Franz Anton von Nostitz-Rieneck

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Franz Anton Count von Nostitz and Rinek

Franz de Paula Anton Josef Johann Nepomuk Count von Nostitz-Rieneck (born May 17, 1725 in Pakoměřice , † September 29, 1794 in Prague ) was a Bohemian nobleman and patron.

Life

The son of Franz Wenzel Graf von Nostitz-Rieneck came from an old Lusatian dynasty that moved to Bohemia in the 16th century . After completing his studies, Count von Nostitz joined the army in 1743, and in the state services in 1750. In 1758 he was appointed regional judge, 1764 gubernial councilor , 1781 supreme court master and a year later supreme burgrave and president of the royal gubernium. After the death of his father, Franz Anton von Nostitz-Rieneck became head of the Nostitz-Rieneck line in 1765.

He was one of the most important advocates of the Kingdom of Bohemia and defended it against the centralistic intentions of Vienna . Although he spoke German, he was an advocate of the Czech language and his house in Prague became the center of social life, a meeting place not only for aristocrats but also for important scholars. He hired the Czech scholars Jaroslaus Schaller , František Martin Pelcl and Josef Dobrovský to educate his four sons .

He also supported cultural and religious life. He built churches, castles and palaces on his reigns, most of which were realized by the master builder Anton Haffenecker . This includes u. a. Měšice Castle, built between 1767 and 1775 . In 1781 he was one of the founding fathers of the Estates Theater in Prague and had it built. Four years after its inauguration in 1783, the opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was premiered here in 1787 .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Counts of Nostitz and Rieneck

1651: Squared shield with crowned red heart shield, in it three gold bars (Grafschaft Rieneck). In the first field in blue on a golden crescent moon, two outwardly curved horns with red and silver shafts with the tips pointing downwards. In the second field in silver a black eagle's wing covered with a gold bar. On the division of the shield lies an anchor, which is blue in the third silver field, but gold in the fourth, blue field. A count's crown covers the shield, on which are three crowned helmets. On the right with black and silver covers the eagle's wing covered with the beam, on the middle with black and silver covers on the right, red and silver covers on the left a silver swan (Rieneck) ready to fly, on the left with red and silver covers two of silver and red nested buffalo horns, in between three ostrich feathers blue, gold and blue.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leonard Dorst von Schatzberg: Schlesisches Wappenbuch or the arms of the nobility in the Sovereign Duchy of Silesia etc. Volume 1, Verlag G. Heinze & Co., Görlitz 1847, p. 27.
personal data
SURNAME Nostitz-Rieneck, Franz Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nostitz-Rieneck, Franz de Paula Anton Josef Johann Nepomuk Count of; Nostic-Rieneck, František Antonín (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1725
PLACE OF BIRTH Pakoměřice
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1794
Place of death Prague