Franz Carl Friedrich von Hohenfeld

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Coat of arms on the epitaph
Epitaph from Domdekan Hohenfeld, Worms Cathedral , Georgskapelle
Grave inscription from the epitaph

Franz Carl Friedrich von Hohenfeld (born November 8, 1696 in Camberg ; † September 8, 1757 in Worms ) was a Catholic priest, cathedral dean in Worms and governor of the prince-bishop (head of the secular government).

Life

Franz Carl Friedrich von Hohenfeld was the son of the Kurtrier secret council and Limburg and Bad Camberger Oberamtmann Wilhelm Lothar Freiherr von Hohenfeld (1651–1710) and his wife Maria Margaretha nee. Freiin von Bicken zum Hain . The father had a total of 19 children from two marriages and was also Imperial Councilor and Reichspfennigmeister .

The Freiherrn von Hohenfeld originally came from Lower Austria , a branch of the family was based in the Rhineland . It was founded by Achatius von Hohenfeld (1610–1672), a convert to the Catholic Church , the grandfather of Franz Carl Friedrich.

Franz Carl Friedrich von Hohenfeld became a Catholic priest . He owned a canonical at the St. Ferrutius Abbey in Bleidenstadt .

He also held the office of dean at the knight monastery in Wimpfen im Tal , as well as the dean of the cathedral in Worms . Prince-Bishop Franz Georg von Schönborn-Buchheim appointed him to his governor in Worms as head of the secular government . In this capacity, Baron von Hohenfeld represented the prince-bishop as sovereign , as in 1746 at the laying of the foundation stone of the Laurentiuskirche in Dirmstein , where the Worms auxiliary bishop Christian Albert Anton von Merle performed the ecclesiastical and he, on behalf of the sovereign, the secular ceremonies .

Franz Carl Friedrich von Hohenfeld died in Worms in 1757 and was buried in the local cathedral, where his high-quality marble epitaph has been preserved in the Georgskapelle . It is made of Lahn marble and bears the signature of the baroque sculptor Johann Strahl from Balduinstein . In George's Chapel is also that of Bishop Georg von Schoenberg in 1590, donated the altar of St. George . Franz Carl Friedrich von Hohenfeld had this renewed, which is why his coats of arms were subsequently attached to it ( pedestals of the two lower figures).

The epitaph in Worms Cathedral shows him u. a. as gentlemen from Aistersheim in Austria and co-gentlemen in Eisenbach (Taunus) .

Family environment

Brothers of the cathedral dean were Damian Ludwig von Hohenfeld (1681–1750), cathedral capitular in Liège and canon at the monasteries of St. Ferrutius in Bleidenstadt and St. Alban before Mainz , Otto Ferdinand von Hohenfeld († 1744), canon in Hildesheim and Olomouc , as well as Wilhelm Ludwig von Hohenfeld (1703–1763), Elector Field Marshal Lieutenant , Court War Council President and Governor of the electoral fortresses Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein .

The latter's son, Christoph Philipp Willibald von Hohenfeld - the nephew of the Worms cathedral dean - also became a Catholic priest and officiated as cathedral dean or vicar general in the Principality of Speyer .

Damian Ludwig von Hohenfeld, the aforementioned brother of the Worms cathedral dean, took part in the election of Emperor Charles VI as a representative of the Duchy of Liège in 1711 . in Frankfurt .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ About the activity as Reichspfennigmeister and Imperial Councilor
  2. ^ Website of the city of Bad Camberg on Achatz von Hohenfeld
  3. ^ Source link to the canonical in Bleidenstadt
  4. ^ History of Bleidenstadt Abbey
  5. ↑ On the consecration of the church in Dirmstein, with a description of Hohenfeld's activities
  6. ↑ To the sculptor Johann Strahl
  7. ↑ Website about the George Altar in Worms Cathedral
  8. ↑ On Damian Ludwig von Hohenfeld and his canons
  9. ^ To Damian Ludwig von Hohenfeld
  10. ↑ To Otto Ferdinand von Hohenfeld
  11. ^ Leopold von Eltester:  Hohenfeld, Wilhelm Ludwig von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 672 f.
  12. ↑ To the nephew: Leopold von Eltester:  Hohenfeld, Christoph Philipp Willibald Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 672.
  13. ^ Damian Ludwig von Hohenfeld as a participant in the emperor election of 1711
personal data
SURNAME Hohenfeld, Franz Carl Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenfeld, Franz Carl Friedrich Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic priest, dean of the cathedral and governor of the prince-bishop in Worms
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Camberg
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1757
Place of death Worms