Anton II (Oldenburg-Delmenhorst)

Anton II of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst

Anton II of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst (* September 8, 1550 - October 25, 1619 ) from the House of Oldenburg was the ruling Count of Delmenhorst .

biography

Anton II was the third son of Anton I von Oldenburg and Sophie von Sachsen-Lauenburg (1521–1571), daughter of Duke Magnus I von Sachsen-Lauenburg . His older brother was Johann VII of Oldenburg .

His upbringing led him to various royal courts, including that of Duke Julius of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . In the Spanish-Dutch War he fought on the Protestant side. After initially exercising the sole government by his older brother from 1573 onwards, Anton II received the income of the old county of Delmenhorst, as well as that of the Harpstedt pawnshop and the Varel and Vorwerke offices in Butjadingen, in the partition contract of November 3, 1577 . After further disputes the precipitated 1597 Imperial Reichshofrat a judgment in his favor in the sense of complete and lasting until 1647 division of the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst.

As the ruler of the small lordship of Delmenhorst, he developed an energetic entrepreneurial spirit and the courage to conduct economic experiments. On the Delmenhorster Geest was iron ore mining attempts. The economic power of the rule was based mainly on ox and pig fattening and the corresponding trade primarily via Cologne , but also on valuable horse breeding . Anton II expanded the castle and town of Delmenhorst into his residence . In addition to expanding the city to the east, the city ​​church was rebuilt with a crypt for the count's family and a palace and pleasure garden was built . He had extensions made to the castle itself, such as a water pipe made of alder trunks that transported fresh water from the Geest near Almsloh to the castle. Furthermore, he furnished the rooms generously and promoted the school and church system of the county. He donated a new organ to the town church in Delmenhorst and commissioned Ludwig Münstermann to equip the castle church in Varel between 1614 and 1618 with a new altar , pulpit , organ front , baptismal font , organ case and count's patron s box. Anton II was buried in a solemn funeral on December 8, 1619 in the Delmenhorst town church, where his tin coffin, restored in 1987, has been preserved.

After Anton's death, the county of Delmenhorst was initially ruled by Anton’s wife Sibylle Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Dannenberg. From 1633 their son Christian took over as Christian IX. the government.

Family and offspring

In 1600 Anton II married Sibylle Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Dannenberg (1576–1630), a daughter of Heinrich von Braunschweig-Dannenberg . The couple had the children:

• Sophie Ursula (10 December 1601 - 5 May 1642)

∞ Albrecht Friedrich, Count von Barby (1597–1641)

• Katharina Elisabeth (born January 22, 1603; † September 11, 1649)
• Anton Heinrich (February 8, 1604 - September 1, 1622)
• Anna (March 28, 1605 - December 12, 1688)

∞ Johann Christian II., Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1607–1653)

• Clara (April 19, 1606 - January 19, 1647)

∞ August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1612–1675)

• Sibila (October 18, 1608 - September 14, 1640)
• Dorothea (December 13, 1609 - March 5, 1636)
• Sidonie (10 June 1611 - 23 April 1650)

∞ August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1612–1675)

• Christian IX (Born September 26, 1612 - † May 23, 1647), Count of Delmenhorst
• Emilie (June 15, 1614 - December 4, 1670)

∞ Ludwig Günther I :, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1581–1646)

• Juliana (July 2, 1615 - May 16, 1691)

∞ Manfred, Duke of Württemberg-Weiltingen (1626–1662)

literature

• Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 36-37 ( PDF; 4.6 MB ).
• Karl Sichart: The rule of Delmenhorst through the ages . In: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch 13 (1936) 1-59

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christian IX. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg. Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 130 ( online ).

See also

• List of the Counts of Delmenhorst

predecessor	Office	successor
John VII	Count of Delmenhorst 1597–1619	Christian IX