Gideon from Camuzi
Gideon von Camuzi , first name Gideon Matthäus von Camuzi (* July 20, 1799 in Laumersheim , † July 10, 1879 in Dirmstein ), was the landowner and mayor of Dirmstein and a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Bavaria .
family
The Camuzi family - sometimes also spelled Camuzzi - originally came from Lugano in Ticino ; one branch was in the Austrian state services. The grandfather of Gideon von Camuzis, Casimir Franz Xaver von Camuzi (1728–1806), was the chief magistrate of the Austrian Oberamt Winnweiler , the administrative seat of the North Palatinate county of Falkenstein . This belonged to Upper Austria and formed a Habsburg enclave in today's Palatinate . Casimir von Camuzi married a woman from Laumersheim and settled there.
Gideon von Camuzi was the son of the senior secretary and later Bavarian Privy Councilor Joseph von Camuzi (1767–1828) and his wife Elisabeth, née. Fox. The father was also in the service of the Austrian Oberamt Winnweiler until the peace agreement of Campo Formio (1797), when the German areas on the left bank of the Rhine fell to France. In 1802 he acquired a castle estate in neighboring Dirmstein, later Koeth-Wanscheidsche Castle , in addition to his ancestral property in Laumersheim , and moved there. In 1801 he had already become mayor of Dirmstein, which he remained until 1815. After the left bank of the former Electoral Palatinate had belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria since 1816 , Joseph von Camuzi also became a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies in Munich .
The son Gideon von Camuzi grew up in Dirmstein. On April 26, 1824 he married in Mainz Cathedral Theresia Dael, the daughter of Mainz born Kommerzienrates Georg Dael and his wife Anna Freiin von Koeth-Wanscheid. The couple lived in Dirmstein and had at least six children, two of whom died early, so Anna (* March 11, 1828, † June 5, 1835) at the age of seven.
Two younger sisters of Gideon rose socially through their marriages: Franziska Louise Johanna (* 1807 in Dirmstein, † 1887 in Wang / Allgäu) married the widower Ignaz von Rudhart , who as Bavarian State Councilor was later appointed Prime Minister of Greece after the Wittelsbacher Otto became king there in 1832. Henriette (* 1808 in Dirmstein; † 1883 in Baden-Baden) was since 1839 the second wife of the Prussian Lieutenant General Count Wilhelm Friedrich Karl von Brühl (* 1788 in Munich; † 1867 in Dirmstein). Henriette is still reminiscent of the "bath house of the Countess von Brühl" in the Dirmstein cellar garden . The basement garden, which was taken away from the aristocratic Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler family in the 1790s as a result of the French Revolution , was bought by their grandfather Joseph for the family in 1812 and several buildings were built in it.
Casimir von Camuzi (1764-1841), the older brother of Gideon Camuzi's father Joseph, was Austrian major general in Tarnów . He later lived in Linz .
Although the Camuzi family belonged to older Austrian nobility, Gideon von Camuzi also had himself entered in the nobility register of the Kingdom of Bavaria on January 16, 1850 .
Life
Economy and social reforms
Gideon von Camuzi was a talented economist and transformed the Dirmsteiner estate inherited from his father into a well-known model business. He especially devoted himself to viticulture , fruit growing and cattle breeding. He also worked as an alcohol and vinegar boiler, ran a starch and soap factory as well as a brick and lime kiln.
In 1847 the landlord founded a stock corporation to grant loans to small farmers for the purpose of buying potatoes. As Dirmsteiner municipal council, he increasingly took care of the poor and destitute in the village, he was also active in the Frankenthaler Kreisverein to support people in need. In memory of their daughters Anna-Maria and Anna, who died early, in 1859 he endowed the Dirmsteiner Anna Foundation with 6000 guilders for the establishment of a local child care school , meaning an orphanage . As a security Camuzi pledged for the now also owned by him Spormühle .
