Friedrich Ebenhöch

Friedrich Georg Hermann Joseph Ebenhöch (born April 7, 1714 in Würzburg (cathedral parish); † August 9, 1786 ibid) was a lawyer, court and consistorial advisor to the Prince of Würzburg and a senior member of the city magistrate.

Life

Ebenhöch, the youngest of six sons of the prince-bishop's Privy Councilor and Lord Mayor of the city of Würzburg Johann Wilhelm Ebenhöch (born April 3, 1683 in Eibelstadt ; † October 9, 1769 in Würzburg) and his first wife Eva Margarethe, née Haye, daughter of Spice dealer Adam Haye in Würzburg and widow of the doctor of both rights Johann Theodor Sutor († around 1700), assessor and administrator at the district court of Würzburg, was licentiate in law as a lawyer, became city counsel in 1740, councilor and syndic of the Neumünster collegiate monastery in Würzburg with a coat of arms in the silver council book of the city of Würzburg. As a senior member of the city magistrate, he was appointed in 1749 to the high ducal consistorial councilor and in 1771 to the court councilor . (Würzburger Hof, state and state calendar)

Friedrich Georg Ebenhöch was one of the secular accusers in the witch trial against the nun Maria Renata Singer von Mossau from the Unterzell monastery near Würzburg. The guilty verdict of May 28, 1749 was cremated alive. This judgment was tempered by the Würzburg prince-bishop Karl Philipp von Greiffenclau zu Vollraths in beheading and burning the corpse. The life of Maria Renata ended - according to the protocols - on June 21, 1749 on the place of execution on the Middle Bastion towards Höchberg , which later became the Hexenbruch district.

family

Friedrich Georg Ebenhöch, married since 1740 to Maria Katharina Theresia Werner, widow of the prince-bishop's court and consistorial councilor and mayor of the city of Würzburg Alexander Werner, had the son Franz Wilhelm Adam Ebenhöch (1743-1824), spiritual advisor to the Neumünster canon in Würzburg.

literature

• Richard Redelberger: Old Würzburg families: The Turnes and Ebenhöch from Eibelstadt. In: The Mainlande - past and present. Mainpost 11th year, No. 21, 1969, Friedrich Georg Ebenhöch page 81.
• German Gender Book, Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families, Volume 172 (45th General Volume) 1975, family line Ebenhöch, Ebenhöh, Ebenhoch von Hocheneben from Hohenfels in the Upper Palatinate, pages 233–288; Friedrich Georg Hermann Joseph Ebenhöch, page 272.
• The Hexenbruch - history of the origin of the name, in it the sections: The secular process; From the act MSf20; The final judgment; The execution of Maria Renata Singer, pages 6 to 8, accessed on the Internet in June 2010.
• Georg Gaar: Christian salutation next to the Scheiter-Hauffen, whereupon the corpse of Mariae Renata, a sorceress executed by sword, was burned on June 21st, 1749. Printed by Marco Antonio Engmann, Hof Druckern Wirtzburg.