Coat of arms stone Baumhauer

Origin of the heraldic stone

The stone in the grass was photographed in 1976 on the site of the municipal storage facility in Beatrixhaven.
At that time the stone had already come a long way with the Historical Museum.
In 2016 the VMG Foundation received the now broken stone on loan with the intention of re-setting it.

It must have been around 1900 that the Limburg Historical and Archaeological Society (LGOG) got hold of the coat of arms. A note on an old inventory list states that it was a gift from Mr. Victor Hustinx.
And that puts us more or less on the track of where the stone originally came from.

That is almost certainly Wolfstraat 8, which was rebuilt around 1900 and of which it is known that before that time in the front and back facade the arms of Baumhauer were applied.

There is no real hard evidence for this origin, but there are a few remarkable clues.

The note on the old museum list links Victor Hustinx to this stone and there appears to be a connection between the name Hustinx and Wolfstraat 8.

At the beginning of the 20th century there was a shop, a coffee roaster and  a wholesale company of colonial goods in that building under the name Messrs. Wed R.W. Hustinx.
How coincidental is coincidence?

     Wolfstraat 8

Together with their mother (in law) Maria Fremont (widow of Johannis Boomhouer), Pieter Boomhouwer, married to second cousin Maria Baumhewer, occupied the 'Lanscroon' in Grote Staat in 1684.

In 1691 they moved to 'Mariëndael' at Wolfstraat, which was later merged with the neighbouring house to form the large building that is now Wolfstraat 8. This must have been after grandson Johan Hendrik inherited Mariëndael from his grandmother in 1716 and bought the neighbouring wooden house.

On the death of grandmother Maria Fremont it was reported that her house had two heraldic stones; one at the front and one at the back.

Family crest of Baumhauer

The coat of arms as it is depicted in the coat of arms letter of 1513, in which Emperor Maximilian grants the coat of arms and title to Christianus Bomhower from Reval - now Talinn in Estonia - for services to the Holy Roman Empire.

The Baumhauers were wealthy bankers then and later, so their earnings almost certainly consisted of providing large sums of money, which the rulers of the time were always in need of in order to finance their little wars.

The Von Baumhauers spread all over Europe, and especially a branch from Aachen emigrated for religious reasons to Maastricht, where the descendants lived in capital houses at Bouillonstraat, Platielstraat, Grote Staat, Bredestraat, Vrijthof and Wolfstraat.

The building in front of you has long been called the "Court of Slijpe", named after the Protestant magistrate family that owned this property between the mid-17th century and the beginning of the 19th century. The history of this little city palace goes back to the 16th century. It was the result of merging the house of merchant Jan Neven and the house of Captain Antoine de Pomprije. After the conquest of the city in 1632 by Frederik Hendrik in 1632, the first "Dutch" governor lived in this house. It was a period when Maastricht changed from a prosperous place of business to a closed fortified town with a garrison.