Christoph Julius von Arnim

Christoph Julius von Arnim (* 1643 ; † December 13, 1708 in Grimma ) was an electoral Saxon chamberlain and manor owner . He was the progenitor of the Döben line of his noble family.

Life

Christoph Julius von Arnim came from the main line Zichow of the widespread Uckermark noble family of the von Arnim . He was born as the son of the Electorate Chamberlain, secret councilor and war councilor and lieutenant general Wolff Christoph von Arnim and Katharina Dorothea von Hoym. Johann Christian von Arnim , the later chamberlain Johann Georg von Arnim and Wolf Christian von Arnim were his three brothers.

While his three brothers at the request of Elector Johann Georg III. von Sachsen exchanged his father 's estate Pretzsch (Elbe) for the three previous chamber estates of Walda, Planitz and Neusorge on March 11, 1689 , Christoph Julius von Arnim had already received his father's estate Döben from his father , which his father owned in 1661 Subhastation had acquired from the debt of the von Schönfeldt family.

In 1668 Christoph Julius von Arnim was appointed titular chamberlain at the court of Dresden . In the same year he married Sophie, nee von der Schulenburg , who died in 1674. His second marriage was not a happy one and resulted in a lawsuit against him for adultery. He also had to defend himself against his subjects in Döben and Dorna during this time because of refused labor.

Döben Castle remained in the possession of his descendants until 1783 and then passed to the von Böhlau family.

literature

• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradeligen houses , Gotha, Perthes, 1903, p. 38.

Web links

• The main tribe Zichow. Retrieved April 6, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ An attempt at a Ucker-Märckischen nobility history, Volume 1 , 1744.
2. ^ Lawsuit by Christoph Julius von Arnim, owner of the manor, against the Hintersässer in Döben and Dorna because of refused compulsory labor, Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, 20370 Rittergut Döben, no