Christoph Carl Kress from Kressenstein

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Christoph Carl Kress von Kressenstein, portrait by Johann Eberhard Ihle

Christoph Carl Kress von Kressenstein (born January 10, 1723 in Nuremberg ; † March 14, 1791 ibid) was a German lawyer and mayor.

Life

family

Christoph Carl Kress von Kressenstein came from one of the oldest Nuremberg patrician families , which was first mentioned in 1270. He was the son of Johann Christoph Kress von Kressenstein (* October 23, 1680; † May 7, 1763), city judge and ban judge ( embarrassing judge ) and his second wife Dorothea Maria (* August 3, 1700; † January 2, 1789 ), a daughter of Leonhard VIII. Landlord from Altenthann , Senator and Scholarch , born. His siblings were:

  • Maria Magdalena (* July 18, 1714; † February 12, 1764), married to Balthasar Christoph Kress von Kressenstein (1709–1771), lay judge at the farmer's lower town and marriage court and senator in Nuremberg;
  • Maria Helena (born November 16, 1715; † October 31, 1772), married to Anton Ulrich Fürer von Haimendorf (1713–1765), head nurse in Gostenhof ;
  • Christoph Sigmund (born April 17, 1717; † July 24, 1717);
  • Johann Christoph (born August 23, 1721; † October 14, 1721);
  • Catharina Dorothea Maria (born January 29, 1724; † unknown);
  • Johann Christoph (* May 14, 1725; † February 2, 1729);
  • Georg Christoph (* July 28, 1726 - September 17, 1726);
  • Friedrich Christoph (born January 26, 1728, † April 25, 1728);
  • Jobst Christoph (born January 18, 1729 - † November 13, 1729);
  • Johann Christoph Sigmund (born June 16, 1730; † August 29, 1818), State Councilor;
  • Carl Christoph (born January 29, 1732; † February 19, 1732);
  • Georg Christoph (born March 26, 1733; † April 7, 1733);
  • Georg Christoph (born May 11, 1734; † January 14, 1796), major in the Franconian District Cuirassier Regiment Treskow;
  • Barbara Maria (born November 18, 1735; † August 24, 1816), married to Johann Heinrich Wilhelm von Stauf on Unterach, Adlitz and Wolfsfelden (1732–1780);
  • Sigmund Christoph (* April 7, 1738; † April 7, 1741).

Christoph Carl Kress von Kressenstein married Sophie Maria on March 5, 1748 (* December 17, 1726 - May 16, 1802), a daughter of Carl Christoph Kress von Kressenstein (1697–1754), a carer in Engelthal . They had seven children together:

  • Christoph (born January 8, 1749 in Engelthal; † January 10, 1749 there);
  • Johann Sigmund Christoph (born November 24, 1749; † July 23, 1751);
  • Johann Georg Friedrich Christoph Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (* December 10th, 1750 - † July 19th, 1835), Unschlitt-Amtmann (the Unschlittamt zu Nürnberg was an authoritarian office that consisted of three members of the council, an official from the patricians, a clerk and there is an unschlittschauer in which the butchers deliver their tallow so that the candle makers and soap makers can use it), caretaker of the monasteries St. Klara and Pillenreuth and administrator of the Johann Karl Schlüsselfelder Family Foundation ; was her first marriage to Maria Hedwig (1753–1784), daughter of Johann Jakob Haller von Hallerstein , Senator and Scholarch and her second marriage to Klara Maria Helena (1764–1819), a daughter of Christoph Karl Gottlieb Winkler von Mohrenfels , Untergericht- Assessor ;
  • Isaak Bernhard Christoph (born October 2, 1752 in Vienna ; † October 4, ibid.);
  • Isaak Bernhard Ludwig Christoph (born October 23, 1753 in Vienna; † October 26, ibid.);
  • Sophia Maria Philippina (* December 18, 1754; † November 24, 1846), married to Christoph Karl Sigmund Fürer von Haimendorf (1751–1794), registrar of the upper registry and caretaker in the Landalmosenamt;
  • Maria Hedwig Sophia (born November 13, 1756 - † August 16, 1838), married to Karl Christoph Sebastian Harsdorf von Enderndorf (1751–1806), Senator.

Christoph Carl Kress von Kressenstein owned goods in Kraftshof , Dürrenmungenau , Rezelsdorf near Weisendorf , and Röthenbach .

