Alexander von Lüchau

Alexander von Lüchau († before 1530) was the margrave captain of Wunsiedel .

Alexander came from the Franconian noble family of Lüchau and was first mentioned in a document in 1486. His parents were Hans von Lüchau, founder of the line to Donndorf and Regina, née von Friesen , after the genealogist Alban von Dorbenck . Alexander was married to a daughter of Erhard von Streitberg ; the marriage resulted in three sons.

As a bailiff he lived in Wunsiedel Castle , which was renovated especially for him in 1504.

The Kulmbach and Ansbach Margrave Friedrich II took the side of Duke Albrecht IV in the Landshut War of Succession . In the course of the fighting, the Waldsassen Monastery was under the leadership of Abbot Georg I Engel in 1504 by troops led by Alexander and Balthasar Pybriczs, including the associated villages plundered and devastated. The attack on the monastery is explained by the contingents that the monastery had to provide to the opposing Count Palatine Philip and the fact that Bohemian mercenaries were also in the area.

Alexander appears in the series of witnesses for the founding of the St. Jobst Monastery . Documents about his person are mainly in the city archive of Cheb . According to the genealogist Johann Gottfried Biedermann , he is said to be buried in the church of Neustädtlein am Forst .

literature

• Johann Gottfried Biedermann : sex = register The Empire - Frey - immediate knighthood country to Francken praiseworthy local = Gebürg ... . Bamberg 1747. Plate CLXXII.
• Alban von Dobenck : History of the extinct lineage of Lüchau . In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . Bayreuth 1911. pp. 171ff, 191. (Person No. 133)
• Rudolf Langhammer : Waldsassen - monastery and town . Waldsassen 1936, pp. 177-181.