Hartmut von Cronberg

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Baron Hartmut XVIII. von Cronberg (* 1614 at Hof Iben , district of Alzey , baptized on March 25, 1618, † 1685 in Iben) was a German court squire and (Elector Palatinate) court official.

The Lords of Kronberg (also Cronberg, Cronenberg, Cronbergk) were a family of imperial knights who had their ancestral seat at Kronberg Castle in the Taunus above today's town of Kronberg in Taunus from around 1220 until the male line died out in 1704 .

Life

Hartmut was the firstborn son of Baron Johann Daniel von Cronberg the Elder. Ä. (1583–1621) and his wife Maria Elisabeth von Partenheim. Baron Johann Daniel von Cronberg d. J. was Hartmut's younger brother. His godparents (baptized on March 25, 1618 in Iben) were denominationally mixed: the Archbishop of Mainz Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg , Georg Friedrich von Greiffenclau zu Vollrads (then Prince-Bishop of Worms), the Hesse-Darmstadt marshal Georg Riedesel zu Eisenbach and the women Anna Ursula von Waldeck and Anna Sidonia von Cronberg. On December 29, 1636 "Hartmoet de Croonenberg Palatinus " enrolled at the age of 22 together with his brother Johann Daniel in Leiden.

In 1647, Prince Ludwig I of Anhalt-Köthen commissioned Count Palatine Ludwig Philipp von Simmern Cronberg, along with his brother Baron Johann Daniel von Cronberg , Count Christian von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein and Count Palatine Georg Wilhelm von Birkenfeld to join the Fruit-Bringing Society . The Count Palatine did this in the same year in his residence in Kaiserslautern . The Count Palatine gave Hartmut the company name of the little one and the motto gives such fruit . The small Hungarian almond tree ( Prunus tenella Batsch ) was given to him as an emblem . Cronberg's entry can be found in the Koethen Society Register under no. 470. There is also the rhyme law that he wrote on the occasion of his admission:

The little almond tree, brought from Ungern,
has a little kernel that blooms out of the measure
And although in spring time: Small is thought up for me
The name of the staud, which then looks beautiful:
You just ignore the little man who makes
full of virtue is, and always tries hard.
If he is small in body, he is great in understanding '
And often brings good fruit to the dear fatherland.

The two brothers vehemently campaigned against their (Catholic) relative Count Kraft Adolf Otto von Cronberg for the reintroduction of the Protestant denomination in Kronberg.

Due to family disputes, Hartmut dueled with his brother Johann Daniel in 1668 near Iben Castle. Because of the servant who was almost shot dead on his noble territorio zu Iben , an official investigation was carried out. However, it is also possible that the duel between the two brothers, who are otherwise close in all legal and religious matters, was invented in order to make the servant's death appear as an accident.

At the age of 67, the unmarried Baron Hartmut XVIII died. von Cronberg in Iben in 1685 and was buried on March 21, 1685 in Fürfeld (near Bad Kreuznach). With the death of his cousins also unmarried, Baron Johann Nikolaus von Cronberg the family died of the von Cronberg in the male line (see Fig. A. Master list of the house Kronberg ).

literature

  • Markwart Müller-Hillebrand: Cronberg: History of a knight family. Waldemar Kramer publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1950.
  • Ludwig von Ompteda : The von Kronberg and its manor: the origin, bloom and end of the sex. Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1899 (incorrect in some parts, family tables out of date).
  • Wolfgang Ronner : Family table of the knights, lords and counts of Kronberg. Self-published, Kronberg im Taunus 1981, ISBN 3-9800322-1-3 .
  • Wolfgang Ronner : The von Kronberg and their women: encounters with a knight family. Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-7686-6035-4 .
  • Wolfgang Ronner : The Lords of Kronberg and their Imperial Fief 1189–1704, Regesta and additional texts. Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-7829-0507-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ronner, Reg. 626, nothing is known about the outcome of the proceedings.
  2. ↑ a pious, godly gentleman and strange lover of h. Word of god. Which were created in this world [...] in 1618 and blessedly different in Castle Iben ; Fürfelder Totenbuch 1685, quoted from Ronner
personal data
SURNAME Cronberg, Hartmut von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court squire and court official
DATE OF BIRTH 1614
PLACE OF BIRTH Castle Iben , district of Alzey
DATE OF DEATH 1685
Place of death Hohenfels Castle near Muderhausen