It became on the occasion of its golden wedding and in acknowledgment of its earnings/services in Danzig to 15. May 1892 with diploma from 10 August 1892 in potsdam into the Prussian nobility raised.

Family

Boch comes of to an old purchase one family from Audun le Tiche Moselle in Lorraine) and was the son of the manufacturer Jean Boch, owner of the exempt private company "“Villeroy & Boch ceramic works"” in 3. Generation.

He married at the 3. May 1842 in Fremersdorf at the Saar (today part of the greater Rehlingen Siersburg in the district Saarlouis, Saarland) Oktavie Villeroy (* 25 August 1823 in Fremersdorf; "† 12. May 1899 in Mettlach, Saarland), the daughter industrial magnates of the Charles Villeroy (1789-1843), property gentleman on Wallerfangen in the district Saarlouis with Saarbruecken, and the Georgette de Renauld (1797-1884). She is the granddaughter of the Nicolas Villeroy, the Kompagnons of its father. - The competitive situation between Villeroy in Wallerfangen and Boch in Mettlach was eliminated by the fusion of the two companies in the year 1836 and the marriage of the heiress Octavie Villeroy with the firm inheriting Eugen of Boch in the year 1842.

The monastery chapel in Wallerfangen became unpractical by transfer and change of the hospital for the service, why Boch diminish it in the year 1879 carefully, which sorted stones to ship according to Mettlach bring and 1882 over the Familiengruft its family again construct there let. On a large stone over the portal inside the chapel this circumstances are engraved: "“This building was established to Villeroy in the year 1864 by Mrs. Wittwe Thiery geb. of read-reading all as house chapel in Wallerfangen and shifted in the year 1879 by Eugen Boch and its wife Oktavia geb. over their Familiengruft for the use of the barmherzigen sisters holy Carl of the here."”

Life

Center 19. Century created Boch a ceramic(s) collection, which was removed until today continuously. The certifications of over two and a half centuries industrial history are to be seen in the "“ceramic(s) museum Mettlach"” in a former factory building in the old person abbey Mettlach. Since establishment of the small pottery of the ancestor gentleman Boch (1748) about 17,000 exhibits met.

Boch was, how at aristocracy and large middle class for the elevation of the own prestige far it spread at that time also at the antiquity of a interested person entrepreneur, why he gathered a substantial collection antique and antikisierender vases, which originated predominantly from Neapel. Reason for its interest in antique vases whether original or skillful imitation, its preference for art and old cultures was not only. The pieces should serve also as illustrative material for the training of the apprentices and as collecting main and source of inspiration for own production.

Eugen of Boch "“was the old Mr. von Mettlach, mayor of many years and deputy mayor von Mettlach, and the municipality set from gratitude a monument for him. He was appointed the Kommerzienrat and the secret advice, he received medals and decorations. On the occasion of its golden wedding he was raised into the hereditary nobility, but it remained the modest and assistance giving humans, who it always been. But on an honor it was proud: At the 6.August 1877 it received the lifesaving medal at the volume for the successful rescue of a boy from the Saar with Fremersdorf."” (Source: Gruner, history of the family Boch)

Medal and decoration

• Lifesaving medal at the volume (1877)
• some high medals

Literature

• Genealogi manual of the aristocracy, aristocrat of houses B volume XVIII, page 11, volume 95 of the total row, C.A. strong publishing house, Limburg (Lahn) 1989.
• Adam Eugen of Boch, the noble people friend. A life of full act strength and love. of Boch Galhau, the knight of the work and social welfare service. A life full victim courage and loyalty. , Winkler tells publishing house, Saarlouis to the youth and the people 1912.
• Walter Lauer: Eugen of Boch, in: New German Biografie (NDB), volume 2, page 339
• Ruth farmer: The old person tower in Mettlach in the mirror of the care of monuments. To the restoration 19. Century by Eugen of Boch and August von Cohausen, in: Magazine for the history of the Saargegend, volume 48, side 165f., 2000.

See also

• Family of Boch

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