Franz Rudolph von Hettersdorf

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Coat of arms of the cathedral capitular Franz Rudolph von Hettersdorf (1675–1729), on the Nikolaus altar donated by him in the Worms cathedral

Franz Rudolph von Hettersdorf (born April 7, 1675 in Aschach , † August 28, 1729 in Worms ) was cathedral capitular in Worms and canon in Würzburg .

origin

He came from the old Franconian noble family of Barons von Hettersdorf and was born as the son of Baron Georg Adolf von Hettersdorf and his wife Anna Dorothea Hund von Saulheim . The father was Kurmainzer chamberlain and Hochstiftisch Würzburg secret council as well as senior magistrate in Waldaschach , later in Rothenfels .

His younger brother Johann Adolph von Hettersdorf (1678–1727) served as canon in Würzburg and as prorector of the Julius Maximilians University there .

Life

Heraldic epitaph in Worms Cathedral

Franz Rudolph von Hettersdorf entered the aristocratic seminary in Würzburg in 1685. On April 2, 1689 he was domiciled there and matriculated on April 21, 1693 at the Würzburg University. From October 15, 1695 he attended the Collegium Germanicum in Rome for two years , from 1697 to the University of Siena . On August 1, 1698, Hettersdorf was ordained a subdeacon in Rome . From 1699 to 1703 he attended the Sorbonne in Paris .

From April 12, 1707 until his death, Franz Rudolph von Hettersdorf served as the capitular at the St. Burkard Monastery in Würzburg . From 1689 he also acted as canon in Worms. In 1713, 1715 and 1716 he went on pilgrimages to the Nothgottes monastery in the Rheingau .

Hettersdorf died in 1729 and was buried in the (no longer existing) cloister of Worms Cathedral . In the cathedral itself is its large coat of arms epitaph made of red sandstone. It stands in the south transept, very close to the stone St. Nicholas altar donated by the canon and bearing his coat of arms. In his will he also financed an altar in the collegiate church of St. Burkhard zu Würzburg. He is also immortalized by a coat of arms on the choir stalls there .

literature

  • Alfred Wendehorst: Germania Sacra, The Dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Mainz, The Diocese of Würzburg (Volume 6), The Benedictine Abbey and the Noble Secular Canonical Monastery of St. Burkard in Würzburg , New Series, Volume 40, p. 339; (Digital scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ To the Hundt von Saulheim family
  2. ^ Ernst Wörner: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse: inventory and descriptive representation of the works of architecture, sculpture, painting and the arts and crafts up to the end of the 18th century. Century: Province of Rheinhessen: Worms district , Darmstadt, 1887, p. 189; (Digital view)
  3. Website on the coats of arms on the choir stalls at St. Burkhard, Würzburg