Franz Konrad von Schrottenberg

Franz Konrad Freiherr von Schrottenberg (born May 27, 1755 in Bamberg ; † September 7, 1829 there ) from the noble family Schrottenberg was a civil servant in the bishopric of Bamberg .

Life

Von Schrottenberg was the son of the Bamberg colonel Carl Dietrich Emmeran (1716–1758) and his wife Maria Anna Josepha, née von Hornstein, and the grandson of General Otto Philipp von Schrottenberg (1681–1738). Von Schrottenberg was married to Maria Anna von Hartersdorf and had ten children.

One year after the death of his father, his uncle Lothar Carl von Schrottenberg (1708–1759) also died childless and Franz Konrad became heir of the family affide commission Reichmannsdorf with the castle and the towns of Untermelsendorf , Obermelsendorf and Eckersbach . He also acquired the manors Marbach , Voccawind , Allertshausen and Eckartshausen .

In the Schrottenberg family, the position of chief magistrate in the Lichtenfels office was hereditary. Since he was only four years old when his uncle died, he could not take this position. He attended grammar school in his native Bamberg and then studied law in Bamberg, Würzburg and Wetzlar . In 1775 he became a royal court cavalier and councilor with a seat and vote on the aristocratic bench. In 1777 he was appointed royal chamberlain.

In 1778 the knightly canton Franz Konrad von Schrottenberg declared as of legal age. In 1790 he was appointed senior bailiff in the Burgebrach office. In 1794 he took the position of a Catholic knight council at the Steigerwald. In the following year he became Princely Privy Councilor . After an audience with Franz II in the course of negotiations about the purchase of goods in Austria, in 1801 he also received the dignity of an Austrian Imperial and Royal Chamberlain. In 1802 he was appointed court marshal of Bamberg. In addition, he was senior bailiff in the office of Schönbrunn . He carried the title of an imperial councilor and a Kurmainzer and a Bamberg privy councilor . When the knighthood of Franconia resisted after the secularization , he was promoted to land marshal of the Bavarian Franconian knighthood in 1804 for political reasons. However, he refused to take up this position without the consent of the head of the Reich, and after his retirement he received a pension that corresponded to his previous income.

Franz Konrad von Schrottenberg is described in contemporary literature as an educated man who possessed extensive knowledge in the field of art and art history. Since his youth he had collected a collection of copperplate engravings, which were partially destroyed by the French billeted in his house in 1796/1800. Around 1790, as territorial lord, he supported the porcelain turner Johann Gottlieb Ehregott Gottbrecht († 1795) in founding a porcelain factory in Reichmannsdorf, which was particularly successful under his heirs in the post-Napoleonic period and existed until 1867.

literature

• Claus Fackler: Stiftsadel and Spiritual Territories 1670–1803, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8306-7268-5 , p. 88.
• Heinrich Joachim Jaeck : Schrottenberg, Franz Konrad, Fr. In: Second pantheon of the writers and artists of Bamberg. Bamberg 1844, pp. 124-125, digitized .
• Franz Konrad Fr. Scrap mountain. In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . 7th year, 1829, 2nd part. Voigt, Ilmenau 1831, p. 896, digitized .
• Karl Schmutz: Historisch topographisches Lexicon von Steyermark, Volume 3, 1822, pp. 519-520, digitized

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marion Nicole Diehm: Gottbrecht, Johann Gottlieb Ehregott . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 59, Saur, Munich a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22799-8 , p. 243.