Carl Constantin Victor von Mergenbaum

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Carl Constantin Victor Freiherr von Mergenbaum (born October 29, 1778 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 8, 1845 in Aschaffenburg -Hofgut Nilkheim) was a German farmer, royal treasurer and patron .

Life

The son of a Protestant leather merchant, from Geldern ( Lower Rhine ), came from Frankfurt, where the family (religious refugees) settled. He was a royal Bavarian major and battalion commander of the Landwehr of the Obernburg regional court . In 1811 he acquired the Nilkheim estate from Grand Duke and Prince Primate Carl Theodor von Dalberg (1744–1817) on a hereditary lease and expanded it into a model estate. He was honored at the first agricultural festival in Aschaffenburg in September 1815 for his success in breeding pigs and bulls, as well as beekeeping, setting up tree nurseries and growing fodder plants. A sheep farm belonging to the Nilkheimer Hofgut was advertised for lease by the Baron von Mergenbaumschen Gutsverwaltung. In 1844 the lease fell back to the owner, now the royal domain.

On November 24, 1816, Mergenbaum was appointed royal Bavarian chamberlain.

In the famine year of 1817, he made seeds from his stores available for the needy citizens. As emerges from a petition from some Protestant citizens of Aschaffenburg to the Bavarian King Ludwig I on June 13, 1825, “ Several Protestant families live on the property of Baron von Mergenbaum zu Nilkheim [...] These members of the Protestant Church are in a more religious state Orphanage […], “ so that they must be helped.

Mergenbaum earned his merits by giving numerous support to fellow citizens in need, but especially to his Protestant fellow believers in the local church community, of which he was a co-founder and board member, for example with the "Freiherrlich von Mergenbaumischen Foundation for needy Protestant residents in." the parish ".

In 1845 Mergenbaum died as treasurer and lieutenant colonel of the Landwehr, patron and owner of the Nilkheimer Hofgut. He owned an extensive library and a valuable collection of paintings and "held court"; even King Ludwig I visited him several times. On September 12th he was buried in the Aschaffenburg old town cemetery: “ This morning the funeral of the royal chamberlain, knight of the Order of Civil Merit of the Crown of Bavaria, district inspector of the Landwehr, Baron von Mergenbaum zu Nilkheim, took place in the cemetery of Aschaffenburg in that simplicity which the deceased always loved in life and which he himself had willingly arranged for his funeral. "

The Gothic-style tomb, erected in 1847 from yellowish-gray sandstone, is the work of the Stuttgart sculptor Ludwig Igelsheimer: A cube rests on a pedestal of three steps with the name, the year of birth and death of the deceased and the four recessed plates surrounded by round bars the year the monument was erected. The inscriptions are no longer completely legible. Above it rises an octagonal column with four canopies at the top and four projections at the bottom, on which originally four male figures stood, representing agriculture, trades, arts and learning. A square top with three niches rests on it, in which originally three female figures represented the Christian virtues of faith, love and hope. The decorated back with a biblical saying referring to the virtues is turned to the front in today's appearance, but is also no longer clearly recognizable.

Mergenbaum was unmarried and had no biological offspring. In his will of August 30, 1845, he donated half of his fortune to the children of his deceased sister. His nephew, the Frankfurt lawyer Dr. Fritz Varrentrapp took over the long lease on the Nilkheim estate. The poor fund of the Protestant church community in Aschaffenburg received 13,000 guilders and the Mergenbaum'sche poor foundation 6,000 guilders. Almost four hundred oil paintings from his estate were auctioned on July 13, 1846 at Hofgut Nilkheim. His abandoned library was auctioned on January 11, 1847 in Aschaffenburg. The Aschaffenburg Maulaff also comes from Mergenbaum's estate .

Awards

  • In 1811 Mergenbaum received the baron diploma from the Prince Primate von Dalberg, with the coats of arms of the Burggraven and Rucker families, who were related on the maternal side. This diploma from April 20, 1811 is in the Aschaffenburg City Archives (NS Bay 47).
  • In 1832 Mergenbaum received the Knight's Cross of the Royal Order of Civil Merit of the Bavarian Crown.
  • A square in the center of the Aschaffenburg district of Nilkheim was dedicated to him.

Description of coat of arms

Barons coat of arms

The coat of arms by a golden crosier , quartered shows in block 1 and 4 to green a golden castle or fort with a round open gate, pointed roof, on both sides of a tower with three loopholes (2.1) and three battlements , the ancestral Arms of the family Burggraven . Fields 3 and 4 are divided across, in blue above two golden diagonal bars , below the golden crescent with the horns (tips) turned downwards, below that a golden star (six-pointed), the ancestral coat of arms of the Rücker family . The middle / heart shield in silver is a green tree, the coat of arms of the Mergenbaum family.

Above the shield is the baron's crown , on which are three crowned open tournament helmets. On the first between an open golden flight , an armored arm with a drawn sword, turned to the left, on the middle one, a white-clad little boy grows up from his knees, who holds a flower in his left hand, his right arm lies against his body. On the third, between an open blue flight, the golden star, on the wings a golden crescent moon, the horns turned inwards. The helmet covers , green and gold on the right, green and silver in the middle and blue and gold on the left.

As a shield holder , two knightly clad squires with blue sashes in white. In the square with a silver heart shield there is a green deciduous tree on green ground. In the first and fourth quarters there is a golden castle floating in green with 2 tin towers and a gable in between. In the 2nd and 3rd quarter you can see 3 blue diagonal bars in gold; below in blue a fallen crescent moon over a golden star.

literature

Web links

Commons : Nilkheimer Hof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Old Town Cemetery
  2. ^ Auction catalog from July 1846 pdf
  3. ^ Diploma from Grand Duke Carl von Frankfurt ( Karl Theodor von Dalberg ), Aschaffenburg, April 20, 1811
  4. ↑ von Burggraven and von Rücker were ancestors of his mother
  5. ^ Tyroff: Book of arms of the entire nobility of the Kingdom of Bavaria , Volume III, p. 60, Blazon p. 165 f.
personal data
SURNAME Mergenbaum, Carl Constantin Victor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mergenbaum, Carl Constantin Victor Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer, royal eunuch and patron
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1845
Place of death Aschaffenburg - Nilkheim