Johann Nepomuk van Recum
Johann Nepomuk van Recum (born June 17, 1753 in Grünstadt , Palatinate ; † October 13, 1801 ibid ) was an entrepreneur in Frankenthal and Grünstadt; last operator of the Frankenthal porcelain factory and founder of the Grünstadt stoneware factory .
Live and act
Johann Nepomuk van Recum was born in Grünstadt as one of the twelve children of the Dutch cloth manufacturer Peter van Recum, who immigrated there in 1735, and his wife Marie Susanna Zeiler, who came from the town itself. The family belonged to the Catholic minority in this Lutheran-dominated capital and residence of what was then County of Leiningen . She was very wealthy and respected. Johann Nepomuk's sister Marie Susanne (1774–1844) married the entrepreneur François Joseph Jean Saglio (1765–1813) and their son was the painter Camille Saglio ; Maria Magdalena van Recum, another sister, became the wife of the wealthy Koblenz merchant Pierre François Paravey (1775–1828). The brother Andreas van Recum (1765-1828), later Sous-Prefect (sub-prefect) in Simmern and member of the Corps législatif (legislative body) in Paris , reported on the family situation in Grünstadt:
“ My father lived in accordance with his civil status, had a cheerful disposition, was active and generally recognized as an honorable, legal, and at the same time clever man, whose hard work and activity were rewarded by assets which he only benefited from, especially for upbringing and higher education related to his children. "
Johann Nepomuk van Recum attended school in Grünstadt, learned the Latin language here and became a businessman. In 1782 he married Anna Margaretha Jacquemare (1767–1833) in Kaiserslautern .
Through the mediation of his brother Andreas, van Recum acquired the electoral Frankenthal porcelain manufactory confiscated by the French on February 4, 1795 for 3500 livres . When the French left in November 1795, he had to give the factory back to the Electoral Palatinate state , after they returned in December 1797, Johann Nepomuk van Recum took over the business again and continued to run it until June 1799. Due to a lack of raw materials, he stopped production and moved the molds and devices, as well as some employees, to his hometown of Grünstadt. It was here that Johann Nepomuk van Recum founded the Grünstadt stoneware factory , which existed until 1980 and later became one of the city's most important companies. On March 20, 1801, he leased the Leininger Unterhof , which had been confiscated by the French state, and set up his factory there. It stayed in this place until 1973.
On March 9, 1801, he acquired the Alsatian castle Walbourg near Haguenau , which his heirs resold in 1805.
Johann Nepomuk van Recum died on October 13, 1801 in Grünstadt. On October 5, 1805, the French government sold the Unterhof in Grünstadt to his children, who continued the business there, but sold the property and the factory to the brothers Wilhelm Bordollo and Bernhard Bordollo in 1812 .
The ceramic ware produced under Johann Nepomuk van Recum and his heirs until 1812 in Frankenthal and Grünstadt bears the brand "VR", for "van Recum"; in Frankenthal also partly "PVR" and "VRF", for "Porzellan van Recum" or "van Recum Frankenthal".
literature
- Altertumsverein Grünstadt (Ed.): 180 years of the Grünstadt stoneware factory . Verlag Emil Sommer, Grünstadt, 1985, p. 56 u. 57
- Franz Freiherr von Recum: Andreas von Recum - The life of a Palatinate around the turn of the 18th century , Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter, 8/1927
- Walter Lampert: 1100 years of Grünstadt . City administration Grünstadt, 1975, p. 382
Web links
- Genealogical page on Johann Nepomuk van Recum
- French website about the van Recum family (illustrated)
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogical website on Maria Magdalena van Recum
- ↑ Historical website about Pierre François Paravey ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ French website on Pierre François Paravey and his family environment
- ^ Website on factory brands of the Frankenthal porcelain manufactory
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Recum, Johann Nepomuk van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Entrepreneur, company founder, porcelain and earthenware producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1753 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grünstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 1801 |
| Place of death | Grünstadt |