Cai Lorenz von Brockdorff

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Cai Lorenz von Brockdorff

Count Cai Lorenz von Brockdorff (born September 1, 1646 , † March 30, 1725 on Kletkamp ) was a Holstein landowner and Danish privy councilor.

Life

Cai Lorenz von Brockdorff came from the Schleswig-Holstein nobility family ( Equites Originarii ) von Brockdorff . He was the only child of Colonel Cai Bertram Brockdorff (1619–1689) on Bothkamp from his first marriage to Susanna Amalia, nee. von Münster , widowed von Waldau (1618–1656). At a young age he became chamberlain to Queen Charlotte Amalie in 1667 and later district administrator.

In 1667 his father gave him the noble estates Kletkamp and Grünhaus (today part of Kirchnüchel ). On May 26, 1672 he was raised to the Danish count status; on June 3, 1706 also by Emperor Joseph I together with his younger son into the imperial counts .

In addition to Kletkamp and Grünhaus, Brockdorff also owned the Westensee estate . Like his father before him, he was provost and archdeacon of the cathedral monastery in Utrecht (since the Reformation pure prebendors without spiritual duties), lord of the Doorn and Uiterwyck / Werwick houses. From 1690 he tried to sell Dompropstei and Doorn, in 1701 both went to the Brandenburg envoy to the States General Friedrich-Wilhelm von Diest (1647–1726).

Since February 2, 1674 he was married to Freiin Sophie Amalie von Schack (* 1657 in Hamburg ; † 1713), a daughter of the Danish field marshal Hans von Schack . The couple had eleven children, but only two sons reached adulthood. Christian Friedrich / Frederik (born April 15, 1679 - † April 4, 1750) took over Kletkamp and Grünhaus and continued the older counts of the family. His younger brother Cai Bertram Bendix von Brockdorff (* May 4, 1680; † June 14, 1710), imperial count since 1706, acquired Schney in the same year through marriage to Susanne Elisabeth von Schaumberg , which became the seat of the Frankish imperial line until 1873 .

Litigation

Because his father Bothkamp only wanted to pass on to his children from his second marriage to Hedwig von Ranzau (1650–1678), which he had signed in 1671, a dispute arose over this that lasted for a long time after his father's death. Two daughters from this second marriage, Benedicte Margrethe (1678-1739), married to the privy councilor Christian Detlev von Reventlow , and Dorothea (1672-1706), married to Woldemar Freiherr von Löwendal , declared that their older half-brother Cai Lorenz in 1681 by a Agreement with the father in favor of them and their younger siblings have renounced Bothkamp. With a will of January 1, 1687, Cai Bertram von Brockdorff disinherited his daughter Dorothea Löwendal, and Benedicte Reventlow made a sole claim to Bothkamp after a third sister, Margrethe Amalie, had married. Cai Lorenz Brockdorff and his half-sister Dorothea Löwendal attacked the father's will. The Holstein Regional Court declared it invalid, but the case went to the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar , which decided in 1701 in favor of Brockdorff. Benedicte Margrethe von Reventlow did not give up the fight and obtained an injunction from King Friedrich IV , which stopped the enforcement of the judgment. The dispute dragged on for well over 20 years, until the Imperial Court Council lifted the injunction in 1725. The case ended soon afterwards with a settlement when Kletkamp was on the verge of bankruptcy because of the legal costs: Cai Lorenz's son Christian Friedrich von Brockdorff (1679–1750), to whom his father had sold Kletkamp and Grünhaus before 1712, waived compensation of 150,000 Reichstalers on his claims to Bothkamp.

Construction activity

Kletkamp manor house

Kletkamp manor house

When Brockdorff took over Kletkamp, ​​the mansion was a square half-timbered building from the Renaissance. In 1676 he had it rebuilt in a monumental way that was atypical for Holstein. The builder PS Brögers, who is responsible for the construction work, came from Utrecht. They gave the formerly simple manor house the much more sophisticated character of a Dutch caste . The resulting two-story core building, today the oldest surviving manor house in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, was placed in front of a mighty, four-story, roofed risalit in the style of Dutch classicism , which was originally windowed on three sides and a tower with a kind of belvedere floor as a crown , Lantern and onion cap.

mausoleum

Cai Lorenz von Brockdorff was the patron of the parish church for Grünhaus, the Marienkirche in Kirchnüchel . In 1692 he had the church renovated and donated a new organ. From 1692 (inscription on the portal) to 1709 he had a mausoleum built on the south side for himself and his family, which is connected to the church by a short corridor. The cube-shaped, now cement-plastered baroque building with corner pilasters, a framed and gabled window or blind window in each wall, a flat tent roof and an open lantern with a curved hood is considered the “most important example of its kind in a Schleswig-Holstein country church.” He transferred the plastic decoration the Flemish sculptor Thomas Quellinus , who worked mainly in Denmark and in and around Lübeck , who had also created the tomb for Brockdorff's father-in-law Hans von Schack in Copenhagen . He designed the interior of the crypt in the manner of double chapels with a low cellar area open to the top for the sandstone coffins and above a memorial hall with corner pilasters, hollow vaults and stucco decoration. On the front wall (south wall) is the marble epitaph with a broad pedestal and inscription cartouche, Brockdorff's oval portrait medallion in front of a cloth-covered obelisk , surrounded by a Chronos statue, putti and heraldic cartouches as well as two other portrait medallions of his parents. The curved back wall is crowned by the star of the Order of Dannebrog and a cross.

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Awards

  • DNK Order of Danebrog Knight BAR.png Dannebrogorden , Knight (October 1671, at the foundation of the order)

literature

Web links

Commons : Cai Lorenz von Brockdorff (1646-1725)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the estate database

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aleid W. van de Bunt: Een mislukte verkoop van de Domproosdij , in: Maandblad van "Oud-Utrecht" 26 (1953), pp. 70-71
  2. ^ Hans Saring: "Diest, Friedrich Wilhelm van" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 3 (1957), p. 663 f. ( Digitized version )
  3. ↑ Genealogical information , accessed April 21, 2020
  4. ↑ See the lineage in Danmarks Adels Aarbog
  5. ↑ From contemporary litigation see z. B.
    • Species facti in the matter of Caji Lorenz Graffens von Brockdorff, against Colonel Ranzau. 1714 ( digitized version )
    • To a Hochlöbl. General Assembly of the Reichs Handover Memorial to the rejection of those in the embassy of Her Royal Majesty of Dännemarck-Hollstein-Glückstädtischen ... Brockdorff contra Reventlau regarding ... 1727 ( digitized version )
  6. ^ Henning von Rumohr : Castles and mansions in Ostholstein. Frankfurt am Main 1982, pp. 263-277
  7. ^ Report of the State Office for Monument Preservation 2000 , p. 34f., Accessed on April 21, 2020
  8. ↑ See Dieter Lohmeier (ed.): Arte et Marte: Studies on the aristocratic culture of the Baroque age in Sweden, Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein. Neumünster: Wachholtz 1978 (= Kiel Studies on the History of German Literature 13) ISBN 978-3-529-03113-7 , p. 151ff.
  9. ^ Hartwig Beseler : Art Topography Schleswig-Holstein. 5th edition Neumünster: Wacholtz 1974 ISBN 3-529-02627-1 , p. 577
personal data
SURNAME Brockdorff, Cai Lorenz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brockdorff, Cajus Laurentius von; Brockdorff, Cay Lorenz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Holstein landowner and Danish privy councilor
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1646
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1725
Place of death on Kletkamp