Franz Sigismund Adalbert von Lehrbach
Franz Sigismund Adalbert von Lehrbach (born May 11, 1729 , † October 26, 1787 in Ellingen ) was a German baron , Landkomtur of the Teutonic Order and envoy or authorized minister of the Roman-German Emperor in Electoral Palatinate Bavaria , as well as in several other territories .
Origin and family
He came from the old Hessian noble family of Barons von Lehrbach , with his ancestral seat at Castle Lehrbach , in today's Kirtorf ( Vogelsbergkreis ). His parents were Karl Wilhelm von Lehrbach († 1754), Prince-Bishop of Speyer Vizedom and Oberamtmann von Bruchsal , and Maria Katharina Elisabetha Franziska von Ketschau , who came from the Ketschauer Hof in Deidesheim . The younger brother Damian Hugo Philipp von Lehrbach (1738-1815) was a Jesuit and Freising canon .
Live and act
Franz Sigismund Adalbert von Lehrbach grew up in Bruchsal and joined the Teutonic Order. In 1765 he was promoted to the last Landkomtur of the Ballei Franken , based in Schloss Ellingen , where he carried out various construction measures and planned others that were not carried out due to his early death. From 1775 he also served as an imperial envoy in the Electoral Palatinate , in Mannheim , in Kurmainz (1775 to 1778), in the Speyer Monastery (1775 to 1787), at the Upper Rhine Empire (1775 to 1785), in Hesse-Kassel (1775 to 1785) , as well as in Hessen-Darmstadt (1775 to 1785); 1777 until his death as Plenipotentiary Minister for Electoral Palatinate Bavaria , in Munich . 1783–1787, Lehrbach held the same office at the Swabian Imperial Circle and from 1784–1787 at the Bavarian Imperial Circle .
In 1770 he took part in the conclave of the Teutonic Order in the Vienna Hofburg , with the election of Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria as coadjutor of the Grand Master . There is a large panel painting by Johann Franz Greipel (1720–1798) in the Hofburg Innsbruck (chapter room, north wall ), on which Baron von Lehrbach is also shown.
Franz Sigismund Adalbert von Lehrbach had the Teutonic Order Church of St. Vitus built in Pleinfeld from 1783 , as did the parish church of St. Augustine in Stopfenheim from 1773 . Both of them have his coat of arms outside. In his residence in Ellingen, the Landkomtur founded a grammar school in 1773. In Vienna German Ordenskirche a precious will Cope keeps the once part of a whole vestments was that he had donated. Lehrbach also worked as a hobby numismatist ; the Vienna branch of the Teutonic Order acquired his coin collection in 1788. Johann Georg Friedrich Jacobi (1751–1824) dedicated his “New Collection of Geographical-Historical-Statistical Writings” to him in 1784 .
He died in 1787 as a real imperial privy councilor and imperial chamberlain , in his residence in Ellingen. His heart urn is in the Maria-Hilf chapel in Ellingen .
In his local historical article "The luck of Ellingen: a forgotten Teutonic order residence on the Swabian Rezat" (in: Fränkische Chronik , Bad Mergentheim, No. 2 of February 2, 1999), the author Carlheinz Gräter writes with reference to a local legend : “On the night of his death, Comtur Franz Sigismund von Lehrbach drove with his well-known team out of the castle through the alleys of his residence. He took the way over the Rezat Bridge, paid his respects to the bridge saints and then disappeared into the night. And with him happiness disappeared from the walls of Ellingen. "
literature
- Leopold Nedopil: German nobility samples from the Deutsch-Ordens Zentral-Archiv , Vienna, 1868, 1st volume, p. 533 u. 534; (Digital scan)
- Gerhard Xaver: The Lords of Lehrbach; on the history of an extinct noble family from Hessen (PDF view)
Web links
- Data page at Kalliope
- Website of the Teutonic Order Church of St. Veit in Pleinfeld, mentioning Lehrbach
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joseph Schwind : Damian Hugo Philipp Graf von und zu Lehrbach (1738-1815) the benefactor of the Speyer Cathedral , Speyer , Jäger'sche Buchdruckerei, 1915
- ^ Website of Ellingen Castle
- ↑ Catharine Bosshart-Pfluger: The Basel Cathedral Chapter from its move to Arlesheim to secularization (1687-1803) , commission publisher F. Reinhardt, 1983, p. 124, ISBN 3724505124 ; (Cutout scan 1) , (Cutout scan 2)
- ^ Reinhard Graf von Neipperg: Kaiser and Schwäbischer Kreis (1714-1733) , p. 466, publications by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, Volume 119, Stuttgart, 1991, ISBN 978-3-17-011187-5 ; (Detail scan)
- ↑ Johann Franz Greippel in Vienna History Wiki of the city of Vienna
- ↑ Website for the painting
- ↑ Website of the municipality of Pleinfeld ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2015 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.
- ↑ Website for the parish church of St. Augustine, Stopfenheim
- ^ Annual report on the Royal Latin School in Ellingen: 1864/65 , Ellingen, 1865, p. 2; (Digital scan)
- ↑ Website for the grammar school in Ellingen founded by Lehrbach ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ^ Website on the so-called Lehrbach regalia
- ^ Website of the Teutonic Order with reference to Lehrbach's coin collection
- ↑ Dedication, digital scan from Volume 1
- ↑ Imperial and Royal Titular and Family Calendar of the Kingdom of Bohemia , Prague, 1787, p. 91; (Digital scan)
- ↑ Bayreuther Zeitung , 1787, sheet 964 of the year; (Digital scan)
- ↑ Website of the Maria-Hilf-Kapelle Ellingen
- ↑ Article as PDF document
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lehrbach, Franz Sigismund Adalbert von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German baron, land commander of the Teutonic Order, imperial diplomat and minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1729 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 1787 |
| Place of death | Ellingen |