Georg Friedrich vom Holtz zu Niederholz

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Georg Friedrich vom Holtz zu Niederholz (born November 1, 1597 - August 10, 1666 ) was a Colonel Sergeant and General Feldzeugmeister in the Thirty Years' War . He was a member of the Swabian noble family Vom Holtz .

The addition to Niederholz does not refer to a place that existed then or now.

Life

Von Holtz took part in the Bohemian War and in the fighting in the Lower Palatinate in the Baur von Eyseneck regiment . As a constable sergeant he was first in the service of the Catholic League , then in the Württemberg service. In 1628 he bought the Lower Castle in Alfdorf for himself and his family . General Johann t'Serclaes von Tilly explained to him in 1630 that because of his denomination (he was a Protestant ) he could not expect any "advancement". In 1633 he was promised the Ellwang fiefdom of Leinzell in the Oberamt Gmünd as a donation for his Swedish services , which he did not receive. He is mentioned as Quartermaster General, who in 1639 took over the former Salzburg foot regiment Mortaigne . After the reorganization of the army after the Werth revolt, he was a Bavarian general field master and a staunch supporter of Maximilian I of Bavaria . After the defeat of Nördlingen and the conclusion of peace, he was general commander of all Württemberg fortresses and war peoples in the Württemberg service. April 14, 1640 he received from Duke Eberhard III. the Upper Alfdorf Palace for war expenditures.

The water siege of Villingen in 1634

Siege of Villingen, painting in the Franciscan Museum Villingen-Schwenningen

With the 18./28. In February 1634 he took command of a newly formed regiment in order to prepare for a new siege of the city ​​of Villingen . From Rottweil, he took Vöhrenbach on April 13th , but the Villingers attacked him so hard that he had to move to Hochemmingen (May 1st). From here he reconnoitered Villingen. Duke Eberhard sent him his master builder Marx Eysenkrämer to build and manufacture other works in front of Villingen, as the necessity will require . As a further helper, Gustaf Horn sent him Colonel and later Marshal Johannes dé Gaisson (* in Bearn; † October 2, 1647 in Lens) with a mostly French cavalry regiment, the Régiment de Gassion , who served in Swedish . On 6./16. May 1634 he tried to lure the troops from Villingen away from the town gate, which he did not succeed. He was later wounded off Villingen.

Now that it was unclear how to proceed, Duke Eberhard's proposal came up to put Villingen in the water . The entrenchment work required further specialists, so the foreman Kilian Kesenbroth and the fireworker, artillery and equipment master Friedrich Reichstetter joined them. In July, the digging work was finished and the dam began to be built. This was supposed to be flooded as soon as possible, but it could not be completed, because after the defeat at Nördlingen , Count Eberhard ordered the retreat on August 29, which took place from August 30 to September 9. Konrad Widerholt was the first to leave the camp with a hundred musketeers . This is how Villingen escaped the water shortage.

literature

  • Maximilian Gottfried Friedrich vom Holtz, General Feldzeugmeister Georg Friedrich vom Holtz on Alfdorf, Hohenmühringen, Aichelberg etc. A picture of life from the 17th century . Stuttgart, 1891 Internet Archive .
  • Paul Revellio , Contributions to the History of the City of Villingen , 1964

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Central German testimonials from the Thirty Years' War online
  2. ↑ Website of the community of Alfdorf: The Holtz family . Accessed June 18, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Holtz zu Niederholz, Georg Friedrich from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colonel Sergeant and General Feldzeugmeister in the Thirty Years War
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1597
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1666