Philipp Orth the Younger

Philipp Orth the Younger (born February 16, 1567 in Heilbronn ; † January 13, 1622 there ) was Mayor of Heilbronn from 1614 to 1622 .

Life

The eldest son of the wealthy Heilbronn merchant and mayor Philipp Orth (1534–1603) attended the Heilbronn Latin School and from 1580 the grammar school in Ulm. In 1583 he studied in Heidelberg , in 1584 he attended a school in Cologne, where he learned the French language and commercial arithmetic. Then he joined the father's company and did the purchasing of goods in northern Germany, mostly in Hamburg. In 1589 he traveled to London. After his marriage in 1592, he settled in Heilbronn, where the family owned the headquarters of their trading house as well as a sea freight. In the following years, mostly after visiting trade fairs, he undertook further extended trips.

After his father's death in 1603, he and his three younger brothers took over their father’s trading company, whereby the management fell to him. As his father's successor, he was a member of the small, inner council ( "von den burgern" ) from 1603 and was tax master from 1606 . As a representative of Heilbronn, he was on various diplomatic missions, including a. 1609 in Schwäbisch Hall at the meeting of the Protestant Union . From 1614 he was mayor of Heilbronn . At the same time he became Vogt of the imperial town of Neckargartach , with which he was enfeoffed in 1615 by the Duke of Württemberg.

Philipp Orth d. J. still hospital carer and carer of the Carmelite monastery as well as master builder. In these offices he rendered outstanding services to the hospital church, which had a Renaissance facade facing the Neckar and was dedicated to Saints Katharina and Elisabeth (later the Trinity ), when he built a new one during the restoration of the church of the Katharinenspital around 1620 Has donated the pulpit and benches.

In old age he was plagued by gout, so that he hadn't gone out at all in winter since 1615 and only covered the short distance from his house near Kilian's Church to the nearby town hall on horseback during his months in office as mayor. He died of a stroke in 1622.

He left no male offspring. His trading house was probably abandoned by the heirs during the uncertain times of the Thirty Years War . His sea property in the east of Heilbronn came through the later wedding of his widow to the Heilbronn mayor Johann Georg Spitzer , who sold it to the Trapp family, after whom the property is still called Trappensee today .

family

Philip the Younger was married to Anna Imlin († 1607), the daughter of Clement Imlin , and had two daughters with her: Maria and Margarete and a son Philip who died young. In 1610 he was married to Anna Maria Ans in his second marriage. The daughter Magdalena came from this marriage.

swell

1. ↑ Dumitrache, Marianne and Simon M. Haag: Archaeological city cadastre Baden-Württemberg. Vol. 8: Heilbronn. Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg , Stuttgart 2001 ( ISBN 3-927714-51-8 ), No. 79: “Spitalkirche / Katharinenkirche / Dreifaltigkeitskirche / Pfründerbau, removed”, page 113.

literature

• Moriz von Rauch: The Heilbronn merchant and councilor family Orth . In: Historischer Verein Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1925, p. 57 ff.
• Bernd Klagholz: Heilbronn and its mayors in the period from the 16th to the 19th century (approval work), Tübingen 1980, page 46.