Alexandre Louis Guillaume Jacomin de Malespine

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Alexandre Louis Guillaume Jacomin de Malespine

Alexandre Louis Guillaume Jacomin de Malespine , (born June 26, 1821 in Zweibrücken , † November 6, 1893 in Breitfurt , Kirchheimer Hof) was a Franco-German nobleman , landowner and benefactor of the Catholic Church.

origin

He was the son of Baron Benoit Auguste Alexandre Jacomin de Malespine (1774–1855) and his wife Maria Magdalena Antoinette Theodora, born in Buis-les-Baronnies in the south of France . de Barthelmy (1785–1859), born in Landau in the Palatinate , as the daughter of Jean-Baptiste Isaac de Barthelmy (1746–1817), commander of the French military administration in Haguenau and as the granddaughter of Jean-Baptiste de Barthelmy (1714–1783) , the former head of the French military administration in Landau. Benoit Auguste Alexandre Jacomin de Malespine came here at the time of the French possession of the left Rhineland . Initially an officer, the father later worked as an inspector of the state domains in the Département du Mont-Tonnerre . The inscription on his tombstone and the memorial to his wife are preserved in the Zweibrücken main cemetery. Also preserved is a bell from the Kirchheimer Hof from 1844 with the inscription: BA. JACOMIN MALESPINE KIRCHHEIMER HOF MDCCCXLIIII .

Live and act

Remainder of the Alexander Tower donated by Baron Jacomin de Malespine on the Großer Kahlenberg

The parents acquired the Kahlenberger Hof and the Kirchheimer Hof near Breitfurt in 1829 . The area fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 as part of the Rhine district . The aristocratic couple developed the Kirchheimer Hof into their residence and bequeathed it to their son Alexandre Louis Guillaume. He was a real esthete, he laid out well-tended parks and gardens there. At the Kirchheimer Hof, around 1881, he had the Ottilien spring, which has been a pilgrimage site since ancient times, captured , provided with a well and a statue of the regional saint was erected. On the nearby Kahlenberg , the highest elevation in the Bliesgau , he built the Alexander Tower named after him , which was completed in 1893, the year he died. At 26 meters high, it could be seen on the top of the mountain as far as France, which is why German pioneers blew it up on September 10, 1939, when the Second World War broke out. Today the ground floor of the tower still stands with the dedication inscription by Baron Alexandre Louis Guillaume Jacomin de Malespine, which says that he had the building built for nature lovers.

Gravestone, Zweibrücken main cemetery

The aristocrat - also simply dubbed “de Schackmä” by the country dwellers in corruption of the family name - lived on the yield of his large agricultural goods and died in 1893, without direct descendants, on the Kirchheimer Hof. He was buried in the main cemetery in Zweibrücken, in the family grave of his parents; the heraldic tombstone inscribed in French is preserved there.

In his will, Jacomin de Malespine bequeathed 10,000 marks and the Kahlenberger Hof to the Catholic Church and the responsible diocese of Speyer , in order to found a Catholic parish in Bliesdalheim so that its residents no longer had to visit the more distant church in Walsheim . The parish was founded and the existing cemetery chapel was later expanded with the assets to become today's parish church of St. Wendelinus . In the church there is therefore an inscription of thanks to Baron Alexandre Louis Guillaume Jacomin de Malespine.

literature

  • Martin Baus: "Schackmä" the beautiful spirit from the Kirchheimer Hof , in: Pfälzischer Merkur , Zweibrücken, edition of September 20, 2013; Online view of the article ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  • Rudolf Karl Tröß: The will of Baron Jacomin de Malespine. A piece from Alt-Zweibrücken , In: Pfälzischer Merkur, No. 7 of January 10, 1972; (Find hint)
  • Agricultural Association in Bavaria: Handbook of the largest real estate in Bavaria , Verlag des Bayerischen Landwirtschaftsrat, Munich, 1907, p. 270; (Detail scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis-Pierre d 'Hozier: Armorial général de la France , Volume 7, 1868, p. 86; (Digital scan)
  2. ↑ Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: Pfälzisches bells book , Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern, 2008, p 123, ISBN 3927754633 ; (Detail scan)
  3. ^ Ernst Christmann: Field names between Rhine and Saar , publishing house of the Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science, Speyer, 1965, p. 57; (Detail scan)
  4. ^ Photo of the Ottilien spring near Breitfurt taken by Baron Jacomin de Malespine
  5. ↑ Illustrated website on the Alexander Tower on the Kahlenberg and on the testamentary parish foundation
  6. ↑ Website with the inscription plaque in the Bliesdalheim church

  • Coat of arms on the tombstone

  • Gravestone whole, next to it the father's gravestone

  • Father's grave slab

  • Mother's grave inscription

  • Mother's tombstone (center)

personal data
SURNAME Jacomin de Malespine, Alexandre Louis Guillaume
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schackmä
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baron, landowner and patron in the Bavarian Rhine district
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1893
Place of death Breitfurt , Kirchheimer Hof