Construction
To the north of Koeth-Wanscheidschen Castle, Gideon von Camuzi had the regionally important landscape architect Johann Christian Metzger (1789–1852) create an English garden with a pond, stream and grotto from around 1830 , which was restored as a castle park in 2000 . The grotto, which was renovated in 2009, was reopened to the public in 2012.
Around 1850 Camuzi donated the land for the New Cemetery , which is north of the village, to the community and donated a chapel there. This holds the family crypt in which Gideon was buried in 1879. The previous cemetery in the east of the community, which had become too small, was closed in the 1850s.
politics
Gideon von Camuzi was one of the leading members of the Frankenthal agricultural district committee and therefore acted as government commissioner of the Kingdom of Bavaria at the agricultural exhibition in Paris in 1856.
From 1837 to 1843 the landowner belonged to the Palatinate Landrath , who found his successor body in what is now the Palatinate District Association . From 1843 to 1845 he was a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies. In 1846 he was elected a jury at the Assisengericht Zweibrücken . From 1868 to 1874 Camuzi held the office of Mayor of Dirmstein.
Culture
Gideon von Camuzi was considered to be very bibliophile and owned a large, valuable collection of books that included seven incunabula , 53 works from the 16th century, as well as three chronicles and an atlas from the 17th century. The entire collection was in the Palatinate State Library in Speyer . Around 1936 the most valuable pieces were sold on behalf of the heirs, the Koeth-Wanscheid family, and only a remainder remained in Speyer. These books contain
"Handwritten entries by Gideon von Camuzi, who apparently had a relationship with important personalities of his time, e. B. Alexander von Humboldt and Gottfried Gervinus , as shown by the bound autographs and transcripts of letters. "
Gideon von Camuzi himself wrote a booklet with autobiographical features. It is entitled From Self-Knowledge to Reflections on Time and Space, Culturhistorische Studien by G. von Camuzi, landowner in Dirmstein and was published in Mannheim in 1864. It closes with the quintessence of the thoughts that Camuzi himself formulated:
“The absolute is only with God, he holds space and time together, providence and creation belong to him! In part, man can only recognize what is revealed to him in nature and world history, but there remains a beautiful, large field to be built if freedom, truth, and beauty grow on it. GvC "
Camuzi belonged to the Mannheimer Kunstverein and, in addition to his Dirmsteiner domicile, owned a city apartment there in the square L 2.9. He was better known to the Mannheim painter Louis Coblitz (1814–1863), who created a portrait of Theresia von Camuzis and several views of Dirmstein, among other things. The pictures are all in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum in Mannheim .
Quote
"During his lifetime, Gideon von Camuzi was the dominant man in the Dirmstein community."
literature
- Walter Jarosch: The Camuzi family . In: Michael Martin (ed.): Dirmstein - nobility, farmers and citizens . Chronicle of the Dirmstein community. Self-published by the Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2005, ISBN 3-9808304-6-2 , p. 399 ff .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data according to the gravestone inscription in the old cemetery .
- ^ Retirement: Major General von Camuzi, 1833.
- ↑ Death report: Major General Casimir von Camuzi.
- ↑ Note about the entry in the Bavarian nobility register, 1850.
- ↑ Reference to a rare pear variety on the estate of Gideon von Camuzi.
- ^ Gideon von Camuzi in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History .
- ↑ On the original inventory of the Camuzi book collection.
- ↑ a b holdings of the Speyer State Library; the books of Gideon von Camuzi under point 2.17.
- ^ Complete scan of Camuzi's reflections on time and space , 1864.
- ^ To the painter Louis Coblitz.
- ↑ Michael Martin (ed.): Dirmstein - nobility, farmers and citizens . Local history. 2005, p. 602 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Camuzi, Gideon from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Camuzi, Gideon Matthäus von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landlord, mayor and member of the Bavarian state parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Laumersheim , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1879 |
| Place of death | Dirmstein |