Friedrich Gottlieb von Löwenstern

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Friedrich Gottlieb Freiherr von Löwenstern (* around 1668 ; † after 1727 ) was an administrative lawyer in first Württemberg , then Hesse-Darmstadt civil service and namesake of the lion pit near Altdorf .

Life

Friedrich Gottlieb von Löwenstern was the son of the Imperial General War Commissioner Johann Elsener of Löwenstern , the 1676 to Vienna as of Löwenstern into the realm baron was charged.

Friedrich Gottlieb von Löwenstern was so wealthy from an early age that, as a student at the University of Altdorf , he was able to sponsor the rock cellar near Altdorf near Nuremberg, newly discovered on March 11, 1686 by his court master Johann Christian Christ, within a student group, whereupon the cave after him lions tomb , since the 19th century as a lion's den was named. That year he was also transmitted to Altdorf in the pedigree of the student Johann Ludwig Apinus (1668-1703), later professor of medicine in Altdorf, a. The fragment of this register is now in the Württemberg State Library as part of the Frommann Collection.

As a lawyer, Löwenstern was initially a respondent in Jena and Tübingen. The invitation to his doctorate was printed in Jena in 1690.

Kaltental Castle , 1696–1709 owned by Baron Friedrich Gottlieb von Löwenstern

In 1696 he bought the noble Erblehengut zu Kaltental with the Kaltental Castle "with all rights, justice and burdens", the Meier- and Mühlenhaus and income in kind for 10,000  florins from the lords of Remchingen , his wife's family . Of this amount, 5,000 fl. Had to be paid in cash, the remainder in installments to the stately iron factory in Königsbronn .

Also in 1696, he gave a loan to Franz Karl von Gemmingen , who gave him the mill “in the leasable place Tiefenbronn ” as a pledge, which was redeemed in 1707. Franz Karl von Gemmingen himself sold (or pledged) the place Tiefenbronn in 1696 to Friedrich Anton von Löwenstern . On November 22, 1697, Baron Friedrich Gottlieb von Löwenstern zu Stuttgart sold the "Alsatian Fountain" to Duke Eberhard Ludwig von Württemberg , for which he was given the right to use the two fountain gardens on the Himmelsberg and a pipe from the Alsatian fountain as a cattle trough.

Shortly before 1706 Friedrich Gottlieb von Löwenstern acquired the stately house at Stiftstrasse 10 in Stuttgart, the Alte Propstei . Löwenstern beautified the house, built a hall and bought a rear building. He received permission from the city to demolish part of the city wall and build on it. Above the entrance of the house he had his coat of arms affixed with the inscription: Friedrich Gottlieb Freiherr von Löwenstern. Loysa Gottliebin drilled from Remchingen 1706 God with Us , which could still be seen at the end of the 19th century.

Löwenstern sold the aristocratic hereditary estate in Kaltental with all rights, justice and burdens, as he had bought it from the Lords of Remchingen in 1696, on July 18, 1709 to Duke Eberhard Ludwig von Württemberg. At that time he was the ducal senior counselor and court judge as well as councilor and court master of the younger dowager duchess Magdalena Sibylla von Württemberg (1652–1712), a daughter of Landgrave Ludwig VI. of Hessen-Darmstadt , who was regent from 1677 to 1693. The following conditions were also included in the Kaltental purchase letter: the right of the Löwenstern family to church pews and burial in the church in Möhringen on the Fildern , the payment of a key money of 100 thalers or 200 fl to Mrs. Loysa Gottliebe Freiin von Löwenstern, née von Remchingen, the whereabouts of Beständers Hans Claus Martin until April 23, 1710 in the mill house, as well as living in the castle persons until 11 November 1709 and the acquisition of inventory Meiers John Rueffer.

As Vice President of the Government Council of Württemberg, Baron von Löwenstern applied for a salary improvement on January 7, 1712. On March 3, 1716, the Duke issued a decree on his quarterly salary succession. Finally he held the office of a ducal Württemberg government president . After about ten years he lost his job in Stuttgart and sold his house there on June 25, 1722 to the court and government councilor Johann Bernhard Pfau. He then went to the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt , where he was promoted to secret government and consistorial councilor at the court in Darmstadt .

family

Löwenstern was married to Ludovica (Louisa) Gottliebe, geb. von Remchingen to Kaltental Castle , which he sold to the Duke of Württemberg in 1709. They have a common son, the painter and poet Christian Ludwig von Löwenstern, who was born in Darmstadt around 1701/1702 .

Fonts

  • Friedrich Gottlieb von Löwenstern and Ferdinand Christoph Harpprecht , Iuris communis et provincialis Marchico-Badensis differentiae principes: in materia contractuum, successionis ex testamento, et ab intestato, ut et in criminalibus sive ad iuris Marchico-Badensis Part. IV. V. VI. & VII. , Tübingen, 1691
Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Peter Mueller and B. Paul Bornefeld with the participation of Friedrich Gottlieb von Loewenstern and Wolf (gang) von Metternich, Aetas justa , Jena 1690 (disputation)
  • Friedrich Gottlieb von Löwenstern, first and main prospect of the Princely Building like such, both to be seen against the forecourt and presented against the large basin and the main avenue , around 1705
  • Friedrich Gottlieb von Löwenstern, third and last prospect of the princely. Baues, like this one, viewed from the far side towards the garden , around 1705
  • Friedrich Gottlieb von Löwenstern and Ferdinand Christoph Harpprecht, Disp. iuris communis et provincialis Marchico-Badensis differentiae principes , Tübingen 1737

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hrgdigital.de
  2. ↑ FG Gayler, Historical Memories of the Former Free Imperial City , Volumes 1–2, p. 189 (here erroneously with the predicate "Löwenstein") ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ CERL Thesaurus: Elsener von Löwenstern, Johann
  4. ↑ Lions Den
  5. ↑ Magnus Schmid:  Apinus, Johann Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 327 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ a b The autograph collection of the Stuttgart consistorial director Friedrich , p. 304 ( digitized version )
  7. ↑ Löwenstern, Friedrich Gottlieb von
  8. ^ WorldCat
  9. ↑ Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe: Holdings 72: Fief and aristocracy archive No. 4504
  10. ↑ Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe: Holdings 72: Fiefdom and aristocratic archives No. 4503
  11. ↑ Main State Archives Stuttgart: Holdings A 259 a: 10 Kaltental
  12. ↑ Max Bach ; Carl Lotter: Pictures from Old Stuttgart , Stuttgart: Lutz 1896, p. 29
  13. ↑ Main State Archive Stuttgart : Archive unit A 403 U 330
  14. ↑ Main State Archives Stuttgart: Holdings A 282: Bü 2881/2
  15. ^ Morgenblatt für educated stands, Volume 8, p. 224 ( digitized version )
  16. ^ Description of the Oberamt Stuttgart, Office
  17. ^ WorldCat
  18. ^ Catalog of the Kiel University Library
  19. ^ WorldCat
  20. ^ WorldCat
  21. ^ WorldCat
personal data
SURNAME Löwenstern, Friedrich Gottlieb from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löwenstern, Friedrich Gottlieb Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Administrative lawyer in first Württemberg, then Hesse-Darmstadt civil service, as well as namesake of the lion pit near Altdorf
DATE OF BIRTH around 1668
DATE OF DEATH after 1727