Kennepohl Collection

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The Karl Kennepohl coin collection is one of the most extensive collections of Westphalian coins that has ever been auctioned. It was auctioned in 2004 by the Künker auction house in Osnabrück. The collection contained almost 5,000 individual objects with numerous numismatic features from the 8th to the 19th century.

In 1958, Peter Berghaus wrote in his obituary for Karl Kennepohl in the Numismatic News Gazette: "Anyone who knew Karl Kennepohl personally and was friends with him will never be able to forget this distinctive personality, this enthusiastic, cheerful and open-minded person."

The collector

The name Kennepohl is known in Osnabrück . The Kennepohlweg on the Westerberg still exists today. Karl Kennepohl taught German, history and geography at the Carolinum grammar school for many years . Karl Kennepohl gained notoriety above all because of his numerous numismatic publications (see below) and his book published in 1938 on the coins of the diocese and the city of Osnabrück. It is thanks to his enormous diligence, thoroughness and meticulousness that Westphalian medieval numismatics can fall back on a broad source base today. Because of his scientific work in the field of numismatics , Karl Kennepohl has rendered outstanding services to the history of Osnabrück and on January 3, 1955, the city council honored him with the Justus Möser Medal , the highest honor bestowed by the city of Osnabrück.

Karl Kennepohl was born in Osnabrück on June 5, 1895 as the son of the senior high school teacher Hermann Kennepohl and his wife Theresia and passed the high school diploma at the Carolinum grammar school in 1914 when the World War broke out. Due to an illness he was released from military service in the infantry regiment Duke Friedrich Wilhelm zu Braunschweig No. 78 in autumn 1914. Years of studies in Würzburg and Münster followed. In addition to his work as a teacher, Karl Kennepohl set up a coin cabinet for the city of Osnabrück , which was housed in the town hall next to the Friedenssaal until the Second World War .

He also started a private collection for himself. Particular focus was on Osnabrück and Münster , as well as Bentheim , Corvey , Lippe and East Friesland . The establishment of the numismatic circle of friends of the Osnabrück "Münzbolde" goes back to him, to which important collectors such as Alfons Buller, Karl Ordelheide, Albert Terberger and Friedrich Waldmann belonged.

As a proven connoisseur of East Frisian coins, Kennepohl received an order from the East Frisian landscape in Aurich in 1952 to publish a corpus work on the coins of East Frisia . He worked on it until shortly before his death on August 17, 1958. However, he was no longer able to complete the work.

Anton Kappelhoff continued to work on Kennepohl's work, which his son Bernd Kappelhoff finally published in 1982. The German Numismatic Society, founded in Göttingen in 1951 (at that time: "Association of West German Coin Associations"), owes a lot to Karl Kennepohl, as he was its first chairman until 1956. In addition, Karl Kennepohl was an assessor in the Numismatic Commission of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany and a member of the Historical Commission of Lower Saxony .

Karl-August Kennepohl, the son of Karl Kennepohl born on May 22, 1922, was particularly interested in technical issues, and so, after graduating from high school at the Carolinum, as a very young man, he became a senior engineer in the Navy on U 643 under Lieutenant Speidel. U 643 was sunk by airplanes in the North Atlantic on October 8, 1943, but the crew were rescued by the British and were taken prisoner in England and later in Canada. In Canada, he came across his father's footsteps when he was asked in a museum whether he was related to the numismatist Karl Kennepohl.

In 1948, after his return from captivity, he was employed by the Osnabrück copper and wire works . Due to his professional qualifications, he was promoted to head of the rolling mill in 1966 and was appointed works director at Kabelmetal Osnabrück in 1978 . His exclamation during a meeting as manager of the rolling mill is unforgettable: “You shouldn't talk sheet metal, you should make sheet metal!”. In 1951 he married Ursula König, daughter of the doctor Fritz König, who was friends with the Kennepohl family and who also collected coins.

According to members of the “Münzboldes”, Karl Kennepohl, after completing his Osnabrück book, could no longer see the coins from Osnabrück in the truest sense of the word and decided to sell them to his friend König. Fortunately, the separate parts of the collection were later reunited. Karl-August Kennepohl certainly felt obliged to his father's numismatic tradition, but coins did not have the same meaning for him. His family, his wife and four children were more important to him, hiking and exploring the homeland were among his hobbies. Karl-August Kennepohl chose the cities of Lower Saxony as the collecting area. His early death on July 18, 1981 prevented him from expanding his part of the Kennepohl Collection.

