Friedrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein

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Karl Friedrich Wilhelm zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (born January 19, 1708 in Berlin ; † June 9, 1756 at Wittgenstein Castle ) was a German count from the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein .

family

Friedrich was born on January 19, 1708 as the eldest son of Count August David zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1663-1735) and his first wife Concordia Countess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein zu Vallendar (1679-1709).

Live and act

Church and school regulations, publisher: Count Friedrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein. Printing: Christoph Michael Regelein, Berleburg 1746.

After taking office in 1735, Friedrich took care of the consolidation of finances and economic development in the southern county. He also put an end to the ever-scarce water supply to the high-altitude castle by having a pressure station completed in the Lahn valley below the castle, which pumped part of the water from the Lahn through a pipe up to the castle hill and thus the laborious, daily water transport with four to four made six service horses redundant to the castle. This printing technique, used u. a. for the drainage of mines, was unique in the wide area at the time and was called " water art ". The term also gave its name to the emerging settlement below the castle, namely Kunst Wittgenstein . Count Friedrich had his territory comprehensively surveyed and had the site documented for the first time by the geometer Adam Blum in the Forest Atlas from 1739, which is now in the archives of the Wittgenstein Rent Chamber. In 1749 he had extensive church and school regulations printed in Berleburg. In 1751 he gave the Jewish community in Laasphe a "grass space to the left of the path between Laasphe and Puderbach ." The Jewish cemetery was established here. In 1753 Count Friedrich had a new manorial house built in Ludwigseck , which, however, was demolished 34 years later by his successor and rebuilt in Schwarzenau .

Marriage and offspring

Friedrich married Princess Auguste Amalie Albertine zu Nassau-Siegen (born September 5, 1712 - February 22, 1742), daughter of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf zu Nassau-Siegen and Duchess Amalie Louise von , on May 6, 1738 in Siegen Courland. From this marriage there were two children:

  • Johann Ludwig (1740–1796)
  • Louise Friederike Karoline (1739–1788)

After the death of his first wife on June 12, 1743, he married her younger sister Elisabeth Hedwig, Princess of Nassau-Siegen (1719–1789). The second marriage resulted in another child, the son Karl Theodor Wilhelm (1744-1817).

Count Friedrich died on June 9, 1756 at the age of 48. His successor was his eldest son, Johann Ludwig, who was initially represented in government affairs by Karl August Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck , because of his young age .

literature

  • Ulf Lückel, Andreas Kroh: The Princely House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein. Börde publishing house. Werl 2004.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Goebel : Historical fragments from the life of the ruling counts and princes of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein. Victories 1858.
  • Helmut Nuhn: General and special charts of the Reichsgrafschaft Wittgenstein 1739. A remarkable document on historical cartography, economic history and regional studies of the Hessian-Westphalian low mountain range. In: Reports on German regional studies, Federal Research Center for Regional Studies and Regional Planning, Volume 45, Issue 2, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1971.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philipp Dickel: Family table of the mediatized house Sayn and Wittgenstein, Wernigerode 1907. Unchanged reprint in Heimat-Verlag and Antiquariat Angelika Wied, Bad Laasphe 2009, (9/100), plate 10.
  2. ↑ The family tree of the Sayn-Wittgenstein family, however, shows the father's date of birth as April 22, 1662 on plate 10. In all available online sources, the year of birth is noted as 1663.
  3. ↑ Helmut Nuhn: General and special charts of the Reichsgrafschaft Wittgenstein 1739. A remarkable document on historical cartography, economic history and regional studies of the Hessian-Westphalian low mountain range. In: Reports on German regional studies, Federal Research Center for Regional Studies and Regional Planning, Volume 45, Issue 2, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1971, pp. 203–212.
  4. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Goebel: Historical fragments from the life of the ruling counts and princes of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein. Siegen 1858, p. 54.
  5. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Goebel: Historical fragments from the life of the ruling counts and princes of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein. Siegen 1858, p. 53.
  6. ↑ WA B 19
  7. ^ The Berleburger Chroniken , page 278.
  8. ↑ Ulf Lückel, Andreas Kroh: The Princely House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein. Börde-Verlag, Werl 2004, pp. 18-19.
personal data
SURNAME Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, Friedrich zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German count from the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1708
PLACE OF BIRTH at Wittgenstein Castle
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1756
Place of death at Wittgenstein Castle