Christoph Adam von Breitenbauch

Christoph Adam von Breitenbauch (born July 16, 1662 at Ranis Castle ; † August 3, 1708 at Brandenstein Castle ) was a German district administrator and war commissioner as well as a manor owner.

Life

Christoph Adam von Breitenbauch comes from the Thuringian noble family von Breitenbauch and was the oldest surviving son of Wolf Christoph von Breitenbauch. Melchior von Breitenbauch was his grandfather. He grew up in the castle and town of Ranis in the Saxony-Zeitz secondary school and, like many of his family members, pursued a higher administrative career in the service of the Wettins . He lived at the court in Gotha from 1678 and went on an educational trip to France in the following year and to Italy in 1683.

In 1686 he killed a constable in a duel and was able to buy himself free from the death penalty for a large fine. However, this put him in financial distress. He entered the military service and left the country. In 1690 he returned home and in 1692 shared his father's inheritance with his brother and moved to Brandenstein Castle, which he had rebuilt in the Baroque style.

Duke Moritz Wilhelm von Sachsen-Zeitz appointed Christoph Adam von Breitenbauch as district administrator in 1700 and as his war commissioner in 1706.

In the years between 16946 and 1708 he took part in the state parliaments of Electoral Saxony as a representative of the knighthood.

After he died in 1708 and was buried in Ranis on August 5th, his funeral sermon was published by Johann Ritter in Saalfeld.

family

He had been married to Eva Elisabeth von Gräffendorff from Mechterstädt since 1690 . The marriage resulted in twelve children, half sons and half daughters.

literature

• August Wilhelm Bernhardt von Uechtritz : Diplomatic news concerning noble families: ... as those v. Berlepsch, v. Breitenbauch, v. Bünau, v. Dürfeld, v. Einsiedel, v. Erdmannsdorf ... concerning , Volume 2, Verlag Hamann, 1791.
• Genealogical handbook of the nobility , noble houses A volume XXV, page 124, volume 117 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISSN  0435-2408
• Family tree of the v. Breitenbuch , 1964.
• Genealogical handbook of the nobility , noble houses A Volume XII, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1973.
• Clementine von Breitenbuch, Asta von Breitenbuch, Matthias Donath , Lars-Arne Dannenberg: Red rafters on a blue background. The von Breitenbuch family (Breitenbauch) in Saxony and Thuringia (= nobility in Saxony, edited by Lars-Arne Dannenberg and Matthias Donath, vol. 8), Meißen, Redaktions- und Verlagsgesellschaft Elbland mbH, 2016, pp. 171–176.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Genealogical data