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\n \n The House \"At the Golden Sun\" as Property of the Graff Family <\/span>\n \t\t\t\t\t

PROPERTY TRANSFER AT THAT TIME<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>
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The inclination of Nuremberg\u2019s citizens to regulate everything as precisely as possible, to write down the results and to preserve this documentation for centuries makes it easier to shed light on a particular period of local history. Such documents are, however, kept in various archives, which in Nuremberg include, primarily, the State Archive, the City Archive and the Bavarian Church Archive.<\/p>\n

In research into the ownership of houses, investigation is made more difficult by the fact that in the old districts of St. Lawrence and St. Sebald some streets and lanes did not yet have names and until the end of the eighteenth century there were no house numbers at all. When a house was sold, its location was often identified by a house name or by information about the names of the owners of neighbouring houses. However, this is not always a disadvantage, but rather sometimes an important additional clue which allows us to identify the owners of neighbouring houses.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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For example, we only learn about the Graff family\u2019s ownership of a property (today Bergstra\u00dfe 10) around 1650 because a different house nearby was sold. This information is contained in a document from 1649 \u2013 elaborately designed to show off the \"seven-coloured alphabet\" and boasting a beautiful initial \u2013 which is kept in the State Archive.<\/p>\n

In diesem Kaufbrief von 1649 (1) f\u00fcr eine Behausung in der \u201eSt. Sebalder Pfarr an der undern Schmidt\u00adga\u00dfen oberhalb des Alten Milchmarcks\u201c<\/em> werden ein gegen\u00fcberliegenden Haus und sein Besitzer erw\u00e4hnt:
\r\n\u201e \u2026 gegen \u00fcber des weiland (ehemaligen) Erbarn und Wohlgelehrten Herrn Johann Graffen, Rectoris<\/strong> des L\u00f6bl. Gymnas\u04f3<\/strong> be\u04f3 St:\u00c6gidien<\/strong> seel(ig), (verstorben), Frauen Wittib (Witwe) und Erben (hier: ihren Kindern) Behau\u00dfung\u201c.<\/em> Sogar der Name dieses Nachbarhauses, damals \u201eZur Sonnen\u201c, wurde angegeben.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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It is, therefore, certain that the \"Behau\u00dfung Zur Sonnen\" (dwelling \u201cAt the Sun\u201d) was already owned by the family when Johann Andreas Graff was a small boy and his father died in 1644. In the funeral register of St. Sebald the year of his mother's death is recorded as 1649 \u2013 so the same year as the sale of the neighbours\u2019 house opposite \u2013 and the words \u201con the Milk Market\u201d are added.<\/p>\n

More than 50 years later the house \"At the Golden Sun\u201d was sold again. The sale is documented in a four-page text dated 11.2.1705 in the city\u2019s court records (Stadtgerichtsb\u00fccher), which are kept in the City Archive. (2) Thus Johann Andreas Graff (buried on 9.11.1701) had already been dead for more than three years when his widow, namely, his second wife Anna Maria, n\u00e9e Hofmann, relinquished the estate.<\/p>\n

The contents are summarised in a short entry in the digital \u201cH\u00e4userbuch\u201d (\u201cBook of Houses\u201d) of the city of Nuremberg in the City Archive: \"Date 1705: The painter's widow Anna Maria Graf sells her own house on the Milk Market called \"At the Golden Sun\u201d, on the one side on a free [i.e., not built on] corner, on the other side [...] adjacent to Johann Christoph Aigen's house, for 1,650 fl[orins] to the notary and mathematician Christoph Sigmund Ley\u00df\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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However, the entry in the \u201cStadtgerichtsbuch\u201d (official municipal court records) of the Council of the imperial city, which takes up several pages, is so interesting that it can be read below in a copy with a transcription. In its accuracy and careful wording it bears comparison to today's notarial deeds. As a document of the time, it is as \"graphic\" as historical cityscapes. Reading it gives us an important insight into the structure of the city administration of that time since it contains many legal, socio-economic and even cultural details about the communal life of city society.<\/p>\n

In addition, both documents (1649 and 1705) are remarkable for their calligraphic design and the clear handwriting of the professional \"scribes\". These are proof of the high quality of the work carried out in Nuremberg City Hall only shortly after the end of the Thirty Years' War until (at least) into the 18th century.<\/p>\n

