Christian von Kirchberg
Christian Albrecht Casimiro, Burgrave of Kirchberg, Count zu Sayn-Hachenburg (* December 5, 1726 in Hachenburg , † January 12, 1772 in Farnroda near Eisenach ) was a judge at the Imperial Chamber Court and came from the noble families of Kirchberg and Sayn-Wittgenstein .
Historical classification
From the divisions of 1652, 1662 and 1671 between the two Saynian heirs, two independent territories emerged from the former county of Sayn : the counties of Sayn-Hachenburg and Sayn-Altenkirchen . In 1714/15 the county of Sayn-Hachenburg fell entirely to Burgrave Georg Friedrich von Kirchberg , a great-grandson of Count Ernst von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn and Countess Louise Juliane von Erbach .
Life
Christian Albrecht Casimiro was born on December 5, 1726 in the royal seat of Hachenburg; he was the youngest of the nine sons of Burgrave Georg Friedrich (1683–1749) and his wife Sophie Amalie, a daughter of Count Friedrich Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken . Together with his brother Adolf Hartmann, Christian studied at the universities of Metz , Strasbourg and Jena from 1737 to 1742 . In contrast to his brothers, he did not pursue a military career, but continued his legal studies for two years in Marburg . This was followed by practical training at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar. In 1745, 18-year-old Christian applied to Franz I, who had recently been elected emperor, for the office of Reichshofrat . The appointment was made by imperial decree on October 15, 1745; he was now a representative of the evangelical imperial estates , the Corpus Evangelicorum , whose parity participation was provided for by the Peace of Westphalia of 1648. Christian Burggraf von Kirchberg was involved in the decisions of this influential court of justice for almost 18 years; but with interruptions because of his health, for example when he took a cure in Italy in 1758 .
When the coinage threatened to collapse as a result of the turmoil of the Seven Years' War , Christian was appointed head of an investigative commission from 1759 to 1762 to remedy this situation. In this role he conducted lengthy studies of the minting policy of the imperial city of Frankfurt and was involved in the trial of the margrave Alexander von Brandenburg-Ansbach for minting inferior money. He also took on diplomatic missions, such as in 1764 as the imperial special envoy to the king of Sardinia-Piedmont . Due to his services and his always loyal attitude to the emperor and empire, he was appointed President of the Imperial Court of Justice in October 1764. Five years later he died on his country estate in Farnroda near Eisenach.
literature
- Brockhaus´ conversation lexicon. Leipzig, 14th edition, 1908.
- Franz-Eugen Volz: Christian Burgrave of Kirchberg, Count of Sayn and Wittgenstein . In: Pictures of life from the Altenkirchen district . Altenkirchen, 1975
- Bruno M. Struif: Hachenburg - Traces of Time in a Westerwald royal seat, Hachenburg, 1999, p. 113.
- Müller, Markus, Municipalities and State in the Imperial County of Sayn-Hachenburg 1652–1799 (= contributions to the history of Nassau and the State of Hesse, vol. 3), plus Siegen Univ. Diss. 2004, Wiesbaden 2005, pp. 122, 330. ISBN 978-3-930221-14-1 .
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| SURNAME | Kirchberg, Christian von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sayn-Hachenburg, Christian Albrecht Casimiro, Burgrave of Kirchberg, Count zu (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Burgrave of Kirchberg, Count zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and Imperial Chamber judge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1726 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hachenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1772 |
| Place of death | Farnroda near Eisenach |