Hans Adam Gienger von Wolfseck

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Hans Adam Gienger von und zu Wolfseck and Rotteneck (born November 19, 1558 ; † April 3, 1623 in Wolfsegg ) came from an Ulm patrician family , was a judge at the Imperial Chamber of Commerce in Speyer and for many years Vice - Cathedral in Austria above the Enns .

Life

Wolfsegg Castle after an engraving by Matthäus Merian from 1656

Hans Adam (also Johann Adam) was the second-born son of knight Cosmas Gienger von Wolfseck (1516–1592), war model commissarius in Hungary and Bohemia, Vice Cathedral of Upper Austria, and his second wife Katharina Haidenreich († 1582), daughter of Erasmus Heidenreich von Bidenegg, archducal court chamber councilor of Innsbruck. His older brother Hans Karl died at a young age, so he was the first in Primogeniture . His uncles held influential posts: Georg Gienger von Rotteneck (1500–1577) was Vice Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, Eutl Johann (Eitlhans) Gienger von Grienpichel (1505–1566 / 70) was Governor of Feldkirch and Land- and Feldzeugmeister in Tirol and Jakob Gienger von Grienpichel (1510–1578) was from 1554 to 1560 Vice Cathedral of Austria on the Enns and Lower Austria. Hofkammerrat.

Hans Adam studied in Dillingen and Ingolstadt, then was at Rudolf II's court in Prague until 1579 and then went on study trips to Italy. From 1585 he was an assessor at the Imperial Chamber of Commerce in Speyer and then became Imperial Councilor. In 1587 he went to Linz and from 1590 to 1621 was Vice Cathedral in Austria ob der Enns, which office his father Cosmas held from 1561 to around 1582. After his death in 1592 he inherited the estate and Veste Wolfsegg , which Emperor Rudolph II had given his father as a property. In 1606 Hans Adam became a state councilor and received an improvement in the coat of arms.

Hans Adam Gienger zu Wolfseck married Maria Magdalena Füeger (Fieger) († 1627) in Innsbruck on November 26, 1590 , the daughter of Georg Fieger zu Hirschberg, Archduke Ferdinand II. First Chamberlain in Tyrol , and Elisabeth Weitmoser zu Winkl. The marriage resulted in eleven children, six daughters and five sons. Four sons died before their father, Matthias, the second-born son intended for the successor, resisted all attempts at raising children and wanted to lead a free life. This went so far that the father had to release him from high debts several times and then finally disinherited him.

Since the brothers Hans Adams Hans Georg, soldier in the Netherlands, and Hans Karl the younger, Canon of Passau, had no male descendants either, the Gienger zu Wolfseck line of the male line died out with his death in 1623 .

Works

In 1609, Hans Adam Gienger began to write an extensive family chronicle about the Gienger family, starting with his grandfather (Ernst) Damian I. Gienger. The manuscript is now in the Upper Austrian State Museum Francisco-Carolinum in Linz:

  • Description of Mr. Damian Gienngers Ritters, caretaker to Nau and frawen Ursula Schützen vonn Raittenau as my dear owner and wife, as well as both of your children's sons and daughters, including my dear father, Coßman Giennger, who is the twelfth, life and death through me Hannß Adam Giennger was written together.

literature

  • Harald Tersch: Austrian testimonies of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period , Vienna 1998, chap. Hans Adam Gienger, p. 469 ff. Books.google
  • Franz Wilflingseder : Pictures from the everyday life of the nobility of Linz and Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. In: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Linz 1964. Linz 1965, esp. Pp. 427–435. online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  • Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck : “ The praiseworthy gentlemen estates Deß Ertz-Herzogthumb Austria whether the Ennß, as: prelates, gentlemen, knights, and cities or genealogical and historical description, of the same arrival, founding, building and fortification , Wapen, shield, and helmets, your monasteries, lordships, castles, and cities ”Volume 1, Passau 1727, pp. 182–194 digitized
  • Franz Karl Wißgrill , Karl von Odelga: scene of the land-based Lower Austrian nobility from the lordship and knighthood from the 11th century on, except for the present , Volume 3, Vienna 1800, pp. 317-327.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Wilflingseder: Pictures from everyday life ..., Chapter: From the life of a good-for-nothing, pp. 427-435
  2. ^ Monthly newspaper of the quays. Kings Heraldic Society "Adler", Volume 4, No. 30, Vienna 1898, p. 315 digitized
personal data
SURNAME Gienger von Wolfseck, Hans Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gienger von und zu Wolfseck, Hans Adam; Giennger zu Wolfsegg and Rottenegg, Johann Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vice Cathedral of Upper Austria
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1558
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1623
Place of death Wolfsegg Castle , Wolfsegg am Hausruck community