Since then orthography has been changed and unified. Some words have disappeared from the German language and are explained by synonyms in the right column.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\n\t\t\t\t\"HOUSE ATTHE GOLDEN SUN\"\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\tIN 1705 IN THE CITY COURT RECORDS\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>
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S. 138v:
\nDer Erbare u. Wohlgelehrte Chri-
\nstoph Sigmund Le\u04f3\u00df, Not[arius] C\u00e6[sareus] Publ[icus].
\nund Arithmeticus allhier kaufft.<\/p>\n

Zu wissen und kund se\u04f3 hiemit jeder-
\nm\u00e4nniglich, dem oder denen es zu wissen
\nvonn\u00f6then, Da\u00df anheut zu End geseztem Dato vor Ei-
\nnem Ehrl\u00f6blich sizenden Stadt Gericht pers\u00f6nlich erschie-
\nnen, die respective Erbare, Wohlgelehrte und f\u00fcrneh-
\nme Friederich Windisch, Schreibere\u04f3verwandter,
\nund Johann Philipp H\u00f6ffler, Gold- und Silber-Ar-
\nbeiter allhier, als beede Oberherrlich constituirte Vor-
\nm\u00fcndere \u00fcber des Weil[and]*) Erbarn und Kunstreichen Jo-<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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S. 139r:
\nhann Andreas Grafens, Mahlers allhier seel[igen]*)
\nhinterbliebenes Kind lezter Ehe, dann die Erbare und
\nTugendsame Frau Anna Maria, obgedachten Joha\u00afn
\nAndreas Gravens [sic!] hinterlassene Wittib mit Be\u04f3stand
\nvorgemelter beeder Vormundere und haben allda re-
\nspective tutorio & proprio nomine frey offentlich
\nverjahet,*) bekannt und angezeigt, was ma\u00dfen Sie auf zu-
\nvor hier\u00fcber gehabten reiffen Rath und guten Bedacht,
\num verhoffentlich respective ihr und ihres Pfleglings
\nbe\u00dfern Nuzen und From\u0305ens willen, absonderlich auf
\ndas 6.)*), den 16ten Novembr 1703, gerichtlich erkannte
\nDecretum alienationis, die, in St. Sebalder Pfarr am
\nMilchmarck einerseits Eckfre\u04f3, anderseits an des Er-
\nbarn Johann Christoph AigensHausliegende fre\u04f3, lauter und
\neigene vordere und hintere Behausung zur gulden
\nSonnen genannt, wie solche mit Nied Nagel und Band
\nob und unter der Erden umfangen ist samt allen ihren
\nhabenden Liechten*) und Tr\u00fcpffen**), Aus- und Eing\u00e4ngen,
\nRechten und Gerechtigkeiten, wie auch allen andern Zu-
\nund Eingeh\u00f6rungen, eines redlich und unwiderruflichen
\nKauffs, als solcher denen allgemeinen beschriebenen
\nRechten sonderbahr aber hiesiger Stadt L\u00f6bl[lichen] Reformati-
\non und Ordnung nach, wider m\u00e4nniglichs Anfecht- und
\naberkennen im\u0305er am kr\u00e4ftigst und best\u00e4ndigsten ge-
\nschehen solle, kan und mag, verkaufft und hiermit nochmals
\nf\u00fcr fre\u04f3 lauter und eigen zu kauffen gegeben haben
\nwolten, dem Erbarn und Wohlgelehrten Christoph
\nSigmund Ley\u00dfen, Notar[io] C\u00e6sar[eo] Publ[ico] und Arith-
\nmetico allhier, dann auch der Erbarn und Ehrntugend-
\nsamen Frauen Anna Maria, seiner Ehewirthin,
\nauch all ihren Erben und Nachkom\u0305en, um und f\u00fcr Sech-<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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S. 139v
\nzehen Hundert und Funfzig Gulden Kauffs und
\nZw\u00f6lff Gulden Leykauffs-Summa, guter gangbarer
\nM\u00fcnz- und Landeswehrung, jeden derselben zu 15 Baz[en] oder
\n60 Kr[euzer] gerechnet. Welchen Kauff-Schilling und Ley-
\nkauff*) Verkauffere von gedachten kauffenden Christoph
\nSigmund Ley\u00dfischen Eheleuthen anheut zu End gesez-