Career

Christoph Carl Kress von Kressenstein 1763 as carer of the Mendelschen Twelve Brothers Foundation

Christoph Carl Kress von Kressenstein attended grammar school in Nuremberg for nine years and then the Aegidian Auditorium , which was supposed to prepare for the university visit . He ended the Egydian Auditorium with his public speech De Vicariis imperii ante aureae bullae tempora.

He studied law at the University of Halle and attended the lectures of Professors Jacob Gabriel Wolff , Ludwig and Böhmer. After completing his studies, he attended several universities in Germany and the Netherlands, as well as a few elegant courts, through which he came into contact with many scholars and statesmen with whom he had corresponded for years.

After returning to Nuremberg, he initially worked in the city ​​archive . In 1749 he was appointed assessor at the regional court and in 1751 pathway bailiff and then appointed as slogan councilor in the slogan office , which was responsible for the city's income. A delegation to Vienna took place in order to take part in processes pending before the Reichshofrat .

After his return in 1754 he was first elected Senator and then Mayor of Nuremberg. In 1768 he became a war colonel (high official in the army administration, princely advisor in war matters) and thereby at the same time president of the Imperial City War College ; he was also elected to the second board of the Losungsamt; At the same time he was Imperial Real Councilor , Crown Guardian and Custodian of the Reichskleinordien , War Councilor of the Franconian Circle, member of the Privy Council and Chief Caretaker of the Monasteries of St. Klara and Pillenreuth, as well as caretaker of the Mendelsche Twelve Brothers Foundation and member of the imperial knighthood of the knightly canton of Altmühl in the Franconian Knightly District .

He had a workhouse built for poor women and orphans where they could get food.

For years he had a weekly literary society, which was also called the English Society , because it was used to read from English books.

Works

  • Christian Gottlieb Schwarz ; Christoph Karl Kress von Kressenstein; Franz Koengott: Speech of praise and remembrance, which the former Mr. Carl the Sixth, Elected Roman Emperor By decree of the Imperial City of Nuremberg, February 13th, in the year 1741. there with solemn mourning ceremonies the last and most obligatory respect testify in deepest submission . Nuremberg King 1741.
  • Dissertatio historico-juridica de eo quod justum est circa diversam Paschatis celebrationem, a. 1744, qua Joanni Christophoro Kress de Kressenstein festum onomasticum, d. 15 martii 1744 congratulations Christophorus Carolus Kress de Kressenstein . Halae Magdeburgicae: typis JC Hendelii, 1744.
  • Dissertatio epistolica de eo quod iustum est circa diversam Paschatis celebrationem, a. MDCCXLIIII, qua domino Joanni Christophoro Kress de Kressenstein festum onomasticum, d. XV martii MDCCXLIIIII congratulations Christophorus Carolus Kress de Kressenstein . Halae Magdeburgicae: Typis Ioh. Christiani Hendelii, Acad. typographical, 1774.
  • Order in prayer and work in the newly built poor and work house in Nuremberg; along with a short message from the beginning u. Departure of this institute. Nuremberg 1775.
  • Short term for the Imperial City of Nuremberg Matricular Affairs. Nuremberg 1787.
  • Johann Gabriel Bezzel; Christoph Carl Kress von Kressenstein: Monument erected at the crypt of Christoph Karl Kreß von Kressenstein at Kraftshof, Dürrenmungenau, Rezelsdorf and Rötenbach near St. Wolfgang of his gracious patron and carrier: on the day of the befitting Beysezung, March 21, 1791 . 1791.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical manual: which d. Genealogical tables of those Freyherr- u. noble families contains: on d. Year 1776 . P. 248 f. Publishing house d. Adelichen Handb.-Comptoirs, 1776 ( google.de [accessed on September 11, 2018]).
  2. ^ Johann Gottfried Biedermann: genealogical register of the patriciate of the former imperial city of Nuremberg . Self-published, 1854, p. 70 ( google.de [accessed on September 11, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Kress von Kressenstein, Christoph Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kressenstein, Christoph Karl Kress von; Kress von Kressenstein, Christoph Carl; Kreß von Kressenstein, Christoph Carl; Kress von Kressenstein on Dürrenmungenau, Christoph Carl; Kress de Kressenstein, Christophorus Carolus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1791
Place of death Nuremberg