Carl Magnus von Rheingrafenstein
Carl Magnus von Rheingrafenstein (* 1718 in Gaugrehweiler ; † 1793 there ) was the last Wild and Rhine Count of the Gaugrehweiler line. It was in 1775 by Emperor Joseph II. Deposed and to ten years imprisonment convicted. In order to finance his lavish and ostentatious way of life, he had heavily indebted himself and his country and was guilty of numerous crimes against his subjects and creditors .
Origin and family
Carl Magnus was from the nobility scoring race of the game and Rhinegrave. His grandfather, Friedrich Wilhelm (1644–1706) founded the line of the Rheingrafen zu Rheingrafenstein .
In 1689 he had to give up the family's ancestral castle, Rheingrafenstein Castle , after it had been destroyed by Mélacs' troops in the Palatinate War of Succession . He moved his residence to Gaugrehweiler and called himself Gaugrehweiler since the Rheingraf zu Rheingrafenstein .
Carl Magnus was the son of Rheingraf Johann Karl Ludwig (1686–1740) and his wife Sophie Magdalene zu Leiningen (1691–1727). He had nine siblings of whom only four were older than 14 years:
- Charlotte Johanna (1714–1786)
- Karoline Magdalene (1715-1728)
- Karl August (1716-1717)
- Louise Sophie (1719–1766)
- Ludwig Wilhelm (1721–1775)
- Karl Theodor Otto Franz (1722–1728)
- Alberta Amalia (1723-1723)
- Christiane Elisabeth (1724-1725)
- Alexandrine Katharina (1725–1761)
So between the ages of eight and ten, Carl Magnus experienced the death of three siblings.
Life
Youth and military time
Carl Magnus grew up as the eldest son at his father's court in Gaugrehweiler. The reign of his father was marked by developing the small village of Gaugrehweiler into the new seat of the county. The contrast between the modest court of his father and the "princely splendor" with which his maternal uncle, Count Christian Karl von Leiningen-Heidesheim resided, probably had a formative influence on the young count.
The upbringing of the offspring at the Gaugrehweiler court was left to a prospective pastor, who later fled abroad because of a threatened conviction as an adulterer . The French lessons , which are indispensable at court, were provided by a maid from Paris who pretended to be the widow of a French marquis .
At around 15 years of age, Carl Magnus was sent to French military service for officer training. His biographer Laukhard reports that he and his brother Ludwig were to take part directly in a campaign against Charles VI as young officers . What is probably meant is the War of the Polish Succession , which suggests a period between 1733 and 1735.
Carl Magnus served in the Royal Allemand Regiment and, as was customary at the time, was given command of his own company in return for payment . But before it was to come to the first battle, he fled the waters at the baths of Spa .
When the campaign was over, he returned to his regiment, but was so negligent in his service that his superior, Field Marshal Moritz von Sachsen, ordered him to be drafted and dishonorably wanted to dismiss him. This shame could only be averted by the intervention of the old Rheingrafen: To calm the field marshal, he was promised a "delivery of recruits". In the villages of the County of Grehweiler soldiers had to be raised for the army of the Ancien Régime . Some of the subjects appointed for this purpose were forcibly recruited using brutal force .
Carl Magnus was given leave in exchange for the Grehweiler soldiers, but officially remained in the military. In 1749 he was even promoted to the Mestre de camp in absentia and even after his imprisonment in a fortress he was promoted to the Maréchal de camp at an advanced age . He received a pension from the French army until his death.
Reign
Rheingraf Johann Karl Ludwig died in 1740 and Carl Magnus took control of the county of Gaugrehweiler at the age of 22. He became sovereign of about 20,000 subjects. As an imperial count, he was also a member of the Reichstag and had a vote in the Upper Rhine Empire .
Its small territory extended over eight communities in what is now Rheinhessen and the Palatinate : Gaugrehweiler , Wendelsheim , Münsterappel , Obersaulheim , Stein-Bockenheim , Eichloch , Oberhausen and Bad Münster am Stein .
Even if his domain was not the largest, he did not want to be inferior to the absolutist rulers of his time: he set up a stately court and maintained a stables with 120 horses. In 1748 he had his father's relatively modest court torn down and began building a three-story, three-wing baroque palace in the Versailles style . including orangery .
