Johann Wilhelm Schürenberg

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Wilhelm Schürenberg
Common resting place of the Funke and Schürenberg families at the Ostfriedhof Essen

Wilhelm Schürenberg (born April 2, 1831 in Kettwig - circumstance ; † October 11, 1894 in Essen , full name: Johann Wilhelm Schürenberg ) was a German building contractor, industrialist and city councilor.

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Schürenberg was the first of seven children born to the carpenter and later owner of the inn, Johann Heinrich Schürenberg, and his wife Anna Catharina, nee vom Riek . In 1858 he married Anna Maria Caroline Rellensmann from Dortmund . In 1868 his son Wilhelm Theodor Schürenberg was born in Essen.

Wilhelm Schürenberg founded the construction company Funke & Schürenberg together with Fritz Funke in 1859. Due to a rapid upturn around six years after it was founded, it had around 2000 employees and was one of the largest construction companies in the up-and-coming Ruhr area . The company built some industrial plants and collieries and was involved, among other things, in the construction of Villa Hügel with Alfred Krupp as the client, the Pauluskirche and the Actien beer brewery in Essen an der Ruhr , which later became the Stern brewery . Schürenberg was also one of the founding and supervisory board members of the brewery. He was one of the members of the building deputation, whose stone busts were placed under the eaves on the market side of the former Essen town hall (1878–1964) .

In 1872, together with Fritz Funke, Heinrich Grimberg , Carl Ernst Korte and Carl and Friedrich Wilhelm Waldthausen, the Lorraine union was founded in Bochum .

Since November 27, 1884 Schürenberg was a city councilor in the city council of Essen.

Wilhelm Schürenberg was buried in the family crypt of the Funke and Schürenberg families in the cemetery at Kettwiger Tor . After the cemetery was closed in 1955, the common crypt was moved to the Ostfriedhof in Essen .

In 1937 the former Bergmannstrasse in Essen's east quarter was renamed Schürenbergstrasse.

literature

  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 312 .
  • Robert Welzel: Building contractors as housing manufacturers - The Essen house kings and their contribution to urban development 1850-1929 in: Essen contributions . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2011, p. 51 ff .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ genealogy.net: Ortsfamilienbuch Kettwig, Familienbericht ; accessed on May 4, 2016
  2. ^ History of the Lorraine colliery ; Retrieved April 26, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Schürenberg, Johann Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schürenberg, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building contractor, industrialist and city councilor
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Kettwig - circumstance
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1894
Place of death eat