Ludwig Maximilian of Rigal-Grunland

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Ludwig Maximilian of Rigal-Grunland

Ludwig Maximilian Freiherr von Rigal-Grunland (born Louis Maximilien ; * February 25, 1809 in Krefeld , † October 27, 1885 in Bonn ) was a German entrepreneur.

Life

Von Rigal-Grunland came from a Huguenot family proven since the 17th century who fled to Switzerland after the edict of Fontainebleau (1685) and settled in Neuhaldensleben near Magdeburg around 1699 . Ludwig Maximilian's great-grandfather Jean Pierre Rigal (1688–1769) had started the production of silk stockings there. His grandfather, the court chamber councilor Louis Maximilian Rigal (1748–1830), had married the daughter of one of the leading silk manufacturers in Krefeld, Maria Sibylle (also Sibylla ) Heydweiller (1752–1789) around 1799 . There he entered the company of his father-in-law as a partner and founded his own company ( LM Rigal ) around 1808 , which finally managed Ludwig Maximilian's father Franz Heinrich Rigal (1785-1852). In Krefeld he married Henriette Sybille (also Sibylla ) Heydweiller (1789–1869), Ludwig Maximilian's mother, through whom his father came into the possession of the manor Grunland in the mayor's office of Orsoy and thus - as before into the nobility - raised to the baron status has been. The family lived there in the summer while they spent the winter months in Krefeld.

Ludwig Maximilian, born in Rigalschen Haus (Friedrichstrasse 40) in Krefeld, initially received home tuition and later attended the Protestant grammar school in Moers . Long stays in France and the United States followed . In 1845 he took over his father's silk goods factory in Krefeld, but sold it as early as 1847. The year before, his father Franz Heinrich von Rigal had settled in Bonn, where he moved into a newly built villa on the banks of the Rhine . A little later, Ludwig Maximilian followed his father to Bonn, where he had the palace-like Villa Schloss Rigal (Kurfürstenallee 12) built as a summer residence in neighboring Godesberg in 1849 according to the wishes of his then wife Melanie . A small farm with farm buildings, orchards and a park belonged to the property. On the edge of the property, von Rigal-Grunland had the so-called Rigal'sche Chapel built as a private chapel and first Protestant church in Godesberg between 1856 and 1858 , which he donated to the Protestant community two years later. In 1859 he donated 10,000 thalers and in 1860 another 2,000 thalers for the establishment of an independent Protestant parish in Godesberg, which - made possible by these foundations - took place the following year. The couple spent the winters in Paris or Berlin . After his mother's death in 1869 at the latest, von Rigal-Grunland and his family moved into his parents' former villa on Bonn's banks of the Rhine (most recently at Coblenzerstraße 59 ). The household in 1871 consisted of a family of four and a staff of five.

Named after von Rigal-Grunland, the Rigal'sche Wiese in Bad Godesberg below the villa "Schloss Rigal" was the residence of the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China from 1984 to 1999 and was expanded to accommodate the embassy chancellery (→ Embassy of the People's Republic of China (Bonn) ).

Public offices and memberships

Due to his hereditary possession of the manor Grunland, von Rigal-Grunland was one of 25 representatives of the knighthood in the provincial assembly of the Rhine province . From 1858 to 1861 he held the post of Vice- Landtag Marshal . In addition, he was a member of the Prussian mansion for life on the “highest trust” of the king . Since 1859 von Rigal-Grunland was Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John . On June 24, 1862, he was knighted by the master of the order as a legal knight . In the Rhenish Provincial Cooperative of the Order of St. John he initially held the office of treasurer before he was appointed commander in 1867 .

In Bad Godesberg von Rigal-Grunland was a member of the municipal council and at times deputy mayor. In addition, he was one of the five founding members of the Godesberg Beautification Association , which was founded in 1869 and from which today's Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV emerged.

Awards

family

Ludwig Maximilian was married to Caroline Melanie von Creutzer (1819–1863) since 1845. The marriage remained childless. After the death of his first wife, von Rigal-Grunland entered into a second marriage with Minna von Klengel (* 1838) in 1865, resulting in a son (* 1867) and a daughter (* 1868).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Theo Schultes: The silk ring or From the castle of the silk baron to the embassy of the People's Republic of China. In: Die Heimat , ISSN  0342-5185 , year 55/1984, Verein für Heimatkunde eV Krefeld, pp. 120–121.
  2. ^ Josef Niesen : Bonner Personenlexikon. 3rd, improved and enlarged edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03352-7 , p. 391.
  3. ↑ a b c Ancestors of Franz Heinrich VON RIGAL ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2014 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. , GedBas, Association for Computer Genealogy @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gedbas.genealogy.net
  4. ↑ Henriette Sibylla HEYDWEILLER , GedBas, Association for Computer Genealogy
  5. ↑ a b c Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 2, Catalog (2), pp. 40–44. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
  6. ↑ a b c d e Joachim Lilla (Ed.); Timo Bauermeister: Krefeld MPs: MPs from Krefeld in supra-local parliaments since 1826 with special consideration of the German Bundestag (= Krefeld Studies , Volume 12), City Archives Krefeld, Krefeld 2000, ISBN 3-9806517-3-8 , p. 276.
  7. ↑ a b Eva Ammermüller: The Rigal'sche Chapel - a Huguenot foundation . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Issue 6/1968, Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV, Bad Godesberg 1968, ISSN  0436-1024 , pp. 86–95.
  8. ^ Prussian mansion : collection of all printed matter of the mansion , Sittenfeld, 1866, p. 13
  9. ^ Weekly newspaper of the Johanniter-Ordens-Balley Brandenburg , Volume 3, 1862, p. 124
  10. ↑ Burgfriedhof , www.godesberger-markt.de (partially taken from the Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg (ed.); Martin Ammermüller : Walk across the Burgfriedhof , Godesberger Heimatblätter 2010)
  11. ↑ Caroline Melanie VON CREUTZER  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , GedBas, Association for Computer Genealogy@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / gedbas.genealogy.net  
  12. ↑ a b Louis Maximilian BARON OF RIGAL-GRUNLAND  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , GedBas, Association for Computer Genealogy@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / gedbas.genealogy.net  
personal data
SURNAME Rigal-Grunland, Ludwig Maximilian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rigal, Ludwig Maximilian Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1885
Place of death Bonn