Carl Friedrich Wilhelm (Leiningen)

Prince Carl Friedrich Wilhelm zu Leiningen

Contemporary portrait (chalk drawing) in the Museum Grünstadt

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, 1st Prince of Leiningen (born August 14, 1724 in Dürkheim , † January 9, 1807 in Amorbach , Bavaria ) was Imperial Chamberlain , Real Electoral Palatinate Privy Councilor and Lieutenant General.

family

The Leininger family comes from the old, probably Franconian aristocracy, whose possessions were originally mainly in today's Palatinate and in the northern Vosges .

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm was born the son of Count Friedrich Magnus von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg (1703–1756) and his wife Anna Christiane Eleonore von Wurmbrand-Stuppach (1698–1763), daughter of the President of the Reichshofrat, Count Johann Joseph Wilhelm von Wurmbrand-Stuppach ( 1670-1750).

His father's brother was Count Karl Ludwig von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Emichsburg (1704–1747); both uncles Margrave Karl III. Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach , founder of the city of Karlsruhe .

Life

Dürkheim Castle , around 1780

Carl married Christiane Wilhelmine Countess zu Solms-Rödelheim on June 24, 1749 (born April 24, 1736 in Rödelheim near Frankfurt am Main; † January 6, 1803 in Strasbourg ). Both son was Emich Carl zu Leiningen (1763–1814), 2nd Prince of Leiningen.

After the death of his father in 1756 he took over the rule of the County of Leiningen-Hardenburg. In 1768, Count Leiningen received the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Palatinate Lion , in 1774 he inherited Heidesheim Castle with the County of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, the Kaiser elevated him to the rank of imperial prince in 1779 with a curate vote in the Wetterau Counts College . When the French Revolution spread to south-west and west Germany in the 1790s, the family was expelled in 1794 from the Dürkheim residence, which had not been chosen until 1725, and from all properties on the left bank of the Rhine. The castle in Dürkheim was set on fire in 1794 and burned down. In its place stands the city's Kurhaus today , where an inscription reminds of the previous building. Carl Friedrich Wilhelm had a side wing built on this palace and from 1762 laid out a large garden or park to the east of it, today's spa garden and spa park area. Around 1780 he set up a wing of the palace as a public theater, which citizens could visit free of charge. Organized and supervised it was from the near- Mannheim active August Wilhelm Iffland , which here often performed the premieres of his works.

Through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the Leininger were initially compensated by an independent principality of Leiningen , which consisted of formerly Electoral Mainz , Electoral Palatinate and Prince -Bishop's Würzburg territories. Carl was awarded a virile vote in the Imperial Council of Princes, instead of the title of Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg, he accepted the title of Prince of Leiningen, Count Palatine of Mosbach , Count of Düren, Lord of Miltenberg , Amorbach , Bischofsheim , Boxberg , Schüpf and Lauda .

However, through mediatization and the influence of Napoleon , he lost his political power to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806 . This ceded parts of the area to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1810 , which it passed on to the Kingdom of Bavaria as a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1816 .

literature

Thomas Gehrlein: The Leiningen house. 900 years of total history with ancestral sequences. German princely houses. Issue 32.Börde Verlag, Werl 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811993-9-0 , p. 24

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Gottlob Friedrich Krebel: European genealogical manual , page 6, Leipzig, 1782; (Digital scan)
^ Biographical website on Johann Joseph Wilhelm von Wurmbrand-Stuppach
^ Felix Joseph Lipowsky: Elector Karl Theodor . Sulzbach 1828, page 110; Scan from the source for the award of the Order of the Palatinate Lion
^ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal Bavarian Rhine district , Volume 2, pp. 398-400, Speyer, 1836; (Digital scan)

personal data
SURNAME	Carl Friedrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Leiningen, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prince of Leiningen, Imperial Chamberlain, Real Electoral Palatinate Privy Councilor and Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH	August 14, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bad Dürkheim , Germany
DATE OF DEATH	January 9, 1807
Place of death	Amorbach , Germany

[1] Gottlob Friedrich Krebel: European genealogical manual , page 6, Leipzig, 1782; (Digital scan)

[2] Biographical website on Johann Joseph Wilhelm von Wurmbrand-Stuppach

[3] Felix Joseph Lipowsky: Elector Karl Theodor . Sulzbach 1828, page 110; Scan from the source for the award of the Order of the Palatinate Lion

[4] Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal Bavarian Rhine district , Volume 2, pp. 398-400, Speyer, 1836; (Digital scan)