Christoph Carl von Boxberg

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Christoph Carl von Boxberg (born May 18, 1629 in Graslitz ; † July 3, 1699 in Untersachsenberg ) was a Saxon mountain ridge and mining captain in the Neustadt and Vogtland districts in the Duchy of Saxony-Zeitz as well as heir, feudal lord and court lord of the Unterachsenberg manor.

Life

Christoph Carl von Boxberg was the son of Hans Wilhelm Boxberger (* Nuremberg May 30, 1593; † February 5, 1638 in Graslitz), merchant and member of the Inner Council of Nuremberg, mining entrepreneur in the copper mining industry in Graslitz ( Kraslice ) There are lendings from 1601 Recorded by the mining authorities until April 1608, founder of the Untersachsenberg forest estate, the later village of Untersachsenberg and miner in the service of Georg Ernst von Schönburg in Graslitz in the Ore Mountains. His mother was Magdalana Boxberger, the daughter of the captain and captain Dieterich Semler from Nuremberg .

On May 25, 1629 Christoph Karl was baptized in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Graslitz. His godparents were u. a. George Abraham Trützschler auf Falkenstein , Margaretha von der Planitz born. von Schauroth and the mining law expert Sebastian Span , who later became a Schönburg bailiff in Hartenstein . Due to the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War and the re-catholicization in Bohemia, his parents were forced to cross the border to Saxony , where they rebuilt the Untersachsenberg forest estate. His father died in Graslitz on February 5, 1638 when Christoph Carl was only eight years old. So he grew up with his mother, who first sent him to the gymnasium in Hof (Saale) and from 1648 to the University of Altdorf . In May 1650 he moved from Altdorf to the University of Jena , where he stayed for the next two years and then returned home.

On behalf of Georg Ernst von Schönburg, he undertook a six-week trip to the imperial government in Breslau in Silesia in 1655 . The following year, on February 28, he entered the service of Duke Julius Heinrich von Sachsen-Lauenburg and in 1657 he traveled again to the imperial court on behalf of the Lords of Schönburg, this time directly to Prague to become Emperor Leopold I. After a successful return on November 1, 1657 he was appointed chamberlain to the Duke of Saxony-Lauenburg, which opened up the possibility of further trips to Lower Saxony and to Hamburg and Lübeck. As ambassador he stayed a. a. in Sweden, on the Rhine and in the Electoral Palatinate .

During this time in 1659 he was accepted into the Fruit Bringing Society or the Order of Palms in Weimar , nicknamed the Desirous .

After nine years of restless activity at the court in Saxony-Lauenburg, he longed for family happiness and domestic peace. The death of his mother in 1661 contributed to his return to Untersachsenberg to continue the estate that his parents had built up. He met Eleonora Rosina, the daughter of Adam Erdmann von Zettwitz on Krugsreuth , Neidberg, Elster and Asch , whom he married on November 26, 1666 in Krugsreuth. Their large marriage lasted over 27 years.

Due to his experience in mining matters, he was brought in several times as an advisor to royal courts, for example to Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld in Saalfeld . On December 13, 1697, Duke Moritz Wilhelm von Sachsen-Zeitz appointed him mountain ridge and mining captain.

Christoph Carl von Boxberger celebrated his 70th birthday in 1699, which fell on the Ascension Day . On this day he donated a silver chalice to the parish in Klingenthal . Only a few days later he fell ill while preparing for a cure in Karlsbad and died after eight days of sick bed on the morning of July 3, 1699 in Untersachsenberg as a landowner, Saxon mountain ridge and mining captain between five and six o'clock. On the following Wednesday he was buried in the hereditary funeral in the town church of Klingenthal . The miner's public funeral service took place on August 20, 1699. The funeral sermon given by the Klingenthal pastor Nicolaus Spanger at this celebration was reproduced by printing at Paul Friedrich Haller in Plauen .

Boxberger left the following six sons: Erdmann Ernst, Johann Wilhelm, Julius Ferdinand, Adam Christian, Carl Maximilian and Georg Carl as well as the daughters Christiane Rosina, Erdmutha Sophia and Elenora Elisabeth. Of his children, the chamberlain Erdmann Ernst von Boxberger was his successor as miner in the Vogtland and Neustadt district.

literature

  • Kurt Erich Dörfel: History of the places of the district of Klingenthal . Verlag Gustav Bergmann, Klingenthal 1930, p. 71 ff.
  • G. Treixler: Heimatkunde von Graslitz, 1929, page 265
  • Alfred Riedl: Amberg, 1973

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heribert Sturm (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Lands, published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna 1979, ISBN 3 486 49491 0 , page 129
  2. ^ Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected persons from the former Reg.-Bez. Eger ( Cheb ), Volume 1, Männedorf / ZH 1985, ISBN 3 922 808 12 3 , page 83
personal data
SURNAME Boxberg, Christoph Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon mountain ridge and mining captain
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1629
PLACE OF BIRTH Kraslice
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1699
Place of death Untersachsenberg