Agnes Apollonia Elisabeth von Neuneck

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Agnes Apollonia Elisabeth von Neuneck († August 31, 1677 in Speyer ) was a baroness and last offspring of the Swabian noble family von Neuneck and a canoness in the imperial monastery of Münsterbilsen .

Parentage and family

She was born as the daughter of Baron Alexander von Neuneck and his wife Anna Johanna geb. von Eltz , sister of the Trier cathedral dean Johann Wilhelm Ludwig von Eltz (1619–1676). Her cousin Friedrich Christian von Eltz († 1703) officiated as cathedral curator in Speyer.

Live and act

The family seat was the moated castle Glatt in Sulz am Neckar . Her father Alexander von Neuneck died in 1645, his older brother Wildhans von Neuneck, the head of the family, died in 1659 without male descendants. In a will he had decreed that all family property, including the castle, should go to his nephew Hans Caspar, Alexander's only son, the last male offspring of the family. His sister Agnes Apollonia Elisabeth remained single.

In 1668 Hans Caspar von Neuneck was declared of legal age, but died in 1671, after a six-year illness, unmarried and childless, at the age of 27. He left the family property in his will to his mother (married to Hieronymus Franz von Welden, † 1669), who died shortly before him.

The only surviving heiress was now Hans Caspar's sister Agnes Apollonia Elisabeth, who was also the last family member entitled to inheritance to receive the homage from the residents of Glatt . She closely followed her uncle, the Trier cathedral dean Johann Wilhelm Ludwig von Eltz, with whom she also lived for a time. Then she joined the princes of Münsterbilsen ( Flanders ) as a canoness .

From earlier inheritance divisions, there was a dispute that lasted until 1688 with a side branch of the family, the daughter heirs of Johanna von Neuneck, née. von Bubenhofen (widow of Hans Georg von Neuneck), pending before the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer . Agnes Apollonia Elisabeth von Neuneck was the last family member to take care of that too.

She died in Speyer on August 31, 1677, while she was presumably staying there on this matter. They were buried in the Franciscan Church, which was demolished in 1806 . There an epitaph was dedicated to her, the inscription of which the historian Johann Franz Capellini von Wickenburg (1677-1752) from the Electoral Palatinate received in Volume 2 of the Thesaurus Palatinus .

In her will, she bequeathed all of her property to the Trier cathedral chapter , which sold it for the benefit of the church. The family seat, Glatt Castle, came to Baron Johann Franz Dietrich von Landsee in 1679, and from him to the Swiss monastery of Muri in 1706 .

literature

  • Imke Ritzmann: The moated castle in Sulz-Glatt, Baden-Württemberg , inaugural dissertation, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 2013, pp. 87–89; The dissertation as a PDF document
  • Main State Archive Stuttgart: Files of the Reich Chamber Court in the Main State Archive Stuttgart: Inventory of the holdings C 3 , Volume 46, Part 4, p. 315, W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3170163841 ; (Detail scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Naumann: The Barons of Hagen to Motten: their life and work in the Saar-Mosel region , Gollenstein Verlag, 2000, p. 206; (Detail scan)
  2. ^ Genealogy page about the von Eltz family
  3. ↑ Christian von Stramburg , Anton Joseph Weidenbach : Memorable and useful Rheinischer Antiquarius , 1st Division, 2nd volume, Koblenz 1853, p 330; (Digital scan)
  4. ↑ Digital scan of the epitaph inscription
personal data
SURNAME Neuneck, Agnes Apollonia Elisabeth von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Noblewoman, canoness, benefactress of the Church
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1677
Place of death Speyer