Wilhelm Bordollo

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Gravestone Wilhelm Bordollo, Peterspark Grünstadt
Advertisement sign for the earthenware factory, Brothers Bordollo

Wilhelm Bordollo (* 26. September 1779 in Grünstadt , Palatinate ; † 1. October 1822 ibid ) was a businessman and mayor of Green City. From 1812 until his death he ran the Grünstadt stoneware factory .

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The Bordollo family, who immigrated from Italy, settled in Grünstadt with the dealer Lorenz Bordollo from 1720. He is the ancestor of the Grünstadt family branch and allegedly came from the area of Lake Como . Wilhelm Bordollo was the child of Joseph Anton Bordollo and his wife Katharina geb. Nizola. He had the older brother Bernhard Bordollo (1775-1840), also an entrepreneur and mayor in Grünstadt.

Wilhelm Bordollo married Eva Katharina Franziska Didier (1786–1847) from Kaiserslautern in 1807 , daughter of the local ironworks owner Franz Didier and his wife Elisabeth born. Jacquemare. The latter was the sister of Anna Margaretha Jacquemare (1767–1833), widow of Johann Nepomuk van Recum († 1801), the founder of the Grünstadt stoneware factory.

The brothers Wilhelm and Bernhard Bordollo bought the Grünstadt stoneware factory in Unterhof Castle from her and their sons on May 3, 1812 and developed it into a major company that did not cease to exist until 1980; In 1927, the last family member left the company with his grandson Joseph Anton Bordollo (1852–1935).

Wilhelm Bordollo officiated in the French Empire belonging Green City from 1806 to 1814 as mayor . After the French withdrew and the area was transferred to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816, he was mayor of the city from 1815 to 1822. In the church chronicle it says:

“ As a young man of 26, he took over a city marked by war and revolution and guided it through the ages with skill until his death. "

- Walter Lampert: 1100 Years of Grünstadt , Grünstadt City Administration, 1975, p. 280

In the year of his death, on January 9th, he was appointed by District President Joseph von Stichaner to be a member of the Central Administrative Committee (Board of Directors) of the Polytechnic Association for the Kingdom of Bavaria , District Group Rheinpfalz .

Bordollo died in the autumn of 1822. His brother Bernhard took over the management of the joint factory and succeeded him as mayor in 1825.

The classicist tomb of Wilhelm Bordollo, created by Bernhard Würschmitt , is preserved in the local Peterspark (old cemetery).

His son Franz Bordollo (1808-1874) later joined him in the line of Steingutfabrik one, he served in 1841 as a judge on the Court of Peace Green City and was in March 1848 Commander under the so-called March demands founded Grünstadter vigilantes .

literature

  • Altertumsverein Grünstadt (Ed.): 180 years of the Grünstadt stoneware factory . Verlag Emil Sommer, Grünstadt, 1985, pp. 57-60
  • Walter Lampert: 1100 years of Grünstadt . City administration Grünstadt, 1975, p. 280

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Georg Faber: Andreas van Recum, 1765-1828: a Rhenish cosmopolitan , Röhrscheid Verlag, 1969, p. 211; (Detail scan)
  2. ↑ Allgemeine Anzeiger für Bayern with special reference to the arts, trade and commerce , Polytechnischer Verein für das Kingdom Bayern, year 1822, p. 25; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Bordollo, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Entrepreneur, earthenware producer, mayor
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1822
Place of death Grünstadt