Caspar von Schwartzenberg
Caspar von Schwartzenberg (* 16th or 17th century in Aachen ; † August 7, 1661 there ) was a German lay judge and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .
Live and act
Caspar von Schwartzenberg was the son of Maximilian von Schwartzenberg zu Gitzbach and Dorothea von Schwartzenberg zu Kalkofen and cousin of the lay judge and mayor Melchior von Schwartzenberg . He was first mentioned in May 1630 as a lay judge and in 1631 joined the star guild, the union of Aachen lay judges. Furthermore, from 1636 he became a member of the Sacramentary Brotherhood of St. Foillan and later was accepted into the Sendgericht . Ultimately, von Schwartzenberg was elected mayor of the city of Aachen in 1639, 1654, 1656 and 1658, alternating between office with his cousin Melchior annually in his last three terms.
His first term of office was marked by the effects of the Thirty Years' War , during which Melchior von Hatzfeldt , who was encamped in Cologne, demanded winter quarters in Aachen for part of his considerable troops in December 1640, which von Schwartzenberg was initially able to avert by promising extensive benefits in kind and in cash . In 1641 von Schwartzenberg traveled as a representative of Aachen to the Reichstag in Regensburg , where he succeeded with diplomatic skill, from Emperor Ferdinand III. to obtain a charter in autumn 1641, which released the city from the obligation to billet imperial troops.
The high point of his last term of office was the joint participation with his mayor Balthasar Fiebus, the elder, as the city ambassador at the celebrations for the coronation of Leopold I on August 5, 1658 in Frankfurt am Main as Roman-German King . In addition to his municipal obligations, von Schwartzenberg was after the death of the Cologne theologian Matthias Cremerius , who came from Aachen, the executor of his will and administrator of the two Cremer foundations for the city and the Marienthal monastery.
Caspar von Schwartzenberg died on August 7th, 1661 and was buried on August 11th, 1661 in the Franciscan Church. He was married to Catharina von Colin († 1680), a granddaughter of the former mayor Bonifacius Colyn and Mr. zu Linzenich ; the marriage remained childless.
Since 1636 von Schwartzenberg owned the Buiterhof, a side courtyard of the Soers house , as well as inheritance of the Lehnshof Gut Scherenbroek near Heerlen through his father and also acquired several properties in the Aachener Kühgasse area, today's Kreuzherrenstrasse.
Literature and Sources
- Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen: The lay judges of the Royal See of Aachen from the earliest times until the final repeal of the imperial city constitution in 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 50 , 1928, ISSN 0065-0137 , pp. 373-376 , No. 282 ( pp.373-376 ).
- Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen: The Aachen mayors from 1251 to 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 55, 1933/34 , pp. 68–70 ( aachener-geschichtsverein.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwartzenberg, Caspar von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schwartzenberg, Kaspar von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German aldermen and mayor of the Free Imperial City of Aachen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th century or 17th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 1661 |
| Place of death | Aachen |