August Franz Essenius (Chief Bailiff)

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August Franz Essenius († April 7, 1758 in Dresden ) was a royal Polish and electoral Saxon senior bailiff.

Life

Preserved portal of the Essenius house in Dresden's Friedrichstadt

He was the son of pastor Martin Eberhard Essenius in Breese im Bruche and Dorothea geb. Weyelius. The later pastor Gebhard Johann Essenius was his biological brother.

On August 14, 1723 he, who had previously worked as a chamber commissioner, was appointed bailiff of Gommern with Elbenau at the court in Dresden by officials of King-Elector Augustus the Strong . In the following year his marriage to Anna Rosina geb. Strongly born son of the same name August Franz Essenius in Gommern, who, like his father, embarked on an administrative career in the Polish-Saxon service and was later elevated to the nobility due to his services .

In 1732 August Franz Essenius von Gommern moved to the Saxon state capital, where he was appointed senior bailiff. Essenius also remained in office under August the Strong's successor, and in 1747 he was promoted to court and judicial council. In 1738 he acquired the Kleinkmehlen manor, which had been owned by Rudolph August von Lüttichau until then, for himself and his family. Only after his death did his children sell this manor on in 1765 because they did not want to and could not use it themselves.

In 1738, August Franz Essenius had a representative house built in Dresden, which is considered to be the first completely stone building in Friedrichstadt . He sold it in 1742 to the Minister Heinrich Graf von Brühl , who in 1747 sold it to the Elector Friedrich August II . The latter bought it for the Catholic St. Joseph Sick Foundation . The house was destroyed in the bombing of Dresden towards the end of the Second World War , and a preserved portal was integrated into the new building.

August Franz Essenius moved with his family into the building used as an office building on Kreuzgasse in Dresden, where he died on the morning of April 7, 1758 at around 7 a.m. His body was buried three days later in the church in Dresden-Friedrichstadt .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lars Herrmann: Friedrichstrasse. No. 50 (Essenius House). In: Dresdner-Stadtteile.de. Lars Herrmann, accessed October 20, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Essenius, August Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Polish and electoral Electoral Saxon senior bailiff
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1758
Place of death Dresden