Christoph Vitzthum from Eckstädt

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Christoph Vitzthum von Eckstädt (born December 9, 1633 in Quedlinburg , † December 19, 1711 in Kleinwölkau ), Lord of Tiefensee , was a chamberlain and captain of the Electorate of Saxony .

Life

Christoph Vitzthum von Eckstädt, son of the monastery governor of the same name, who came from the von Vitzthum family , acquired the devastated Kleinwölkau manor in 1659. On November 11, 1656 he married Marie Luitgard von Taube from Harthau , who after the death of her husband Colonel Claus von Taube, was the owner of Oberneundorf Castle (near Görlitz), who gave birth to six daughters and three sons. On January 15, 1668 he concluded his second marriage with Johanna Helene, the daughter of the colonel of the electoral bodyguard on horse Rudolf von Neitschütz on Röhrsdorf near Dohna , and Borthen Tronitz . There were 17 children from this marriage.

Vitzthum rebuilt the Kleinwölkau manor and surrounded it with a moat and earth wall. Therefore, Duke Christian von Sachsen-Merseburg sued him on February 10, 1673 with Elector Johann Georg II , for building a fortress that was threatening to the whole landscape. The elector awarded the Rittmeister a penalty of 2000 Rhenish gold florins "if he does not demolish the building without delay". The building ban was later withdrawn.

For 14,000 guilders, he left his allodial knightly estate Berreuth to the elector Johann Georg II of Saxony in 1672 and achieved the conversion of the Mannlehn knightly estate Trossin, acquired for the same price in 1675, into a hereditary or allodial estate.

Vitzthum von Eckstädt bought the Krapenberg in Zitzschewig in 1704 and built the manor house there. Through his first wife Marie Luitgard von Taube, Oberneundorf Castle had also fallen to him, but he sold it to a citizen of Görlitz in 1684.

Christoph Vitzthum von Eckstädt was the remedial member of the Fruit Bringing Society (Palm Order).

His best-known son was Friedrich Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt , chamberlain of August the Strong. His further son Gottlob Vitzthum von Eckstädt became lieutenant colonel , bought his father's allodial manor Trossin in 1708 and left it to his wife Maria Louise nee in 1732. Freiin von Letmathe, daughter of Kaspar Friedrich von Lethmate .

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  1. LASA, A 35, T XXV No. 1 Bl. 30-31