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Kap-herr is the name of a German aristocratic family that was raised to hereditary baron status by the Grand Duke of Hessen-Darmstadt in 1868 . The barons of Kap-herr have been settled in Mecklenburg since the 17th century . The peculiar spelling of the name was used to prevent incorrect pronunciation (Kapher, see Kaffer ).
history
A descendant of the German line, Hermann Christian von Kap-herr (1801–1877), emigrated to Saint Petersburg in the early 19th century , where his father's brother, Johan Christian von Kap-herr, already carried the title of "Imperial Russian Council of State" and thus enjoyed a lot of influence and high reputation. This was also obtained by Hermann Christian, who was first a banker in Saint Petersburg and was later appointed Imperial Russian State Councilor, Knight, Royal Spanish Consul and Hereditary Russian Honorary Citizen. At times he acted as a representative of the Telegraphen Bau-Anstalt von Siemens & Halske in St. Petersburg. This task was then taken over by the company 's founder's brother, Carl Heinrich Siemens , who had married Cape Herr's daughter Marie in 1855. The family Carl and Marie von Siemens was on the III. The cemetery of the Jerusalem and New Churches parish is buried in front of the Hallescher Tor in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
When his wife Charlotte Dorothea died in 1866, Kapherr acquired Lockwitz Castle near Dresden . In 1867 he moved to Dresden in the Oppenheimsche Palais , which he acquired, as well as the castles in Bärenklause and Prohlis . In 1868 he was raised to hereditary Hessian baron. Hermann Christian Freiherr von Kap-herr died in 1877 in the Palais Kap-herr in Dresden, which was built by the Semper students Carl Kirsten and Otto Kreyssig .
The Palais Kap-herr was destroyed in February 1945, the Prohlis Castle fell victim to a fire in 1980 and was demolished in 1985. The Cape Rule Mausoleum and Lockwitz Castle have been preserved.
Today the barons of Cape Lord live scattered around the world.
Lockwitz Castle
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Lockwitz Castle has been the center of the town of the same name since 1349. The castle changed hands 13 times between 1349 and 1945. In 1866, Carl Johann Freiherr von Kap-herr bought the 265 hectare manor that was connected with the church patronage. He immediately had it enlarged and redesigned by Otto Kreyssig and Carl Kirsten. In 1929 Carl Johann's grandson set up a local museum in the dining room. In autumn 1945, the castle and the attached manor were expropriated by the land reform and the Kap-herr family was deported to Rügen , from where their members later managed to flee to the West. From 1946 the expropriated castle was used as a state fire brigade school.
Palais Cape Lord
The Palais Kap-herr is described in many books as the most precious private building in Dresden. In addition to the Palais Oppenheim (Palais Kaskel-Oppenheim since 1869) built by Gottfried Semper for Martin Wilhelm Oppenheim from 1845 to 1848 , it was one of the most stately villas in Dresden. The Palais Kap-herr was built from 1872 to 1874 based on designs by Bernhard Schreiber , a student of Semper. The building owner of the palace was Hermann Christian Freiherr von Kap-herr, who had come to great wealth through his position as Imperial Russian State Councilor and banker in Russia. The purpose of the relatively monumental palace with over 4000 square meters of floor space was mainly a representative one. In 1945 the palace was destroyed by the air raids on Dresden and burned down completely.
Egon Freiherr von Kap-herr
In 1877 the writer Egon Freiherr Kap-herr was born in Bärenklause near Kreischa . He worked as a forester and farmer in Livonia. After an eventful life in which he wrote more than 50 books, he and his third wife Maria retired in a castle-like property. His last work is called Die Heideleute von Babenhusen . The family legend says that Egon “lied while praying”. For example, his story about a mammoth that he caught in Siberia and wanted to have shipped to China is still on everyone's lips.
Grandmother and granddaughter
This large-format painting can be seen as part of the New Masters Gallery in the Albertinum in Dresden. It is one of the masterpieces of the painter Julius Scholtz and shows the ancestral mother of the Barons of Cape Lord, Charlotte Dorothea, with her granddaughter. Hermann Christian von Kap-herr commissioned Julius Scholtz (1801–1877) in 1863 to design a painting of his wife with her granddaughter Charlotte Maria Julia. This order was followed by five others who show family members of the Barons of Cape Lord. Charlotte Dorothea found her final resting place in the Lockwitz family's mausoleum. Not much is known about her person other than that she spent much of her life in illness and eventually died at the age of 60. On her tombstone it is written: “But now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but love is the greatest of them ”(1.Cor.13,13).
The mausoleum of the Barons of Cape Lord
The mausoleum is located northeast of the Crows' Hill above Lockwitz Castle, in the area that is now called the Crows Forest. It is a sandstone vaulted crypt with 48 burial chambers, which was built in the Greek temple style. In 1945 the chambers were completely looted and finally sealed in 1994. A descendant of the Barons von Kap-herr later bought back the crow forest including the mausoleum, which is planned to be repaired.
Web links and sources
- prohlis-online.de: The story of the Barons von Kap-herr in Dresden
- Walk with Moritz von Crailshaim
- The mausoleum of those of Cape Lord
- Lockwitz Castle
- The Palais Kap-lord
- Prohlis Castle
- Grandmother and granddaughter / The ancestral mother of the Barons of Cape Herr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bürgerwiese 5 u. 6: E (owner) Kappherr, Herm. Chst., K. Span. Generalconsul and Banquier, (Petersburg) , in the address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden, Volume 14., 1868, p. 42
- ↑ Hagenshöhe @ altwarp.info; Egon Freiherr von Kap-herr @ heimatverein-prohlis.de, accessed March 9, 2018