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Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach

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File:Volckamer Siebmacher205 - Nürnberg.jpg
Das Wappen der Volckamer in Siebmachers Wappenbuch

The Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach (also Volkamer or Volkmar) are a Nuremberger patrician family, first mentioned in documents in Neumarkt in 1278. The Volckamers were represented in the Inner Council from 1362, with brief interruptions, until the end of the imperial city period in 1806, and according to the Dance Statute were among the twenty old dynasties eligible for council. Branches of the nobility persist to this day.

History

Originally the family bore the name Volckmeyr. Only since the 15th or 16th century did the name form Volckamer become common. The family originated from the Upper Palatinate City of Neumarkt. They came from respected backgrounds and were settled in Neumarkt until the beginning of the 15th century.

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Hartwig Volckmeyr (auch: Hertel Volkmar)

The first representative of the Volckamer came at the end of the 1330s with Hartwig Volckmeyr (also: Hertel Volkmar) to the 30 kilometers away Imperial City of Nuremberg. He is documented in Nuremberg from 1337 and was able to acquire the famous Nassauer Haus near St. Lorenz in 1363. From his sons Heinrich and Hartwig descended the St. Lorenzer line and the St. Sebalder line, named after the inner-city church parishes. However, the St. Lorenz line became extinct as early as 1602, while the St. Sebald line split into several branches. In 1694 the Sebald line had inherited the then extinct Nuremberg patrician family Tetzel von Kirchensittenbach and thereupon adopted the name Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach.

The Volckamers achieved prosperity, among other things, through far trade. Around 1400 they traded with spices and cloth at the Lower Rhine. Later they also engaged in Thuringian mining. However, far more than in trade and mining, the Volckamers excelled in diplomatic service for Nuremberg.

The dynasty became one of the most important and influential in the Nuremberg patriciate and remained so until Nuremberg lost its imperial immediacy in 1806. Three foremost Losungers (administrators of the municipal taxes[1]) and Reichsschultheiße of Nuremberg provided the family: Paul (also: Paulus) († 1505), Georg († 1633) and Christoph Gottlieb († 1752). An imperial coat of arms enhancement by awarding a golden crown came to the Volckamers as early as 1433 and another coat of arms enhancement in 1696. In 1813 the family was registered in the Kingdom of Bavaria in the nobility class of the nobility register.

Possessions

Former possessions (excerpt)

In and around Nuremberg the Volckamers had extensive possessions. Among others:

Known family members

A Vol(c)kamer family that came to Nuremberg from Lobenstein in the Vogtland region, which included the silk manufacturer and councilman Johann Volkamer (1576-1661), his son Johann Georg Volkamer the elder and his grandsons Johann Volkamer as well as Johann Christoph Volkamer, who became known as physicians, botanists and writers, had a different coat of arms and was not related to the patrician family.

Coat of arms

The tribal coat of arms is divided by silver and blue, above an upper red wheel with three spokes, below a silver lily.

On the crowned helmet is a half upturned red wheel, studded with black feathers in the center. The helmet top is red and silver.

Foundations

Numerous art and altar donations can be traced back to the Volckamer family, including:

  • The Annunciation group in the Sebalduskirche (so-called Volckamer's Annunciation, presumably donated by Peter Volckamer, c. 1430).
  • The Deocarus Altar with Predella in the Lorenzkirche (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 Deposition from the Cross with St. Sebald and Peter Volckamer by the Master of the Osservanza (1432/33), art collection of the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena
  • The Volckamer window in the Lorenzkirche, donated by Peter Volckamer after 1480; important work by the Strasbourg glass painter Peter Hemmel von Andlau, subject is the Root of Jesse.[4]
  • The Volckamer window in the Sebaldskirche (workshop of Veit Hirsvogel). The lower row is dedicated to the memory of the progenitors of the two main lines, Hartwig II Volckamer and Heinrich II Volckamer, died 1379 and 1396 respectively, with their wives, Emerantia Nützel and Anna Schürstab and Elisabeth Rasp respectively. The second row is dedicated to the new donors, the two cousins Peter III Volckamer and Paul I Volckamer, died 1439 and 1505 respectively, with their wives, Apollonia and Margarete Mendel.[5]
  • The epitaph of Apollonia Volckamer née Mendel (wife of Peter Volckamer), c. 1483 (State Gallery in the Neue Residenz Bamberg)
  • The Volckamer Altar from the St. Catherine's Monastery Nuremberg, donated in 1493 by Paulus Volckamer and Magdalena Mendel (Germanisches Nationalmuseum),[6] center panel: Mass of St. Gregory, left wing interior: Seven Helpers in Need, left wing exterior: Madonna and Child Jesus with Donors, left wing interior: Madonna with Child Jesus and Seven Helpers in Need, right wing exterior: St. Catherine with Donors. Coat of arms of the founder family Volckamer
  • The epitaph of Margarethe Volckamer (wife of Paulus Volckamer) with coronation of Mary, around 1494 (State Gallery in the New Residence Bamberg).
  • The epitaph for Paulus Volckamer in the Sebalduskirche by Veit Stoß (so-called "Volckamer memorial foundation", 1499), with the scenes Last Supper, Olivet Prayer and Judas Kiss
  • Barbara Paumgartner née Volckamer is shown with her coat of arms, together with her husband and children on the Paumgartner Altar by Albrecht Dürer (after 1503) (Alte Pinakothek Munich).

See also

References

  1. ↑ Archived [Date missing] at webapp6.rrz.uni-hamburg.de [Error: unknown archive URL], uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
  2. ↑ Mention of Guido von Volckamer's foundation on the GMN website pdf[dead link]
  3. ↑ Bernhard Peter, Gernot Ramsauer, Alex Hoffmann: Galerie: Photos schöner alter Wappen Nr. 1434, St. Lorenz in Nürnberg, Totenschilde (mit Beschreibungen)
  4. ↑ St. Lorenz on bayern-online.de, by Oliver Lewe
  5. ↑ Bernhard Peter, Gernot Ramsauer, Alex Hoffmann: Gallery: Photos of beautiful old coats of arms no. 1396, Volckamer window in the Sebaldskirche
  6. ↑ Volckamer-Altar, in the object catalog of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Literature

  • Otto Hupp: Münchener Kalender 1930. Buch u. Kunstdruckerei AG, Munich / Regensburg 1930.
  • Christoph von Imhoff (ed.): Famous Nurembergers from nine centuries. Nuremberg: Hofmann, 1984, 425 p., ISBN 3-87191-088-0; 2nd, supplemented and enlarged edition, 1989, 459 p.; new edition: Edelmann GmbH Buchhandlung, October 2000.
  • Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres, ed. (2000), Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach, patrician family, Nuremberg City Lexicon (Stadtlexikon Nürnberg) (in German) (2nd, revised ed.), Nuremberg: W. Tümmels Verlag, ISBN 3-921590-69-8CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)



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