Augustin Oswald von Lichtenstein

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August Oswald von Lichenstein around 1649

Augustin Oswald von Lichtenstein-Karneid († 1663 ) was a colonel in imperial service during the Thirty Years' War and a member of the Teutonic Order . He was house commander and commander in Horneck , as well as governor of the dominions Freudenthal and Eulenburg , land commander of the Ballei Westfalen and at the same time commander of Mülheim and Münster . Most recently, in the rank of governor in Mergentheim, he was also a member of the Regency Council of the Order for the underage Grand Master Karl Joseph of Austria .

Life

From about 1626 he was Komtur and House Commander in Horneck. In 1634, Lichtenstein was one of the first knights to move into the center of the German order in Mergentheim, which had been vacated by the Swedes , after the Battle of Nördlingen . In 1635 he was involved in the handover of Hohenasperg fortress by the Swedes to the imperial troops. At that time he was a lieutenant colonel in a heavy cavalry regiment.

As governor of the dominions Freudenthal and Eulenberg , which belong to the German order , he withstood the siege of Eulenburg in Moravia by the superior troops of the Swedish field marshal Lennart Torstensson for four days in 1643 , before the heavy Swedish artillery had completely destroyed the defenses. He and his crew were then granted an honorable deduction. As a result, von Lichtenstein equipped troops at his own expense, which the Swedish occupation drove out. Thereupon the post of governor of Eulenburg was reassigned to him. Later the castle fell back into Swedish hands. The governor of Lichtenstein was only able to move in again in 1650.

After the death of the Provincial Commander for Westphalia Rab Luther von Schilder, who was accused of serious misconduct by the order's leadership, ranging from cohabiting to the misappropriation of the order's assets, the order's leadership decided to take energetic steps. It was also important to replace Ernst von Schilder, who followed his brother as governor and also led a life that did not conform to the rules of the order.

Among the Westphalian knights in the order, no one seemed suitable for reform. Centuries later, the tradition of occupying the Land Commandery with a Westphalian was broken. Instead, Lichtenstein provided. The other Land Commander agreed after a questioning. The Grand Master ordered Ernst von Schilder to Mergentheim under a pretext, where he was dropped and taken prisoner. The official appointment of Lichtensteins dragged on until 1653.

He arrived in Mülheim on September 18, 1653. After the fire of 1641, he found the new one in poor condition. Just four days after his arrival, he reported in a letter of “all-round confusion.” The coming one was without furniture. It was hardly any different in the whole of Westphalia. Lichtenstein summoned the Chapter of the Knights of the Order to Mülheim to explain "how everything should be brought into uniform correctness and everything untidy households should be put aside against the established order." He also announced an imminent visitation trip through the Ballei. In fact, he succeeded in eliminating the worst consequences of the war. The coming Münster and Mülheim were united. He also founded the village of Sichtigvor in the immediate vicinity of the Kommende Mülheim.

In the last years of his life he was a governor on the Regency Council for Grand Master Karl Joseph, who was not yet of age.

He was buried in the Capuchin Crypt in Mergentheim. An epitaph reminds of him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ottmar FH Schönhuth: Chronicle of the former Teutonic town Mergentheim. Mergentheim 1857, p. 81 digitized
  2. ↑ M. Biffart: History of the Württemberg fortress Hohenasperg and its strangest prisoners. Stuttgart 1858, p. 62 digitized
  3. ↑ Franz Seraf Kropacz: History of Eulenburg in Moravia. In: Writings of the historical-statistical section of the kk Moravian-Silesian society for the promotion of agriculture, natural and regional studies. Vol. XIV. Brno 1865, pp. 19ff. Digitized
  4. ↑ The Thirty Years War (3): End and New Beginning. In: Our parish. Mülheim, Sichtigvor, Waldhausen 5/2006 PDF file ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sehenvor.de
  5. ^ Archduke Leopold Wilhelm. In: Memorable and useful Rhenish antiquarian. Middle Rhine. The first division, third volume. Koblenz 1854, p. 455
personal data
SURNAME Lichtenstein, Augustin Oswald von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lichtenstein-Karneid, Augustin Oswald von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Komtur and Landkomtur of the German Order
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 1663