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Manskopf is the name of a family in Frankfurt am Main . The Manskopfs ran some of the most important wine shops in the 19th century, one of which still exists today. Due to the successful business, the family had a large fortune. In the social life of the city, they stood out above all for their festive receptions, but also as donors and patrons.

history

The family came from Siegen , where Johann Manskopf (1667–1743) was mayor. His son Wilhelm Heinrich Manskopf (1704–1772) entered the trading house of Johann Georg Leerse as a merchant's assistant in 1728 . In 1740 he took over the trade in manufactured goods from English production. In 1743 he married Johanna Maria de Neufville from the influential Reformed de Neufville family . Through this marriage he gained access to the first circles of Frankfurt society. He had three sons, Johann Heinrich (1749–1804), Johann Nikolaus (1749–1810) and Jakob Wilhelm (1751–1815), who married the Gontard- Sarasin family .

Johann Nikolaus bought the Lichtenstein house on the Römerberg in 1774 . The Prussian Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm III met at a ball in the Lichtenstein house on March 14, 1793 . of Prussia and Princess Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . In 1795 Johann Nikolaus founded his own wine shop, which in the 19th century became one of the leading European wine trading houses under the name Manskopf-Sarasin . The company temporarily had branches in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Moscow and Stockholm as well as in America (Baltimore, New Orleans, New York) and Asia (Batavia, Bombay and Calcutta). At his death in 1810 Johann Nikolaus left a fortune of 265,000 Reichstalern . The Manskopf-Sarasin house existed for three generations and was only liquidated by his great-grandchildren in 1902 .

Another wine shop, the Manskopf & Sons house that still exists today , was founded in 1875 by Wilhelm Manskopf (1812–1891), who came from a different branch of the family, together with his sons Gustav (1841–1900), Robert and Wilhelm (1845–1921). Gustav Manskopf donated the renovation of the Fountain of Justice on the Römerberg with a new statue of Justitia in bronze in his hometown in 1887 , the 13-meter-high Manskopf clock tower at the intersection of Kaiserstraße / Taunusanlage in 1889 (removed as a traffic obstacle in 1926) and the Hercules fountain that was erected in the Römerhöfchen in 1904 .

Wilhelm's son Friedrich Nicolas Manskopf (1869–1928) was a passionate collector of music, original manuscripts and devotional items from the world of music. In doing so, he founded the Museum of Music History in his parents' house at Untermainkai 54 . After his death in 1928, the collection fell to the city of Frankfurt. The collection survived the air raids on Frankfurt of the Second World War largely unscathed and was in 1945 as a collection Mans head of the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg . A Frankfurter Straße in the Kuhwaldsiedlung in Frankfurt-Bockenheim is named after Manskopf .

Linked to the Manskopf family

literature

Web links

Commons : Sammlung Manskopf  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files