Franz Erwein von Schönborn-Wiesentheid
Franz Erwein Graf von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (born April 7, 1776 in Mainz , † December 15, 1840 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German art collector and politician.
biography
Franz Erwein came from the noble family Schönborn and was born as the son of the kk chamberlain and real secret councilor Hugo Damian Erwein Franz von Schönborn (1738–1817), who came from Aschaffenburg , and his wife Maria Anna nee. Countess Stadion zu Thannhausen and Warthausen (1746–1817).
From 1792 he studied law at the University of Würzburg . In 1802 he married Countess Fernandine von Westphalen from Hildesheim (1781–1813), daughter of the imperial envoy Clemens August von Westphalen , and took over the entails of the Schönborn possessions in the empire. In 1806 the Grafschaft Wiesentheid was handed over to the Kingdom of Bavaria as part of mediatization .
Franz Erwein von Schönborn then mainly devoted himself to the administration of his Franconian estates and the wine-growing areas in the Rheingau . In 1811 he moved with his family to Munich, in 1812 he met the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig , began to work as an art collector and made contacts with important artists. He held the rank of Bavarian major general .
After the death of his wife (1813), Count Schönborn moved to Gaibach Castle . He had this rebuilt between 1800 and 1830 and surrounded it with an English park, in which he erected a monument to the constitution given to the Kingdom of Bavaria by King Max I Joseph in 1818 , the so-called Gaibach Constitutional Column , designed by his friend Leo von Klenze . At Klenze's suggestion, two pupils of Peter von Cornelius painted the constitution hall of the palace, which was completed in 1828 , namely Carl Heinrich Hermann and Jakob Götzenberger . The art collection that Franz Erwein von Schönborn brought together was in its time - next to King Ludwig I - the most important collection of contemporary art in southern Germany.
As a Bavarian landlord , Count Schönborn was a member of the Chamber of Imperial Councils of the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1819 until his death . At times he acted as Vice-President of the Reichsrat, in which function he represented the Chamber in 1819 at the funeral of Anton Eggstein , the first member of the Bavarian State Parliament to die.
According to the ducal edict of Nassau on October 29, 1831, Franz Erwein von Schönborn-Wiesentheid was appointed hereditary member of the first chamber of the Nassau estates . In the years from 1832 to 1837 he fulfilled his mandate.
literature
- Angelika Burger: Schönborn-Wiesentheid, Franz Erwein Count of. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 396 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Katharina Bott : A German art collector at the beginning of the 19th century. Franz Erwein von Schönborn. (1776-1840). VDG - publishing house and database for the humanities, Alfter 1993, ISBN 3-929742-03-9 , ( review of the book ).
- Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 341.
- Nassau parliamentarians. Part 1: Cornelia Rösner: The Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau 1818–1866 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. 59 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 16). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-930221-00-4 .
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Schönborn, Erwein Franz Damian Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 31st part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1876, p. 135 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Franz Erwein von Schönborn-Wiesentheid in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History (with portrait)
- Schönborn-Wiesentheid, Franz Erwein Damian Joseph Count von. Hessian biography. (As of April 7, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ^ Negotiation of the Chamber of Bavarian Members of Parliament , 1819, Volume 13, obituary by Anton Eggstein
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schönborn-Wiesentheid, Franz Erwein from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schönborn-Wiesentheid, Franz Erwein Graf von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art collector, builder of Gaibach Castle |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1776 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1840 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |