August Friedrich von Kötteritz

August Friedrich von Kötteritz (* August 24, 1614 , † October 26, 1668 at Frohburg Castle ) was an Elector of Brandenburg Chamberlain , Colonel Sergeant of the Infantry and Lord of Frohburg Castle.

origin

His parents were Sebastian Friedrich von Kötteritz († February 24, 1628) and his second wife Dorothe Sophie von Einsiedel from the Scharfenstein family . His brother Sebastian Friedrich (1623–1666) became an Oldenburg Landdrost .

Life

In 1630 August Friedrich enrolled at the University of Leipzig , initially studying there for three years until the Thirty Years War devastated his home Saxony to such an extent that he could no longer get any support from his family. So he went into the Saxon service and became an ensign at the end of 1633 . His first campaign led him to Silesia. Afterwards his cousin the Brandenburg colonel Johann Friedrich von Kötteritz took him as a lieutenant in his regiment. Soon he was a captain-lieutenant in the regiment's bodyguard. From here the elector brought him into his service as a chamberlain. Since von Kötteritz proved himself in this, he was soon used for various missions to electoral and princely courts. In addition, he received his own company, with which he was transferred as a captain to the strategically important fortress Oderberg . From July 14, 1639, the fortress was besieged by the Swedes under General Dromark, but was successfully defended by Kötteritz, for which he was promoted to major in 1642.

1642 resigned August Friedrich von Kötteritz military service, married and moved to the paternal Good manners back to rebuild it. On June 14, 1646, he bought Taschendorf because he had run successfully. On September 11, 1647 he bought Nieder- Burkau from Elias von Ponnikau , and on April 18, 1648 also Ober-Burkau from Tobias von Ponnikau (enfeoffed on June 10, 1849). He also bought Schönbrunn on February 16, 1649 from Hans Hartmann von Staupitz (enfeoffed on September 17, 1649). In 1649, August Friedrich also acquired Frohburg Castle after a long process. He began to rebuild the destroyed building, the church and the city. In 1650 he had the goods converted into kunkellehen . In 1659 he sold Ober- and Nieder-Burkau to Nikol von Gersdorf . In the same year Schönbrunn and Taschendorf went to Johann Georg von Ponickau.

Von Kötteritz died in Frohburg in 1668 and was buried in the church there. He was considered a diligent reader of the Bible, which he said he had read 37 times.

family

August Friedrich von Kötteritz married Anna Elisabeth von Loeben († October 1680) in Dresden on September 27, 1642 , the only daughter of Caspar von Loeben auf Milkel (Mülckel) and Anna von Pannewitz . The couple had the following children, four more died young:

• Caspar Sebastian († after October 1680)
• Sophia Dorotheen ⚭ NN Draschwitz on new churches
• Magdalena Sophien ⚭ NN Altmannshofen on Zschirlen
• Hedewig Sophien ⚭ NN from Loeben on Trebra
• Anna Sophien ⚭ Christoph Rupert von Vittinghoff (born April 27, 1653) in Sion, later buys Frohburg
• August Friedrich, Lord of Thierbach, heir to Frohburg

⚭ Johanna Elisabeth Heubler on Troschka

⚭ Lucretia from Schönberg on Limbach

literature

• Valentin König , Genealogical Adels-Historie Or gender description of those in the Chur-Sächsischen und gräntzenden Landen partly formerly, but mostly still in a good flor, oldest and most handsome noble families and from the same sprung various baronial and high-countial houses , Volume 2 , P. 630 , family tree
• History of the Upper Lusatian Nobility and their Goods , Volume 1, 1912, p. 915

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to King October 24, on his tombstone is written October 26 according to Der deutsche Herold , Volume 9, 1878, p. 131
2. ^ Sister of Heinrich Adam von Einsiedel, captain of Augustusburg, cf. History of the Upper Lusatian nobility and their estates , 4, 1923, p. 35
3. ↑ Archives for Saxon History , Volume 4, p. 279
4. ↑ New General German Adels Lexicon , Volume 2, p. 56
5. ^ Diplomatic messages from noble families , Volume 1, p. 202