Johann Conrad Fabritius

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Epitaph at the Martinskirche Grünstadt

Johann Conrad Fabritius also Fabricius (born March 6, 1673 in Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse ; † August 24, 1722 in Grünstadt ) was a master butcher , merchant and Count of the Liningian high school of Grünstadt.

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He was born as the son of his father of the same name and his wife Anna Felicitas, b. Gansert. The family was of Lutheran faith.

Fabritius became a master butcher in Grünstadt and in 1696 married Anna Margaretha Seitz, daughter of the Grünstadt cattle dealer and landlord Zum Ochsen . Together with her he had nine children, one of whom was Johann Peter Fabritius (1704–1771), Count's Land Commissioner and Landamtmann zu Grünstadt.

Johann Conrad Fabritius, a very wealthy citizen and landowner, ran a company with a partner for brewing beer, distilling spirits and fattening cattle. In 1698 and 1699 he bought eight fields and vineyards, in 1700/1702 he made 28, between 1701 and 1710 26 and from 1710 to 1718 even 50 land purchases. He also owned 9 fields or vineyards, which his wife had inherited from her late father in 1692 and brought into the marriage. Together with the Liningian councilor Joachim Friedrich von Pfeil, in 1711 Fabritius granted Count Johann Wilhelm Friedrich zu Leiningen-Westerburg (1681–1718), who lived in Monsheim , a loan of 5000 guilders and another 1000 guilders, for which he left the income from several villages . Since there was insufficient repayment , Fabritius and his widow later sued the count at the Imperial Court of Justice .

In 1716 he acted as godfather to Conrad Heinrich Seekatz, son of the Liningian court painter Johann Martin Seekatz .

Johann Conrad Fabritius officiated from 1711 as mayor of the community, from 1719 to 1722 as the count's high school councilor of Grünstadt.

According to his epitaph on the southern outer wall of the Martinskirche in Grünstadt , he died on August 24, 1722 after falling from the then outside staircase of the Grünstadt town hall . The Lutheran church book names a " blow river " as the cause of death. He may have suffered this on the stairs and fell down as a result.

The memorial stone, adorned with a crowned butcher's coat of arms, emphasizes in a Latin inscription that trade flourished under Fabritius and that he promoted it to the best of his ability. Literally it then says: “After he had already done a tremendous amount for the public good, he was unanimously elected mayor by the honorable citizens. He had just been most graciously confirmed by the illustrious counts, when unfortunately in the prime of his years he fell from the steps of the town hall, was fatally injured and died on August 24, 1722 ”.

His wealthy brother named Johann Ludwig (1667–1725) also lived in Grünstadt.

literature

  • Walter Lampert: 1100 years of Grünstadt , City of Grünstadt, 1975; P. 278
  • Walter Lampert: Grünstadt in old pictures , Volume 2, p. 77, Kiliandruck Grünstadt, 1980

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wife website
  2. ^ Website on Johann Peter Fabritius
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Billig: The families of the Palatinate, Palatinate and Liningian-Western Burgess ancestors of Karl Wilhelm Kindt , Darmstadt, 1998, p. 114
  4. ^ Website on the wife of Johann Conrad Fabritius, with information on the process at the Reich Chamber of Commerce
  5. ^ Archives for family research and all related areas , Volume 41, Issue 57, Verlag CA Starke, 1975, p. 351
personal data
SURNAME Fabritius, Johann Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fabricius, Johann Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1673
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1722
Place of death Grünstadt