Although the total income of the county was only about 60,000 guilders , Carl Magnus had the construction cost 180,000 guilders and was heavily in debt. The residence only outlived its builder for a short time: it was completely destroyed by French revolutionary troops in 1795 . In addition to a few contemporary descriptions, only one sketch is known, which is now kept in the Palatinate Historical Museum . The contemporary witness Laukhard describes the system as follows:
“This building really did its master builder credit and it was difficult to find any other castle on the other side of the Rhine that could have been compared with this one from afar. Even the royal palaces of the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and the Elector of Mainz were far behind him in terms of elegance. "
One of the building projects of Carl Magnus was the castle in Wendelsheim, one of the few structures of the Rhine Count still preserved today. The country castle, built around 1758 by forced labor, was originally built as a residence for the count's administrator Häfner.
On February 2, 1750, Carl Magnus married the wealthy Lorraine Countess Joaneta (also Jeannette) Luise zu Salm- Püttlingen (1723–1780), whose father, Walrad zu Salm-Püttlingen, came from another line of the Rhine Counts (Jung-Dhaun). Through the marriage, Carl Magnus also hoped to improve his financial situation. However, the countess did not simply bring her wealth into the marriage. Contrary to Carl Magnus' expectations, she only lent her husband the urgently needed funds against a deposit and at high interest rates.
In order to raise more money for the court and the count's building projects, new sources of money had to be found, which spurred creativity and audacity in Grehweiler: In 1750, spurred on by his advisors, Carl Magnus had the rumor spread that ore , gold and silver had been found in his county been. He then sent his court Jews to France to sell shares in the mining company of the Wild and Rhine Counts to investors . Since there were no natural resources to be found in the Grehweiler Land, apart from mercury , profits could never be paid out to the buyers of the Kuxe .
One of the most innovative and lucrative ideas of the count's court councilors was the establishment of a sovereign mortgage bank , the so-called Landeskasse. It was the earliest example of a Landesbank . The institution, founded in 1764, did not aim to ensure liquidity in the county or promote investment. Rather, it represented a state monopoly of credit aimed at expropriating its subjects.
The subjects were initially forbidden by a count's decree to take out mortgages outside the county. In addition, the Reich law , which provided for a maximum interest rate of five percent, was repealed. Instead, the regional treasury demanded twelve percent, but skilfully concealed this fact from the borrowers, who urgently needed money after the end of the seven-year war and who signed the loan agreements in good faith . In addition, the state treasury's claims over all other debt claims were raised by law. As soon as the state treasury's debtors became insolvent, their goods could simply be confiscated by the county. Little by little, the state treasury expropriated several subjects in favor of the count's treasury.
Numerous other half-silly to criminal projects of the count have come down to us. However, the veracity of these allegations can no longer be verified. The allegations range from the unlawful appropriation of the dispensing monopoly , which the municipalities were entitled to under imperial law; about the embezzlement of donations for a specially founded orphanage and the embezzlement of lottery income to the instigation and protection of a band of robbers active in the area.
In order to finance the Count's lifestyle, however, all income was insufficient and so large sums were repeatedly borrowed against non-existent securities. Missing interest payments and repayments inevitably meant that the poor creditworthiness of the Grehweiler Hof became more and more well known. When finally no creditor could be found who wanted to grant the count credit, the count's administrators began to incur debts in the name of the Rhine Count's communities and to pledge the property of the subjects. The necessary signatures were forged without further ado. This fraud was ultimately to be the count's undoing: after the interest payments by the municipalities failed to materialize (after all, the mayors and mayors of the polluted municipalities knew nothing of a loan agreement), the creditors sued (primarily the Count of Solms-Rödelheim and Anselm Franz von Bentzel-Sternau ) at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar and obtained an enforcement order against the communities of Wendelsheim, Bad Münster and Steinbockenheim.
Trial and imprisonment
The oppressed subjects sought protection from Elector Karl Theodor and complained "that they had been condemned to pay off their count's guilt". However, the elector (rightly) did not consider himself competent and referred the complaint directly to Emperor Joseph II in Vienna.
As a result, the affected communities were exonerated and the count confirmed as the actual debtor. To investigate the count's finances and allegations of fraud, an imperial commission of inquiry was also set up under the direction of Prince Karl Christian von Nassau-Weilburg , which ultimately ran the liquidation of the Grehweiler court.
In the judgment of Emperor Joseph II of July 21, 1775 it says:
"[...] That the Rhine Count Carl Magnus, whose shameful frauds he himself admitted, irresponsible abuse of the sovereign power, and manifold committed, ordered and permitted, forgeries for ten years, on one in Rom. Richly situated vestment, to be held in embarrassing detention, to privilege the previously enjoyed competence in full, and, instead of this, nothing but the most essential livelihood would have to be surrendered from his concursmassa.
