Gustav Adolf von Fahrensbach

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Gustav Adolf Graf von Fahrensbach (Varrensbach) (* 1629 in Hauenstein ; † 1689 ) was a pledge holder of the offices of Schwedt and Vierraden in the Mark Brandenburg , and later owner of the lordships of Neuschloß and Tschischkowitz in Bohemia.

Life

Gustav Adolf came from the German-Baltic Fahrensbach family . He was the son of Georg Wolmar von Fahrensbach , from his second marriage to Agnes von Everstein .

The Brandenburg elector borrowed 25,000 thalers from Fahrensbach in 1664 and gave him the town and rule of Schwedt and Vierraden as a pledge. In 1670 the debt was redeemed by the elector's wife .

As early as 1655 he inherited Tschischkowitz in Bohemia, which he had Giulio Broggio expand into a baroque palace between 1658 and 1665 . In 1675 he had a parish church built there with his wife, in which in 1852 a portrait of him and his wife were hung in memory of both. On December 10, 1669 he acquired the villages of Dietschan and Semeč from the University of Prague , then on June 2, 1670 again from the Brandenburg Elector Neuschloß with the rule of Jimlín and Opočno . He added farms in Hriwitz and Lippenz to his Bohemian property . In Neuschloß, Gustav Adolf completed the renovation of the palace, which had already been started by Friedrich Wilhelm . He also owned Koschtialow and Boretsch , also from maternal inheritance . However, these goods were subject to various creditor claims, which kept Varrensbach in litigation for a lifetime and probably also prompted him to issue some polemical medals in this regard.

He was Reichshofrat and chamberlain , was confirmed as such on September 18, 1677 in the count state with the predicates high and well-born .

Gustav Adolf was a member of the Fruit-Bringing Society called the Caressing One .

At Neuschloss he led an elaborate or even scandalous social life. Gustav Adolf was also a great horse lover and maintained a well-known horse breeding company there.

Fahrensbach married Maria Sidonia Countess of Schlick zu Passaun and Weißkirchen († 1691) after July 13, 1663 . The marriage remained childless. He died in 1689 as the last representative of his family in the Holy Roman Empire . The couple rest next to each other in the Capuchin Church of Svatá Ludmila in Litoměřice .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Breysig : History of the Brandenburg finances in the period from 1640 to 1697: representation and files. First volume. The central offices of the chamber administration. The Chamber of Commerce, the Treasury and the Domains of the Kurmark, Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, 1895, pp. 332–338.
  2. ↑ Leopold von Orlich : Friedrich Wilhelm der Grosse Kurfürst: Based on previously unknown original manuscripts. Verlag ES Mittler, 1836, p. 240.
  3. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia: Statistically-topographically represented. Vol. Leitmeritz circle. 1833, p. 89 "Allodial rule Tschischkowitz and Trebnitz"; Vol. 14, Saaz District. 1846, p. 33ff "Allodial rule Neuschloss"
  4. ^ Heinrich Otokar Miltner, Josef Neumann: Description of the previously known Bohemian private coins and medals. Prague 1852, pp. 657f.
  5. ^ Adalbert Král von Dobrá Voda : The nobility of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. Genealogical-heraldic repertory of all class surveys, predicates, promotions, incolat awards, coats of arms and coat of arms improvements of the entire nobility of the Bohemian Crown, with sources and coat of arms evidence. Prague, 1904
  6. ^ Austrian State Archives Signature: AT-OeStA / AVA Familienarchive Harrach FA Familie in spec 15
  7. ^ Procházka novel : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian gentry families. Degener, 1973, p. 156.
personal data
SURNAME Fahrensbach, Gustav Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Varrensbach, Gustav Adolf von; Varrensbach, Count Gustav Adolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reichshofrat and Count in Brandenburg and Bohemia
DATE OF BIRTH 1629
PLACE OF BIRTH Hauenstein
DATE OF DEATH 1689