Matthijs Ooster

Matthias Ooster jun. , also Matthijs Ooster jun. (Born October 28, 1747 in Amsterdam , † January 17, 1842 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch merchant and insurer.

Life

In 1771, Ooster became the director of the Levante Trade ( Directie van de Levantse Handel en de Navigatie op de Middellandse Zee , Amsterdam, Stadhuis, Op de Dam). In 1775 he moved from his estate in Breukelen with his wife Clara Hillegonda of the Hooft family to Amsterdam, Herrengracht 338, and became a councilor / alder there on February 2, 1777 (schepe). He held this function for ten years until November 27 in 1787 by Crown Prince Willem V. , together with some other councilors this function due to insufficient support of the House of Orange horror was.

At the age of 13 he became canon of the chapter of St. Peter in Utrecht , probably as his father's successor. It was not officially approved as such until eight years later (1768). It was a secular function that involved a good income. In 1768 he became head of the Leprozenhuis in Amsterdam.

He left the Netherlands for patriotic reasons and moved to Frankfurt in 1788 . In the neighboring town of Offenbach am Main he had one of the most beautiful houses. He described himself as General Commerz Intendant and was one of three commissioners of the maritime trading company he founded in Amsterdam in 1818.

Possessions

Matthias Ooster jun. In 1757 he inherited the "Hofwerk" between Vechtvliet and Vijverhof an der Vecht near Breukel ( province of Utrecht ), which has belonged to his father since 1746 . In 1781 he bought the Zandvliet house with the English landscape gardens that already existed at that time in Lisse , province of South Holland , near the North Sea coast (today Keukenhof ), for 57,000 guilders, where he lived alternately with his apartment in Amsterdam. He sold this 108-acre property in May 1797 for 65,000 guilders to the Rotterdam merchant Lucas Boon. With this money he bought Gut Borstel in 1798 for a price of 314,000 Reichstalers. Ooster, whose wife died in the beginning of 1800 and was buried in the Sülfeld church with the stipulation not to open the grave in the next 100 years, sold the Borstel estate to the Dömitz city governor Joachim Christoph Janisch in 1801 . Around 1801/1802 Ooster acquired the allodial property Horst (Amt Boitzenburg / Elbe) from the state counsel Detlev Friedrich Dreves , which he had bought from Joachim Christoph Janisch shortly before.

In 1803 he bought the Muggesfelde estate (between Plön and Segeberg ), which he sold again in 1807 and then acquired it again at short notice by 1820. In 1828 he acquired the Oostbroek estate in De Bilt (and the farms in Bilthoven) northeast of Utrecht, which he kept until his death in 1842.

Private life

Matthias (Matthijs) Ooster was his first marriage (⚭ November 1, 1772) with Clara Hillegonda Hooft (1749–1800), his second marriage (⚭ December 28, 1803 in Lausanne ) with Christine Elisabeth Rosalie de Montrand (1784–1811) and married in third marriage (⚭ January 21, 1812 in Rolle / Lake Geneva) to Catherine Françoise Marguerite Louise Henriette de Roveréa. From his first marriage there were three children: Anna Catharina Elisabeth († 1773), Marie Cornelia Margaretha (1774–1803) and Matthijs († 1777).

Portraits

Jan Adam Kruseman (1804–1862) portrayed Matthijs Ooster in 1831. The picture hangs in the Central Bureau for Genealogy in The Hague / Netherlands.

Coenrad Hamburger (1809–1871) made a miniature of the portrait , which is kept in the collection of the Iconographic Bureau des Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD) in The Hague .

literature

• Alberdingk Thijm, Josef Albert and Vorsterman van Oyen, Anthonie Abraham, Het Geslacht Hooft: eene genealogie, uit ongedrukte modeiden opgemaakt en met vele levensbizonderheden gestoffeerd, Amsterdam 1881.
• Leer, Kees van der, Van Santvliet te Lisse naar Zandvliet in Den Haag, in: Kunst, natuur en techniek op en rond kasteel Keukenhof, Jaarboek Kasteel Keukenhof, Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van het kasteel en het landgoed III, Hilversum 2009, pages 152 and 164 ff.
• Axel Lohr, The history of the Borstel estate up to 1938, Hamburg, 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-046413-3 .
• Munnig Schmidt, Edward, Hoffwerk: Een verdwenen buitenplaats, in: Jaarboekje 1997 van het oudheidkundig genootschap 'Niftarlake', o. O. and o. J., page 41.
• Stuart, Martinus, “Oprigting eener Maatschappij van Koophandel en Zeevaart te Amsterdam” in July 1818, in: Jaarboeken van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden, het Jaar 1818, Tweede Stuk, Amsterdam 1818, pages 91-97.