Friedrich Magnus I of Solms-Wildenfels

Count Friedrich Magnus I.

Friedrich Magnus I. Count of Solms-Wildenfels (born August 31, 1743 in Wildenfels ; † February 12, 1801 ibid) was a German ruling count of the Wildenfels rule .

family

Solms-Wildenfels was the son of the Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Secret Council and since 1739 lords of Wildenfels, Heinrich Karl Graf zu Solms-Wildenfels (1706–1746) and his wife Charlotte Countess von Bylandt (1721–1799), daughter of Albrecht Otto Roeleman Friedrich Graf von Bylandt, Lord of Ooy and Persingen.

Solms-Wildenfels, who was a Protestant denomination, married Princess Caroline zu Leiningen (1757-1832), daughter of Prince Carl Friedrich Wilhelm zu Leiningen and his wife Christiane Wilhelmine Louise Countess of Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim. Their son, Friedrich Magnus II. Count of Solms-Wildenfels (1777-1857), became heir to the class rule. Another son was Emich Otto Friedrich Graf zu Solms-Wildenfels (1794–1834).

Life

After the death of his father in 1746, Solms-Wildenfels became the ruling count of Wildenfels . As such, he was a member of the Saxon state estates . He came into the possession of Engelthal Abbey through his wife . From 1795 he owned the Zechstein winery in the Lößnitz before the gates of the Dresden residence, which his widow held until 1825 after his death.

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke [Ed.]: Europäische Stammtafeln NF 17, 1998, T. 53.
• Gerd-Helge Vogel: Joseph Mattersberger (1755–1825): A classicist sculptor in the service of the Counts of Einsiedel and the Saxon iron art casting around 1800. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-86732-225-6 , p. 161.

Web links

• Solms-Wildenfels, Friedrich Magnus I. Graf zu. Hessian biography. (As of July 9, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).