Christian Wilhelm von Münchhausen

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Christian Wilhelm von Münchhausen (born April 29, 1683 in Leitzkau , † January 30, 1742 in Möckern ) was a German canon . He was cathedral capitular and scholaster in Halberstadt .

Life

He came from the Lower Saxon noble family Münchhausen . Hilmar von Münchhausen and Johann Friedrich von Münchhausen were his brothers and Gertrud von Hagen and Anna Dorothea von Seebach were his sisters.

Christian Wilhelm von Münchhausen bought the Marienthal estate in the Eckartsberga office in 1728 from Maria Sidonia von Bielstein, nee. von Thünau for 20,000 guilders. He had the intention of establishing a secular noble fräuleinstift there. However, this met with massive resistance, especially at the Dresden court under Elector Friedrich August II of Saxony. Ultimately, Münchhausen had to say goodbye to his idea and let the monastery in Marienthal be managed as a manor . In 1732 he made fundamental changes to the structure of the old monastery in Marienthal in the valley, which he had largely demolished. As a replacement, he had new buildings erected on a hill for residential and commercial purposes.

He also gained importance as lord of the castle in Möckern from 1710 after the death of his father. There he had the large stones from earlier large stone graves from the fields around the city used for the construction of the new castle and a neighboring building, which began in 1715 .

After his childless death, his extensive property passed to his four siblings.

A funeral sermon appeared in print on the occasion of his death.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thorough sex history of the noble house of the Lords of Münchhausen , 1740.
  2. ↑ As the venerable and well-bored lord, Mr. Christian Wilhelm von Münchhausen, The [...] Stifts-Kirche zu Halberstadt Subsenior [...] Hereditary, feudal and judicial lord on Möckern [...] January 30th. 1742. In his Redeemer […] Wolten fell asleep on this example of mortality […] trying to stand up, Jnnenbeanned , 1742.
  3. ^ Funeral sermon in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives
personal data
SURNAME Münchhausen, Christian Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Canon
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1683
PLACE OF BIRTH Leitzkau
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1742
Place of death Moan