Franz Gottfried von Maercken

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Franz Gottfried von Maercken (* 1768 ; † June 18, 1833 at Myllendonk Castle near Korschenbroich ) was a German lawyer and the first district administrator in the Gladbach district .

Life

Franz Gottfried von Maercken was a descendant of Peter von Maercken zu Gierath, Jülisch-Bergischer Kammerrat, and the son of his great-grandson, the bailiff Johann Anton Rudolf von Maercken (1700–1781) and Anna Margarita Elisabeth Philippina, née von Wüllenweber. His sisters were Caroline († 1844), married to Joseph von Jordans zu Morenhoven , Johanna "Jeanette" (1753–1858), married to Ferdinand von Pranghe (1769–1832), Richter zu Mettmann , and Maria Konstantia Wilhelmine Josefa (1771– 1816); In 1804 she married Johann Justin Joseph Leopold Chevalier Le Fort , a tax collector in Viersen , who was accidentally fatally shot by his father-in-law in 1808 while hunting. He attended the Laurentianum grammar school in Cologne and became a lawyer. In 1796 he was appointed to the government council in Bonn , then to the tribunal councilor and district director in Cologne. Von Maercken was known for his scientific hobbies and always carefully dressed according to the latest fashions. In 1803 he acquired the moated castle Myllendonk near Korschenbroich (district Herrenshoff), on which he resided from then on, including the associated lands from the French government. After the establishment of the district of Gladbach in 1816, Maercken was from King Friedrich Wilhelm III. appointed district administrator by Prussia . He held this office until his death in 1833. The coat of arms given to his ancestor Peter von Maercken in 1640 and also carried by him shows: “In silver, five red balls set like crosses with blue rings; blue tarnished helmet with white and red blanket, on it growing (white) swan ”. Since he remained unmarried, he bequeathed the castle to his niece Elise von Wüllenweber.

Fonts

  • Report from the District Administrator of the Gladbach district, Franz Gottfried von Maercken, to the President of the Government of Aachen, August von Reimann. Gladbach, July 9, 1821 . Copy: Landesarchiv NRW, Dept. Rhineland, Government Düsseldorf, No. 66, sheet 48-50v, in: Gaby Huch (Hrsg.): Between Ehrenpforte and Incognito: Prussian Kings on Travel. Acta Borussica. New episode. 2nd row: Prussia as a cultural state. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, p. 566 (online).

Archival material

  • Historical archive of the City of Cologne, 1 City of Cologne, 1.3 City of Cologne after 1815, 1.3.6 Social, integration, environment

A 11/61. Contains u. a .: Letter manuscript Myllendonck February 23, 1778, Lichtschlag, Josef Anton Franziskus (1746-1831), 1773 Rentmeister, bailiff at Millendonck since 1782, married May 9, 1782 to Anna Margarethe Elisabeth Philippine Wüllenweber, widow of Johann Franz Anton Rudolf von Märcken († 1781 March 1), his predecessor; Karoline, Konstantia and Johanna von Märcken are his stepdaughters, Franziska (* 1783 Apr. 19) his daughter: The young gentleman [Franz Gottfried] von Maercken from the castle is to be sent to Cologne to study a. Take quarters with W's [Wüllenweber] parents, if necessary dine with his uncle on Glockengasse. Because of a certain foundation he will study at the Laurentianum.

  • State archive NRW Rhineland department. 2.3. District offices / district authorities. 2.3.24. District Office Mönchengladbach. 6. Head: Franz Gottfried von Maerken (1816–18.06.1833) ( http://www.archive.nrw.de  ›LAV_NRW› jsp ›inventory).

literature

  • Christian Samuel Theodor Bernd: Description of the coat of arms delivered in the coat of arms of the Prussian Rhine Province, (...). Lithographic Institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (…) by Henry and Cohen, Bonn 1835: Nobles. P. 74, Plate LXXVII, No. 153: HH Franz Gottfried von Maercken. (Gladbach July 24, 1824.-E. 38). Carl Friedrich- u. Gottfried Freih. v. Maercken zu Geeradt (Hugenport in March 1833).
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 6. Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1865, pp. 77/78.
  • Anton Fahne: History of the Counts, now Prince Salm-Reifferscheid (...). JM Heberle (M. Lempertz), Cöln 1866, p. 31.
  • Thomas Becker, Dominik Geppert, Helmut Rönz (eds.): The Rhineland on the way to Prussia 1815–1822. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2019, p. 139.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The addition to the name "zu Gierath" (in other lines of the family modified "zu Geeradt", "zu Geerath") refers to the village of the same name, Gierath , north of Grevenbroich
  2. ↑ http://www.wuellenweber-genealogie.homepage.t-online.de
  3. ↑ Flag (1866), p. 31
  4. ↑ no source
  5. ^ Ernst von Oidtman : The gentlemen of Milendonk from the von Mirlaer family , in: Richard Pick (Hrsg.): Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein, Volume 10.Commissions-Verlag der Cremersche Buchhandlung (C. Cazin), Aachen 1888, p. 20th
  6. ^ The Rhineland came to Prussia in 1815. Since 1816 Gladbach was the administrative center and seat of the Gladbach district in the Düsseldorf administrative region
  7. ↑ Bernd (1835), pp. 74, 153
personal data
SURNAME Maercken, Franz Gottfried von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maercken zu Gierath, Franz Gottfried von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and royal Prussian civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH 1768
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1833
Place of death Myllendonk