the estate for the heirs until his death in 1960. In 2010 Günther Jauch acquired the arable land of the Wawerner Herrenberg.

  • owner

  • Anna Johanna Grach
    (1784-1856)

  • Jakob Lintz
    (1776–1848)

  • Friedrich Lintz
    (1813-1889)

  • Jakob Lintz
    (1845–1918)

Hofgut Stift Kloster Machern

Johann Michael Grach (1785–1856), another son of Emmerich Grach, married Rosa Franziska Viktoria, born in 1819. Basement, cellar. In 1841 he was a deputy member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament and owned the estate Stift Kloster Machern on the Wehlener Klosterberg. In the following generation, it went to Johann Michael Julius Grach (1830–1891) and his wife Johanna Rosalie Katharina, née. Triacca, with whom he was married since 1862. He was also a deputy member of the Rhineland Provincial Parliament from 1872 to 1877. The estate is said to have been in the family until 1969.

Franz Anton Weißebach (1778–1857) (oil painting by JA Ramboux )

Othegraven winery

Anna Katharina Grach (1789–1826), married to Franz Anton Weißebach (1778–1857), inherited the smallest, but most renowned Emmerich Grachs winery in Kanzem. Her daughter was Anna Weißebach (1811–1841), the founder of the later Caritas Conference in Germany (CKD). After the death of their son Julius Weißebach (1822–1881) and his wife Anna Maria Schoemann (1833–1899), the winery was continued until after the Second World War under the name of J. Weißebach Erben, to which the well-known Franz Weißebach belonged. The winery is still in the hands of Emmerich Grach's descendants under the name of Weingut von Othegraven . The current owner is Günther Jauch .

Freiherr von Schorlemer winery

The later winery of Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser in Zeltingen-Rachtig with its imposing manor house and the top location Zeltinger Sonnenuhr had initially belonged to the councilor Carl Eberhard Ellinckhuysen . Johann Baptist Grach (1793–1851) married his daughter Catharina Josefina, b. Ellinckhuysen (1763-1837). In 1839 Johann Baptist Grach was a co-founder of the Mosel Steamship Company. From 1843 to 1845 he was a member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament and in 1847 a member of the United State Parliament. In 1848 Grach was a member of the Prussian National Assembly . After his death, the heirs sold the winery to the Episcopal Seminary in Trier in 1856. The next owner was the hut and manor owner Eduard Puricelli . Two of Puricelli's sons died early, so that the estate came to the von Schorlemer family through the marriage of Puricelli's daughter Maria to Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser. The manor house is still owned by the grandson, Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer. Around 1829 Johann Baptist Grach had the wine press house built in Zeltingen-Rachtig, today Burgstrasse 14, with his coat of arms above the entrance. Today it serves as a community center for the community of Zeltingen-Rachtig.

Web links

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  • Family book Grach-Welken-Wurringen St. Laurentius-Gangolf in Trier

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the Mosel Steamship Society, cf. Steam boat trip on the Moselle ( Memento from June 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) www, alt-bernkastel.de
  2. ^ Michael Zimmermann: Classicism in Trier. The city and its bourgeois architecture between 1768 and 1848. Trier 1997, ISBN 3-88476-280-X ; Images at: Entry on the former building Brotstrasse 31 (Haus Zum Löwenstein) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
  3. ↑ Hermann Ritter : The Wawerner Herrenberg. Wawern 1924, p. 38
  4. ↑ Richard Laufner and Peter Nilles: History of the Weissebach estate heirs to Kanzem. Kanzem 1959
  5. ↑ The Napoleon Cup in the Trier Museum
  6. ↑ www.sothebys.com
  7. ↑ Culture Report 2004 (PDF; 1.9 MB) www.trier.de
  8. ↑ Real Napoleon cup back. , www.16vor.de ( Memento from October 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Trierische Chronik 1817, in: Gottfried Kentenich : History of the city of Trier from its foundation to the present. Trier undated, p. 711
  10. ^ Birth Certificate of Karl Marx, in: Marx Engels Collected Works. Volume 1, p. 635 Archive link ( Memento from August 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  11. ↑ Kentenich, p. 718
  12. ^ Directory of the owners of the houses 1837, online version
  13. ↑ Hövel winery. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Isabel Pies: The history of the Lintz family Koblenz and Trier 1650-2004. Online version ( Memento from September 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ); Isabell Pies: The "Wawerner Herrenberg" and its owners , in: Trier-Saarburg: Yearbook. - 1994, pp. 232-237
  15. ↑ Hermann Ritter: The Wawerner Herrenberg. Wawern 1924, p. 41f
  16. ↑ Grach, Johann Michael in the RPPD
  17. ^ Heinz Monz: Grach, Johann Michael. In: Heinz Monz (Ed.): Trier Biographical Lexicon. Trier 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 , pp. 140-141.
  18. ^ Grach, Johann Michael Julius in the RPPD
  19. ^ Heinz Monz: Grach, Johann Michael Julius. In: Heinz Monz (Ed.): Trier Biographical Lexicon. Trier 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 , pp. 140-141.
  20. ↑ Cornelius Chapel in Machern on the Moselle. Formerly an important Cistercian abbey
  21. ↑ Heddy Neumeister: A hundred years ago. In: Rheinische Heimatblätter. February 1930, p. 24
  22. ↑ Heinz Monz: Grach, Johann Baptist (businessman). In: Heinz Monz (Ed.): Trier Biographical Lexicon. Trier 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 , pp. 140-141.
  23. ↑ See entry on Lieser Castle (former Puricelli family house) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on February 16, 2016.
  24. ↑ Kelterhaus Schorlemer in Zeltingen-Rachtig ( memento from July 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) www.zeltingen-rachtig.de
  25. ↑ Cf. ( page no longer available , search in web archives: directory of family history sources in the Moselländisohen area ) in: Familienkundliche Blätter der Westdeutsche Gesellschaft für Familienkunde, district group Trier, Jg. 1/1970@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.genealogienetz.de