Eberhard von Gemmingen-Hornberg (Colonel)

Eberhard Reichsfreiherr von Gemmingen zu Hornberg (born September 2, 1688 in Lörrach ; † January 3, 1767 in Luxembourg ) belonged to the family of the Lords of Gemmingen . He was the landlord in Treschklingen , Rappenau , Hoffenheim , Bürg and Wolfskehlen . In the military service for the House of Habsburg , he rose to field marshal lieutenant . From 1749 until his death he was in command of Luxembourg .

Life

Eberhard was a son of the Baden court council president and court marshal Reinhard von Gemmingen zu Hornberg (1645–1707) and his wife Maria Elisabetha von Neipperg . He attended high school in Durlach and the military academy in Geneva . He initially managed the inheritance of his father, who died in 1707, together with his brothers, later the property was divided, whereby Eberhard Treschklingen fell to. He also owned a mansion in Wimpfen together with his wife, who was married in 1708 . In 1708 he was in the service of Hessen-Darmstadt , after which he entered military service for the House of Habsburg. As a captain, he was responsible for guarding Barletta Castle in Naples . In a few years he rose to major , lieutenant colonel and finally to colonel. He took part in the campaigns in Bavaria, Catalonia, Italy and the Rhine. In 1741 he became Quartermaster General of the Hungarian Army in the Netherlands and General War Commissioner for Brabant during the War of the Austrian Succession . In 1749 he was appointed commander of the city and imperial fortress of Luxembourg . He held this position as a field marshal lieutenant until his death in 1767. He was buried in the bastion with military honors.

family

He married on August 30, 1708 in Widdern Anna Clara, born von Zillenhart (born August 9, 1685 in Widdern, † February 14, 1768 in Treschklingen , where she had her widow's residence ). From this marriage there were 14 children, but only some of them came to years. His son Sigmund von Gemmingen (1724–1806) acquired the Austrian half of Hoffenheim from the Lords of Berlichingen in 1771 . Sigmund's brother, Freiherr Otto Heinrich I von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1727–1790), also bought the rest of the place. In the Protestant parish church in Hoffenheim, on the west wall, to the left of the main portal, there is an epitaph for Eberhard von Gemmingen and his wife, which their descendants had built.

Progeny:

• Sophia Charlotte (* 1710) ⚭ Burkhard Dietrich von Weiler
• Eberhard (1713–1757) ⚭ Johanna von Grävenitz, inherits Rappenau in 1752
• Maria Johanna (1716–1791)
• Katharina (1720–1793) ⚭ Eberhard Fredrich von Ellrichshausen
• Karl Sigmund (1718–1737) died as an ensign in the war against the Turks in Serbia
• Benedicta (* 1720) ⚭ Friedrich August von Gemmingen-Babstadt
• Otto Heinrich (1727–1790) ⚭ Clara Ludovika von Gemmingen (1753–1814), daughter of his brother Eberhard
• Sigmund (1724–1806) ⚭ Eberhardine Johanna von und zu Gemmingen (1731–1755), Franziska Xaviera von Althann (1733–1811)

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, pp. 281–282.
• Hartmut Riehl: Two unknown Gemmingen monuments in the Protestant parish church of Hoffenheim. In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research. Edited by the Heimatverein Kraichgau . Volume 20/2007, ISBN 3-921214-35-1 , pp. 223-235.
• Walter von Hueck: lineage of the family of the barons of Gemmingen . Reprint from the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility Volume 37 (Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume VI). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1966