Henryk Maria Fukier
Henryk Maria Fukier (* 1886 in Warsaw ; † April 27, 1959 ) was a Polish merchant and the last descendant of the German-born Warsaw Fukier clan, the former owner of the wine cellar on the market square in Warsaw's old town .
Family history
The Fukier family in Warsaw maintained contact with the Fuggers from Augsburg , and their members even sealed the Fugger lily coat of arms. However, the Fukier family could not provide solid and reliable evidence of a genealogical connection to the Augsburg Fuggers.
The founder of the Fukier family was Jerzy (Georg) Fugger from Nuremberg , who was registered as Georgius Focker de Nerberg in 1515 in the register of Warsaw citizens. The father of Jerzy (Georg) Fugger was the Nuremberg grocer Hans Focker, his mother was Christina Focker, née Webler-Schüsler. Jerzy (Georg) Fugger was elected aldermen in Warsaw in 1523 and senior aldermen in 1528, and in 1537 he became city councilor of Warsaw. His descendants in the next generations were:
- Mikołaj (Nicholas), † 1566
- Michał (Michael), † 1625
- Marcin (Martin), † 1656
- Stanisław Maria (Stanislaus Maria), † 1695
- Sebastian (Sebastian), † 1746
- Jan-Marcin (Hans-Martin), † 1794
- Antoni Wit (Anton-Veit), † 1806
- Florian (Florian), † 1836
- Teofil Florian (Theophil Florian), * 1816, † 1891
- Henryk (Heinrich), * 1847, † 1907
The last member of the Fukier clan was Henryk Maria Fukier (* 1886, † April 27, 1959), who remained childless. He was the owner of the wine cellar in the family seat on the Old Town Market Square (Rynek Starego Miasta 27, Piwna 44), an art connoisseur and a member of the Society for the Care of Monuments of the Past. In 1926 he donated a considerable collection of antique art objects belonging to the family of the Krakow Wawel - Royal Castle .
At the beginning of the Second World War, Henryk Maria Fukier lost all of his fortune. On October 6-8, 1939, the Nazi authorities confiscated the entire contents of the wine cellars, including rare wines from the 17th century. Fukier lost his house when it was destroyed in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 and did not get it back even after it was rebuilt. He became an employee in the state wine trading company and an advisor in organizing official receptions in the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Poland .
The Fugger House Warsaw
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '59 " N , 21 ° 0' 42" O (Pol. The history of the Fugger house Warsaw Kamienica Fukierowska ) is inseparably linked with the history of the Fukier clan.
The house with two addresses: Rynek Starego Miasta 27 and Piwna 44, with a facade only three windows wide, was probably built in the 15th century in place of two wooden houses. Since then it has changed hands several times. In 1782 it was thoroughly rebuilt according to the design of the architect Simon Gottlieb Zug and in this condition it was acquired in 1810 by a member of the Fukier family, Florian, who built a wine bar on the ground floor and a wine cellar in the basement. The offer consisted mainly of Hungarian wines, but also honey wines from Polish production. In 1818 the main portal was renewed, in 1859 the cellars of neighboring houses were connected, in 1928 the facade was painted with frescoes based on a design by Stanisław Kazimierz Ostrowski .
In 1916, Prince Karl Maria von Babenhausen visited the Fukier domicile in Warsaw.
The Fugger House was damaged in September 1939 and completely destroyed in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Only the basement remained as well as fragments of the front wall with the portals and fragments of the ground floor vault. The Fugger House was rebuilt from 1947 to 1953 according to a design by the architect Wacław Podlewski. The state of the building and the facade from 1782 was restored, with the arcade courtyard and newly designed interiors. In 1969 an apartment was set up on the top floor.
The restaurant "U Fukiera", run by Magda Gessler , has been located on the ground floor and basement since 1991 . On the upper floors there are, among other things, the seat of the Art Historian Society and the Henryk Fukier Wine Museum in two rooms.
literature
- Henryk M. Fukier: Wspomnienia staromiejskie, (Old Town Memories), Instytut Wydawniczy "PAX", Warszawa 1959
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.polacyzwyboru.pl/de/helden/familien/fukier#default
- ↑ Steffen Möller: Viva Warszawa - Poland for advanced learners . Piper ebooks, 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-97009-9 ( books.google.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fukier, Henryk Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish merchant and last descendant of the Warsaw Fukier clan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1959 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |