Ludwig von Kapff
Ludwig von Kapff is the name of the founder of an old Bremen merchant family. Ludwig von Kapff is also an old wine house in Bremen .
Biographies
The older Ludwig von Kapff came to Bremen from Württemberg in 1655 ; he was a merchant. He was with Rebecca von Kapff, geb. Biskanter married. The extensive family in northern Germany comes from him. In 1692, the future Bremen councilor Johann Nonnen (1670–1750) founded a shipping company . In 1707, Nun's ship Wappen von Lehe first brought wines, brandies and plums from Bordeaux to Bremen. In addition to the shipping company, a trading company was established that also traded in wine. Family and economic connections existed between the Kapff and Nonnen families.
His son was Christoph von Kapff (1733–1819), who continued his father's trade and with his first wife Elisabeth von Kapff, née. Nuns (1745–1780) was married. Numerous children came from this connection. His second wife was Amalia Charlotte Dorothea von Kapff, b. Floor. A number of children also grew out of this connection.
In 1792 the younger Johann Carl Ludwig von Kapff - great-grandson of the older von Kapff - took over the wine house, which initially resided in Bremen at Martinistraße 48. Von Kapff was able to successfully expand the company through his contacts with the imperial, royal and aristocratic courts. In 1850/52 he built a residential and commercial building on the Weser Bridge in the neo-Gothic Tudor style according to plans by the architect Heinrich Müller , which was popularly known as "von Kapff'sche Burg" due to its size and the crenellated tower. This house was destroyed in World War II.
Johann Wilhelm André Kapff built a large villa in Tudor style in 1865 at Schwachhauser Heerstraße 62 according to plans by Ernst Klingenberg , in which the painter and patron Aline von Kapff (1842–1936) lived from the 1870s to 1936 . This house belonged to the Kippenberg high school after the Second World War and it was demolished in 1968.
Paul Ludwig von Kapff built a villa in Bremen at Osterdeich 53 in 1884 with a beautiful rococo hall in the neo-renaissance style .
Weinhaus Ludwig von Kapff GmbH still exists today as a wine importer in Speicher I in Überseestadt . The owner is the Eggers & Franke Group from Bremen.
Honors
- The Ludwig von Kapff Street in Bremen- Hemelingen is named after Ludwig von Kapff.
- The Von Kapff monument was made by Jacob Ephraim Polzin . It was dedicated to Hermann von Kapff (1794–1815), who served in the Hanseatic Legion and who died in 1815 as a Lützower Jäger .
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Werner Kloos : Bremen Lexicon . Hauschild, Bremen 1980, ISBN 3-920699-31-9 .