Christian Adolf Friedrich Gottlieb zu Castell-Remlingen

Christian Adolf Friedrich Gottlieb Count and Lord zu Castell-Remlingen (born February 22, 1736 in Dresden ; † July 11, 1762 in Hamburg ) was ruler of the Grafschaft Castell from 1743 to 1762 .

The county before Christian Adolf Friedrich Gottlieb

Before the rule of Count Wolfgang Christian Adolf Friedrich Gottlieb, there was a split into two lines in Castell, which had been carried out in the course of the 16th century. The Counts of Castell-Rüdenhausen had their residences in Wiesenbronn and Rüdenhausen, while their relatives of the Counts of Castell-Remlingen were in Castell and Remlingen. As a result, the dominion was divided and exposed to the Thirty Years' War of the 17th century even more defenseless.

The generation that had been born during the war pushed for the reconstruction of the destroyed areas and also began to renew the representative palace buildings. In addition, one began to take over some administrative tasks in larger gentlemen in the area. Among the Count's direct predecessors, the Grafschaft Castell-Remlingen was divided into four regional portions.

Life

Christian Adolf Friedrich Gottlieb was born on February 22nd, 1736 in Dresden as the second son of Count Karl Friedrich Gottlieb and his wife Friederika Eleonora, née Countess zu Castell-Rüdenhausen. The father was a commandant in the Saxon capital. The older brother did not reach adulthood, so that Christian Adolf Friedrich Gottlieb grew up with four sisters. Another, younger sister died in 1739.

After the early death of his father in 1743, the young count was assigned a guardian. He was educated in the following years by Carl Ludwig von Löwenstein-Wertheim . At first his teaching was in the hands of private tutors, but later he attended the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig. Following this, the count traveled through Europe on a so-called cavalier tour and visited areas in the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands and France.

The year 1754 brought Christian Adolf Friedrich Gottlieb's declaration of majority by Emperor Franz I Stephan . In 1760, his mother had died, he inherited the rule of Breitenburg , the rest of the County of Rantzau , which had come to the family through grandmother Catharina Hedwig, née Countess zu Rantzau-Breitenburg . The count increasingly took care of the administration of these goods. Christian Adolf Friedrich Gottlieb died childless in Hamburg on July 11, 1762 and was buried in Itzehoe .

marriage

Christian Adolf Friedrich Gottlieb married Sophie Christiane Countess von Holstein-Holsteinborg on July 8, 1757 in Kiel . The marriage remained childless.

literature

• Max Domarus: The portraits in Rüdenhausen Castle . In: Friends of Mainfränkischer Kunst und Geschichte eV (Hrsg.): Mainfränkische Hefte. Issue 46 . Volkach 1966.
• Wilhelm Engel: House u. Reign of Castell in Franconian history . In: Society for Franconian History (ed.): Castell. Contributions to the culture and history of home and dominion. New Year's Sheets XXIV . Würzburg 1952. pp. 1-19.
• Otto Meyer: The Castell house. State and class rule over the centuries . In: Otto Meyer, Hellmut Kunstmann (ed.): Castell. State rule - castles - status lordship . Castell 1979. pp. 9-53.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Meyer, Otto: The Castell House . P. 28 ff.
2. ^ Domarus, Max: The portraits in the castle Rüdenhausen . P. 50.
3. ↑ Angelfire.com: Castell family tree , accessed March 24, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl Friedrich Gottlieb Wolfgang Georg II. August Franz Friedrich Ludwig Friedrich	Count of Castell-Remlingen 1743–1762	Christian Friedrich Carl