[...] That, although the same [...] would have deserved a harsher punishment, your imperial majesty, in consideration of his request pro gratia Caesarea, put forward the mildness of severity before this, and granted it to him Let the prison sentence remain, would have rested. "
Even after some of the Rheingrafen's creditors and even his betrayed subjects had submitted appeals for clemency to the emperor, the emperor did not allow himself to be dissuaded from his judgment. Counts were granted only a few easing of detention. The Imperial Inquisitions Commission announced on October 30, 1776:
"Imperial majors could, by special grace, allow this detainee to walk around inside the vestibule to enjoy the fresh air, to maintain the necessary correspondence with his relatives and other unsuspecting persons, and to accept the encouragement of good friends here and there will, [...]"
It was only after eight years that Emperor Joseph gave way: In November 1783 Carl Magnus was released early from prison. When he was released, poems of joy were published not only by his older daughter Christiane Louise, but also by the servants of the Rhine Count.
Carl Magnus spent the last years of his life alone in his castle in Gaugrehweiler - his wife Joaneta had died before he was released from prison. In addition to a modest pension, he was left with a servant and a horse.
Heir and descendants
During his imprisonment in Königstein , Prince Karl Christian von Nassau-Weilburg administered the county as an imperial commissioner . After his release, Carl Magnus was not allowed to resume government business himself. But he also had no male successors who could have continued his rule in Grehweiler. With Joaneta he had five daughters, three of whom had died in childhood:
- Christiane Luise (1753-1826)
- Carolina Alexandrina (1755–1761)
- Sophie Wilhelmine (1759–1762)
- Carolina (1761-1768)
- Louise Charlotte (1763-1837)
Immediately before his release, Carl Magnus, the last male representative of his line (his brother Ludwig had already died in 1775), had therefore signed an inheritance and family contract that sealed the assignment of all property and power claims to his cousin Karl Ludwig von Grumbach . In return, Carl Magnus was promised a lifelong right of residence in Grehweiler Castle and a pension of 5000 guilders. In addition, the House of Grumbach took over the remaining debts of the county of Grehweiler. At the same time, Karl Ludwig von Grumbach agreed to the marriage of his eldest brother Wilhelm Christian (1741-1810) to Carl Magnus' youngest daughter Louise Charlotte (1763-1837). The wedding took place in 1784 at Grehweiler Castle after the house contract was officially confirmed by the emperor on July 5th, 1784 and the Grehweiler subjects paid homage to their new sovereign .
The calculation behind the contract was that a son from this marriage would have inherited the Grumbach family. Since Karl Ludwig zu Grumbach had no sons in 1783, Wilhelm Christian was his presumptive successor . A grandson Carl Magnus, who emerged from his marriage to Louise Charlotte, would have become Agnat of the Grumbach line and thus again ruler of the County of Grehweiler. The contract therefore also stipulated that in the event of the death of his wife, Karl Ludwig would have had to forego a second professional marriage " to the advantage of the high fiancé and their male descent " (a possible morganatic marriage was explicitly excluded from this).
The plan didn't work out. The marriage remained childless and so the line of the Rheingrafen in Gaugrehweiler died out. In addition, the inheritance contract led to disputes in the Grumbach family, as Karl Ludwig, widowed in 1792, did not keep his renunciation of marriage. After the death of Carl Magnus in 1794 a settlement was reached and confirmed by Emperor Franz II .
Carl Magnus 'eldest daughter, Christiane Luise (1753–1826) had already married her cousin Karl Albrecht zu Ortenburg in 1779 , the son of Carl Magnus' sister Luise Sophie. Previously, negotiations about a marriage with Friedrich von Salm-Kyrburg had failed for religious reasons.
Christiane Luise was very attached to her father. On his release, she wrote the poem Childish Sensations of a Daughter on the Day of Liberation of her Dearest Father: dedicated to him in the deepest subservience .
Her fate shows clear parallels to that of her father: after the death of her husband in 1787, she took over the guardianship of her underage son Joseph Carl and thus became the ruling sovereign of the county of Orttenburg . Christiane Luise, as regent, also lived well beyond her means. When Joseph Carl officially took over the government from his mother in 1801, the county was in debt with 200,000 guilders. In order to save costs, Christiane Luise was expelled from the court by her son and received only an extremely low annuity . Despite massive austerity measures it was not possible to save the county. In 1805 the entire county was sold to the Electorate of Bavaria .
