Christoph Franz von Buseck

Christoph Franz Amand Daniel Veith Christian von Buseck (born December 28, 1724 in Jagstberg ; † September 28, 1805 in Bamberg ) was the last Prince-Bishop of Bamberg.

Prince-Bishop Christoph Franz von Buseck, 1795, pastel by JB Hirschmann

Prince-Bishop Christoph Franz von Buseck, anonymous portrait

family

Christoph Franz Amand Daniel Veith Christian von Buseck came from the old noble family of those von Buseck . He was a son of Ernst Johann Philipp Hartmann von Buseck and Maria Anna, née von Buttlar. Christoph Franz was the nephew of the Prince-Bishop of Fulda, Amand von Buseck , and the Commander of the Teutonic Order in Gundelsheim, Johann Christoph von Buseck . His own nephew Georg Karl von Fechenbach was Prince-Bishop of Würzburg.

Life

In 1795, the seventy-year-old Christoph Franz was elected bishop in Bamberg and only then ordained a priest. On August 16, 1795 he was ordained a bishop by his nephew, Bishop Georg Karl von Fechenbach. Buseck was considered a weak regent. Contemporary diplomats give his reign a damning testimony: “An old man who had reached all the weaknesses of old age without having acquired the experience of it. Avarice is his ruling passion and the great principle of his state administration. His simplicity and ignorance made him the slave of two favorites ”“ The prince almost 79 years of age and almost without memory, governs only through obstinacy, in certain cases almost entirely under the influence of the secret referendary, and a few more unknown people who abuse him , at least use it. ”In 1796 he fled the French to Prague and in 1799 to Saalfeld. After his second return (1800) he had his nephew appointed as coadjutor and successor. Due to the Bavarian occupation of the prince-bishopric, he was forced to resign as prince-bishop on September 29, 1802. The Bamberg Monastery was secularized , and the University of Bamberg was also dissolved in 1803. The Bamberg bishop's chair remained vacant after Buseck's death in 1805 until 1817/18.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Excerpt from a polemic by Gregoriätsch von Tannenberg against the sinking monasteries Bamberg and Würzburg from: Günter Dippold: "Destruction with velvet paws". Notes on the secularization of the Bamberg Monastery , page 6
2. ^ Statement by the Bavarian commissioner, Franz Wilhelm Freiherr von Asbeck from: Günter Dippold: "Destruction with velvet paws". Notes on the secularization of the Bamberg Monastery , page 6

literature

• Hans Joachim Berbig : The Imperial Bishopric Bamberg and the Holy Roman Empire from the Peace of Westphalia to Secularization (= contributions to the history of the imperial church in modern times. H. 5–6). 2 volumes. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1976, ISBN 3-515-01997-9 (Vol. 1), ISBN 3-515-02171-X (Vol. 2), (at the same time: Munich, University, habilitation paper, 1975)
• Günter Dippold : Destruction with “velvet paws”. Notes on the secularization of the Bamberg Monastery. In: More beautiful home. Vol. 92, 2003, ISSN  0177-4492 , pp. 225-232, online (PDF; 300 KB) . From www. Bezirk-oberfranken.de, accessed on December 1, 2015.

Web links

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predecessor	Office	successor
Franz Ludwig von Erthal	Prince Bishop of Bamberg 1795 - 1805	Georg Karl von Fechenbach