Christian Christoph Clam-Gallas

Christian Christoph Clam-Gallas

Count Christoph Christian Clam-Gallas (born September 1, 1771 in Prague , † August 21, 1838 in Prague) was the owner of the dominions Friedland , Reichenberg , Grafenstein and Lämberg in Northern Bohemia from 1805 to 1833 . He is considered a patron and patron of art and science .

Life

Promoter of art and business

As president of the Society of Patriotic Art Friends and the Society of Art Friends for Church Music in Bohemia , he promoted music and art through foundations that paved the path of life for the painter's son Joseph Ritter von Führich (1800–1876) , who came from the small town of Kratzau in northern Bohemia . He belonged to a group of talented artists who also came from Kratzau, were trained by members of the Clam-Gallas family and influenced artistically by the painting style of Joseph von Führich.

Count Christoph Christian Clam-Gallas' investments in the industrial area were not too successful for him, but should be mentioned for the beginning of the industrial development of North Bohemia . The red yarn dyeing works established by his administration in 1806 in Josefinental near Reichenberg, named after his wife Josefine, was sold to Ballabene & Co. in 1808, which converted the company into a cotton and sheep wool spinning mill.

It is important that the brothers Franz Liebieg (1799–1878) and Johann Liebieg (1802–1870) bought this cotton and sheep wool spinning mill in 1828. It was the beginning of one of the largest textile companies in the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy, which existed until 1950 and fell victim to economic decline after the German owner family had been expropriated and expelled as Sudeten Germans .

Summer residence and health resort

Founded by Count Christian Phillip Clam-Gallas (1748–1805) and his father Christoph Christian, the spa town of Bad Liebwerda in the Jizera Mountains gained a special reputation as the summer residence of the Clam-Gallas family. The son Eduard Graf Clam-Gallas , kk general of the infantry and his son Franz Graf Clam-Gallas (1854-1930), from 1895 to 1918 member of the Bohemian Landtag, expanded the treatment options for those seeking healing, and a health resort developed who endured the rigors of the times.

As a result of the land reform of the government of the Czechoslovak Republic in Prague after the end of World War I in 1918, almost the entire large estate of the Clam-Gallas in northern Bohemia and the palace in Prague were expropriated and passed into other hands.

Friedland Castle

What was remarkable for the time was the establishment of a museum for the general public with a tour of the palace by Christoph Christian Graf Clam-Gallas in 1801 at Friedland Palace, his residence. His grandson Count Franz Clam-Gallas (1854–1939) arranged for the extensive castle archive to be organized and registered. Document holdings from the administration of the Friedland dominion and its owners since the High Middle Ages, the Burgraves of Donin , the Counts of Bieberstein , the Barons of Redern , Albrecht von Wallenstein (Waldstein) Duke of Friedland, Field Marshal of the Thirty Years War and the Counts of Gallas (di Gallasio de Castel Campo), became accessible to historians.

family

Count Clam-Gallas married Countess Josephine von Clary-Aldringen in Prague on November 28, 1797 (* July 8, 1777 in Prague, † December 28, 1828 in Reichenberg), for which Beethoven 1795/95 wrote the aria “Ah! perfido ”composed several pieces for mandolin . The couple had three children: Karolina (1798–1863), Christiane (1801–1886) and Eduard (1805–1891).

literature

• Johann Ritter von Rittersberg: Christian Christoph Graf von Clam-Gallas. Biographical outline. Prague 1838 ( [1] digitized version).
• Biographical lexicon on the history of the Czech lands. Munich Vienna 1979, p. 203.
• Procházka novel : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian ruling families. Neustadt an der Aisch 1973, pp. 94–96.
• Wilhelm Kosch: Catholic Germany. Volume: A – Schlueter. (1933–1966)
• Randolph Gränzer: Reichenberg town and country in the Neißetal. Augsburg 1974.
• Siebmacher's large book of arms. Volume 30: The coats of arms of the Bohemian nobility. Neustadt an der Aisch 1979, p. 115 f., Plate 60.
• Clam-Gallas, Christian Christoph, Count of . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 41 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Announcements from the Association for Local Studies of the Jeschken Isergaus. I, 1907 ff.
• Hans-Ulrich Engel: Castles and palaces in Bohemia. Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-8035-8013-7 , pp. 32–34, 44–49, 163, 171 f., 174.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Clam-Gallas, Christian Christoph Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 376 ( digitized version ).