In total, Carl Magnus had four grandchildren from his eldest daughter:
- Joseph Carl (1780-1831)
- Louise Caroline (1782-1847)
- Sophia Maria (1784-1851)
- Augusta Friderica (1786-1857)
Title and coat of arms
title
The title of the Rheingrafen in Gaugrehweiler was completely:
"We Carl Magnus, Wildgraf zu Dhaun and Kyrburg , Rheingraf zum Stein, Graf zu Salm and Püttlingen, Lord of Viestingen and Dimmringen"
coat of arms
The blazon of the coat of arms read:
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Main shield : quartered
- Field 1 and 4: In gold, a red, blue crowned lion.
- Field 2 and 3: A silver lion in black , armored in red , looking ahead (leoparded).
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Heart shield : split and half-divided
- Front: Golden lions raised in red 3 (2: 1)
- back: divided:
- Top: In two red pale asked as curved, facing each other with the back Salme , bewinkelt of silver crosses
- below: a silver bar in blue (heraldry)
Three helmets are used for this purpose:
- Helmet 1: A red, hermelin-topped hat with two silver plungers . Black and silver helmet covers .
- Helmet 2: A red flight, covered with 3 (2: 1) golden lions. Red and gold helmet covers.
- Helmet 3: A growing blue bracken trunk , covered with a silver bar, tipped with four peacock feathers on the back, red tongue, helmet covers blue-silver
ancestors
| Pedigree of Carl Magnus | ||||||||
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| Great-great-grandparents |
Johann von Salm-Grumbach (1582–1630) |
Wolfgang Friedrich von Dhaun (1589–1638) |
Philip II of Leiningen-Westerburg (1591–1868) |
Wilhelm Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken (1590–1640) |
Emich XII von Leiningen (1612–1658) |
Wilhelm Wirich von Daun-Falkenstein (1613–1682) |
Count Philipp Wolfgang von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1595; † 1641) |
Count Palatine Christian I of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (* 1598; † 1654) |
| Great grandparents |
Adolf von Salm-Grumbach Wild- and Rheingraf (1614–1668) |
Ludwig Eberhard von Leiningen-Westerburg (1624–1688) |
Georg Wilhelm von Leiningen-Dagsburg (1636–1672) |
Count Johann Reinhard II of Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1628; † 1666) |
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| Grandparents |
Friedrich Wilhelm zu Salm Wild and Rhine Count in Gaugrehweiler, Wildenburg and Rheingrafenstein (1644–1706) |
Johann Karl August von Leiningen-Dagsburg (1662–1698) |
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| parents |
Johann Karl Ludwig zu Salm Wild and Rhine Count in Gaugrehweiler (1686–1740) |
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Carl Magnus (1718-1793) |
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reception
The condemnation of an imperial count was a tremendous scandal and an "example that had not been set for centuries". The case was extensively commented on and documented by contemporary legal scholars such as Johann Jacob Moser , Johann August von Reuss and Johann Ernst Friedrich Danz. In addition, the trial at the courts of the late Roman Empire should have been a topic of discussion. The life of the Rhine Count Carl Magnus was repeatedly denounced and ridiculed in literature as an example of despotism :
- The earliest and most comprehensive work on the biography of Carl Magnus comes from Friedrich Christian Laukhard , who grew up in the county of Gaugrehweiler. In 1798 he wrote the satirical-biographical work Life and Thats of the Rhine Count Carl Magnus, whom Joseph II sent to prison in Königstein for ten years in order to learn to respect the rights of subjects and other people . Even if Laukhard has to be regarded as fundamentally biased (his father was part of the clergy of the Rhine Count and suffered heavily from Carl Magnus), his efforts to be objectivity are evident in several places.
- In 1806 Johann Friedrich Reichardt wrote the play Der Rheingraf or the little German court life , in which he parodied the count's naivety and wastefulness.
- A detailed report on the count's misconduct appeared in Die Gartenlaube in 1855.
- The television series Ich, Christian Hahn (1985) by Detlef Rönfeldt is inspired by the events at the Grehweiler court. Carl Magnus ("the Count") is portrayed in the series by Heinz Baumann . I, Christian Hahn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Despite his numerous misconduct, the count is credited with promoting the road construction in his county at an early stage. The regional regulations issued by him in 1754 are also mentioned repeatedly in contemporary literature and have been published several times.
