C o a t   o f   a r m s   o f   t h e   i r o n   t r a d e r   A b r a h a m   M ü n k e r
o f   J ü n k e r a t h   ( R h i n e l a n d )   a n d   h i s   d e s c e n d a n t s

Description

In silver two red hearts one above the other, the upper flaming; on the red-silver stuffed helmet with same cover an open, in front red, in the back silver wing.

Origin

Abraham Münker (1740 – 1808), iron trader on Jünkerath / Rhineland, son of
Johann Heinrich Münker (1709 – 1776), iron trader, sealed with two hearts standing upright. Johann Heinrich Münker came from an old Allenbach family of iron traders and lay assessors, which belongs to the main trunk of the Siegerland.

The coat of arms has been developed later according to the seal. Founder are probably the descendants of Abraham Ludolf Cramer, reformist preacher in Gemünd (Rhineland), whose
wife Anna Juliane Münker originated from the Allenbach family of iron traders.

In the cast-iron furnace sheet from 1786 the two hearts are included as well.

Sense interpretation

Not known.
Probably the heart symbols are taken from ideas of the preacher Abraham Cramer.

Publication of the family coat of arms

Publication of the coat of arms (and the figure of the furnace sheet) in the DGB, volume 99,
page 572 – 576 (1938) with a short genealogical sequence of  the family Münker of Jünkerath.

Created: 25.04.2001