Auction and highlights of the Kennepohl Collection

The auction of the Kennepohl Collection took place in Catalog 93 of the Fritz Rudolf Künker auction house in Osnabrück. The individual objects were sorted geographically according to mints:

  • Carolingian
  • Osnabrück (diocese, cathedral chapter, city)
  • Wiedenbrück
  • Münster (diocese, cathedral chapter, city, counterstamp)
  • Copper embossing
  1. Awls
  2. Beckum
  3. Bocholt
  4. Coesfeld
  5. Dülmen
  6. Rheine
  7. Telgte
  8. Warendorf
  9. Werne
  • Minden (royal mint, diocese, elector of Brandenburg)
  • Ravensberg
  • Herford
  • lip
  • Lemgo
  • Lippstadt
  • Holstein-Schaumburg
  • Schaumburg-Hessen
  • Schaumburg-Lippe
  • Paderborn (diocese, cathedral chapter, city)
  • Warburg
  • Corvey
  • Helmarshausen
  • Bentheim (Grafschaft, Bentheim-Steinfurt, Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda)
  • Stop
  • Lingen
  • Diepholz
  • Hoya
  • Vechta
  • Wildeshausen
  • Oldenburg
  • Knyphausen
  • Ostfriesland
  • Jever
  • Emden
  • Coins of Northern Germany
  1. Haithabu
  2. Ballenstedt
  3. Braunschweig
  4. Braunschweig and Lüneburg
  5. Einbeck
  6. Flensburg
  7. Gittelde
  8. Goettingen
  9. Goslar
  10. Halberstadt
  11. Hamburg
  12. Hamelin
  13. Hanover
  14. Helmstedt
  15. Hildesheim
  16. Mockery
  17. Kiel
  18. Lübeck
  19. Luneburg
  20. Magdeburg
  21. Mecklenburg
  22. Central Weser area
  23. Northeim
  24. Quedlinburg
  25. Stade
  26. Wolf

Particularly noteworthy are, for example, a gold gulden from Bishop Erich II of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen (1508–1532) from 1515, of which only four are known (auction 93, no. 3101). The collection also contained an extremely rare solver (auction 93, no. 3141) for 5 Reichstalers undated (1662) by Ernst August I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1662–1698). A very rare silver medal (auction 93, no. 3466) by the Münster bishop Clemens August von Bayern (1719–1761) was also one of the exhibits. The numerous small coins from the various sub-areas, which so far have rarely been auctioned in such quantities, were certainly of numismatic importance.

literature

  • Auction catalog of the Kennepohl Collection: The Kennepohl Collection. Westphalia and neighboring areas. Auction Fritz Rudolf Künker 93, April 2004.
  • Kappelhoff, A .: The coins of East Frisia from the early 14th century to 1628, Aurich 1982.
  • Kennepohl, K .: The coins of Osnabrück. The coinage of the diocese and the cathedral chapter of Osnabrück, the city of Osnabrück, as well as the collegiate foundation and the city of Wiedenbrück (publications by the Museum of the City of Osnabrück; Volume 1), Munich 1938.

Web links

Bibliography Karl Kennepohl

In the course of his life, Karl Kennepohl wrote numerous articles (not only) on the history of coins and money, which are still a real treasure trove for every numismatist and coin collector. It therefore seems advisable, also with regard to the allocation of the items auctioned in the collection, to include an extensive bibliography of Kennepohl:

