Christoph Rudolph von Carlowitz

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Christoph Rudolph von Carlowitz (born June 29, 1656 ; † November 12, 1723 ) was a royal Polish and electoral Saxon court official. He was the supervisor of the hollow rafts and chief forest and game master in the Ore Mountains . His baroque coat of arms can still be found today on a patrician house in the city of Schlettau .

Life

Rabenstein Castle - seat of von Carlowitz
Reutherhaus in Schlettau with the Carlowitz coat of arms

He came from the Saxon noble family von Carlowitz and was the son of Johann Georg von Carlowitz. After his father's death in 1680, he took over Rabenstein Castle near Chemnitz , where he resided until his death in 1723.

From 1677 to 1679 Carlowitz initially had his official seat in Zschopau as supervisor of the Mulde rafts and chamberlain. In that year, a reform of the forest and game management departments in the Electorate of Saxony was carried out. Carlowitz was given responsibility for forest and hunting Saxony in the administrative offices of Schwarzenberg with Crottendorf, Grünhain, Chemnitz, Stollberg / Erzgeb. and Zwickau. His close relative Carl Rudolph von Carlowitz, on the other hand, became forest and game master of the Auerbach-Schöneck and Plauischen forests in the Vogtland .

In 1687 he took part in the funeral procession when the deceased Electress of Dresden was transferred to the Saxon hereditary burial of the Wettins in Freiberg . In the description of the participants in the funeral procession, he is referred to as the head forest and game master of Schlettau .

In 1701 he had a two-storey patrician house with a hipped roof built in the immediate vicinity of the castle there, which today bears the name Reutherhaus, Schlossplatz 3. On this building he had his family coat of arms affixed to the triangular gable above the main entrance with baroque writing. This bears the inscription: Christoph Rudolph von Carlowitz, Königl. Majesty in Poland and Churf. Your Highness to Saxony supervisor, also chief forest and game master in the Ore Mountains . From then on, the hunting party of the Elector August the Strong stayed in this building when electoral hunts were held in the region.

Carlowitz was married to Johanne Sophie von Metzsch, daughter of the Saxon Minister Sebastian Hildebrand von Metzsch. The marriage remained childless.

literature

  • Manfred Pollmer : The coat of arms of the forest master . In: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge , 12, 1967, No. 11, p. 199.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johann Samuelansch and Johann Gottfried Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts , First Section AG; Supplements: Carlowitz - Cyrillus and D - Dani, Volume 22, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1832, p. 13 digitized
  2. ^ Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Simon: Brief historical-geographical-topographical news of the most distinguished monuments of the mountain town of Zschopau , Dresden 1821, p. 81 digitized
  3. ↑ Theatrum Ceremoniale historico-politicum , 1720, p. 611.
personal data
SURNAME Carlowitz, Christoph Rudolph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Polish and electoral Saxon superintendent as well as chief forest and game master
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1656
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1723