August of Limburg-Stirum

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Prince-Bishop Damian August von Speyer
Damian August from Limburg-Stirum

Damian August Philipp Karl Imperial Count of Limburg-Stirum (born March 16, 1721 at Gemen Castle near Borken in the Münsterland; † February 26, 1797 at Freudenhain Castle in Passau ) was Prince-Bishop of Speyer from 1770 to 1797 .

origin

He came from the old Counts of Limburg-Stirum and was born as the son of the imperial cavalry general Otto Ernst Leopold von Limburg-Stirum and his wife Amalia Elisabetha Maria, born von Schönborn , sister of the Speyer Cardinal Prince-Bishop Damian Hugo von Schönborn . His grandfather was General Field Marshal Hermann Otto II of Limburg-Styrum .

Life

At the age of eight, August von Limburg-Stirum received the tonsure and the four minor orders on December 6, 1729 . A year later, on December 6th, 1730, he was promoted to Domicellar von Speyer by his uncle, Prince-Bishop Damian Hugo von Schönborn . He took the oath on July 21, 1732. 1741 he came through the renunciation of his uncle Franz Georg in possession of a Münster Dompräbende and a year later he was a canon in Hildesheim .

Limburg-Stirum began studying theology in Rome in 1742 , but due to the high mortality rate in the city, he continued his studies in Würzburg from July 15, 1743 .

On November 3, 1753 he was sworn in and admitted to the position of subdeacon of the Speyer cathedral chapter, and two years later he became cathedral dean . As successor to Franz Christoph von Hutten , he was appointed bishop on May 25, 1770. He received the consecration from Hildesheim prince-bishop Friedrich Wilhelm von Westphalen , the Speyer auxiliary bishop Johann Adam Buckel and the Worms auxiliary bishop Franz Xaver Anton von Scheben .

During his tenure, Limburg-Stirum pushed for the construction of a new city wall around Bruchsal , although it no longer offered any protection from the new weapon technology . In order to raise funds, he ordered citywide house searches for valuables. However, these were unsuccessful, so that he had to give up his project. Remains of the partially completed city wall can still be seen today. His social welfare brought the city an orphanage, a breeding house and a poor house as well as a hospital and a Latin school.

At the Deidesheimer Spital the head shepherd had a hospital and a pharmacy built in 1778, for which purpose he donated 25,000 guilders. The management of the hospital was taken over by the Brothers of Mercy on July 25, 1779 . In the period that followed, there was a great deal of activity, with ten to twelve patients being admitted to the hospital every month.

Threatened by the French revolutionary army , Limburg-Stirum fled on October 1, 1792. He made stops in Veitshöchheim , Augsburg and Freising and returned to Bruchsal on April 20, 1793. Three years later, on September 21, 1795, he was again on the run from French soldiers. He moved to Freising and later to Passau.

At noon on February 26th, 1797, the prince-bishop died at Freudenhain Castle and was buried in the Capuchin Church in Freudenhain. The church and grave were soon destroyed in the turmoil of the revolution. However, his heart had already been transferred to Bruchsal on March 21, 1797 and has since rests in a silver urn on the stone pedestal in front of Hutten's coffin in the crypt of the prince-bishops in the baroque church of St. Peter .

His successor, who was also the last Prince-Bishop of Speyer, was Wilderich von Walderdorf .

The Fürst-Stirum-Klinik in Bruchsal was named after him.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Lupp: Schloss Bruchsal: Building, Destruction and Reconstruction, Verlag Regionalkultur, 2003, p. 93, ISBN 3-89735-263-X ; (Detail scan)
  2. ^ Franz Xaver Remling: Das Hospital zu Deidesheim , Speyer, 1847, page 43; Digital scan
predecessor Office successor
Franz Christoph von Hutten Prince-Bishop of Speyer
1770–1797 		Philipp Franz Wilderich Nepomuk von Walderdorf
Franz Christoph von Hutten Prince Provost of Weißenburg
1770–1789 		secularized
personal data
SURNAME Limburg-Stirum, August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Limburg-Stirum, Damian August Philipp Karl von; Limburg-Velen-Stirum, Damian August Philipp Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince-Bishop
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH Gemen Castle, Borken
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1797
Place of death Freudenhain Castle , Passau