Friedrich Magnus of Castell-Remlingen

Friedrich Magnus Graf and Herr zu Castell-Remlingen

Friedrich Magnus Count and Lord zu Castell-Remlingen (born October 6, 1646 in Remlingen ; † April 17, 1717 in Augsburg ) was ruler of the Grafschaft Castell- Remlingen from 1668 to 1717 , regional portion Remlingen. He shared the rule with his brother Wolfgang Dietrich . In addition, he excelled as General Field Marshal in the Turkish Wars and the War of the Spanish Succession .

The county before Friedrich Magnus

The 16th century was connected with a decisive event for the county of Castell. The counts accepted the Lutheran faith and thus obtained greater independence from the Würzburg prince-bishops . The following wars of the century, the Peasants' War of 1525 and the Second Margrave War then destroyed large parts of the county. At the turn of the 17th century the lines of the Castell family split: Alt-Castell-Rüdenhausen and Castell-Remlingen were created.

Another war, the Thirty Years' War , wrecked the decrepit county even further in the 17th century. From then on, the counts had to administer the existing areas, but could no longer hope for an expansion of their territory in Franconia . Far away from the county, in Austria, attempts were being made to master the Ottoman conquerors, who had brought large parts of Hungary under their rule.

Life

Friedrich Magnus was born in Remlingen on October 6, 1646, the seventh child of Count Wolfgang Georg I and his wife Sophia Juliana, a born Countess zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Pfedelbach . Four brothers died in childhood, so that Friedrich Magnus grew up with his older brother Wolfgang Dietrich, as well as the younger Eberhard Friedrich and the sisters Juliane Dorothea and Sophie Luise. The clergyman and poet Johann Heinrich Calisius served as an informator for the brothers .

Like his brother Wolfgang Dietrich, the young count studied at the University of Tübingen . After the death of his father in 1668, Friedrich Magnus inherited the county together with that brother. Both brothers divided the area into two portions of land; Friedrich Magnus was awarded the Remlingen region. Nevertheless, from 1671 the count took up a military career and entered French military service. For this he equipped his own company in the county .

In 1673 he left the French army on imperial orders after the Dutch War broke out. In 1674, Friedrich Magnus became a constable sergeant in a Brandenburg-Bayreuth regiment. In the same year the count switched to the Catholic faith in order to take higher offices at the imperial court. In 1680 he went to Vienna and became Imperial Chamberlain . At the same time he was a colonel of the "Graf Castell" dragoon regiment.

In this function, Count Friedrich Magnus also went to the Turkish Wars. In 1683 he distinguished himself with his regiment at the Second Siege of Vienna and fought in every major battle in this dispute. Friedrich Magnus also excelled in the War of the Spanish Succession, so that in 1694 he was appointed General of the Cavalry . The Count reached the peak of his military career with his appointment as Imperial Field Marshal.

From 1703, unlike his wife, the count no longer lived at his castle in Remlingen, but preferred his palace in Augsburg. After his wife's death in 1714, he married a distinguished Turkish woman whom he had captured on his campaigns. On April 17, 1717, Friedrich Magnus Graf and Herr zu Castell-Remlingen died in Augsburg and was buried in the local Dominican church.

Marriages and offspring

Friedrich Magnus married Countess Johanna von Öttingen-Öttingen on November 17, 1678 in Öttingen . The only son Leopold Friedrich Ernst emerged from this connection.

• Leopold Friedrich Ernst (* July 27, 1679 in Kirchheim unter Teck ; † August 21, 1702 in Landau in the Palatinate )

After the death of his wife, Friedrich Magnus married Maria Anna Augusta Fatma on April 2, 1714, who was allegedly brought along from the Balkan campaigns as the daughter of a Turkish pasha or the wife of a mullah . The marriage remained childless.

literature

• Max Domarus: The portraits in Rüdenhausen Castle . In: Friends of Mainfränkischer Kunst und Geschichte e. V. (Ed.): Mainfränkische Hefte. Issue 46 . Volkach 1966.
• Wilhelm Engel: House u. Reign of Castell in Franconian history . In: Society for Franconian History (ed.): Castell. Contributions to the culture and history of home and dominion. New Year's Sheets XXIV . Würzburg 1952. pp. 1-19.
• Otto Meyer: The Castell house. State and class rule over the centuries . In: Otto Meyer, Hellmut Kunstmann (ed.): Castell. State rule - castles - status lordship . Castell 1979. pp. 9-53.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Magnus zu Castell-Remlingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Meyer, Otto: The Castell House . P. 27.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Domarus, Max: The portraits in Rüdenhausen Castle . P. 36.
3. ↑ Meyer, Otto: The Castell House . P. 29.
4. ^ Archives for Saxon History. Karl von Weber , New Series - Second Volume. Verlag von Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1876.
5. ↑ Angelfire.com: Castell family tree , accessed March 7, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
Wolfgang Georg I.	Count of Castell-Remlingen 1668–1717	Karl Friedrich Gottlieb Wolfgang Georg II. August Franz Friedrich Ludwig Friedrich