Georg August (Nassau-Idstein)

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Georg August von Nassau-Idstein, around 1690

Georg August Samuel von Nassau-Idstein (born February 26, 1665 in Idstein , † October 26, 1721 in Biebrich ) was Count from 1677 and Prince of Nassau-Idstein from 1688 until his death . He mainly worked in Wiesbaden .

Life

Georg August was just 12 years old when his father Johann died in 1677. The government was initially taken over by the two guardians Johann Caspar von Leiningen-Dagsburg, a brother of his mother, and Count Johann August von Solms. Georg August used this time to study in Giessen , Strasbourg and Paris , and later also in England and Brabant . He also got to know various European courts, and the Palace of Versailles particularly impressed him. In 1683 he took part in the defense of Vienna during the second Turkish siege . A year later, on his 18th birthday, he became the ruling count. On August 4, 1688, Emperor Leopold I made him prince because of his services to the liberation of Vienna and after paying a large sum of money .

On November 22, 1688 he married Princess Henriette Dorothea (born November 14, 1672 in Oettingen ; † May 23, 1728 in Wiesbaden), daughter of Prince Albrecht Ernst I of Oettingen-Oettingen and Christiane Friederike von Württemberg . He subsequently had a total of 12 children with her, of which, however, the three sons all died at an early age.

Georg August's coat of arms at Biebrich Castle

The city of Wiesbaden and the entire county of Nassau-Idstein suffered badly in the Thirty Years' War and the plague in 1675. Only a few dozen of the original 1,800 inhabitants of Wiesbaden were still alive. Under Georg August, both experienced an enormous upswing. He initiated a brisk construction activity. Among other things, he completed the residential palace in Idstein , laid out the Herrengarten and the pheasantry in Wiesbaden , had the previous building of the city ​​palace rebuilt and expanded, and laid out a baroque garden on the banks of the Rhine in Biebrich . A first garden house was the cornerstone of what would later become Biebrich Castle , which was only completed after his death.

Georg August died of smallpox in 1721, as did his two youngest daughters . After his death, Nassau-Idstein fell to Karl Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken († 1723 in Idstein) and Friedrich Ludwig von Nassau-Ottweiler († 1728). In 1728 Idstein and Wiesbaden became part of the Principality of Nassau-Usingen .

Trivia

progeny

  • Friedrich Ernst (born August 27, 1689 in Idstein; † March 21, 1690 ibid), Hereditary Prince of Nassau-Idstein
  • Christine Luise (born March 31, 1691 in Idstein; † April 13, 1723 in Aurich ), Princess of Nassau-Idstein, married on September 23, 1709 to Prince Georg Albrecht of East Friesland (June 13, 1690; † June 11, 1734 ), Son of Prince Christian Eberhard von Ostfriesland and Eberhardine Sophie zu Oettingen-Oettingen
  • Charlotte Eberhardine (* July 16, 1692 in Idstein; † February 6, 1693 ibid), Princess of Nassau-Idstein
  • Henriette Charlotte (born November 9, 1693 in Idstein; † April 8, 1734 in Delitzsch ), Princess of Nassau-Idstein, married on November 4, 1711 to Duke Moritz Wilhelm von Sachsen-Merseburg (born February 5, 1688 in Merseburg ; † April 21, 1731 ibid)
  • Eleonore Charlotte (born November 28, 1696 in Idstein; † December 8, 1696 ibid), Princess of Nassau-Idstein
  • Albertine Juliane (born March 29, 1698 in Idstein; † October 9, 1722 at Wilhelmsthal Castle near Eisenach ), Princess of Nassau-Idstein, married on February 14, 1713 to Duke Wilhelm Heinrich of Saxony-Eisenach (born November 10, 1691 in Oranienwald ; † July 26, 1741 at Wilhelmsthal Castle near Eisenach), son of Duke Johann Wilhelm von Sachsen-Eisenach and Princess Amalia von Nassau-Dietz
  • Auguste Friederike (born August 17, 1699 in Idstein; † June 8, 1750 in Kirchheim ), Princess of Nassau-Idstein, married on August 17, 1723 to Prince Karl August von Nassau-Weilburg (born September 17, 1685 in Weilburg ; † 9 November 1753 ibid), son of Count Johann Ernst von Nassau-Weilburg and Countess Maria Polyxena von Leiningen
  • Johannette Wilhelmine (born September 14, 1700 in Idstein; † June 2, 1756 in Brake ), Princess of Nassau-Idstein, married on October 16, 1719 to Prince Simon Heinrich Adolf zur Lippe-Detmold (born January 25, 1694 in Detmold ; † October 12, 1734 ibid), son of Count Friedrich Adolf zur Lippe-Detmold and Johanna Elisabeth von Nassau-Dillenburg- Schaumburg
  • Friedrich August (born April 30, 1702 in Idstein; † January 30, 1703 ibid), Hereditary Prince of Nassau-Idstein
  • Wilhelm Samuel (born February 14, 1704 in Idstein; † May 4, 1704 ibid), Hereditary Prince of Nassau-Idstein
  • Elisabeth Franziska (born September 17, 1708 in Idstein; † November 7, 1721 ibid), Princess of Nassau-Idstein
  • Luise Charlotte (born March 17, 1710 in Idstein, † November 4, 1721 in Biebrich), Princess of Nassau-Idstein

literature

Web links

Commons : Georg August  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow : The misunderstood century - The historicism at the example of Wiesbaden, ISBN 3-936942-53-6 , p. 16 f.
  2. ↑ Wiesbaden. History in pictures from Roman times to the present, Essen 1981, ISBN 3-922785-06-9 , p. 42 f.
  3. ↑ Baedeker Wiesbaden Rheingau, 2001, ISBN 3-87954-076-4 , p. 36
  4. ↑ Wiesbaden. History in pictures from Roman times to the present, Essen 1981, ISBN 3-922785-06-9 , p. 43
  5. ^ Gottfried Kiesow: Architectural Guide Wiesbaden. The city of historicism, 2006, ISBN 978-3-936942-71-2 , p. 303
predecessor Office successor
Johann Count of Nassau-Idstein
from 1688 Prince
1677–1721
personal data
SURNAME Georg August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Georg August Samuel of Nassau-Idstein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prince
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Idstein
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1721
Place of death Wiesbaden-Biebrich