  • Wiedenbrück or Osnabrück? (A contribution to the countermark system). In: Blätter für Münzfreunde 55, 1920, No. 7/8 (July / August), pp. 64–66.
  • The city of Osnabrück and Bishop Ernst August I. Dissertation for a doctorate at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster. In: Communications from the Association for History and Regional Studies of Osnabrück, Volume 44, 1921, pp. 155–219.
  • A show coin from Osnabrück Bishop Karl, Duke of Lorraine, 1698–1715. In: Blätter für Münzfreunde, 1921, No. 7/8 (July / August), pp. 169–170.
  • A discovery of Osnabrück copper coins (Badbergen Fund). In: Blätter für Münzfreunde 57, 1922, No. 2 (March / April), pp. 233–236.
  • Sterling money in Westphalia in the first half of the 13th century. In: Berliner Münzblätter 54, 1925, No. 264 (December), pp. 150–154.
  • Contributions to the history of money and coins in the Diocese of Osnabrück. The time of the S. Colonia denarii. In: Berliner Münzblätter 55, 1925, No. 267 (March), pp. 215–221.
  • To the coin find from Schwefingen near Meppen. In: Osnabrücker Volkszeitung, August 8, 1925.
  • Over hammer coins. To the home country. Journal of the Westphalian Homeland Federation No. 7, July 1926.
  • The coins of the counties Bentheim and Tecklenburg as well as the rule Rheda. Frankfurt a. M. 1927.
  • The hammer coins. In: 700 years of the city of Hamm. Westphalian Festschrift commemorating the 700th anniversary of the city, pp. 241–266. Hamm 1927.
  • Supplements and corrections to the coins of the counties Bentheim and Tecklenburg, as well as the rule Rheda. Frankfurt a. M. 1927.
  • News about Oldenburg minting. In: Blätter für Münzfreunde 62, 1927, No. 2 (May), pp. 69–74.
  • A counterfeiting workshop in the Sauerland. In: Berliner Münzbiätter 47, 1927, No. 295/296 (July / August), pp. 99-102.
  • Broken coins and counterfeiting in old Osnabrück. In: Osnabrücker Zeitung, August 9, 1927.
  • The Nüllesche collection of Osnabrück coins. In: Osnabrücker Volkszeitung, November 8, 1928.
  • The beginning of modern coinage in the city of Dortmund. In: Mitteilungen für Münzsammler 6, 1929, No. 71 (November), pp. 368–369.
  • On the history of the Groschencoin in Westphalia. The coin conference in Geseke 1657. In: Frankfurter Münzzeitung NF 1, 1930, No. 9 (September), pp. 134-136, (Corrigendum: p. 171).
  • The coin collection of the local history museum with special consideration of the Westphalian situation. In: Westphalian Museums No. 8. Münster 1931.
  • Osnabrück mint mark. In: Frankfurter Münzzeitung NF 3, 1932, No. 33 (September), pp. 488–492.
  • The death coins of Duke Karl von Lothringen, Archbishop of Trier 1711–15, Bishop of Osnabrück 1698–1715. In: Frankfurter Münzzeitung NF 4, 1933, No. 39 (March), pp. 38–39.
  • The Ellerbeck gold find. In: Blätter für Münzfreunde 68, 1933, No. 6 (Continuation No. 640) (June), pp. 657–660.
  • Wiedenbrück [sample article for the planned “Handbook of Coin Studies from Central and Northern Europe”]. In: Blätter für Münzfreunde 68, 1933, No. 7/8 (Continuation No. 640) (July / August), pp. 697–698 .
  • Kreckelmann, not Krichmar. In: Frankfurter Münzzeitung NF 4, 1933, No. 47 (November), p. 160.
  • The Osnabrück coinage under the bishops Klemens August von Bayern (1728–61) and Friedrich von York (1764–1802). In: Deutsche Münzblätter No. 376, April 1934.
  • With the folding boat in the Emsland. In: Neue Volksblätter, Osnabrück, May 23, 1934.
  • A counterfeiter workshop in the "Hohlen Stein". In: Journal: From prehistoric times in Westphalia / Lippe and on the Lower Rhine. Munster 1934.
  • Supplements and corrections to the coins of the counties Bentheim and Tecklenburg, as well as the rule Rheda. Frankfurt a. M. 1927.
  • Lineage of the counts ruling in the counties of Bentheim and Tecklenburg approx. 1100–1806. From Karl Döhmann. In: Deutsche Münzblätter (Berlin) 56, 1936, No. 400 (April), pp. 3–15.
  • Neuharlingersiel, an East Frisian harbor idyll. In: Neue Volksblätter, Osnabrück, May 3, 1936.
  • Further Osnabrück mint dies. In: Deutsche Münzblätter 56, 936, No. 404/405 (August / September), pp. 142–143.
