Ferdinand Friedrich I. von Degenfeld

Ferdinand Friedrich I. von Degenfeld (born May 19, 1661 at Neuhaus Castle ; † October 15, 1717 in Wagenbach ) was the landlord of Ehrstädt , Waibstadt , Unterbiegelhof and Wagenbach . From 1705 to 1717 he was a senior in the von Degenfeld-Neuhaus family.

Life

He was the youngest son of Johann Christoph II von Degenfeld († 1680) and Veronica Benigna von Dachenhausen. After the death of his father, his older brother Christoph Friedrich applied for confirmation of the fiefdoms inherited from his father for himself and his brothers Eberhard Friedrich and Ferdinand Friedrich. In January 1682 Christoph Friedrich and Ferdinand Friedrich shared the inheritance, whereby Eberhard Friedrich is no longer mentioned, so that he obviously also died shortly after his father.

Christoph Friedrich received Neuhaus Castle, the Eulenhof and the Württemberg half of Ehrstädt. Ferdinand Friedrich received the Worms half from Ehrstädt as well as the Degenfeldschen allodial goods in Waibstadt and Unterbiegelhof, whereby at the same time a family entourage was concluded on the property.

After the death of his brother in 1706, he applied for confirmation of the fiefs for himself and his three nephews and, as the senior of the family, negotiated a division of the inheritance among the nephews. In the following years there were various confirmations of fiefdoms and division agreements, without any disputes being reported for the first time. Ferdinand Friedrich lived alternately in Waibstadt, in Wagenbach and in a town house in Wimpfen .

The financial situation of the entire family was not rosy at the time. The Thirty Years' War and the subsequent armed conflicts such as the Dutch War and the War of the Palatinate Succession had hit the family's property hard. Ferdinand Friedrich was most likely to manage to achieve a certain level of prosperity out of debt. His nephews with their little possessions hadn't succeeded. Nephew Johann Friedrich I. auf Neuhaus finally made financial demands on the uncle, which the uncle rejected. Finally, because of financial issues such as the construction load for the Ehrstadt church, an ever greater dispute broke out between the uncle and the nephews, who in turn now claimed the right of patronage and parsonage in Ehrstädt and excluded the uncle from the hereditary funeral in the castle church in Neuhaus. The dispute could no longer be settled because Ferdinand Friedrich I died on October 15, 1717 in Wagenbach.

The older surviving son Carl Gottfried (1690–1727) inherited his property in Wagenbach . The younger son Christoph Ferdinand I was not yet of legal age when Ferdinand died and only received the remaining goods of the father when he came of age, namely the wormsy half of Ehrstädt and the family fideikommiss goods in Waibstadt and Unterbiegelhof. Carl Gottfried was denounced by Christoph Ferdinand I and his cousin Johann Friedrich and spent the last three years of his life in custody in Philippsburg . He left no sons and the Electoral Palatinate fief in Wagenbach went to his daughters. After the death of Johann Friedrich I, Christoph Ferdinand I reunited the entire Degenfeld-Neuhaus property from 1760 onwards.

family

Around 1687 he married Maria Philippine Dorothea von Helmstatt, the daughter of Carl Friedrich von Helmstatt zu Wagenbach. She inherited the Electoral Palatinate fiefdom from one third of her father to Wagenbach, which had been converted into a Kunkelle fief , so that after her death it passed to Ferdinand Friedrich. After the death of his first wife around 1706, Ferdinand Friedrich I von Degenfeld married Maria Magdalena von Stetten (1665–1744) for the second time on May 3, 1707 in Kocherstetten .

The first marriage had four sons and two or three daughters:

• Johann Friedrich Ludwig (* 1689), probably died in childhood
• Carl Gottfried (1690–1727) ∞ Susanna Magdalena Buhl
• Wilhelm Heinrich Friedrich (1696–1714)
• Christoph Ferdinand I (1699–1766) ∞ Clara Juliana von Gemmingen-Widdern († 1766)
• Charlotte Dorothea Maria († 1720)
• Luise Philippine
• Wilhelmina ∞ N. von Henzig

The dates of birth of Charlotte and Luise are no longer known. They later lived in Waibstadt and Wagenbach. The daughter Wilhelmina only appears on a family tree certified in 1742.

literature

• Friedrich Hub : Genealogy of the von Degenfeld family at Schloss Neuhaus, Ehrstädt, Waibstadt and Wagenbach. In: ders .: Ehrstädt and Neuhaus Castle. Ehrstädt 1967, pp. 420-438