Others
- Carl Magnus was a knight of the Württemberg Order of St. Hubertus
- About the descendants from the first marriage of his granddaughter Louise Caroline with Christian Friedrich Graf zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (see above), Carl Magnus is a direct ancestor of Ortrud Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1925–1980) and their son Ernst August from Hanover .
literature
To the biography
- Friedrich Christian Laukhard : Life and deeds of the Rhine Count Carl Magnus, whom Joseph II sent to prison in Königstein for ten years in order to learn to respect the rights of subjects and other people. As a warning to all tiny despots, gullible people, and businessmen . Halle 1798 ( full text in the Google book search).
- Franz Irsigler : Rheingraf Carl Magnus von Grehweiler - a noble spendthrift of the 18th century . In: Curt Wolfgang Hergenröder (Ed.): Believer, Debtor, Arms / . 1st edition. VS, Verlag für Sozialwiss., Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17190-6 , p. 71-81 .
- Karl Eduard Vehse : History of the German courts since the Reformation . Hoffmann and Campe, Halle 1858, p. 52 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- Medding, Wolfgang: Castles and palaces in the Palatinate and on the Saar . Weidlich, Wolfgang, Frankfurt am Main 1962.
- Joachim P. Heinz: Rhine Count Carl Magnus von Grehweiler . In: Pfälzer Lebensbilder, ed. by Hartmut Harthausen, Volume 8, (= publications of the Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science, 115), pp. 33–44. Publishing house of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science, Speyer 2014.
To genealogy
- Konrad Schneider: History of the Wild and Rhine Count house, people and country on the dog's back . Voigtländer, Kreuznach 1854 ( full text in the Google book search).
- Wilhelm Fabricius : The rulers of the lower Nahe area: the Nahegau and its surroundings (= explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province . Volume 6 ). Behrendt, Bonn 1914, p. 464-479 .
- Johann Ludwig Klüber (among others): Genealogical yearbook . Sixth and sixtieth year. Verlag von Franz Varrentrapp , Frankfurt am Main 1835, p. 651 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- Continued new genealogical-historical news of the most noble events that happened at the European courts . The 42nd part. Heinsius, Leipzig 1765, p. 470 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- Continued new genealogical-historical news of the most noble events that happened at the European courts . The 108th part. Heinsius, Leipzig 1770, p. 843 ( full text in Google Book Search).
To the process
- Johann August von Reuss: Teutsche Staatskanzley . 1887, p. 155–163 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- Johann Jacob Moser : Of the imperial debt system, so vil of their secular electors, also ruling imperial princes and counts, Cameral debts, and the way of repelling and paying them, especially after d. Real practice of both the highest imperial courts . tape 1 . Bergerische Buchhandlung, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1774, ninth and twentieth chapters - by the Rheingrafen, p. 479-517 ( full text in Google Book Search). (Moser's eldest son Friedrich Karl von Moser , was the administrator of the neighboring county of Falkenstein , his younger son Christian Benjamin was a sub-delegate of the Grehweiler Debit Commission)
- Johann Jacob Moser: Additions to his new German state law . second volume. Frankfurt and Leipzig 1782, p. 455–459 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- Franz Werner: The cathedral of Mainz and its monuments . 1836, p. 188 ff . ( Full text in Google Book Search).
Treaties and edicts
- The latest house contract of the Rheingräflichen Grumbach and Rheingrafenstein houses . 1794 ( full text in Google book search).
- Carl Friedrich Walch: Mixed contributions to the German law . 1775, p. 219 ff . ( Full text in Google Book Search).
- Johann Ernst Friedrich Danz: About family laws of the German high nobility . Varrentrapp and Wenner, Frankfurt am Main 1792 ( full text in the Google book search).
Poems etc
- Christiane Luise zu Orttenburg: Childlike feelings of a daughter on the day of liberation of her dearest father: dedicated to the same in deep subservience . Kranzbühler, Worms November 1783 ( full text from dilibri RLP [accessed on December 22, 2013]).
- The happy return of the bored Imperial Count and Lord . Kranzbühler, Worms November 1783 ( full text from dilibri RLP [accessed on December 22, 2013]).
- At the wedding party of the well-drilled Rheingrafen Wilhelm Christian von Grumbach with the well-drilled Rhine Countess Louise von Rheingrafenstein . Voigt, Bingen September 1784 ( full text from dilibri RLP [accessed on December 22, 2013]).
