Friedrich Leopold von Wurmb

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Friedrich Leopold Christian Ludwig von Wurmb (born December 25, 1757 in Wolkramshausen , † June 7, 1818 in Dresden ) was a Saxon lieutenant colonel and manor owner.

Wiednitz, the former Castle Wiednitz around 1900, demolished in 1946

Life

He came from the Wolkramshausen branch of the Thuringian noble family Wurmb . His father was Ludwig Heinrich Anton von Wurmb (born August 15, 1728), his mother Friederike Christiane Magdalene, née Bila (born February 21, 1735 in Heinrode). He had nine siblings: Friedricke Elisabeth married. von Tettenborn , Carl Ludwig Friedrich, Carl Ludwig Friedrich Ernst Wilhelm August, Caroline Louise Wilhelmine Charlotte, m. Hucke, Wilhelm Christian Carl Ludwig, Louise Sophie Wilhelmine Luise, married. Plasterer, Henriette Amalie Charlotte, Ernst Wilhelm August Ludwig, Philippine Friederike Ernestine and Elisabeth Amalie Christiane.

Like many members of his family, he embarked on a military career and served in the Royal Saxon Army . In 1799 he was a prime lieutenant in the Dresden battalion of the Prince Anton regiment. Later took part in the Napoleonic Wars until 1815. After the commander Colonel Friedrich Christian von Liebenau, he was the second highest officer of the 3rd Line Infantry Regiment "Prince Friedrich August" as a lieutenant colonel . In 1816 he switched to the royal raft inspection as a timber manager. and passed away a year later.

Friedrich Leopold was married to Wilhelmine Elisabeth Freiin D'Orville von Löwenclau (October 15, 1774 in Wiednitz), the only child of Peter Friedrich D'Orville von Löwenclau (1731–1787), the manor of Wiednitz bei Kamenz in Saxony.

The couple lived at Wiednitz Castle , built between 1730 and 1735 , where Friedrich Leopold managed his wife's associated manor. It had four children including:

Wilhelmine died in 1800 giving birth to their fourth child Heinrich. Friedrich Leopold then lived in Dresden.

The manor with the castle, which Emperor Charles VII had transferred to the D'Orville family as a feudal estate , was apparently inherited by their relatives. The last landowner of the d'Orville family in the 19th century sold the fields, meadows and cattle and initially only pursued hunting and fish farming.

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Individual evidence

  1. Address calendar Dresden 1799 , SLUB, p. 530
  2. ^ Address book Dresden 1816 , SLUB, p. 85
  3. ^ Address book Dresden 1817 , SLUB, p. 65
  4. Former Wiednitz Castle Park