Pöppelmann (family)

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Pöppelmann is a Low German family name . Old family name books (Heintze-Cascorbi, Halle 1925) and the Oldenburg homeland researcher Clemens Pagenstert trace the name back to the poplar (old Low German: Poppel), which probably first gave the farm its name and then the family who owned it. The name originally only occurs in the Oldenburger Münsterland and Westphalia . The local researchers are at odds, however, as to whether the name was created several times in this region or whether all the bearers of the name can ultimately be traced back to a farm in Grandorf (municipality of Holdorf in the district of Vechta ).

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There are currently 145 participants with the name Pöppelmann in the online telephone directory. More than 70 percent of them live in Oldenburger Münsterland and Westphalia. Most of the rest live in big cities, especially in the Rhine-Ruhr area. In the 17th century some Pöppelmanns emigrated to Sweden, where the name changed to Poppelman. The name Poppelman also appears in the Netherlands in the 17th century. However, no immigration from Germany has yet been proven on the basis of specific people. In the 19th century they emigrated to the USA. In Wisconsin the descendants of the emigrants called themselves Poppelman, in Ohio, however, Poeppelman.

History of the farm in Grandorf

In 1224 Bishop Engelbert I of Osnabrück was attacked by highwaymen on the Grandorf Heath on the journey from Bremen to Osnabrück and saved by three farmers and their servants. In gratitude, he made the farmers, Pöppelmann, Eschhoffmann and Große Klönne, who had previously been personal serfs of the Counts of Vechta, "Osnabrück heirs". Although they were not yet free, they did get a share in the "Mark", the common land owned by the village market cooperative. As “half-heirs”, however, their share was lower than that of full heirs with older rights.

Even seven years later Engelbert "popelmann to Grandorpe" bought back from the feudal rule of the Knight of Absalom Grandorf going and gave the court along with two others to the newly founded Cistercian - pen in Bersenbrück . The donation was recorded in 1248. The history of the farm is well documented in the files of the monastery, as the amount of the taxes was calculated from the size and livestock. Overall, there have been remarkably few significant changes. Even the Thirty Years' War did not lead to complete devastation, as was the case with many other farms, but only to a decimation of the livestock (from about 27 to 4 cattle). The soils were classified as very bad and therefore given the lowest levy. But also family events such as deaths, weddings or the ransom of younger sons were recorded in the books, since taxes had to be paid to the landlord on these occasions too. In a document dated May 25, 1494, the abbess Gertrud von Lanchals from Bersenbrück approved that “hinrike poppelmann zu grandorpe and his real housewife, tobe smoot, and real byde Kynder albert, lubbe, hinrik and tobe” could lease a field to a neighbor. Since then, a complete family tree has been reconstructed.

With the secularization in 1803, the court fell to the Hannoversche Klosterkammer and from there passed into the possession of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . In 1843 Johann Heinrich Pöppelmann released his court from dependency in exchange for "127 Reichstaler, 6 Gutegroschen and 2 Pfennig". The farm is currently in the 14th generation since "hinrike poppelmann and tobe smoot" by Alena Pöppelmann as an organic business . In other branches of the family in the 19th century - in addition to emigration to the USA - one can observe how within two to three generations the path from farmers to successful companies to well-off academic families was taken.

Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann

Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann , the builder of the Dresden Zwinger comes from Herford . A connection to Grandorf has not yet been proven. His ancestors can be traced back to his great-great-grandfather Daniel Pöppelmann (1526–1618), who was a merchant and councilor of Herford. As one of the richest citizens of the city, he donated an altar to the Marienkirche of Herford and to the Johanniskirche a pulpit that still exists today, on which an androgynous figure with a beard and female breasts is depicted. The coat of arms of the Herford Pöppelmanns showed a poplar framed by two roses. Members of the family immigrated to Narva in the 17th century . Others were involved in the witch hunt in Lemgo .

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