ALSACE 18th century / 1  

He owned the following house,
10 rue des Pucelles
in Strasbourg,
created in 1587 and classified
to historical monuments. 
The plot was divided
in four houses
during the 18th century.

See its history on the site of the old houses of Strasbourg (in French)

On the same plot, but overlooking another street, he had a small mansion built in 1745 in the Régence style, not far from the cathedral of Strasbourg, 15 rue de l'Arc-en-Ciel, and also classified as historical monument.
Known at the time under the name of Horrer mansion, it is now called Marabail mansion (see article and photos), the family to whom it was sold in 1764.  But the weapons of the GOLL family are still found in the beautiful ironwork of the staircase.

Jean-Georges Horrer had married in Strasbourg, on 6th October 1699, Anne-Elisabeth (de) GOLL (1) from Strasbourg, daughter of Jean de Goll and Marie-Marguerite Braun.  She died in Strasbourg, where she lived in 1762, year in which a detailed inventory of her estate was established, in the form of an in-4° register of 132 pages, calligraphed in German and deposited in the archives of the Departement Bas-Rhin (E.5610). Thirteen children were born, but several died in infancy: (Registers : Doc-2a and Doc-2b)

1° ANNE-MARGUERITE HORRER, born in Lauterbourg on September 2, 1700, died a widow in Strasbourg on March 22, 1780, aged 79. She had married, on February 21, 1724, Louis-Toussaint d'OLRY (2), from Gernsbach (Baden), receiver of the city of Strasbourg, later administrator of the property of the church of Spire. He was still living on November 18, 1756. From this union were born at least:

•  a.Jean-François d'OLRY, lawyer at the Sovereign Council of Alsace, who witnessed his mother’s death certificate on March 22, 1780. Married to Marie-Thérèse SCHECK, he had among others:
  •   a1.Jean-François d'OLRY, said the Knight of Olry, born in Andlau on March 3, 1769, did his studies in Colmar then in Strasbourg, where he had as fellow student the Prince of Metternich. He emigrated to the Revolution, after having signalled several daring actions, and joined Prince of Condé’s army. Returned to Strasbourg at the height of the Terror, he was incarcerated and found freedom only on 9 Thermidor. He committed himself to the army of Pichegru then, compromised in a royalist plot, he had to take refuge in Germany. Attached to the Chancellery of Foreign Affairs in Munich (1799), then Bavarian commissioner under the Russian general Souvaroff, he was finally appointed secretary of the legation of Bavaria to Russia. In Saint Petersburg, he was very close to Count Joseph de Maistre and is said to have been the prototype of the 'knight' of the 'St. Petersburg Evenings'. Letters to the Knight d'Olry appear in this book by Joseph de Maistre.  Later delegate to the Court of Saxony, he was then sent to Switzerland as a resident minister and spent twenty years there. Having become ambassador of Bavaria in Turin in 1827, close advisor to the King of Bavaria in 1836, commander of the order of Saint Michael in 1839, he was decorated by Pope Gregory XVI with the order of Christ. Returned to private life at 73, he retired to Strasbourg then to Kientzheim. He died in Strasbourg on January 24, 1863, aged 93. Stitzmann devotes a long notice to it in his 'Dictionary'.

2° The Knight CHRISTOPHE HORRER, born in Lauterbourg on February 23, 1702, died there on March 28, 1703, aged one year.

3° ANNE-ELISABETH HORRER, born in Lauterbourg on February 24, 1704, died there on the following March 25.

4° ANNE-MARIE HORRER, born in Strasbourg (?) on March 27, 1705, died there on July 22, 1757, aged 52. Married twice, she married her first husband in 1727; in Bergzabern, then in Lower Alsace but today in the Palatinate, Jean-Frédéric BRISSET, bailiff and first secretary of this city; in second marriage, Jean-Frédéric HEUPEL, from Strasbourg, administrator of the property of the orphanages of this city, widower of Marie-Françoise Weiner. He was a witness in 1756 to the death certificate of his brother-in-law François-Antoine HORRER.

5° CLOTINE HORRER, born in Lauterbourg on July 29, 1707.

6° MARIE-MADELEINE HORRER, born in Lauterbourg on July 29, 1708.

7° The Knight GEORGES-CHRISTOPHE HORRER, born in Lauterbourg on July 6, 1710, died there a few months later, on June 28, 1711.

8° MARIE-BARBE HORRER, born in Lauterbourg on April 19, 1712, died there on April 26, 1713, aged one year. 

9° The Knight GEORGES-JOSEPH HORRER, who follows.

10° MARIE-URSULE HORRER, born in Lauterbourg on July 12, 1716, married in Strasbourg on September 2, 1742 to François-Jean-Gaëtan ACKER, licensed in law, first secretary of the towns of Marlenheim and Wasselonne, son of Jean-Adam Acker and Marie-Elisabeth Weimer. Witnesses: Louis d'Olry, Jean-Frédéric Heupel, Joseph Benoist and Jean-Adam Acker. She was still living on July 6, 1784, when she was godmother in Strasbourg of her great-nephew André-Pierre HORRER. 

11° MARIE-AGATHE HORRER, born in Lauterbourg on April 24, 1718, died there on August 27, 1719, aged one year.

12° The Knight FRANCOIS-ANTOINE HORRER, born in Lauterbourg on October 6, 1720, advisor to the Grand Sénat of Strasbourg, died in Strasbourg at the age of 36, on November 18, 1756. He is inscribed on the list of Senators from the tribes of the Drapers in 1750, 1753, and 1754.

13° The Knight JEAN-FRANCOIS HORRER, born in Lauterbourg on May 30, 1723, died there on April 16, 1724 aged one year.

NOTES 

1/ Goll, or de Goll: Catholic branch: arms grant 1542; nobility of the Holy Roman Empire in 1594, title of Baron in 1825.   The Protestant branch was ennobled by Emperor Francis I in 1763, and obtained the title of Baron by the King Louis XVI in 1786.

2/ d'Olry: ennoblement 1572. Title of Knight.