Ferdinand Andreas von Wiser
Ferdinand Andreas von Wiser , often also von Wieser (born January 28, 1677 [presumably] in Neuburg an der Donau , † January 30, 1751 in Mannheim ) was an imperial count, high Palatinate official and diplomat in various offices and the builder of Wiser Castle in Leutershausen , today part of the municipality of Hirschberg on Bergstrasse .
Live and act
Origin and family
Ferdinand Andreas von Wiser came from the originally Protestant, Lower Austrian noble family of the Counts of Wiser , who from the 17th century served the Wittelsbach family branch Pfalz-Neuburg , who had returned to the Catholic faith and took over rule in the Electoral Palatinate in 1685 . As a result of these events, the von Wiser family converted to the Catholic Church.
Ferdinand Andreas was the older son of the Palatinate-Neuburg President of the Privy Council and later Court Chancellor Franz Melchior von Wiser and his wife Maria Walburga von Gradeneck, who was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1702 . His younger brother Franz Joseph von Wiser (1679–1755) founded his own family line in Siegelsbach and Friedelsheim . The family only came to the Electoral Palatinate when the Palatinate-Neuburg Wittelsbach family took over and later settled here permanently. The father Franz Melchior von Wiser (1651–1702) was the most influential advisor to Elector Johann Wilhelm in all questions of the Palatinate domestic and foreign policy.
Diplomat and civil servant
In 1694 Count Ferdinand Andreas Wiser, at that time Electorate Palatinate Colonel and Privy Councilor, was appointed Oberamtmann of Kaiserslautern , in 1698 he was an extraordinary electoral Palatinate envoy in Paris, from 1699 to 1700 in the same capacity to Rome, where he was in the Villa Medici with Count Antonio Maria Fede (1649–1718) stayed there and bought antiques and works of art for the Wittelsbach family.
On February 20, 1701, Andreas von Wiser married Countess Maria Charlotte Amalie von Leiningen-Westerburg-Rixingen, the daughter of the imperial general and ruling Count Philipp Ludwig, in the Düsseldorf Palace Chapel . In addition to his father Franz Melchior von Wiser, Elector Johann Wilhelm with his wife Maria Anna , as well as Field Marshal Count Johann Ernst von Nassau-Weilburg (1664–1719) and Count Johann Friedrich von Wittgenstein were present at the wedding.
From 1703 Count Ferdinand Andreas worked in Vienna to represent the interests of the Electoral Palatinate at the Imperial Court, at the same time he was promoted to Vice-Court Chancellor, in 1716 he advanced to the Electoral Palatinate representative at the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg, in 1730 he became chairman of the court in Mannheim and from 1748 also President of the Electoral Palatinate. Count von Wiser was a knight of the Order of St. Stephen , the highest honor in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany .
Ferdinand Andreas von Wiser lived with his family mainly in Mannheim. In his near-domination Leutershausen he was 1710-1716 by the architect Johann Jakob Generic the Castle Wiser built as a residence. He supported all Catholic efforts in his territories and in the Electoral Palatinate; In 1737 he had a Loretto Chapel built as a pilgrimage site near his castle , whose miraculous image , a Black Madonna , which was transferred to the nearby parish church of St. Johannes Baptist in 1907 , is still the destination of pilgrimages to this day.
Since the death of his father Franz Melchior in 1702, Count Wiser of the Electoral Palatinate also had the rule of Zwingenberg zu Lehen, comprising the villages of Zwingenberg (Baden) , Friedrichsdorf (today part of Eberbach ) and the villages of Dielbach, which are now part of the municipality of Waldbrunn (Odenwald) , Katzenbach, Strümpfelbrunn, Mülben and Ferdinandsdorf , which the latter was named after the count, because he had the village built.
On the left bank of the Rhine, Ferdinand Andreas von Wiser owned the villages of Münchweiler an der Alsenz and Gonbach , in the Donnersberg area , from his wife's dowry since 1705 . Although the Wiser territory was largely Protestant dominated by its previous owners and Count Ferdinand Andreas was an avid Catholic partisan, he still respected the existing religious relationships. The journal “Pfälzer Heimat” (Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science), year 1970, page 135 says: “At the beginning of the 18th century, the villages of Münchweiler and Gonbach came into the possession of the Catholic Counts of Wiser through marriage. The new master, Count Ferdinand Andreas von Wiser, respected the traditional church rights. “ Count Wiser only managed to settle people of other faiths there with difficulty and to obtain their tolerable tolerance. In 1729, a Catholic and a Jewish family appeared in the Münchweiler camp register for the first time since the Reformation, with Count Ferdinand Andreas even taking the latter into his official custody as a “protective Jew” . His son and successor Charles of Wiser had on June 29, 1753 in writing complain that declared in the in the county public holiday and are particularly important for Catholics Corpus Christi , the Protestant inhabitants Münch hamlet did not hesitate "all servant work in the field public" to do .
On October 10, 1734, the wife Maria Charlotte Amalie von Leiningen-Westerburg-Rixingen died in Mannheim. The couple's sons embarked on a military career. Count Karl von Wiser (1716–1788) was Lieutenant General in the Electorate of Bavaria , his brother, Count Philipp von Wiser (1718–1805), Major General in the Electorate of the Palatinate . The family of the Count von Wiser lives on in Leutershausen to this day.
In memory of Count Ferdinand Andreas von Wiser, the coat of arms of Gonbach , Rhineland-Palatinate , included the count's colors blue-gold and the star split in these colors from his family coat of arms. By establishing a craftsmen's guild in 1724, the count had significantly promoted the economic development of the village; especially the linen weaving , which is also indicated by the shuttle in the municipal coat of arms.
Web links
- Wiser . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition (1857-1865). Altenburg ( zeno.org ).
- Contemporary genealogy site
- Illustrated website for Wiser Castle in Hirschberg (Leutershausen)
Individual evidence
- ↑ More information about the parents
- ↑ On the father's position at the Electoral Palatinate court
- ↑ Source on the activity as senior bailiff in Kaiserslautern
- ↑ First half of the church book entry on the marriage
- ↑ Second half of the church book entry on marriage
- ↑ Source on activity as President of the Court of Justice
- ↑ Assumption of office as District President, 1748
- ↑ Reference to the Order of St. Stephen
- ^ Website of the Hirschberg community on the castle and the pilgrimage
- ^ Website of the Archdiocese of Freiburg on the pilgrimage to the Virgin Mary founded by Count Wiser in Leutershausen
- ↑ On the rule of Zwingenberg of the Counts of Wiser
- ↑ To Gonbach as property of the Count von Wiser
- ^ To Münchweiler and Gonbach as property of the Count von Wiser
- ^ Text excerpt on the government of the Counts von Wiser in Münchweiler and Gonbach
- ↑ Egon Busch: "The relationship of the landlords to the Protestants in Münchweiler (Alsenz)" , in: "Pfälzer Heimat" (Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science), born in 1970, pages 134 and 135
- ↑ Source on the death of the wife
- ↑ Website on the Gonbacher history, with a description of the coat of arms and reference to the founding of the craftsmen's guild by Count von Wiser ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Wiser, Ferdinand Andreas von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wieser, Ferdinand Andreas von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Electoral Palatinate court official and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1677 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuburg on the Danube |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1751 |
| Place of death | Mannheim |