Georg Wolfgang von Rotenhan
Georg Wolfgang Freiherr von Rotenhan , zu Merzbach (* 1615 ; † 1695 ) from the noble family Rotenhan was a civil servant in the bishopric of Bamberg .
Life
Von Rotenhan belonged to the Merzbach line of the noble family. He was the owner of Untermerzbach Castle . In 1650 he married the Catholic Magarethe Susanne von Neuhausen. Through this marriage he received most of the rule Neuhausen ( Neuhausen auf den Fildern ). After the death of the last lord of Neuhausen, Josef von Neuhausen, he received the rest of the rule in 1754/56.
He converted to Roman Catholic in 1660, 1668 or 1670. As co-patron saint he introduced the Simultaneum in 1668 for the subjects who had followed him in the parish of Merzbach and Kaltenbrunn .
He entered the service of the Bamberg Monastery. There he was court councilor in 1641, chief chamberlain in 1649, in 1653 in command of the Kronach fortress, in 1658 in high school and finally in 1670 as district judge.
In 1658 he was also appointed senior bailiff in the Zeil office. His successor as senior bailiff was his son Joachim Ignatz von Rotenhan , zu Merzbach (1662-1736), who in 1717 was also a district judge. His eldest son Georg Wolfgang (1654–1687) became a canon in Bamberg in 1665 and in Würzburg in 1666, but died before his father. Another son Heinrich Hartmann von Rotenhan (1671–1736) became canon in Bamberg in 1684 and in Würzburg in 1687. He became the Privy Councilor of both monasteries and on June 8, 1715, President of the Government of Bamberg.
literature
- Claus Fackler: Stiftsadel and Geistliche Territorien 1670-1803, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8306-7268-5 , pp. 87, 146, 156-157.
Individual evidence
- ^ Finding aid B 126 d S State Archives Ludwigsburg
- ↑ Fackler refers to different statements in the literature
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rotenhan, Georg Wolfgang von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Oberamtmann and civil servant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1615 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1695 |