Anselm Franz von Thurn and Taxis

Portrait of Anselm Franz von Thurn und Taxis on an oil painting by Peter Johann Brandl . Current location of the Thurn and Taxis collection in the royal stables, the princely castle of St. Emmeram , the princely treasury of Regensburg

Coat of arms of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis

Anselm Franz von Thurn und Taxis (baptized January 30, 1681 in Brussels ; † November 8, 1739 there ) was the second Prince of Thurn and Taxis . From 1714 to 1739 he was general inheritance postmaster and head of the Imperial Post Office .

Anselm Franz von Thurn und Taxis is the son of Eugen Alexander von Thurn und Taxis and Anna Adelheid von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg. His exact date of birth is not known. Only his baptism on January 30, 1681 in the Notre Dame du Sablon church in Brussels is documented.

Anselm Franz von Thurn und Taxis married Maria Ludovika Anna von Lobkowicz in 1703 (born October 20, 1683 in Baden near Vienna ; † January 20, 1750 in Regensburg ). After the head office of the Imperial Post Office had been relocated from Brussels to Frankfurt am Main under his father at the beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession , Anselm Franz was taken over by Charles VI in 1715 after the death of his father . enfeoffed with the Reichspostgeneralate. Although he was able to return to the previous headquarters of the family in Brussels, Brussels was no longer of central importance for the Imperial Postal Service , so that Anselm Franz turned to Frankfurt am Main again in 1724. There he immediately acquired a plot of land on which he later had the Palais Thurn und Taxis built in the Baroque style, but his branch in Frankfurt dragged on for several years, as the city council initially objected to it and the construction of his palace took several years took. In 1725 he was able to lease the postal system of the Austrian Netherlands as a Habsburg fief. From 1737 he lived temporarily in the not yet completed Frankfurt Palais, but then returned to Brussels in 1739, where he suddenly died.

Descendants

• Alexander Ferdinand , General Hereditary Postmaster and Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1704–1773)
• Maria Philippine Eleonore von Thurn and Taxis (1705–1706)
• Marie-Auguste von Thurn and Taxis (1706–1756)
• Christian Adam Egon, Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1710–1745)

literature

• Wolfgang Behringer: Thurn and Taxis, the history of their post office and their companies . Piper, Munich, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-492-03336-9 .
• Martin Dallmeier, Martha Schad: The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis, 300 years of history in pictures . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1996, ISBN 3-7917-1492-9 .
• European Family Tables Volume V

predecessor	Office	successor
Eugene Alexander	Prince of Thurn and Taxis 1714–1739	Alexander Ferdinand