Benedikt Schütz von Holzhausen

Benedikt Marian Freiherr Schütz von Holzhausen (born February 15, 1729 at Starkenburg Castle above Heppenheim , † August 11, 1794 in Camberg ) was the Kurtrier bailiff in the Camberg district from the Schütz von Holzhausen family .

family

Benedikt Schütz von Holzhausen was the son of the chamberlain, councilor and senior bailiff Franz Anton Wolfgang Schütz von Holzhausen († 1739) and his wife Maria Anna Barbar nee Freiin von Guttenberg, widow of Johann Ernst Schütz von Holzhausen.

He married on June 16, 1756 in Limburg adLahn Anna Lioba Freiin von Hohenfeld (born August 16, 1739 in Ehrenbreitstein, † December 26, 1816 in Frankfurt am Main), the daughter of Wilhelm Ludwig Freiherr von Hohenfeld (1703–1763) and the Josepha Freiin Knebel von Katzenelnbogen.

The marriage resulted in 22 children. 13 of them died early and four sons were " deaf and dumb ". The foundation of the school for the hearing impaired in Camberg is the work of his son Hugo.

• The first children Johann Joseph, Hugo Joseph, Marianne, Charlotte and Marie died early.
• Josepha Clara Philippine (born July 24, 1762) married Johann Rudolph Freiherr Schleiss von Löwenfeld on July 28, 1781
• Ludovica (1764-1815)
• Emmerich Carl Heinrich Freiherr Schütz von Holzhausen (1765–1833) became Canon of Würzburg
• Maria Charlotte (born October 8, 1768 in Camberg, † June 7, 1842 in Frankfurt am Main) married the Electorate Chamberlain and Privy Councilor Nikolaus Günther Dionys Freiherr von Syberg zu Sümmern (1754–1832) in 1801
• Clemens Wenzel Freiherr Schütz von Holzhausen (1770–1805) was deaf and dumb
• Friedrich August Wilhelm Leopold Freiherr Schütz von Holzhausen (1772–1816) became President of the Accounts Chamber in the Duchy of Nassau . His son Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Freiherr Schütz von Holzhausen (1805–1866) was a member of the Nassauer Herrenbank 1831–1832 and 1832–1847 and the first chamber from 1855–1866
• Kunigunde Wilhelmine Franziska (born October 3, 1773, † March 29, 1836 Bürresheim) married on August 2, 1796 in Gelnhausen, Clemens Wenzeslaus Graf von Renesse-Breidbach (1775–1833)
• Ferdinand Christoph Carl Raphael Freiherr Schütz von Holzhausen (1773–1847) was canon and member of the Nassauer Herrenbank 1818–1824 and 1831–1847
• Catharina Elise and Edmund died early
• Maria Sophie Anna (1779-1793)
• Hugo Damian Ignaz Freiherr Schütz von Holzhausen (1780–1847) became a councilor and founder of the deaf-mute school in Camberg
• Maria Theresia Walburga (born October 29, 1781, † February 19, 1832) married the later King on September 28, 1801. Bayer. Chamberlain and Minister of Justice Philipp Anton Maximilian Joseph Freiherr Zu Rhein (1780–1842)
• Damian Ferdinand Wenzel Freiherr Schütz von Holzhausen (1783-1853) was married to Karoline Halm

Life

Benedikt Schütz von Holzhausen, who was a Catholic denomination, was elected secret councilor and, in 1753, chief bailiff of the Camberg office . Since 1643, the von Hohenfeld family had provided the Ditzish and, after 1676, the Electorate of Mainz in Camberg. Anna Lioba Freiin von Hohenfeld was the heir to this family, so that the office now fell to Benedikt Schütz von Holzhausen. After his death in 1794, his son Friedrich August Freiherr Schütz von Holzhausen became Oberamtmann von Camberg.

Benedikt Schütz von Holzhausen was knight captain of the general directorate of the entire free and immediate imperial knighthood (cantons of Franconia, Swabia, on the Rhine river).

literature

• Ulrich Lange: EC Pagenstecher - his family and the end of both offices, 1988, ISBN 3-87460-064-5 , pp. 5, 34, 25

Web links

• Schütz von Holzhausen, Benedikt Marian Freiherr. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• GND 110028074