Grave (patrician family)

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Grave or Grafe was the name of a family of canvas dealers in Osnabrück .

meaning

The Grave family was a linen dealer family (see clothing tailors ) in Osnabrück, whose origin is unclear. According to family tradition, the family came from Bohemia and Moravia in 1435, as it is said in the funeral sermons of Heinrich Grave and his son, with which the progenitor Eberhard Grave would appear to have been a scattered hussite , but the origin is still controversial, since in Osnabrück used to live in Graves. Gerd Grave was a wall maker (garment tailor) in the "Große Straße" in Osnabrück and his son, Eberhard Grave, was a patrician of the city of Osnabrück and guild master of the cloth and canvas merchants in Osnabrück as well as a canvas merchant himself. He was the grandfather of Gerhard Grave . In the years that followed, the family provided at least three mayors from Osnabrück and one from Hamburg . Around 1620, among others, the Grave family and the Schlaff family, both important canvas merchant families, were expelled from the city as a result of the attempt at recatholization by Bishop Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg in the Diocese of Osnabrück .

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  • Lower Saxony State Archives ( http://aidaonline.niedersachsen.de/ )
  • German Gender Book Volume 190, 6th East Frisian Gender Book, page 50 No. 184.
  • Olaf Spechter: The Osnabrück upper class in the 17th and 18th centuries. A social and constitutional historical investigation , Osnabrück 1975, ISBN 3-87898-094-9 , page 68.
  • Osnabrücker Mitteilungen - Volumes 67–68 - page 392