Ravené

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Ravené is the name of a Huguenot family who fled to Berlin from France . Numerous entrepreneurs came from here. The best known was the Jacob Ravené Söhne company , which was successful in the hardware trade . The family's painting collection also had a name before the Second World War .

family

The family came to Brandenburg from Metz in Lorraine in 1685 with many other Huguenots who were not persecuted . At first there was intensive horticulture like the Bouché family . The ancestor François David Ravené († 1748), like his descendants, remained connected to the French community in Berlin. The son Pierre Ravené (1723–1798) ran a small brass foundry . His grandson Jaques Ravené (1751–1828) bought the Butzer hardware store in Stralauer Strasse in 1775, thereby establishing a company that would exist for 170 years. As a member of the Grand National Masonic of Germany in Berlin, the "Iron King of Berlin" was well with important personalities and entrepreneurs of his time networking .

The following namesake led the company through five generations:

The German and French versions of the given names were used simultaneously.

The second to fourth heads of the family were known to their contemporaries as Louis Ravené ; this was also used as a company . While you knew exactly who you were talking about during your lifetime, this has led to numerous mix-ups since the middle of the 20th century; in casual comments in printed literature and also on the Internet.

Companies

From the 18th to the 20th centuries there were numerous companies that were run by members of the Ravené family in Berlin:

  • F. Ravené, court watchmaker, around 1800 to 1850
  • Jacob Ravené , hardware store, 1775–1824
  • Jacob Ravené Sons , hardware store, 1824–1945
  • W. Ravené, silk dyer, around 1830 to 1840
  • Ravené wine wholesaler, around 1850–1860

Land ownership

The family owned numerous properties as places of residence or locations for the various companies:

Berlin

Friedrichshain district

  • Alt Stralau 4 . After moving out of the parent company at Wallstrasse 5-8 in 1939, this was the last seat of the Jakob Ravené Söhne company .

Mitte district

  • Bastion V . The first company premises lay on the dismantled facilities of the fortress, the 5th bastion . Here the danger of a fire spreading through the surrounding moats was significantly reduced; A similar procedure had already been followed at the foundry on Bastion I more than a century earlier . Otherwise these companies had to settle outside the city ( Tierra del Fuego ). Thus, this early industry was also on the outskirts of the city, where there were no immediately neighboring houses that were annoyed by noise and smoke, and the former fortress moat enabled fuel, raw ore and the products produced to be transported by water. The property was located in Berlin-Mitte on Wallstrasse near the Grünstrasse bridge.
  • Chausseestraße 24 (today No. 28) . In 1879, Ravené acquired this property, which was used as a warehouse. It was owned by the family until 1936.
  • Jägerstrasse 55 . At least from 1801 the property was owned by the family and the place where the court watchmaker F. Ravené (1801–1850) and the bronceur and brass caster, later particulier D. Ravené (around 1812–1850), lived and worked. The property was owned by the family until 1847.
  • Königstraße 23. The coppersmith Ravené had his workshop here in 1801.
  • Neue Grünstraße 16 (from 1854 no.17) . From 1847 Louis Jaques Ravené had the location for his company here. In 1910 the Ravené'sche Stabeisen- und Träger-Handlung AG built a new building and in 1911 sold the property to the Deutscher Eisenhandel Aktiengesellschaft
  • Stralauer Strasse 28/29 . From 1801 the address near the Molkenmarkt is proven to be the main location for Ravené's iron trade. The property remains in the family until 1903.
  • Wallstrasse 92/93 . From 1833 this was the head office of the Jacob Ravené Söhne company, which had to be demolished at the end of the 19th century due to the expansion of Wallstrasse.
Ravené office building, Wallstrasse 5–8
  • Wallstrasse 5-8 . In 1896, the new headquarters of the Jacob Ravené Söhne company was built near the Spittelmarkt. It also housed the Ravené department store until 1938 , where individual household items (mainly made of metal) could be purchased. The private collection of paintings , which was open to the public until 1919, was famous . From 1939 the “ People's Court ” was the owner of the property; At times it was planned to prepare the building for him. Ravené only used part of the building as a tenant. In 1945 the former Ravené headquarters was destroyed. On August 23, 1982, the foundation stone cassette was found during the foundation work for the residential building Wallstrasse 1-8. It is now in the Berlin City Museum.

District Moabit

  • Werftstrasse . Louis Fréderic Jacques built a large villa on Werftstrasse in Berlin-Moabit .
Residential building Margarethenstrasse 17

Tiergarten district

  • Margarethenstrasse 17 . In 1902, Louis Auguste Ravené had the architects Kayser & von Großheim built a new city villa. He lived here until 1920. After that, Norddeutsche Verwaltungs GmbH became the property owner. In 1934 the Rosenberg office moved here .

Wannsee district

  • Koenigstrasse 69 . Another villa was built for Louis Auguste around 1900 by the architects Ende & Böckmann in Berlin-Wannsee . Hermann Ende was the father-in-law of the head of the family.

Cochem

  • Cochem Castle . Jacob Louis Fréderic bought the ruins of the Reichsburg near Cochem on the Moselle in 1868 . He had the castle rebuilt, which remained in the family until 1942 and was used as a summer residence. Originally he wanted to acquire the Grevenburg ruins in Traben-Trarbach , but the winemakers did not want to give up their vines there, which were now also on the castle grounds.

Marquardt near Potsdam

  • Marquardt Castle . As early as 1892, Louis Auguste bought Gut and Marquardt Palace near Potsdam as a summer residence. In 1912 he had it added and the west wing added. In 1900 he donated the new building of the Protestant village church, in which he is also buried. In 1932 he leased the castle to the hotelier Kempinski , and in 1942 it was sold to Aschinger after his " Aryanization " .

Art collections

see painting collection of the Ravené family

Several cartridges promoted the art. Pierre Louis founded the painting collection. At a time when there were no public picture galleries or exhibitions, wealthy Berliners made their private collections generally accessible. The art collection of the Ravené family was shown:

  • in the parent company Wallstrasse 5–8, promoted by Pierre Louis and Louis Jacques Ravené
  • at Cochem Castle, after its reconstruction by Louis Auguste Ravené

literature

Web links

Commons : Ravené family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ Das Ostpreußenblatt , October 9, 1965, Berliner Beilage, p. 5 (PDF), accessed October 17, 2019
  2. ↑ Uta Motschmann (Ed.): Handbook of Berlin Associations and Societies 1786–1815 . 2015, p. 371
  3. ^ Johann Peter Kux: Organism and complete statistics of the Prussian state . Berlin 1840, p. 116
  4. ↑ From the description of an officer's travel watch.
  5. ↑ General Gazette for Bavaria , October 12, 1822, p. 311
  6. ↑ Alt-Stralau 4 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1939, part 4, p. 1031.
  7. ↑ Chausseestrasse 24 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1879, part 4, p. 1031.
  8. ↑ Chausseestrasse 24 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1936, part 4, p. 138.
  9. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , vol. 30, issue 8, plate in front of p. 45
  10. ↑ Internet presence of Wallstraße ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wallstrasse-berlin.de
  11. ↑ Berliner Architekturwelt , 1903, p. 376
  12. ↑ Monument database accessed October 16, 2019
  13. ^ Photos 1 2 in the Digital Architecture Museum of the TU Berlin
  14. ↑ Gemäldegalerie in Wallstraße im Baedeker from 1855 on lexikus.de