Limburg (Hanoverian patrician family)

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Limburg or Limborch was since the Middle Ages in Hannover known Rats- and merchant - family .

Of the 25 council families known in the city in the 15th century, the Limburgs were also one of the nine merchant families active in trade, all of whom were related to one another or by marriage. For this, the counted patrician gender Volger , the noble family of Anderten , Idensen , of Lude , Meiger , bay , from the Turf and Turk .

Well-known personalities of the Limburg family include two mayors of Hanover with terms of office

  • 1465 - 1490: Cord Limburg
  • 1518–1524: Gerd Limburg

Limburg choir

In the market church of Hanover , the side choir to the north was called the "Türckenchor" because the hereditary burials of the Turk family were located there. The southern side choir was called the Limburg Choir, as the Limburg family's hereditary burials were established there.

Limburgstrasse

Limburgstrasse, which was laid out in the late founding period of the German Empire in 1897 in what is now the Mitte district of Hanover , has been reminiscent of the von Limburg family from Hanover ever since.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann : Limburgstrasse. In: Helmut Zimmermann: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 161.
  2. ^ A b Siegfried Müller : The citizen city. From 1241 until the residency in 1636. In: Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the city of Hanover . Volume 1: From the beginning to the beginning of the 19th century. Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-87706-351-9 , pp. 71–135, here: p. 74.
  3. ^ The heads of council and administration since 1390. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the city of Hanover. Volume 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , p. 802f.
  4. ^ Arnold Nöldeke : Market Church. In: Arnold Nöldeke: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. ed. by the Provincial Commission for Research and Conservation of the Monuments of the Province of Hanover, Part 1: Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover. Volume 1, H. 2, Part 1, self-published by the Provinzialverwaltung, Schulzes Buchhandlung, Hanover 1932, p. 76–114, here: p. 84 (reprinted by Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 ) ( Digitization of part 1 and 2 via archive.org )