Volger (patrician family)

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Coat of arms of the family from 1529, formerly attached to the house at Marktstraße 53,
loaned by Ms. Erika Volger, attached to the Hanover city wall in the inner courtyard of the Hanover Historical Museum

The Volger family (also: Völger ) from Hanover is a patrician and merchant family known since the early 14th century . Like the noble families of Anderten and von Windheim or the patrician family of Turks, they belonged to the respected families of Hanover, similar to the later Pretty Families .

history

1697 coat of arms stone "The Volger" at the Johannes-der-Täufer-Kirche in Wettbergen

For the first time the family is known in Hanover in 1313. The family provided Otto Heinrich Volger, among other things, the city's mayor from 1713 to 1725. Until Otto Heinrich's death, members of the family held high positions in the City Council of Hanover without interruption and often at the same time. Between 1410 and 1674 alone it had a total of eleven representatives as councilors in the city ​​council .

The family was given several fiefs during this period: the Calenberg fiefdom in 1409 by Duke Bernard I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and the Lüneburg fiefdom by Duke Ernst I. The other fiefs were given to the family by the families Rheden-Rheden (1383), Fürstenberg-Brabeck ( 1403), Rheden-Süersen (1460), Alten (1465), Horn-Harthausen (1550) and Heimburg (1552). Another fiefdom was awarded to the family in 1568 by Duke Erich II of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , who owned land in Oldendorf near Dassel. They also owned extensive property in the city of Hanover. The name of the street "Volgersweg" and the earlier field name "Volgerswinkel" still indicate this. In 1439 Lüder Volger built the so-called "Stern Pforte" on the corner of Marktstrasse and Röselerstrasse as well as a brewery and other houses on Marktstrasse. Around 1600 the patrician family was divided into the Hans line (after Hans Volger, 1537–1606) and Barthold line (after his brother Barthold, died after 1579). The founders of both lines were with two sisters of another old Hanoverian patrician family, the von Wintheims , married, daughters of Melchior Wintheim (d. 1566) and Ilse geb. Sellenboth.

There was once a serious conflict between Barthold Volger and the von Wintheim family , who was related to him , which split the entire citizenry into two camps and led to serious riots.

From the legacy of Magnus Volger, who owned several larger estates near Wettbergen , the Johannes-der-Täufer-Kirche , built in the 16th century in today's Hanover district of Hanover-Wettbergen , comes from . A coat of arms of the Volger family dated 1697 can also be found above the portal . The family held the patronage of the Church for 444 years until 1968.

Since the founding of the Hanoverian army by Duke Georg von Calenberg until its demise in 1866, the Volger were always its officers. The Volger were in the service of many Brunswick-Lüneburg princes as civil servants or were clergy, scholars, doctors, lawyers, merchants and farmers.

An archival -Sammlung family Volger found as estate today in Municipal Archives Hannover .

Volgersweg

Street sign on the corner of Volgersweg and Berliner Allee : "The council family Volger owned land here "
  • A path through the Steintorfeld that already existed around 1700 was named Volgerswinkel in 1830 and Volgersweg in 1845 . After an additional note on today's street sign Volgersweg at the corner of Berliner Allee , the council family Volger owned property here.
  • The Neue Volgersweg, named after the family in 1851 (previously also Volgerswinkel ) in the eastern part of the city , was renamed Gartenstraße in 1852 , according to the Hannoversche Geschichtsbl Blätter from 1914 “probably after the gardens there”.
  • The Völgerstrasse , which was laid out in Wülfel in 1957 , was named "after the patrician Otto Völger, friend of the pastor at the market church Rupert Erythropel ( Adr. 1958), who, according to tradition, was thought to be dead during the plague in 1598, and Magister Erythropel with him when the coffin was opened again should have welcomed the words »Look! Guden Dag, Herr Magister! «, However, at the time of Erythropels no bearer of the first name» Otto «is known in the Volger family”.

Well-known representatives

Memorial plaque for Otto Volger at the Goethe House in Frankfurt
  • Conradus Volghere , progenitor of the family, which in 1313 in the Bürgerbuch earned the city of Hanover.
  • Gödecke Volger († 1420), Senator of the City of Hanover.
  • Hans Volger , a member of the council of the city from 1496 to 1532; married to Ilsebe Lymborg
  • Anna , mother of Mayor Bartold Homeister , came from "possibly from the Volger family".
  • Hans Volger (1537–1606), juror, councilman, chamberlain and councilor; married to Magdalene von Windheim
  • Barthold Volger (died after 1579), Councilor under Duke Erich II , Vogt in Langenhagen; married to Catharina von Windheim
  • Melchior Volger , Kaufman in Stockholm, Sweden until 1588;
  • Magnus Volger (1604–1662), grandson of Hans Volger , was a student in Helmstedt, Rostock and Jena, then lawyer and patrician of the city of Hanover; married to Anna von Windheim (?)
  • Otto Heinrich Volger (1676? - 1725), among other things mayor of Hanover from 1713 to 1725 .
  • Wilhelm Friedrich Volger (1794–1879) was a German school rector , educator and historian for the city of Lüneburg .
  • Otto Volger (1822–1897) was the founder of the Association of Free German Hochstift and maintainer of the Goethe House in Frankfurt.
  • Otto Karl Wilhelm Volger (1828–1909) served the Duke of Cumberland, Crown Prince Ernst August of Hanover as lieutenant colonel and adjutant.
  • Ernst August Volger was a German theologian and from 1877 to 1921 pastor at the Patronage Church in Wettbergen.
  • Georg Karl Volger (1848–1937), farmer in Oldendorf and member of the Prussian House of Representatives .

literature

  • Helmut Zimmermann : VOLGER In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 372.
  • Peter Lohse: Stormproof and overgrown with earth. The oldest family. In: Katrin Mendelsohn (ed.): Das Hannover-Buch. [Subtitle: 750 Years of Hanover ], No. 1, Hamburg: Hamburg-Verlag Katrin Mendelsohn, April 1991, p. 19ff.

Web links

Commons : Volger (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann: Völgerstrasse. In: The street names ... , p. 253f.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Helmut Zimmermann: VOLGER (see literature)
  3. ^ Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer : Rule of the city council. In: History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the beginning of the 19th century , ed. by Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt and Druckerei, Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-351-9 , pp. 170–174; here: p. 173
  4. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Pretty families. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 310.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g http://www.haz.de/Hannover/Aus-der-Stadt/Uebersicht/Hannovers-aelteste-Familie-wird-700
  6. ↑ a b c d e "The Volger Family", in: Niedersächsischer Feierabend No. 28, February 3, 1934
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Neß: Wettbergen. In: Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.): Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 2, [Bd.] 10.2. Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , pp. 170f.
  8. ^ Karljosef Kreter :: City Archives. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 584f.
  9. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: Volgersweg. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 254
  10. ↑ see this photo of the street sign
  11. ^ Helmut Zimmermann: Gartenstrasse. In: The street names ... , p. 88
  12. ^ Helmut Zimmermann: The Hanoverian mayor family Homeister. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 22 (1968), pp. 269–276
  13. ↑ GND 129291684 in the catalog of the German National Library
  14. ^ A. Plate: Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives. Edition for the 20th legislative period . Berlin, 1904