Adam Xaver von Roggenbach

Adam Xaver von Roggenbach

Adam Franz Xaver Phillip Nikolaus Franz von Sales von Roggenbach (born December 9, 1750 at Zwingen Castle ; † October 11, 1830 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was initially a privy councilor and high court marshal of the Principality of Basel and later Baden governor of Mahlberg and 1810-1814 district director of the Triple circle .

Life

Adam Xaver comes from the ancient Roggenbach ministerial family . After the early death of his father (1756) he was raised by his mother and his uncle and guardian Sigismund von Roggenbach . He received his basic training from the Jesuits in Pruntrut. He later studied philosophy in Nancy and law in Strasbourg and Würzburg . After he had not been accepted into the service of the margrave of Baden, Adam Xaver entered the service of the Princely Diocese of Basel in 1770 as Hofratassessor, where he was appointed Hofrat in 1773. In 1781 he was promoted to court marshal and in 1782 to senior court marshal. When his uncle Sigismund von Roggenbach became Prince Bishop in 1782 , Adam Xaver was his closest confidante. He had an English garden laid out in the royal seat of Pruntrut and initiated the Hermitage in Arlesheim .

In 1792 he went into exile with his uncle after the French revolutionary troops marched into the prince-bishopric. His possessions in the prince-bishopric were confiscated , and it was not until 1803 that part of the property was returned to the government of Baden.

He acquired citizenship in Emmishofen , but also stayed in Schopfheim , where his family owned properties. After the death of his uncle he became his universal heir. He served his successor, Franz Xaver von Neveu , as Oberhofmarschall in Konstanz and Offenburg until 1796 . In 1798 he entered the service of Margrave Karl Friedrich von Baden and became bailiff of Mahlberg and became a privy councilor in 1801. In October 1802 he took possession of the imperial cities of Offenburg, Gengenbach and Zell am Harmersbach , which had been closed by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss Baden , as well as the free Reichstal Harmersbach, the Reichsabbey Gengenbach and the left bank of the Strasbourg bishopric for Baden. In 1810 he became district director of the Dreisamkreis in the Grand Duchy of Baden . The Grand Duchy belonged to the Confederation of the Rhine and was allied with Napoleon's France . When the Allied Austrian, Prussian and Russian troops began to advance after the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 , there was a movement in the formerly Austrian Breisgau that campaigned for the separation of Baden and its reintegration into the Austrian Empire. The Baden government brought Roggenbach into connection with this movement and compulsorily retired him in July 1814.

Removed from active administration and deprived of political influence, Adam Xaver received the Grand Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion in 1815 . Adam Xaver now devoted himself to the administration and consolidation of his goods. In 1823 he wrote a three-volume history of the Principality of Basel, which, however, was not published. He died on October 11, 1830 in Freiburg, where he was buried in the old cemetery .

Origin, marriage and offspring

Adam Xaver was born the son of the Prince-Bishop of Zwingen and Laufen , Franz Konrad Joseph Ignaz von Roggenbach and Antonia Helena Franziska Josephine Priska von Andlau . He married Anna Maria Henriette Reuttner von Weyl in 1776 and had eight children with her:

• Friedrich Ludwig Franz (* 1776; † 1784)
• Maria Karolina, called Charlotte (* 1780; † 1858) - court master at the Bavarian court
• Joseph Ignaz (* 1783; † 1832) - court judge from Baden
• Maria Anna Balbina (* 1785; † 1862) ∞ Franz Anton Sales Zenobius von Falkenstein
• Heinrich Adam (* 1787; † 1870) - Major General of the Grand Ducal Baden
• Johann Nepomuk Julius Konstantin (* 1794; † 1876) - Major General of the Grand Ducal Baden
• Franz Xaver August (* 1798, † 1854) - Grand Ducal Baden War Minister.

literature

• Max Freiherr von Roggenbach: Chronicle of the Freiherrlichen Familie von Roggenbach , Freiburg im Breisgau 1888, pp. 94-99 online at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
• Marco Jorio : The fall of the Principality of Basel (1792-1815): The struggle of the two last Prince Bishops Joseph Sigismund von Roggenbach and Franz Xaver von Neveu against secularization . Paulusdruckerei, Freiburg 1981. pp. 268–269

Individual references / comments

1. ↑ s. Jorio p. 268
2. ↑ s. Jorio p. 269
3. ↑ see www.joerg-sieger.de: Rohan; I. Under Baden rule; 2. civil seizure ; Retrieved April 16, 2013