Franz Ludwig Faust von Stromberg

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Epitaph in Würzburg Cathedral, around 1681 by Johann Philipp Preuss

Franz Ludwig Faust von Stromberg (born August 15, 1605 , † October 22, 1673 ) was a German nobleman , provost of the cathedral in Würzburg and provost of two collegiate colleges .

origin

Faust von Stromberg came from the old, now extinct noble family of the Faust von Stromberg , which originally came from the Stromburg near Stromberg in the Hunsrück . The grandfather Johannes Salentin (also Valentin) Faust von Stromberg, Kurmainzer and Bavarian privy councilor, was an assessor at the Imperial Court of Speyer . In 1676 he published, posthumously, a legal treatise on crime ( Tractatus posthumus de criminibus ).

Franz Ludwig's parents were Johann Paul Faust von Stromberg and Magdalena geb. from Warsberg . Two of the father's sisters lived as Dominicans in the Marienthal monastery (Luxembourg) . Agnes, another father sister, had married Johann Georg von Ostein, the brother of the Basel prince-bishop Johann Heinrich von Ostein (1579-1646), and they became the grandparents of the later Lavant bishop Franz Kaspar von Stadion (1637-1704).

Franz Ludwig's sister Anna Franziska († 1668) married Georg Anton von Heppenheim called vom Saal , Prince-Bishop's Würzburg officer and bailiff († 1684), brother of the Mainz cathedral provost or dean and chancellor of Heidelberg University , Johann von Heppenheim called vom Saal (1609– 1672).

Life

Franz Ludwig Faust von Stromberg entered the clergy and became canon in Würzburg on July 20, 1626 , as the successor to the deceased beneficiary Sebastian von Stauffenberg . In 1630 he was promoted to cathedral capitular , in 1649 cathedral curator , and on March 25, 1651 he was elected provost of the Würzburg cathedral . In addition, the aristocrat was cathedral capitular in Worms , from 1636 canon in Bamberg , from 1638 to 1651 provost in Wetzlar , in 1640 he became the sixteenth dean of the Comburg monastery and in 1650 provost of the St. Burkard monastery in Würzburg .

In 1643, on behalf of Prince-Bishop Franz von Hatzfeld , Faust von Stromberg visited the Murrhardt Monastery , whose abbot Emmerich Fünkler had just been abducted by the Swedes and died violently. In Würzburg, he supported the work of the of Bartholomew Holzhauser newly established Bartholomiten and recommended the community personally the Augsburg Provost Johann Christoph von Freyberg , who only on a trial basis, took after his ascent to the Prince Bishop, quite to his diocese. As Emperor Leopold I in 1658 for election or coronation to Frankfurt , Bishop Johann Philipp von Schönborn traveled to his cathedral provost to receive the monarch at the Würzburg diocese border and to ensure his safety and comfort. In 1662 the clergyman gave the Kreuzkapelle in Eibelstadt a particle of the Holy Cross , set in a silver monstrance .

In the Würzburg Cathedral , Franz Ludwig Faust von Stromberg donated the Maria-Himmelfahrts-Altar (which has not existed since 1945) in the north transept of the cathedral in the apsidiole and was buried in front of it, opposite the place where it was made by the creator of the Marien Altar in 1681 the Würzburg sculptor Johann Philipp Preuss (1605 - approx. 1687), created epitaph is located. He and his relatives had been raised to the baron class. The Jesuit Wolfgang Schwan gave him the funeral sermon, which also appeared in print.

His nephew Franz Ernst Faust von Stromberg († 1674) acted as the Würzburg privy councilor and senior bailiff of the Hochstift in Haßfurt and Eltmann . His sons Philipp Ludwig Faust von Stromberg (1660–1704) and Franz Georg Faust von Stromberg (1666–1729) also became clergymen and cathedral capitulars in Würzburg.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz : New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 2, p. 160, Leipzig, 1836; (Digital scan)
  2. ↑ Digital scan of writing
  3. ^ Genealogical page on the family von Ostein
  4. ↑ Website on Comburg Abbey with mention
  5. ^ Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches , volumes 26–27, pp. 346–349, Pustet Verlag, 1905; (Detail scan)
  6. ↑ Biography of the venerable servant of God Bartholomäus Holzhauser, innovator of the communal life of the secular priests: together with his wonderful explanation of the secret revelation , Volume 1, Bamberg, 1783, p. 87; (Digital scan)
  7. ^ Susanne Schlösser: Geschichtliche Landeskunde , Volume 39 of the series, issued by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , 1993, p. 221; (Detail scan)
  8. ↑ Ignaz Gropp: Würzburg Chronicle , Part 2 (1642–1750), p. 276, footnotes b u. c, Würzburg, 1750; (Digital scan)
  9. ↑ The Kreuzkapelle Eibelstadt in Würzburg wiki
  10. ↑ Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: p. 624.
  11. ↑ Birgit Boge, Ralf Georg Bogner: Oratio funebris , Rodopi Verlag, 1999, ISBN 9042007486 , p. 420 u. 421; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Faust von Stromberg, Franz Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baron and Provost in Würzburg
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1605
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1673