Nicolaus von der Willig

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Nicolaus von der Willig (also: von der Willigs ) (* 1730 ; † 1798 in Uetersen ) was a German businessman and councilor.

The former cultural monument in Mühlenstrasse in Uetersen, where Nicolaus von der Willig lived

Life

Willig was a resident and later a councilor (chairman of the Chamber of Commerce ), as well as a wealthy man and belonged to the “higher” society of Uetersen. He lived in a two-storey eaves house on Mühlenstrasse in Uetersen, now declared a cultural monument, with a high basement leveled off by a plinth. In the central portal there was a coat of arms in rocaille cartouche with the coat of arms of Blome . The playwright, court officer and folklorist Johann Friedrich Camerer described it in 1762 as a “nice house” (large house) with “beautiful high and papered rooms and an excellently laid out garden”. Willig was a music lover and had a music room with a stucco ceiling set up on the upper floor in order to enjoy “some fun evenings with a little music” with friends. Willig owned "a large cupboard with two glass doors, full of the most beautiful Dreßdner porcelain", and "In the hall and in the living room, and in a room above" hung "an excellent collection of paintings, of the best Dutch and others Master. However, most of them are from the Dutch school. Among them was a portrait of the Nativity and a painting of an old man's head.

After his death, parts of his valuable collection were transferred to the private collections of Hermann Tratsch and Emil Meyer. These were later sold to the Pinneberg district . Part of it was made available to the public in the Pinneberger Landdrostei .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: The life of the Conventualin Augusta Louise Countess to Stolberg-Stolberg. P. 267.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Teuchert , Arnold Lühning: The art monuments of the Pinneberg district. P. 332.
  3. ^ Johann Friedrich Camerer: Mixed historical-political news in letters from some strange areas of the duchies Schleßwig and Hollstein, their natural history and other rare antiquities. P. 283.
  4. ^ Heinrich Bauer, Wolfgang Scheffer and Hans Weber: The art monuments of the Pinneberg district, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1939

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Camerer : Mixed historical-political news in letters from some strange areas of the duchies Schleßwig and Hollstein, their natural history and other rare antiquities. Flensburg / Leipzig 1758–1762.
  • Hans Ferdinand Bubbe : Heimatbuch Uetersen (attempt of a chronicle of the city and the monastery Uetersen). Part I - IV, Heydorn Verlag, Uetersen 1932, DNB 560386397 .
  • Wolfgang Teuchert , Arnold Lühning: The art monuments of the Pinneberg district. German art publisher, 1961, DNB 452648270 .
  • Lothar Mosler (Ed.): Blickpunkt Uetersen, history and stories 1234 to 1984 . Heydorn Verlag, Uetersen 1985, DNB 860964795 .
  • Elsa Plath-Langheinrich : The life of the Conventual Augusta Louise Countess to Stolberg-Stolberg. Wachholtz Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-529-02695-6 .
  • Ernst Brütt, Gerhard Scharfenstein: Uetersen and its inhabitants in the last 150 years. Heydorn Verlag, Uetersen 1995.
personal data
SURNAME Willing, Nicolaus von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willigs, Nicolaus von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and chairman of the Chamber of Commerce
DATE OF BIRTH 1730
DATE OF DEATH 1798
Place of death Uetersen