Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach
The Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach (also Volkamer or Volkmar ) are a Nuremberg patrician family , first mentioned in a document in Neumarkt in 1278. The Volckamer were represented and belonged to the inner council from 1362, with short interruptions until the end of the imperial city period in 1806 according to the dance statute to the twenty old advisable genders. Branches of the noble family still exist today.
history
Originally the family was called Volckmeyr. The name form Volckamer only became common in the 15th and 16th centuries. The family comes from the Upper Palatinate city of Neumarkt. They came from respected backgrounds and lived in Neumarkt until the beginning of the 15th century.
The first representative of the Volckamer family came to the imperial city of Nuremberg 30 kilometers away with Hartwig Volckmeyr (also: Hertel Volkmar) at the end of the 1330s . It is documented from 1337 in Nuremberg and was able to acquire the famous Nassau house near St. Lorenz in 1363 . The St. Lorenzer Line and the St. Sebalder Line , named after the inner-city parishes, descend from his sons Heinrich and Hartwig . The St. Lorenz line, however, went out in 1602, while the St. Sebalder line split into several branches. The Sebalder line had inherited the then extinct Nuremberg patrician family Tetzel von Kirchensittenbach in 1694 and then adopted the name Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach .
The Volckamer became prosperous through long-distance trade, among other things . Around 1400 they traded in spices and cloths on the Lower Rhine . Later they also got involved in mining in Thuringia . However, the Volckamer stood out in the diplomatic service for Nuremberg much more strongly than in the trade and mining sector.
The family became one of the most important and influential in the Nuremberg city nobility and remained so until the loss of the imperial immediacy of Nuremberg in 1806. Three foremost slogans (administrators of the city taxes ) and Reichsschultheiße of Nuremberg provided the family: Paul (also: Paulus) (†) 1505), Georg († 1633) and Christoph Gottlieb († 1752). An imperial coat of arms improvement by awarding a golden crown came to the Volckamer in 1433 and a further coat of arms increase in 1696. In 1813 the family was entered in the nobility class of the nobility register in the Kingdom of Bavaria .
Possessions
- As administrator of the Schlüsselfelderschen Family Foundation (alternating with the Kreß von Kressenstein - the oldest male descendant of the two families becomes the administrator):
- Nassauer House in Nuremberg
- Kugelhammer Castle in Röthenbach near Sankt Wolfgang
- As the administrator of the Tetzel Family Foundation , which was initially administered by Schlüsselfeld:
- since 1709 the Tetzelschloss in Kirchensittenbach (alternating initially with the Pfinzing († 1764), Behaim († 1942) and since 1942 with the Stromer )
Nassauerhaus in Nuremberg
Kirchensittenbach Castle
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Former possessions (extract)
The Volckamer had extensive possessions in and around Nuremberg. Amongst other things:
- 1400–1493 the upper seat of Burgfarrnbach
- 1414–1427 the mills in Wörth, Brunn and Netzstall
- 1467–1473 the lower castle in Laufamholz
- ???? - 1516 property in Brunn and Netzstall
- 17./18. Century the manor house Bremenstall near Fürth-Unterfarrnbach
- 1737–1826 the Tennenlohe manor
- 1750–1781 the Gugel- or Schreiberschloss in Erlenstegen (later Imhoff Schlösschen, destroyed in the Second World War)
- 1750–1833 the Waldstromerschloss in Reichelsdorf
- 1755–1770 the manor Thumenberg / Platnersberg
- 1756-1813 the manor in Rasch (due to inheritance from the Welsern )
- 1777–1794 the Weigelshof manor
- 1818–1842 the Zeidlerschloss in Feucht
- 1875–1900 the Heuchling manor (Lauf an der Pegnitz)
- ???? - ???? Property in Eschenbach near Pommelsbrunn
Waldstromerschloss in Reichelsdorf
Zeidlerschloss in Feucht
Foundations
- The Annunciation group in the Sebaldus Church (so-called Volckamer's Annunciation, presumably donated by Peter Volckamer, around 1430)
- The Deocarus altar with predella in the Lorenz Church (Andreas Volckamer and wife Margaretha Haller , 1436/37)
- The Deocarus Chapel with stair tower in the Carthusian Church (Andreas Volckamer and wife Margaretha Haller, 1440)
- The Volckamer window in the Lorenz Church, donated by Peter Volckamer after 1480
- The Volckamer Altar from the Katharinenkloster Nuremberg , 1493 ( Germanisches Nationalmuseum )
- The epitaph for Paulus Volckamer in the Sebaldus Church by Veit Stoss (so-called “Volckamer Memorial Foundation”; Paulus Volckamer, 1499), with the scenes of the Last Supper, the Oil Garden Prayer and the Kiss of Judas
Deocarus altar in the Lorenz Church with the donor figures and coats of arms of Andreas Volckamer and Margaretha Haller (1436)
Volckamer window in the Lorenz Church, donated by Peter Volckamer after 1480
Wings of the Volckamer altar from St. Katharina , Nuremberg, 1493 (with marital donor couple and Volckamer / Mendel coat of arms )
Volckamer epitaph by Veit Stoss in the Sebalduskirche , 1499 (above it the coats of arms of Volckamer / Mendel )
Man of Sorrows with donor's coat of arms, Sebalduskirche
Angel with donor coat of arms, Sebalduskirche
Holy figure with donor coat of arms, Sebalduskirche
coat of arms
The family coat of arms is divided. Above in silver half a red wheel and below in blue a silver lily. On the crowned helmet is half a red wheel, turned upside down, with black feathers in the middle. The helmet cover is red-silver.
Known family members
- Peter Volckamer (*?; † 1432), next to Sebald Pfinzing around 1411/31 the most important liaison between Nuremberg and King Sigismund . He represented Nuremberg at the Council of Constance in 1415 and accompanied Sigismund to Rome for his coronation as emperor . He died shortly before in Siena in 1432 .
- Clemens Volckamer (* 1495; † 1541), together with Christoph Kreß , he signed the Confession of Faith ( Confessio Augustana ) written by Philipp Melanchthon at the Augsburg Reichstag in 1530 in the name of the imperial city of Nuremberg . From 1538 he was also significantly involved in the expansion of the castle bastions by Antonio Fazuni.
- Guido Friedrich Christoph Jobst Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach (* 1860; † 1940), collector and photographer (his collection was included in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum )
- Friedrich Jobst Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach (* 1894; † 1989), general of the mountain troops in World War II
- Helena Jakobina Karoline Friederike Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach (1794–1820) was the wife of the Bavarian general Karl Freiherr von Pfl numbers (1787–1850), city commander of Nuremberg.
Web links
See also
- Volkamer
- Patriciate (Nuremberg)
- History of the city of Nuremberg
- Castles, palaces and mansions in the city of Nuremberg
- List of German noble families N - Z
Individual evidence
- ↑ Glossary German-New High German ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ↑ Mention of the Guido von Volckamer Foundation on the GMN pdf website ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Otto Hupp : Munich calendar 1930. Book a. Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1930.
- Christoph von Imhoff (Hrsg.): Famous Nuremberg from nine centuries . Nuremberg: Hofmann, 1984, 425 pages, ISBN 3-87191-088-0 ; 2., erg. U. exp. Edition, 1989, 459 p .; New edition: Edelmann GmbH Buchhandlung, October 2000.
- Michael Diefenbacher , Fr. Bertold Haller von Hallerstein: Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach, patrician family . In: Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( online ).