Alexander von Wylich
Christoph Alexander Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Wylich (born January 11, 1753 in Potsdam , † January 20, 1831 in Diersfordt ) was a royal Prussian secret councilor , canon of Halberstadt , hereditary steward of the Duchy of Kleve , commander of the Order of St. John , knight of the royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, second class, and owner of several manors .
Life
He came from the old noble family Wylich from the Duchy of Kleve . Alexander von Wylich was first a secret councilor of the Klevisch-Märkische, then the Münster government and director of the Klevian estates.
From 1826 to 1828 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Rhine Province .
He was Lord of Diersfordt, Zehlem, Wylack, Biesenhorst, Averbergen, Esselt and Kitzen. As a widower, he had acquired the latter manor on September 26, 1821 from Joachim Christian Lücke, merchant and merchant also Kramermeister zu Leipzig , for 56,000 thalers. He also bought the Benzingerode manor (Oberhof and Unterhof) in Braunschweig in 1815 .
He had received Diersfordt Castle in May 1776 as the nephew and universal heir of his uncle Alexander Hermann von Wylich, who had died childless at that time. At that time the shell of the castle including the roof structure and the main cornice with the coat of arms stone was completed. Wylich continued his uncle's work and had the castle church completed by around 1780. He then began restoring the other buildings in the late baroque style . The result was what was then a modern residential palace, which existed in its external form until 1928 and was then destroyed by a major fire. The reconstruction took place in a different form. Among other things, the castle church, the construction of which Alexander von Wylich's uncle had also begun, was preserved.
The tomb of Alexander von Wylich in the form of a stone sarcophagus standing on a brick foundation was completed in 1843 and erected opposite the monument of his uncle Alexander Herrmann von Wylich in the palace gardens of Diersfordt.
In his will, on February 13, 1819, a few days after the death of his wife Countess Anna, he had stipulated that for lack of children of his own he would appoint his nephew and niece as his two closest blood relatives to heirs. He also thought of his wife's youngest brother, Count Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode . He received his manor Diersforst with the property east of the Rhine including the goods Biesenhorst, Averbergen and Groß Esselt.
When Alexander von Wylich died in 1831, the two children of his only sister Sophie Louise Herrmine, wife of the late royal Prussian district administrator Friedrich Leopold Samuel von Hertefeld zu Liebenberg, took over the inheritance. It was about the Knighthood Councilor Carl Alexander Adolph von Hertefeld and his sister Alexandrine Louise Charlotte von Hertefeld, who was married to the Prussian Higher Regional Court President and later Prussian State and Justice Minister Graf von Dankelman in Glogau.
family
He was the son of Friedrich von Wylich , Prussian lieutenant general and bearer of the Order of the Black Eagle , and Sophie Wilhemine Frederike von Kalckstein (* 1723; † April 16, 1755). She was the daughter of Christoph Wilhelm von Kalckstein .
His grandparents were Dietrich von Wylich (1640–1709) and his second wife Florentina Anna von Spaen (* 1660).
His younger sister was Sophie Louise Herrmine (born September 10, 1754; † March 22, 1799) ⚭ 1770 Freiherr Friedrich Leopold von Hertefeld (born January 8, 1741; † April 3, 1816), district administrator in Kleve.
In his second marriage, as a childless widower in 1797, he married Countess Anna zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (* February 24, 1770; † January 26, 1819), daughter of Count Christian Friedrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, who ruled over the County of Wernigerode , and up to Marriage to the abbess of the Drübeck monastery between Wernigerode and Ilsenburg (Harz) .
literature
- Inventory of the documents in the archives of Diersfordt Castle near Wesel , Essen 1957.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Revue, Volume 12, p. 212 digitized .
- ↑ clivia.belta.de ( Memento from July 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 14, 2016.
- ↑ Entry on the hereditary burial site of the last two Lords of Wylich at Diersfordt Castle in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on August 9, 2017.
- ↑ Fontane mentions a portrait of her at Liebenberg Castle in Walks through the Mark Brandenburg
- ^ Family , accessed July 14, 2016.
- ↑ Family tree , accessed July 14, 2016.
- ↑ Friedrich Leopold von Hertefeld ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Stammreihen.de, accessed on July 14, 2016.
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| SURNAME | Wylich, Alexander von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wylich, Christoph Alexander Carl Friedrich Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Royal Prussian Privy Councilor, Canon of Halberstadt, Hereditary Steward of the Duchy of Kleve, Commander of the Order of St. John |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1753 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1831 |
| Place of death | Diersfordt |