  • The Friesoythe coin find. In: Oldenburg Yearbook of the Association for Regional History and Archeology, Volume 41, 1937.
  • The coins of Osnabrück. The coinage of the diocese and the cathedral chapter of Osnabrück, the city of Osnabrück, as well as the collegiate foundation and the city of Wiedenbrück. Munich 1938.
  • (Ed.) Festschrift to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Association of Coin Researchers and Coin Friends for Westphalia and neighboring areas. Munster 1938.
  • The Westphalian region as reflected in its medieval coinage. In: Der Westphalian Educator, Volume 17, December 1, 1938.
  • Hörder and Unnaer pfennigs according to Dortmund currency from the end of the 15th century. In: Deutsche Münzblätter 60, 1940, No. 447 (March), pp. 36–37.
  • The Börsteler coin find. In: Blätter für Münzfreunde 75, 1940, No. 7/8 (July / August), pp. 69–85.
  • Gold payments in Westphalia in the 11th to 13th centuries. In: Hamburg Contributions to Numismatics 1, 1949, No. 3, pp. 15-20.
  • A find from the area of ​​the Bourtanger Moor. In: Hamburg Contributions to Numismatics 1, 1949, No. 3, pp. 46–63.
  • The earth gives out a treasure. (Overview of the find by Lagerfeld) In: Neues Tagesblatt, Osnabrück, October 12, 1950.
  • Contributions to the circulation of money in East Frisia from the Carolingian era to the beginning of the 15th century. In: Hamburg Contributions to Numismatics 1, 1950, No. 4, pp. 5–25.
  • Three unknown Westphalian medieval coins. In: Festschrift on the 150th anniversary of Hermann Grote's birthday. Munster 1952.
  • Ewald Stange. 75 years old. In: Festschrift on the 150th anniversary of Hermann Grote's birthday. Munster 1952.
  • Cultural history in coins. 1000 years of Wiedenbrück. In: Neue Tagespost, Osnabrück, June 14, 1952.
  • For the copper stamping of the city of Coesfeld. In: Berlin Numismatic Journal 2, 1953, No. 14/15, pp. 49–50.
  • On the monetary system in East Frisia in the age of the Seven Years War. In: Ostfriesland. Journal of the East Frisian Landscape and the Heimatvereine, Issue 3, 1954, pp. 1–3.
  • Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg's grace pennies for the opening of the Academia Carolina. In: Festschrift for the 1150th anniversary of the Carolinum grammar school. Osnabrück 1954.
  • The festival badge. The Coronation Denar. Festschrift for the 1150th anniversary of the Carolinum grammar school. Osnabrück 1954.
  • From Schola Carolina to Carolinum High School. In: Osnabrücker Tagesblatt, August 21, 1954.
  • An unknown Aachen pfennig from Emperor Frederick I. In: Berliner Numismatik Zeitschrift 2, 1954, No. 16, 84–86.
  • Contributions to medieval coinage in Oldenburg and Jever. In: Hamburg Contributions to Numismatics 2, 1954, No. 8, pp. 333–336.
  • A Clever Stal. In: Blätter für Münzfreunde, 1954, No. 3, continued No. 750 (March), pp. 41–42.
  • The Emden Münzmeisterstein. In: Ostfriesland. Journal for Culture, Economy and Transport, Issue 3, 1956 pp. 1–5.
  • The Osnabrück area as reflected in its medieval and modern coin treasures. In: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen, Volume 67, 1956.
  • A double thaler of homage to the city of Emden. In: Berlin Numismatic Journal 2, 1956, No. 21, pp. 197-201.
  • The circulation of money in the county of Bentheim since the Carolingian era. In: Yearbook of the Heimatverein der Grafschaft Bentheim 1958, pp. 3–8.
  • The East Frisian mint master Dietrich Iden. A contribution to the monetary and economic history of the 16th century. In: Centennial Volume of the American Numismatic Society. New York 1958, pp. 381-399.
  • Osnabrück: A brief history of money and coins. Tourist office city and state Osnabrück. Osnabrück 1958.
  • To Osnabrück's urban geography. In: Geographische Rundschau No. 5, May 1958.
  • The city of Osnabrück and the peasantry. In: Catalog of the agricultural exhibition in Osnabrück, April 27th-4th. May 1958.
  • Diepholzer Nikolaus – Swaren. In: Hamburg Contributions to Numismatics 4, 1958/59, No. 12/13, pp. 231–233.