Franz Caspar von Langen
Franz Caspar Freiherr von Langen (* 1651 / 1652 , † 1737 ) was a Privy Councilor of the Mainz Electors and resided in the castle in Laumersheim .
According to the family coat of arms in the Laumersheim church, he came from the Westphalian noble family of "Langen with the diamonds" . His widowed mother, from the noble house of the "Winter von Bromskirchen", donated a monstrance in Laumersheim in 1717 .
On August 17, 1701, Langen, as the Mainz government councilor, accepted the homage in the free court in Wilmundsheim vor dem Berge , near Alzenau . In 1707, during the visit to the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar , he represented the Elector of Mainz as a councilor .
At the age of almost 70, in addition to the reconstruction of his Laumersheim Castle , which was destroyed in the Palatinate War of Succession , he also took care of the new construction of the simultaneous Church of St. Bartholomew , he also built the Holy Cross Chapel on the Palmberg and donated furnishings and church utensils in both churches and soul masses. He had the Palmberg designed as a so-called Calvary and erected stone stations of the cross coming from Laumersheim . In this context he founded the local "agony of Christ brotherhood" , which organized and supervised the pilgrimages to the Palmberg.
Franz Caspar von Langen was buried in the Church of St. Bartholomew in Laumersheim.
literature
- Anton Fahne : History of the Westphalian families with special consideration of their relocation to Prussia, Curland and Liefland , Cologne, 1858, p. 260; (Digital scan of the noble family von Langen with the diamonds)
- Adalbert Parmet: Rudolf von Langen : Life and collected poems of the first Münster humanist , Münster, 1869, pp. 153–161; (Digital scan of the noble family von Langen with the diamonds)
Individual evidence
- ^ Max von Spiessen: Book of arms of the Westphalian nobility , page 79, "Langen III"
- ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: The Art Monuments of Bavaria , Administrative Region Palatinate, VIII. City and District Frankenthal, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1939, p. 376 u. 377 (detail scan)
- ↑ Website on the history of the free court
- ^ Friedrich Wilhelm von Ulmenstein: History and topographical description of the free imperial city of Wetzlar , Volume 2, p. 454, Wetzlar, 1806; (Digital scan)
- ^ Ludwig Stamer : Church history of the Palatinate , 3rd part, 2nd volume, p. 101, Pilger Verlag Speyer, 1959; (Detail scan)
- ↑ Anke Elisabeth Sommer: The Laumersheimer Pfarrbuch. Laumersheim 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langen, Franz Caspar von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Langen, Franz Caspar Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Privy councilor of the Elector of Mainz, benefactor of the Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1651 or 1652 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1737 |