Hans Carl von Kirchbach

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Han (n) s Carl von Kirchbach (* 11. April 1704 in Tauschwitz ; † 3. November 1753 in Prieschka ) was an electoral Saxon Mountain official and since 1734 of mines, in Freiberg . Between 1736 and 1742 he also administered the position of chief miner Curt Alexander von Schönberg .

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Von Kirchbach comes from the Saxon noble family of the von Kirchbach family . He was a son of Gottlob Ehrenfried von Kirchbach and his wife Johanna Sophia, née von Maltitz . In 1724 he inherited the Prieschka estate from his uncle Andreas Gottfried von Kirchbach, and the following year he inherited his father's estate Tauschwitz with the Vorwerk Wichtewitz (Nichtewitz).

Von Kirchbach studied economics and natural sciences at the University of Leipzig between 1724 and 1728 . During his studies, von Kirchbach became a member of the German Society on September 27, 1727 and promoted the new Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach . Johann Christoph Gottsched and Johann Friedrich Mayen belonged to his circle of friends .

On October 13, 1727, von Kirchbach organized the funeral service for the popular Electress Christiane Eberhardine in the University Church of St. Pauli , after both the university and the city of Leipzig had shied away from the celebration of August the Strong's conversion to Catholicism to host the Electress, who lives separately from her husband at Pretzsch Castle. He commissioned Bach to compose a text by Gottsched and to perform the funeral music, thereby snubbering the music director of the St. Pauli University Church, Johann Gottlieb Görner . On the basis of Görner's complaint, the University of Kirchbach requested that Bach be withdrawn from the contract. Finally, the dispute was settled in that Görner - like Bach - received a payment of twelve thalers. Bach also revised Gottsched's text to a ten-movement cantata (“ Let, Fürstin, let a ray ”, BWV 198), which Gottsched disapproved of.

After completing his studies, von Kirchbach entered the state service of the Electorate of Saxony as a mining authority assessor in Freiberg . In 1729 he married Sophia Hedwig Christina Vitzthum von Eckstädt auf Medingen, on September 4, 1732 his only son Hans Carl Wilhelm von Kirchbach was born in Freiberg. On November 11, 1732, he was appointed to the Mining Commission Council and thus became an assessor of the Oberbergamt.

After the retirement of the chief miner Carl Christian von Tettau, the previous mining captain Curt Alexander von Schönberg was appointed the new electoral Saxon chief miner and von Kirchbach was appointed miner captain. From 1736, in the absence of the Chief Mining Captain von Schönberg, who was sent to the Russian service as General Mining Director, von Kirchbach also held the office of the highest-ranking mining official in Saxony.

As the celebration of the falling that year on a Monday in 1737 in Freiberg at the instigation of some mountain official Bergstreittag to Sunday, 21 July brought forward and this should also be set up for the future, this sparked violent protests among the miners from . On July 22, 1737, miners occupied the Oberbergamtshaus in Freiberg and urged von Kirchbach and other mining officials on the Schlossplatz to submit a written declaration of the day of the dispute. The investigations against the miners involved led to renewed tumult on November 11th, during which the mountain brotherhood stormed the Oberbergamtshaus and led the miner back to the castle square. When on December 13, 1738, angry miners riot again in front of the Oberbergamtshaus in Kirchgasse, Kirchbach fled to Dresden and is said to have sought his resignation there.

Between 1742 and 1745 the newly appointed Oberbergamts-Director Caspar Siegmund von Berbisdorff took over the business of the chief miner.

In 1750, on a corridor discovered by dowsers, which was given the name Kirchbach's hope, in 1750 von Kirchbach initially assumed the mountain building of Hanns Carl's rewarded hope Erbstolln and treasure trove near Reinsberg , to which he was awarded the Emanuel Erbstolln attachment in the same year. Von Kirchbach ran the Hanns Carls Belohnte Hoffnung Erbstolln on his own account as a self-employed person, since 1752 the operation had been closed again and the tunnels were kept within time limits until his death. In 1754 the mountain building, which had fallen into the open, was taken up again and operated by a trade union under the name Emanuel together with Hanns Carls rewarded hope Erbstolln.

In 1753, the miner captain von Kirchbach died on his Prieschka estate. He found his final resting place in Belgern in Kirchbach's hereditary burial at the Bartholomäus Church. His only son Hans Carl Wilhelm von Kirchbach († 1794) inherited the property.

Publications

  • The necessary connection between eloquence and erudition became upon admission to the German Society in Leipzig on Sept. 27th MDCCXXVII. proved in the following inaugural speech . Leipzig 1727, 11532017 in VD 18 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Christian Hasche : Magazine of Saxon History . Part 2, 1785, pp. 566-567
  2. ↑ bach.de
  3. ↑ uni-leipzig.de
  4. ^ Friedrich Wappler: About the miners' dispute (July 22nd) in: Mitteilungen des Freiberger Altertumsverein 38 (1902), pp. 18–43
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archiv.sachsen.de
personal data
SURNAME Kirchbach, Hans Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirchbach, Hans Karl von; Kirchbach, Hanns Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon mining captain
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1704
PLACE OF BIRTH Swap joke
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1753
Place of death Prieschka