Adam Heinrich von Steinau

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Adam Heinrich Graf von Steinau (* unknown; † 1712 in Nebillau ) was a Saxon - Polish field marshal .

The von Steinau family came from the county of Henneberg from the noble family of those von Steinau called Steinrück . The count was initially in the service of the city of Brunswick and Lüneburg. From 1685 to 1688 he served in the Bavarian contingent of the Imperial Army in the campaign against the Turks in Hungary. He then took part in the War of the Palatinate Succession against France under Charles of Lorraine , including the siege of Mainz in 1689.

Steinau then entered the service of the Republic of Venice in the war against the Turks in 1693 . In 1694 he conquered the island of Chios . He then defeated the Turks who had invaded there on Morea with General Alexander Molino. After the Peace of Karlowitz (1699), he built the fortifications on the Isthmus of Corinth .

At the time, the Saxon Elector Friedrich August I ("August the Strong"), as August II King of Poland, was in command of the imperial troops in Hungary. Steinau served under him in Hungary. On August 27, 1699 he was appointed field marshal of Saxony.

In the Great Northern War , Steinau commanded the Saxon troops under August II in 1700 and fought the Livonia-Courland campaign. The nearly ten-month siege of Riga from February to November 1700 was unsuccessful. In the battle of Jungfernhof in July 1700 he held out against the Swedish general Otto Vellingk , on July 19, 1701 he lost to the Swedish King Karl XII. however, the battle of the Daugava near Riga. A defeat in the Battle of Klissow in Poland on July 19, 1702 followed. After the lost battle of Pultusk on May 1, 1703, in which he was also in command, he withdrew. In 1706 he returned to the service of Venice as the successor to General Franz du Hamel , whom he, according to his own statement, regarded as "his senior citizen".

In 1705 Steinau acquired the lordships of Schinkau and Nebillau, including Nettonitz, and in 1706 commissioned the Pilsen master builder Jakob Auguston to build the Nebillau Castle . After his death he was buried in the church of James the Elder in Prusing .

family

Steinau was married to Franziska Friedrike von Pfirt zu Carspach († 1710). The couple had a son, Count Johann Franz Adam von Steinau, called Steinrück, († March 26, 1743 in Chotiborz ). He married Anna Franziska Zaruba von Hustirzan on August 31, 1713 in Klattau († November 1, 1720 in Iglau ). Steinau's daughter, Countess Maria Theresia von Steinau († 1766), was the second wife of Franz Wenzel (the elder) Count von Wrtby ( Vrtba ) (* 1670, † September 20, 1750). He was chamberlain to the Elector Karl Albrecht of Bavaria and then Oberstlandrichter when he became Emperor Karl VII .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book . Volume 1, Winter, Heidelberg 1898, p. 82, online version
personal data
SURNAME Steinau, Adam Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinau, Adam Heinrich Count of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon-Polish field marshal
DATE OF BIRTH before 1685
DATE OF DEATH 1712
Place of death Nebillau