Franz zu Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth

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Franz August Gustav Adam Hubertus Friedrich Wilhelm Hans Karl Graf zu Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth (born February 5, 1925 in Erbach (Odenwald) ; † October 2, 2015 ibid) was the head of the Erbach-Erbach family in his region as Count Franz II. Zu Erbach-Erbach known and owner of the church patronage over the parish offices of Erbach Nord and Reichelsheim , owner of a historically and culturally significant private archive and protector of the Catholic Church of St. Georg in Würzberg , co-founder of the German Ivory Museum and patron of theErbach Chamber Concerts. He lived in the hunting lodge Eulbach .

origin

The parents of Franz Graf zu Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth were Alexander Graf zu Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth , Herr zu Breuberg, Wildenstein, Steinbach, Curl and Ostermannshofen (* 1891, † 1952) and his wife Christa von Zülow (* 1894; † 1962). He was a landlord with a hereditary seat in the first chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the right to be addressed from the noble family Erbach . In 1919, the Weimar Constitution abolished public law privileges or disadvantages of birth or status in Germany. The nobility title "Graf" became part of the name.

After his older brother Eberhard (* 1922) died on November 23, 1943 at the age of 21 as a lieutenant in the 23rd Cavalry Regiment near Newel in Russia, when his father died, Franz became head of the Erbach-Erbach line of the entire Erbach house and head of the "offices of the Count's Administration ”.

German Ivory Museum

Closely linked with Franz Graf zu Erbach-Erbach is the establishment of the unique German Ivory Museum in 1966, to whose board of trustees he belonged.

Kammerspiele Erbach

In 1953, Graf zu Erbach-Erbach first invited to an evening of chamber music in the deer gallery of Erbach Castle. Since then he has been the patron of the Erbach Chamber Concerts.

Patronage

Franz Graf zu Erbach-Erbach, as head of the Erbach-Erbach family, was the owner of the church patronage of the Erbach Nord parish as well as the Reichelsheim parish , so he had an important right in the occupation.

Archive owner

Seal mark Graeflich Erbach-Erbach and Wartenberg-Rothische Rentkammer

The house archive of Count zu Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth is located in Erbach Castle in the Odenwald. It is managed on a voluntary basis and can be used on request.

Protector of St. Georg in Würzberg

The entire house in Erbach-Erbach is of the Lutheran denomination and a member of the SELK . Nevertheless, Franz Graf zu Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth took over the office of protector in 1953 when a Catholic church building was to be erected in Würzberg , after the number of Catholic citizens there as a result of the end of the war in 1945 and the immigration of Germans from the east from the east in 1946 182 people. At the request of the protector Franz Graf zu Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth, the chapel was placed under the protection of St. George . The locksmith work, the tower cross and the window and door fittings were made free of charge in the forge of Count zu Erbach-Erbach. All of the timber was donated by him and the Prince of Leiningen, who lived in Amorbach , as well as private forest owners. The foundation stone was laid on August 16, 1953. The foundation stone contains the deed of foundation with the following text:

“In the name of the Most Holy Trinity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen. In the year of salvation 1953, on the 12th Sunday after Pentecost, August 16, in the 15th year of the pontificate of His Holiness Pope Pius XII. when Dr. Albert Stohr Bishop of the Holy See of Mainz, Spiritual Counselor Dr. Dr. Konrad Booß Dean of the Dieburg Regional Chapter, Dr. Heinrich Hähner was the parish curate of Vielbrunn when Dr. Theodor Heuss Federal President, Dr. Konrad Adenauer Federal Chancellor and Georg August Zinn Prime Minister of the State of Hesse, Georg Ackermann District Administrator of the Erbach District, Leonhard Walther was Mayor of Würzberg, His Reverend Domkapitular Johannes Fink consecrated the foundation stone of this church as representative of His Excellency the Bishop of Mainz, which is based on the title ' St. Georg 'under the protectorate of His Highness Count Franz zu Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth, Herr zu Breuberg, Wildenstein, Steinbach, Curl and Ostermannshofen. "

Castle sales

The sale of his Erbach Castle and its collections to the State of Hesse, which, however, grants him and his family extensive rights of use, was spectacular.

family

Franz zu Erbach-Erbach married his first marriage on March 27, 1952 in Arolsen Margarethe Princess zu Waldeck and Pyrmont (* 1923; † 2003), daughter of Prince Josias zu Waldeck and Pyrmont and his wife Altburg Duchess of Oldenburg, with whom he up was married to the divorce that took place on July 10, 1979 in Michelstadt. She kept her married name and lived in a house in Erbach. The children Alexandra and Eberhard came from the marriage.

He married the second marriage on August 17th of the same year at Eulbach Castle in Eulbacher Park, the bank clerk Christa Blösinger (1947-2013), daughter of Helmut Blösinger, head of culture for the city of Bochum , and his wife Elisabeth Riegel. The marriage resulted in son Magnus-Alexander.

Trivia

On January 15, 1995, the Erbach Carnival Association awarded CV-Ulk 1870 Erbach Count Franz zu Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth with his medal of the “Laughing Lorbs”, with which Margit Sponheimer was first honored in 1990 .

literature

  • Thomas Gehrlein: The Erbach house with its lines Fürstenau, Erbach and Schönberg. Over 800 years of total history with ancestral sequences . Börde-Verlag, Werl 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814458-5-5 , p. 25 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weimar Constitution ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) jura.uni-wuerzburg.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jura.uni-wuerzburg.de
  2. ↑ a b c Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Princely Houses Volume XV , Volume 114 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg / Lahn 1997, pp. 205-209.
  3. ^ Franz August Graf zu Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1960 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Self-explanatory personality. ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Echo-online; Retrieved December 3, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echo-online.de
  5. ↑ Young Classics in Erbach. “Concerts in the Ivory Museum” to mark the 60th anniversary . ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Echo-online, June 18, 2013; Retrieved April 10, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echo-online.de
  6. ↑ Concerts in the German Ivory Museum in Erbach 2013/2014 season ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ; 960 kB) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / michelstadt.de
  7. ^ Official Journal of the Ev. Church in Hesse and Nassau No. 8/2012, p. 267 (PDF) and p. 270.
  8. ^ Archives in German-speaking countries, Verlag Walter de Gruyter (1974), p. 258 f. ( Digitized version )
  9. ^ Peter W. Sattler, Thomas Fettel: Monasteries, churches and chapels. Sacred architecture in the Odenwald . Norderstedt 2016, p. 73 .
  10. ↑ Catholic Church of St. George. ( Memento of July 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) City of Michelstadt; Retrieved August 1, 2011.
  11. ↑ Koch "pissed off" about Erbacher Counts . In: FAZ , December 14, 2003
  12. ↑ Plenary minutes of the debate in the Hessian state parliament on the purchase of a castle on June 9, 2005
  13. ↑ Medal bearer of the "Lachenden Lorbser" retrieved on August 1, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth, Franz zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Count of Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth, Franz August Gustav Adam Hubertus Friedrich Wilhelm Hans Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aristocratic descendant, owner of a historically and culturally significant private archive and protector of the Catholic Church of St. Georg
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Erbach (Odenwald)
DATE OF DEATH October 2nd, 2015
Place of death Eulbach Hunting Lodge