Friedrich Magnus I (Solms-Laubach)

Friedrich Magnus I. zu Solms-Laubach (born October 1, 1521 , † January 13, 1561 in Laubach) was regent and from 1548 ruling count of the county of Solms-Laubach .

Life

His parents were Count Otto von Solms-Lich (1496-1522), younger son of Count Philipp von Solms-Lich (1468-1544), and his wife Anna von Mecklenburg (1485-1525), daughter of Duke Magnus II of Mecklenburg -Heavy woman and widowed Landgrave of Hesse . After Otto's early death, Laubach became an imperial county and Friedrich Magnus was the first Solms-Laubacher count to inherit in Laubach in 1548 and also took up permanent residence in Laubach Castle , which was gradually converted from a castle to a castle under his rule.

In 1540 a vigilante group, the "committee", was set up as a result of the city fortifications. This vigilante group has survived to this day as the “Laubacher Committee Festival”.

Friedrich Magnus, a friend of the reformer Melanchthon , introduced the Reformation in Laubach in 1544 . After the III. Solmser division 1548 Laubach became independent. Friedrich Magnus exempted the Laubacher from the “ Besthaupt ” ( inheritance tax ) and introduced a simplified court system from which the Solms land law grew. In 1555 he founded a Latin school whose first teachers came from Wittenberg . The Laubach library began at this time. Its inventory today consists of around 90,000 titles from the 16th century onwards. This makes it one of the largest private libraries. It is under monument protection and is entered in the register of nationally valuable cultural assets according to the Cultural Property Protection Act .

Friedrich Magnus' successor was his son Johann Georg (1547–1600).

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