Cajetan Anton Notthannt von Weißenstein

Cajetan Anton Notthracht von Weißenstein as a collegiate capital

Cajetan Anton Freiherr Notthracht von Weißenstein (born June 23, 1670 at Marquartstein Castle ; † July 4, 1752 in Berchtesgaden ), a member of the Notthracht family , was prince provost of the prince provost of Berchtesgaden from 1732 to 1751 .

Live and act

In the War of the Spanish Succession, Notthracht distinguished itself in the fight against the Austro-Imperial troops and drove them out of Reit im Winkl . However, when he tried to go to the Netherlands incognito after this success, he was caught and imprisoned in Munich until his brother intervened. After his release he devoted himself more to the concerns of Berchtesgaden and was able to work towards the fact that the provost of the monastery was now elected from among his own ranks. The Wittelsbachers were left behind in the choice of the successor to Joseph Clemens von Bayern , and from 1723 Julius Heinrich von Rehlingen-Radau and from 1732 Cajetan Anton von Notthracht himself were in charge of the prince provost of Berchtesgaden.

Just elected prince provost, Notthracht saw himself threatened by an uprising before his inauguration and therefore issued an emigration patent on October 26, 1732 . After that, all Protestants had to leave Berchtesgaden within three months - a deadline which, however, was extended to April due to the approaching winter. This decree was linked to the payment of five guilders for ransom from serfdom and to the demand to move to Hungary. The latter was intended to prevent the woodworkers from developing effective competition in their new home. However, after violent protests by those wishing to leave the country, this demand was restricted to a settlement ban in Nuremberg.

Kurhannover and Prussia were the only ones who willingly paid the fee of five guilders for the poor among the Protestants and thus formed the focus for their resettlement. From April 18, 1733, the Bischofswieser moved overland to Prussia, and from April 22, the Auer, Scheffauer and Gerer (from Maria Gern) set off by ship to Regensburg via Hallein and from there on foot to the cities and communities Spa Hanover. In total, more than 1,100 out of around 9,000 residents left the prince's provosty. Their property was confiscated and sold by the monastery, the proceeds flowing into a so-called emigrant fund . Quite a few of the emigrants, also called exiles , came to prosperity and even fortune abroad. Thanks to the skills of the former carvers and turners of the Berchtesgaden War , the Nuremberg toy industry had a great boom.

Ceiling fresco Maria Kunterweg

At the end of the reign of his predecessor Julius Heinrich von Rehlingen-Radau , the construction of the Maria Himmelfahrt church (also known as Maria Kunterweg ) in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden began in 1731 and was completed and inaugurated in 1733 under Notthaid in the year of departure. In the church, a ceiling painting triumphantly documents the emigration of Protestants and it can also be read in the lower chronogram of two cartouches translated from Latin:

At the intercession of the Immaculate Virgin and Mother

is the corrupting misconception here of this one

Church has been driven out. (1733)

But after this bloodletting of more than 10 percent of the population, and also of “capable and strong-character” farmers and craftsmen, Notthracht prevented any further emigration. In the context of the Counter-Reformation , the Berchtesgaden Franciscans in particular stood out for their recatholicization. When the remaining Protestants also wanted to leave, their passports were blocked again. But the economic power was now strongly weakened, the income, especially in the woodworking, fell. Ludwig Ganghofer dealt with this topic in his novel The Great Hunt .

Cajetan Anton Notthracht von Weißenstein died on July 4th 1752 and found his final resting place under a stone grave slab next to his grave monument in the collegiate church in Berchtesgaden.

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  Cajetan Anton Notthannt von Weißenstein as Stiftsdekan behind Julius Heinrich von Rehlingen-Radau (left). Ceiling fresco of the pilgrimage church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (detail)

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  Coat of arms of Cajetan Anton Notthannt von Weißenstein as prince provost

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  Grave monument for Cajetan Anton Notthracht von Weissenstein

literature

• Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Berchtesgadener Anzeiger publishing house , Berchtesgaden 1986 ISBN 3-925647-00-7 , pp. 171-174.
• A. Helm , Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973. pp. 12, 100, 106-111, 261-262.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} berchtesgaden-evangelisch.de ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2011 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. Alfred Spiegel-Schmidt: Reformation and Emigration in the Berchtesgadener Land. Text on the emigration of Protestants from the prince-provost of Berchtesgaden. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants. see The expulsion of the Protestants from Berchtesgaden. Pp. 171-174
3. ^ Helm A .: Berchtesgaden through the ages , keyword: History of the country, p. 110
4. ^ Helm A .: Berchtesgaden through the ages , keyword: emigration, p. 12
5. ↑ Hellmut Schöner: Berchtesgaden through the ages . Supplementary Volume I, 1982, p. 114
6. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants. see The expulsion of the Protestants from Berchtesgaden. P. 173
7. ↑ Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants . Pp. 176-179
8. ↑ notthracht.de Harald Stark : In the footsteps of the Berchtesgaden prince provost Cajetan Anton Notthracht , see end of the penultimate paragraph.
9. ↑ berchtesgaden-evangelisch.de ( Memento from March 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Alfred Spiegel-Schmidt: Expulsion of Protestants from Berchtesgaden. with translation of the cartridge.
10. ↑ ^{a b} Manfred Feulner: Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants. see The expulsion of the Protestants from Berchtesgaden. P. 174

Web links

• notthphia.de In the footsteps of the Berchtesgaden prince provost Cajetan Anton Notthracht