Gallus Jacob

According to a plaque attached, the Lieblerhaus is the house where Jacobus Gallus von Hohlach was born; later research has shown that this information is incorrect.		At the Seilerhaus there is the building inscription 1619 WI, which is traced back to Wolff Jacob (grandfather of Gallus Jacob).

The Würzburg Residence

Johannes Gallus Jacob , later Gallus Jacob von Hohlach or Gallus Jakob von Hollach , (* 1670 in Tauberbischofsheim , † probably 1736 or 1737 in an unknown location) was a prince-bishop's court chamber director.

Residence in Würzburg. Friedberg Farm

Jacob, son of a ropemaker, studied logic in Würzburg in 1689 and rose from valet (1698) and councilor (1699) of the Würzburg prince-bishop under Johann Philipp von Greiffenclau zu Vollraths to court chamber director (1707) of this bishopric . (A court chamber director is responsible for financial management and his office corresponds to a finance minister by today's standards .) In 1700 he married Maria Josepha from the Würzburg family of officials, the Ganzhorn. Gallus Jacob was active as a builder in Würzburg and the surrounding area from 1710 to 1720. In 1712 he was appointed imperial court chamber councilor by the Viennese imperial court and in gratitude for mediating troops from Würzburg to the imperial army of Emperor Charles VI. His Würzburg residence, Hof Friedberg at Bronnbachergasse 43, was built around 1714 . In 1717 he was raised to the hereditary nobility as "de Jacob von Hollach" (after his manor near Aub ) , combined with admission to the Franconian knighthood ( knight canton Odenwald ). In the exercise of his offices, Jacob unabashedly enriched himself and thus came to enormous wealth. This was his undoing when the Provost Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn , whom he had previously accused of debt management and extravagance, was elected Prince-Bishop in 1719. Schönborn retaliated, deposed him and, in order to avoid trial against him, Gallus Jacob had to pay the unimaginable sum of 640,000 guilders (that would correspond to around 20,000,000 euros today) to the Würzburg bishop . Jacob is said to have raised the full amount in cash and in the form of ceded property within six months. With this money, the construction of the Würzburg Residence , which was to cost 1,500,000 guilders in the end, began. Jacob, who saw the trial against himself as unlawful, sought unsuccessfully to bring an action against the prince-bishop at the Viennese court.

Gallus Jacob's trail is then lost - the exact year of his death is unknown.

The Schönborn Residence is now a World Heritage Site .

literature

• Hans-Peter Baum: Spotlight: Gallus Jacob and the financing of the residential building . In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1848 . Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 (with the sources: Mainly after Scherf, 1930, pp.37-44; on the extent of the high-school annual budget around the middle of the 18th century. Heiler, 1985, p. 167 –172. )
• Wilhelm Ogiermann: Tauberbischofsheim in the Middle Ages. Document research on culture and history in the period 800–1600 . In: Hugo Stang, Anton Ullrich, Wilhelm Ogiermann, Josef Kiefer, August Haun: Tauberbischofsheim . Self-published by the city administration, Tauberbischofsheim 1955, pp. 375–379. (IX. Significant Tauberbischofsheimers, 6th chapter: Johannes Gallus de Jacob, prince-bishop's court chamber director (beginning of the 18th century). The author uses quotations from original sources and sources, candlesticks donated by Gallus in Tauberbischofsheimer city church form the framework for his elaboration.)
• Franz Gehrig , Hermann Müller: Tauberbischofsheim . Association of Tauberfränkische Heimatfreunde e. V., Tauberbischofsheim 1997, p. 427f (reference to W. Ogiermann; supplemented with new research results).
• Max Hermann von Freeden (Ed.): From the treasures of the Mainfränkisches Museum Würzburg . 3. Edition. Stürtz Verlag, Würzburg 1976, ISBN 3800300656 (1st edition from 1972).
• Andreas Scherf: Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn, Bishop of Würzburg (1719–1724), the builder of the residence. Series of publications on Bayer. Landesgeschichte 4, Munich 1930, reprint Aalen 1973.
• Thomas Heiler : The finances of the Hochstift Würzburg in the 18th century. In: Würzburger Diözesangeschichtsblätter 47 (1985) , pp. 159-189.

Web links

• Hans-Peter Baum: How the construction of the residence was financed. on würzburg.de . (The text is identical to Baum (2004) except for the heading and the missing source; text comparison on September 8, 2012.)

• Jacob, Gallus (pdf 15 kB) short curriculum vitae on pro-region.de .

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} after Gehrig / Müller (1997) p. 427.
2. ↑ See Burg Hohlach , a knightly estate in the municipality of Simmershofen ; see www.simmershofen.de: Hohlach .
3. ^ According to Gehrig / Müller (1997) p. 427 Jacob was born in 1670 and baptized on January 14, 1670. According to other literature sources (e.g. Baum (2004)) he was born in 1665.
4. ↑ The exact year of death is unknown and some assume an earlier time of death. Gehrig / Müller (1997) give 1736 or 1737 as the year of death. In a testimony dated April 4, 1737, Jacob's wife describes herself as a widow (Ogiermann (1955) p. 378/379).
5. ^ According to Baum (2004) he died in Würzburg ; Baum does not give a source for the place and no date of death. According to other authors, the place of death is unknown.
6. ↑ Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: pp. 634 f.
7. ↑ Note: The documents on the investigation and the trial were stored in the state archive and were lost in the bombing of Würzburg in February 1945. There is no more precise information about the contents of the files.
8. ↑ 640,000 guilders according to Baum (2004); 600,000 guilders according to Ogiermann (1955) and Gehrig / Müller (1997).
9. ↑ According to Baum (2004). Gehrig / Müller (1997) doubt that Jacob was able to raise the total amount up to his death.