Morell (patrician family)

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Morell coat of arms, from an ex-libris by Johann Emanuel Wyss (around 1820)

The Morell family is a proven Savoyard family in Konstanz since the Reformation . The Morell sat in the 16th century in the council of the cities of Konstanz and Freiburg im Breisgau , in the 17th in the Great Council of Ravensburg , in the 18th also in the Inner Council of Augsburg . Since 1662 the family also had the citizenship rights of the city of Bern . The family there belonged to the company of merchants and expired in 1883 in the male line . In the imperial city of Lindau , the Morell belonged to the nobility at the end of the 17th century .

history

David Mieser and Johann Morell, Map of the Imperial City of Ravensburg (1630)

The surname Morell is u. a. detectable in the Chablais , the Savoyard fringe of Lake Geneva . Peter Morell was accepted as a citizen in Constance in 1555 as the son-in-law of the Savoyard Andreas Kürsner. On March 8, 1555, King Ferdinand I had awarded Hans Morell († 1576) from Constance a herbländisch Austrian coat of arms without any fief articles . This coat of arms is shown in Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, 2nd volume from 1703, in the section of the Lindau Adeliche family . Another Hans Morell was a member of the Small Council in Constance from 1582 to 1603. The cartographer and engraver Johann Morell (1604–1672) was councilor of the imperial city of Ravensburg and was sent to the Reichstag in Regensburg as a Protestant member of the Reichstag in 1654 and 1669 , where he stayed until 1671. Morell's coat of arms also adorns the portrait of his great-grandson, the lawyer Johann Georg Morell (born September 3, 1690 in Ravensburg, † August 6, 1763 in Augsburg). In 1730 he became councilor of the Inner Council and mayor of the imperial city of Augsburg. He had held this office for 24 years when he was elected master builder in 1754 , with the associated scholarchate . His son Johann Gottfried Morell (1720–1789) was also a member of the Inner Council, as well as an Imperial Palatine count , master builder and scholarch of Augsburg. His portrait is also adorned with the Morell coat of arms.

The salt bookkeeper Hans Jakob Morell (II.) (1616–1663) was accepted as a permanent resident of Bern in 1643, he received full citizenship rights in 1662. The Morell bowl, which the brothers Niklaus Bernhard and Karl Friedrich Morell in 1794 owned, should come from his possession gave to the archery society. Abraham Morell and his son Karl Friedrich Morell owned the pharmacy on Berner Kreuzgasse from 1764 to 1836, today's town hall pharmacy in the house of the Society for Carpenters .

people

  • Johannes Morell, of the Council of Constance 1582 to 1603
  • Hans Jakob Morell (I.), of the Grand Council of Constance 1583 to 1590
  • Jakob Morell († 1634), in Strasbourg
  • Johannes Morell (1759–1835), 1798–1800 Senior Secretary and 1800–1803 President of the Thurgau Administrative Chamber, from 1807 honorary citizen of Frauenfeld , 1803 he was a member of the Thurgau Government Commission, 1803–1835 of the Small Council and 1803–1831 of the Grand Council since 1814 member of the constitutional commission, served as Landammann from 1815–1831, alternating with Joseph Anderwert ; on his initiative the canton library was founded in 1805 and the casino company Frauenfeld in 1807

Augsburg branch

  • Johann Georg Morell (1690–1763), Inner Councilor and Mayor of the imperial city of Augsburg
  • Johann Gottfried Morell (1720–1789), inner councilor of the imperial city of Augsburg and imperial court palatinate count

Bern branch

  • Hans Jakob Morell (II.) (1616–1663), accountant at the Salt Office in Thurgau
  • Andreas Morell (1646–1703), antiquarian and numismatist
  • Hans Jakob Morell (III.) (1675–1747), pastor at Veltheim and at the Bern Minster, from 1744 dean, bath concessionaire at Schinznach
  • Niklaus Bernhard Morell (1754–1835), salt accountant, member of the Grand Council 1795, chairman of the Reismusketen-Schützengesellschaft 1799, salt trade administrator 1824
  • Karl Friedrich Morell (1759–1816), botanist, chemist and pharmacist
  • Bernhard Rudolf Morell (1785–1859), architect
  • Samuel Abraham Morell (1799–1883), ultimus, pastor of Lüsslingen and Bern
  • Eduard Rudolf Morell (1805–1862), colonel in the Neapolitan service

gallery

  • Johann Jakob Morell, Pastor of Veltheim and Dean of the Bern Minster

  • Johann Georg Morell, Inner Councilor and Mayor of the Imperial City of Augsburg

  • Johann Gottfried Morell, of the Inner Council of the Imperial City of Augsburg and Count of the Imperial Palatinate

  • Niklaus Bernhard Morell, of the Grand Council of the City of Bern

Trivia

In Augsburg, Morellstrasse was named after the mayor and architect Johann Georg Morell (1690–1763). In turn, she gave its name to the Augsburg Morellstrasse train station .

In Bern, the Morellweg is named after the family.

The Johann-Morell-Weg in the core city of Ravensburg is named after the cartographer Johann Morell (1604–1672).

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literature

  • Jacob Amiet: The coin researcher Andreas Morellius of Bern. A picture of life from the time of the Bastille , in: Berner Taschenbuch 1883, pp. 1–52. doi: 10.5169 / seals-124826
  • Manuel Kehrli et al .: The Reismusketen-Schützengesellschaft of the City of Bern. Founded in 1686. Bern 2009, p. 30.
  • Bernhard Emanuel von Rodt, Ludwig Lauterburg: The company of merchants in Bern. A contribution to the history of the town of Bern's society and guild system , in: Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1862, pp. 1–171. doi : 10.5169 / seals-120727
  • Daniel Schmutz: Morell, Andreas. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Peter Sommer: The Berner Rathausapotheke for four centuries, 1571–1971 , in: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde, Volume 33 (1971), pp. 65–82. doi: 10.5169 / seals-245398
  • Theodor Engelmann : Pharmacist etiquettes by Balthasar Anton Dunker , Basel 1917–1918.
  • Robert Ludwig Wyss: craftsmanship in gold and silver. The silver dishes of the Bern guilds, societies and civil associations , Bern 1996, p. 272.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Morell lineage
  2. ^ A b Georg Wilhelm Zapf , Augsburg Library. Or historical-critical-literary directory , Augsburg 1795, p. 544
  3. ↑ a b The portrait collection of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, edited by Peter Mortzfeld, Morell, Johann Georg
  4. ^ A b Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, 2nd part, Nuremberg 1703, plate 270
  5. ↑ a b c Martin Zürn, Immigration from Savoy to Germany 1500–1800. Basic features and selected families , in: Schau-ins-Land: Annual issue of the Breisgau-Geschichtsverein Schau-ins-Land , 122nd annual issue 2003, p. 85
  6. ↑ Burgerbibliothek Bern, Gr.D.231 coat of arms; Coat of arms letter; Adel - Morell (family), 1813 (files / dossier / graphics / volume / correspondence)
  7. ↑ CERL Thesaurus, Morell, Johann (1604–1672)
  8. ↑ a b Zapf, p. 545
  9. ↑ The portrait collection of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, edited by Peter Mortzfeld, copper engraving portrait Johann Georg Morell
  10. ↑ a b Zapf, p. 548
  11. ↑ CERL Thesaurus, Morell, Johann Gottfried (1720–1789)
  12. ↑ von Rodt 1862, p. 168.
  13. ^ Bernisches Historisches Museum, Inv. No. 332.7; Wyss 1996, p. 272.
  14. ^ Augsburger Stadtlexikon, Morellstrasse (accessed November 24, 2015)

Web links

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