\ntem Dato gar baar, ohne allen Mangel und Abgang em-
\npfangen zu haben hiemit bek\u00e4nntlich und gest\u00e4ndig sind,
\nund deswegen Sie, Kauffende Ley\u00dfische Eheleute, Ihre
\nErben und Nachkom\u0305en wie auch die Behausung selbst als
\nauf welcher die Verkauffere respective tutorio et pro-
\nprio nomine keinen Kreuzer mehr zu fodern haben,
\nin bester Rechts und Gewohnheits-Form auf im\u0305er und ewig
\nhiermit quittiret haben wolten.
\nHierauf nun und solchemnach gereden und versprechen
\nEingangs benannte Verkauffere respe[ctive] propio et
\ntutorio nomine gedachten Christoph Sigmund
\nLey\u00dfischen Eheleuthen, all ihren Erben und Nachkom-
\nmen, dieses aufrecht und redlich getroffenen Kauffs, auch
\naller hierwider in geb\u00fchrender Zeit f\u00fcrfallender
\nStritt*), Irr-, Hinderung und Eintr\u00e4g halber Stadtgebr\u00e4u-
\nchige gute Gewehrschafft Fertig und Vertrettung zu
\nthun und zu leisten, Sie verzeihen*) und begeben sich auch
\nzu mehrers gedachter Behausung und deren Pertinen-
\ntien*) gehabter Recht und Gerechtigkeiten, **)Zuspr\u00fcch
\nund Anfoderungen transferirt und wendeten hie-
\ngegen selbige, nebst Extradirung aller hier\u00fcber ver-
\nlautenden Brieflichen Documentorum miteinan-
\nder an mehrgedachte Kauffere und Ihre Erben, wolten
\nSie auch hierdurch, als einen rechtm\u00e4\u00dfigen Ankunffts-
\nTitul in ruhige nuzliche Possess*) und Gewehr urthatig*)<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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S. 140r:
\nimmittiret und eingesezet haben dergestalt und also,
\nsolche erkauffte Behausung zu beziehen, zu bewohnen, in-
\nnen zu haben. zu nuzen, nie\u00dfen und zugebrauchen,
\nandern zu verlassen, oder aber gar wieder zu ver-
\nkauffen und sonst damit zu thun und zu lassen, zu schal-
\nten und zu walten wie und was Ihnen jederzeit eben
\nund gelegen, auch nuz und bef\u00f6rderlich se\u04f3n wird, ohn
\nverhindert ihrer der Verkauffere, ihrer allerseits
\nErben, noch sonst m\u00e4nniglichs von Ihrentwegen f\u00fcr
\nba\u00df ewig, Erbar, getreulich und ohne Gef\u00e4hrde.
\nDiesen Kauf samt einverleibter Total-Quittung
\n\u00fcber den erlegten Kauff-Schilling der 1650 fl*) und Le\u04f3-
\nKauff der 12 fl*) hat \u00f6fters mentionirter Christoph
\nSigmund Le\u04f3\u00df f\u00fcr sich, seine Ehewirthin, all ihrer
\nbeeden Erben und Nachkom\u0305en vor ben\u00fcgsam ange-
\nnom\u0305en. Actum in Judicio 4.)*) den 11ten Febru-
\nar\u00ff A\u00b0. 1705.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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  1. Staatsarchiv N\u00fcrnberg, sign. Rst Nbg. \u201eUrkunden des siebenfarbigen Alphabets\u201d, Nr. 4163a; located on the east side of the \u201eSonneng\u00e4sschen\u201c [Sun Lane], address since 1796: \"S 462\", probably collapsed in 1793; address today: Obere Kr\u00e4mersgasse 24; in the meantime the lane has been broadened.<\/li>\n
  2. Stadtarchiv N\u00fcrnberg, sign. B14 I no. 184v -140r; address since 1796: \"S 443\"; address today: Bergstr. 10<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Das Haus \u201eZur goldenen Sonne\u201c als Eigentum der Familie Graff Immobilientransfer damals Die Neigung der N\u00fcrnberger, alles m\u00f6glichst genau zu regeln, die Ergebnisse zu verschriftlichen und dieses Schrifttum \u00fcber Jahrhunderte zu bewahren, erleichtert es, Licht in eine bestimmte Epoche der Stadtgeschichte zu bringen. 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