The Dutch-German Church (or Temple) of Livorno was built between 1862-1864 to a project by architect Dario Giacomelli, in the Neo-Gothic style. In the Labronica library of Livorno we found a small brochure entitled “Balance statement for the construction of the Dutch-German Congregation Church” dated 1867, 3 years after the church was built. The brochure represents a very interesting piece of history being a sort of snapshot of the foreign protestant community of Livorno at that time with several lists of contributors for the building of the church and the expenses related to its construction.
In this part I present the first list of +54 contributors, composed of those who where also members of the Congregation, thus more involved in this project (all the donations are made in multiples of 84, due to the conversion rate of the tuscan lire to the italian lire after the Unification of Italy in 1861), clicking on names will bring you to the relevant data sheet of my database where available for the individual or the family.
| Cav. Carlo GRABAU, Hamburg Consul |
1680 |
| Rodolfo SCHWARTZE, Hannover Consul |
1680 |
| Cav. C.A. DALGAS, Danish Consul |
1680 |
| Federigo DALGAS |
420 |
| Gustavo MÜLLER |
840 |
| Agostino KOTZIAN |
1008 |
| CORRADINI brothers |
1260 |
| David TRAXLER |
1680 |
| KLEIN bros., Enrico KLEIN, Oldenburg Consul & Carlo |
840 |
| Carlo IMTHURN |
840 |
| Gustavo RÖMER |
504 |
| Matteo KUNDERT |
504 |
| Giorgio WASSMUTH |
504 |
| G. Federigo WELTY |
420 |
| Enrico RYF |
420 |
| Giovanni GOLDENBERG |
168 |
| Adolfo SCHMITZ |
840 |
| Augusto STOLTENHOFF |
840 |
| Alberto ZIEGLER |
420 |
| Cav. Cristiano APPELIUS, Prussian Consul |
336 |
| Gustavo WAGNIÈRE |
200 |
| Gugliemo & Ottavio KIEFFER |
840 |
| Giulio FONTANIEUX |
168 |
| Pietro FEHR-SCHMÖLE, Swiss Consul |
1680 |
| Giorgio Enrico AMAN |
1680 |
| Cristiano MAYER |
840 |
| MEYER & LIEBER |
420 |
| ROCCO brothers |
588 |
| TUCCETTI & PIETROMANNI |
588 |
| Enrico Augusto ROMIEUX |
420 |
| E. GEBHARDT, Bavarian Consul |
840 |
| Luigi BUJARD |
168 |
| Cav. Edoardo, Eugenio, Enrico MAYER, brothers |
2520 |
| Alessandro VOLLERIN |
84 |
| Giuseppe KAYSER |
420 |
| Araldo STUB, Swedish Consul |
1680 |
| Carlo TOBLER |
420 |
| LÜSCHER & BRACK |
252 |
| Giorgio ZÜST |
84 |
| Giorgio LAU |
42 |
| Carlo TOUCHON |
840 |
| Francesco CHUN |
1680 |
| Costantino BOREL |
168 |
| TOTAL (Italian Lire) |
33506 |
Thanks to Stefano Ceccarini, a member of our association, for the help in the transcription of the documents.
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