von Stern'sche Druckerei
The von Stern'sche Druckerei is a printing company in Lüneburg . It is the oldest existing print shop that is continuously family-owned.
In 1580, the master bookbinder Hans Stern († March 14, 1614) from Bevensen founded a bookbindery and shop in Lüneburg. In 1614, with the publication of a Low German edition of the Luther Bible, he set the starting point for a series of around 60 Bible editions in the following century.
In 1624, his sons from his marriage to Anna Soltau from Lüneburg, Johann (baptized October 31, 1582 - January 15, 1656) and Heinrich Stern (baptized January 26, 1592 - November 10, 1665) expanded the company to include a printing company that did her ornate Bible prints became known. After Emperor Ferdinand III. Johann Stern was raised to hereditary nobility in 1645, the Stern family , who owned it, was accepted into the patriciate of the town.
For more than 350 years, the printing company had its headquarters "Am Sande" under the name Offizin der Sterne in house number 31, and in 1982 it moved to Zeppelinstrasse in the Lüneburg-Ost industrial park.
The company has been printing the Lüneburg regional newspaper since 1949 . Today it is in the family's 14th generation.
today's logo
Printer sign 1681 with motto "SOUFFRANCE AVANCE"
literature
- Star, family. In: Rudolf Schmidt : German booksellers. German book printer. Volume 5. Berlin / Eberswalde 1908, pp. 934-935.
- Hans Dumrese and Friedrich Carl Schilling: Lüneburg and the Star Offices. v. STERNsche Buchdruckerei KG., Lüneburg 1956.
- Wolfgang Schellmann: The account book of the Lüneburg Offizin der Sterne . In: Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens 68 (2013), pp. 47-104.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ by Stern. In: Friedrich Wilhelm Boldewin Ferdinand von dem Knesebeck: Historical paperback of the nobility in the Kingdom of Hanover. Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1840, p. 272.
- ↑ Company portrait
Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 42.5 ″ N , 10 ° 27 ′ 48.7 ″ E