Christoph Sigismund von Kropff

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Christoph Sigismund von Kropff (born February 20, 1629 in Voigtsthal near Cattenstedt ; † May 17, 1693 in Jesuborn near Gehren ) was a German chief forest and hunter master in Gehren, community miner of the house of Leutenberg, chief steward of Arnstadt , since 1656 member of the Fruitful Society .

origin

Christoph Sigismund came from an old Alsatian noble family. His direct lineage can be traced back to a Valentin Heinrich von Kropff, who can be traced back to 1500 as a captain and administrative administrator in Gröningen, Archbishopric Magdeburg . The oldest documented mention of the family can be found in the Haug monastery in Würzburg (today in the Bavarian State Archives in Bamberg ), with a Heinrich Kroph appearing as a witness to an inheritance negotiation between the burgraves of Nuremberg and the counts of Hohenlohe .

Life

Christoph Sigismund von Kropff, the son of the Braunschweig councilor, became head court master and heir to Gröningen and Cattenstedt Dietrich von Kropff (* March 12, 1580 - April 9, 1657) and Veronika Sophia von Maus on February 20, 1629 in the Voigtsthal office in the state of Braunschweig born. After studying for several years at the Princely School in Gotha, the first jobs arose, including with the Count Palatine near Rhine . An annual stay in France ended for him with the participation in the fighting of the Prince de Condé against the government troops of the Vicomte de Turenne on July 2, 1652 in front of Paris. After the defeat of the prince's army, he went back to Germany. In 1654 he got a job in the office of Sondershausen as Hof-Juncker, in 1659 in the office of Gehren (Schwarzburg-Arnstadt) as head forester , where he lived in Jesuborn.

Christoph Sigismund married on May 27, 1667 in the presence of the four Schwarzburgische Counts Anna Sophie von Bronsart (1632–1722), daughter of Erhard von Bronsart (1602–1686) and Christiana Barbara von Aulack (1611–1701); this was also the inauguration of the new castle chapel in Gehren. Through the marriage, Sigismund became the hereditary lord of the Zeutsch and Niederkrossen estates near Orlamünde in the Saale valley. The marriage had four children: Magdalena Sophia Juliana (* July 6, 1668; ∞ Adam von Thüngen), Elisabeth Christiana (* July 5, 1669; † September 17, 1669), Erhard Dietrich, heir to Niederkrossen (* 11. July 1670; † 1730; ∞ Eleonora von Diemar) and Christian Georg, heir to Zeutsch (* 5 September 1676; † 27 December 1722; ∞ Aemilia Clara von Roth).

At the age of 65 he was hired as the mountain captain of the Menschenberge family, and he was also appointed a privy councilor in Arnstadt. On May 17, 1693, he died of pneumonia and was buried in the church at Jesuborn.

Member of the Fruitful Society

In 1656 Sigismund became a member of the Palm Order, which had existed since 1617 . In doing so he was given the company name "The Closing One". The sonnets, poems and songs he wrote during this period were summarized and printed after his death in 1694 and are now in the Gotha Research Library .

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SURNAME Kropff, Christoph Sigismund von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest and hunter master in Gehren
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1629
PLACE OF BIRTH Voigtsthal near Cattenstedt
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1693
Place of death Jesuborn at Gehren