Joseph Jacob van Geldern

Joseph Jacob van Geldern (called Juspa ) (* 1653 in Düsseldorf ; † 2. Tammus 1727 in Mannheim ) was a banker, court factor and ducal Jülich-Bergischer "court chamber agent" of the elector Johann Wilhelm (called Jan Wellem ). Juspa was the son of Jacob van Geldern . The van Geldern family came from the Netherlands . Juspa's son Lazarus was Heinrich Heine's great-grandfather. In 1705, Juspa van Geldern made a significant contribution to the Cologne bank of notes, Banco di gyro d'affrancatione . He received permission from the most important customer of his financial institution, the Elector "Jan Wellem" , to erect a building on Neusser Strasse in Düsseldorf-Unterbilk . The building was built 1709–1712 according to designs by the court architect Jakob Dubois in the Baroque style as a multi-wing residential building with a synagogue and school . In 1772 this building was sold to the Hubertus-Stift , which today belongs to Caritas , because the Hubertus Hospital at that time had been relocated from what was then the city ​​center .

literature

• Cilli Kasper-Holtkotte: News in the West. Migration and its consequences: German Jews as pioneers of Jewish life in Belgium, 18./19. Century . Page 450, footnote 1971. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, Netherlands, 2003, ISBN 90-04-13109-4
• David Kaufmann: From Heinrich Heine's Ahnensaal , Schlesische Buchdruckerei, Kunst- und Verlagsanstalt Schottlaender, Breslau 1896, p. 47 ( online )
• Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, No. 103 on p. 75, [Hubertus-Stift].

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schwann in Patmos-Verlag (ed.), Düsseldorf: Von der Residenzstadt zur Official City (1614-1900) , 1988, p. 193
2. ↑ Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein, in: Festschrift for the 600th anniversary in 1888 , pp. [252] 235 and [253] 236.