Emil Friedrich I. (Bentheim-Tecklenburg)

Emil Friedrich I. zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg (born May 11, 1765 in Rheda ; † April 17, 1837 ibid) was from 1805 to 1817 sovereign of the county of Limburg and the rule of Rheda and from 1805 to 1837 regent of Bentheim-Tecklenburg . Emil Friedrich was raised to the hereditary prince status in 1817 .

family

Emil Friedrich I. zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg was the third child of the ruling Count Moritz Kasimir II (1735-1805) and his wife Countess Helene Charlotte Sophie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1739-1805).

Emil Friedrich I. zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg married Countess Luise zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1768–1828) on May 26, 1791 . The marriage had seven children:

Karoline (1792–1876) ⚭ November 21, 1817 Gotthard von der Recke von Volmerstein (1785–1857)
Therese (1793–1861) ⚭ November 12, 1816 Ottomar von der Recke von Volmerstein (1793–1859), at House Mallinckrodt
Moritz Casimir (1795–1872) ⚭ October 31, 1828 Agnes Christine Albertine von Sayn-Wittgenstein (1804–1866)
Gustav (1796–)
Maximilian (1797-1847)
Franz (1800-1885)
Adolf (1804–1874) ⚭ March 7, 1843 Anna Karoline Luise Adelheid Reuss (1822–1902), daughter of Heinrich LXVII.

Life

On April 15, 1817, against the background of the Congress of Vienna held two years earlier, he renounced his sovereignty over the county of Limburg . The county became part of Prussia , the count was taken over by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. on July 20, 1817 raised to the hereditary prince status.

Despite the loss of sovereignty, the relationship with the Prussian crown was friendly and in the following decades also led to numerous visits by members of the Prussian royal family in Rheda. When crop failures after 1830 led to bitter poverty in agriculture and high import duties and the approaching machine age led to the economic decline of the weavers and spinners as well , there were famines and real waves of emigration . Since there was no prospect of new sources of income, Prince Emil Friedrich, who had ceded his sovereign professional rights to Prussia on March 29, 1834, had extensive reforestation carried out in a kind of job creation program and the pine rebates that still exist today to protect against the waterlogging in his forests .

As a registrar , he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Westphalia from 1826 to 1833 .

Like his father, Emil Friedrich I. zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg mainly cultivated his cultural interests, and he continued to expand the music library of his grandfather and father. At Rheda Castle he maintained a court orchestra, a court theater and a royal stables .

Emil Friedrich was followed by his son Moritz Casimir (1795–1872).

literature

Joachim Domp: Studies on the history of music at Westphalian aristocratic courts in the 18th century. Freiburg studies in musicology, Regensburg 1934.
Rudolf Reuter : The instruments of the Fürstlich-Bentheim-Tecklenburgischen court music in the Erbdrostenhof in Münster. Westfalen, Volume 46, 1968, pp. 129-145.
Hans Schnoor : Music at Rheda Castle. Monograph of the district of Wiedenbrück. Music + Theater - without their own roof, Bielefeld 1969, pp. 32–57.
Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe , Münster 1978 pp. 177–178.
Hans-Joachim Böckenholt: Castle and rule Rheda . Rhode Druck und Verlag, Harsewinkel-Marienfeld 1979, ISBN 3-921961-02-8 .
Harm Klueting: The Princely House of Bentheim-Tecklenburg. A family story in pictures. Self-published (private print), Münster 1993.
Carl Heiner Beusch: Westphalian noblemen. The princes of Bentheim-Tecklenburg in the 19th century . (PDF file) Westfälische Zeitschrift 145, 1995.
Moritz Casimir Prince of Bentheim-Tecklenburg : Prince Emil Friedrich of Bentheim-Tecklenburg - the last sovereign of the county of Limburg . (PDF file) Hohenlimburger Heimatblätter , issue 1/98, January 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Genealogical manual of the nobility , Fürstl. Houses. Volume XIX, 2011.
↑ Princely Archives Rheda, Certificate No. 3015.
↑ Castle and Lordship of Rheda

predecessor	Office	successor
Moritz Casimir II. Or Moritz Casimir III. († 1806)	Count of Limburg 1805-1817	Prussia
Moritz Casimir II. Or Moritz Casimir III. († 1806)	Head of the House of Bentheim-Tecklenburg 1805–1837	Moritz Kasimir von Bentheim-Tecklenburg

personal data
SURNAME	Emil Friedrich I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bentheim-Tecklenburg, Emil Friedrich I. zu; Emil, Prince of Bentheim-Tecklenburg-Rheda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lord of the county of Bentheim
DATE OF BIRTH	May 11, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rheda
DATE OF DEATH	April 17, 1837
Place of death	Rheda

[1] Genealogical manual of the nobility , Fürstl. Houses. Volume XIX, 2011.

[2] Princely Archives Rheda, Certificate No. 3015.

[3] Castle and Lordship of Rheda