Hirschvogel (patrician)
The Hirschvogel (also Hirsvogel ) were a Nuremberg patrician family , first mentioned in a document in 1380. The Hirschvogel were represented in the "Inner Council" from 1450 until they died out in 1550 and, according to the " Dance Statute ", were among the "first admitted" advisable genders.
history
The Hirschvogel were a family of long-distance traders who managed to become one of the wealthiest Nuremberg families by the early 16th century. The family name probably goes back to millet bird, a greenfinch native to the Alpine region . According to various sources, the first Nuremberg deer birds immigrated from Sulzgau in Bavaria or from the area around Hilpoltstein .
The first representative of the family mentioned in Nuremberg, Conrad Hirschvogel, acquired the later headquarters at Königstraße 2 (later: Viatishaus) in 1380. His sons Ulrich and Heinrich built up the Hirschvogel trading company. They expanded their long-distance trade across all of Central Europe, initially mainly to Frankfurt am Main and Cologne , later via Bohemia , Saxony , Silesia , Austria and Hungary to Venice . From 1440 onwards, trade relations were expanded to Brixen , Rome , Loreto , Antwerp , Lisbon and Seville . The retail range of the Hirschvogel Society mainly comprised spices, cotton, cloth and precious metals. From the second half of the 15th century, they expanded their fields of business to include trading in books and financial transactions. Besides Nuremberg, Venice was the center of their company. Some representatives of the Hirschvogel lived there almost continuously.
In 1505/06 Bernhardin I and Lienhard II. Hirschvogel as well as three Imhoffs , the Höchstetter , Fugger and the Welser took part in an expedition in one of the first trade trips of Upper German merchants to India. From there they imported gemstones, among other things, via Seville and Lisbon.
After 1530, the Hirschvogel Society went bankrupt, heavily in debt. With the last representative, Endres II. Hirschvogel, the family died out in 1550.
coat of arms
In black on a silver three-mountain, a golden bird with outspread wings.
Known family members
- Lienhard I. Hirschvogel († 1490), founder of the Hirschvogel trading house, father of Lienhard II. Hirschvogel
- Lienhard II. Hirschvogel (1440–1525), merchant and patrician, son of Lienhard I. Hirschvogel, married. with Katharina von Imhoff
- Bernhardin Hirschvogel (1452–1516), merchant and patrician, son of Lienhard I. Hirschvogel
- Lienhard III. Hirschvogel (1504–1549), merchant and builder of the Hirsvogel Hall , one of the art and architectural monuments of the city of Nuremberg , son of Bernhardin Hirschvogel, nephew of Lienhard II. Hirschvogel
- Endres II. Hirschvogel (1513–1550), merchant, grandson of Lienhard II. Hirschvogel and son of Endres I. Hirschvogel, last representative of the family that died out with him (funeral of the poor)
source
Information in the Hirsvogelsaal Nuremberg
literature
- Christoph von Imhoff (Hrsg.): Famous Nuremberg from nine centuries . Nuremberg: Hofmann, 1984, 425 pages, ISBN 3-87191-088-0 ; 2., erg. U. exp. Edition, 1989, 459 p .; New edition: Edelmann GmbH Buchhandlung, October 2000.
- Michael Diefenbacher : Hirschvogel, patrician family . In: Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( online ).