Constantin von Neukirch
Johann Constantin von Neukirch , called Nievenheim (* 1596 , † September 22, 1657 ) was an officer in the Thirty Years' War on the side of the league and bailiff of Kempen .
Life
family
Constantin was the son of Godfried von Neukirchen called Nievenheim († 1622), owner of Haus Rath in 1592 and tenant of the Archbishop of Cologne on a farm in Horst in Kerpen's office in 1599 and his first wife, Mechtilde von Retraidt zu Elbroich († 1606). Like his father, he had entered the state of marriage twice. His first wife Johanna von Eyll († 1651) carried him Gastendonk . From his second marriage to Margaretha von Mirbach (1618–1666) a child finally emerged.
career
Constantin was pledgee to Hüls , later bailiff or governor of Kaiserswerth and finally bailiff or Drost of Kempen and Oedt . In this function, he received the order in 1634 to redesign Kempen Castle in the style of the late Renaissance .
He is also said to have been marshal and chamberlain of the Electorate of Cologne .
As a colonel of the Electorate of Cologne on horseback and on foot, he led a regiment of the Electorate of Cologne in the service of the League, and later he was Imperial Major General, Court Councilor and War Councilor. In 1642 he escaped from the advancing Guébriant from Kempen and was then from 1643 to 1646 Nievenheim commandant on Ehrenbreitstein . Only at the end of the war did he return to his offices in Kempen. He was buried there too. In addition to the von-Nievenheimschen house on Hessenwall, Von-Nievenheim-Strasse was later named after him there.
literature
- Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library of Cologne. West German Society for Family Studies , Cologne 1992–1999, Vol. 10, p. 732 (Mirbach); Vol. 11, p. 342 (Neukirchen gt. Nievenheim).
Web links
- Short biography on the website of the city of Kempen.
- The Thirty Years' War in personal testimonies, chronicles and reports .
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Wilmius: Chronicon rerum Kempensium. Krefeld 1985, p. 85.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neukirch, Constantin von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neukirch called Nievenheim, Johann Constantin von; Neukirchen called Nievenheim, Johann Constantin von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Officer of the League in the Thirty Years' War, bailiff von Kempen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1596 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1657 |