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Magnus in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b New genealogical Reich and State Handbook . First part. Varrentrapp and Wenner, Frankfurt am Main 1791, p. 300 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ^ Karl Eduard Vehse : History of the German courts since the Reformation . Hoffmann and Campe, Halle 1858, p. 52 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ^ Promotion d'officiers généraux et de brigadiers . 1749, p. 3 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ^ Anton Friedrich Büsching: Magazine for the new history and geography . sixth part. Buchenröder and Ritter, Hamburg 1771, p. 274 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ^ Konrad Schneider: History of the Wild and Rhine Count House, People and Country on the Dogs Back . Voigtländer, Kreuznach 1854, p. 268 ff . ( Full text in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Friedrich Christian Laukhard: Life and deeds of the Rhine Count Carl Magnus, whom Joseph II sent to prison in Königstein for ten years in order to learn to respect the rights of subjects and other people. Hall 1798, S. 46 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : The rulers of the lower Nahe area: the Nahegau and its surroundings (= explanations for the historical atlas of the Rhine province . Volume 6 ). Behrendt, Bonn 1914, p. 466 .
- ^ A b Franz Irsigler : Rheingraf Carl Magnus von Grehweiler - a noble spendthrift of the 18th century . In: Curt Wolfgang Hergenröder (Ed.): Believer, Debtor, Poor . 1st edition. VS, Verlag für Sozialwiss., Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17190-6 , p. 71-81 .
- ↑ a b c Friedrich Christian Laukhard: The life and deeds of the Rhine Count Carl Magnus, whom Joseph II sent to prison in Königstein for ten years to learn to respect the rights of subjects and other people. Halle 1798 ( full text in the Google book search).
- ^ A b Johann Jacob Moser : Additions to his new German state law . second volume. Frankfurt and Leipzig 1782, p. 455–459 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ^ Christiane Luise zu Orttenburg: Childlike feelings of a daughter on the day of liberation of her dearest father: dedicated to the same in deepest subservience . Kranzbühler, Worms November 1783 ( full text from dilibri RLP [accessed on December 22, 2013]).
- ↑ The happy return of the bored Imperial Count and Lord . Kranzbühler, Worms November 1783 ( full text from dilibri RLP [accessed on December 22, 2013]).
- ^ Continued new genealogical-historical news of the most distinguished events that happened at the European courts . The 42nd part. Heinsius, Leipzig 1765, p. 470 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ^ Continued new genealogical-historical news of the most distinguished events that happened at the European courts . The 108th part. Heinsius, Leipzig 1770, p. 843 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ^ Johann August von Reuss: Teutsche Staatskanzley . 1887, p. 155–163 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ^ Johann Ernst Friedrich Danz: About family laws of the German high nobility . Varrentrapp and Wenner, Frankfurt am Main 1792 ( full text in the Google book search).
- ↑ Latest house contract of the Rheingräflichen Grumbach and Rheingrafenstein houses . 1794 ( full text in Google book search).
- ^ Christiane Luise zu Orttenburg: Childlike feelings of a daughter on the day of liberation of her dearest father: dedicated to the same in deepest subservience . Kranzbühler, Worms November 1783 ( full text from dilibri RLP [accessed on December 22, 2013]).
- ^ Karl Eduard Vehse : History of the Austrian court and nobility and the Austrian diplomacy . 1852, p. 156 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ^ Johann Friedrich Reichardt : The Rheingraf or the small German court life: a play in 5 acts. All princes in love and afflicted princesses put to good use and pious in the daylight. 1806.
- ↑ Ferdinand Stolle (Ed.): From the good old days . 1866, p. 617 ff ( full text in the Google book search).
- ↑ cf. Carl Friedrich Walch: Mixed contributions to the German law . 1775, p. 212 ff ( full text in the Google book search).
- ^ Family tree from Ernst August von Hannover to Adolf von Castell Rudenhausen - the great grandson of Carl Magnus. Retrieved December 14, 2013 .
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Johann Karl Ludwig zu Rheingrafenstein in Gaugrehweiler | Rheingraf in Gaugrehweiler 1740–1775 |
Karl Ludwig zu Salm-Grumbach |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rheingrafenstein, Carl Magnus von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Salm-Gaugrehweiler, Carl Magnus too; Rhine Count Carl Magnus; Karl Magnus; Carolus Magnus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Regent of the Rhine county of Gaugrehweiler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1718 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gaugrehweiler |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1793 |
| Place of death | Gaugrehweiler |