Heinrich August von Breitenbauch

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Heinrich August von Breitenbauch (born August 3, 1696 in Ortisei , † June 18, 1747 in Paris ) was a royal Polish and electoral Saxon court official and manor owner. Due to his high position at the court in Dresden, he was the most influential member of his aristocratic family in the 18th century.

Life

Heinrich August von Breitenbauch came from the Saxon-Thuringian noble family von Breitenbuch and was the youngest son of Georg Christoph von Breitenbauch . Ursula Elisabetha widowed von Werthern , née von Berbisdorff, was his mother.

He studied at the universities of Jena and Leipzig and in 1721 went to the court in Dresden, where he was usually appointed chamberlain. Regardless of this, he did not stay at court, but preferred to go on extensive study trips at the expense of a father, which took him to France and Italy, among other places. In 1727 he returned to Bucha on his father's manor. In 1732 he was appointed royal Polish and electoral Saxon chamberlain by August the Strong . As such, he remained in service with the successor to the Elector-King, Friedrich August II. His main task was to organize the performances of the court orchestra on the occasion of festivities.

After his father's death in 1737, he and his brother Hans Georg von Breitenbauch inherited his property. He received the Bucha manor . On August 8, 1740, he bought the manor Schkortleben in Dresden from a community of heirs for 28,000 guilders and, in addition, for 400 guilders the village of Oeglitzsch with higher and lower courts in the Merseburg monastery . Both properties remained in his family's possession until 1780. In Schkortleben, a new baroque mansion was built under his leadership.

In 1746 he was appointed to the Privy Council, shortly afterwards he died after a long illness in France, where he hoped in vain that the doctors there would cure his ailments.

family

On October 20 or 22, 1727 Heinrich August von Breitenbauch married Sophia Augusta von Schönberg from the houses of Wilsdruff and Limbach (* August 12, 1703; † December 3, 1755 in Weißenfels ). She was the daughter of the Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor and Chamber of Accounts President Hans Dietrich von Schönberg († November 18, 1726), who owned the two manors Wilsdruff and Limbach. Her mother was Magdalena Sophia von Pflugk from the Kötteritzsch house.

The marriage of this couple, which was no longer happy in recent years, resulted in five sons and five daughters:

  • Friedrich (* 1726; † April 1730, premarital)
  • Georg Dietrich (born January 10, 1729 in Wilsdruff, † March 26, 1731 in Dresden)
  • Sophia Elisabeth (born March 31, 1730 in Dresden; † June 4, 1731 ibid)
  • Georg August (born August 28, 1731 in Wilsdruff, † September 15, 1817 in Bucha), poet, scholar, married to Henriette Christiane von Thüna
  • Catharina Sophia (born September 4, 1733 in Wilsdruff; † May 6, 1781 in Lützschena) married to Leberecht Carl Heinrich von Üchtritz in Lützschena and Freiroda
  • Heinrich Christian (born January 8, 1735 in Wilsdruff; † September 16, 1736 ibid)
  • Maximiliana Magdalena (born October 1, 1736 in Dresden, † September 23, 1765 in Bucha)
  • Hans (Hannß) Heinrich (born June 13, 1739 in Wilsdruff; † December 14, 1813 in Weißenfels) married to Albertina Johanna Henrietta von Bünau from Kleinkorbetha and Wenzelsdorf
  • Maria Elisabeth (born September 1, 1740 in Steinbach bei Wilsdruff, † April 14, 1746 in Bucha)
  • Henrietta Augusta (born July 5, 1742 in Bucha; † January 19, 1791 in Putlitz / Priegnitz) married to Philipp Willibald Gans Noble Herr zu Putlitz on Medingen
  • Christoph Ferdinand (born January 12, 1744 in Bucha; † September 4, 1810 in Blösien)

swell

  • Friedrich August Freiherr O'Byrn: Giovanni Casanova and the Comici italiani at the Polish-Saxon court . In: New archive for Saxon history and antiquity . Volume 1, Dresden 1880, p. 289 ff
  • Family tree of the v. Breitenbuch, 1964
  • Clementine von Breitenbuch, Asta von Breitenbuch, Matthias Donath , Lars-Arne Dannenberg : Red rafters on a blue background. The von Breitenbuch family (Breitenbauch) in Saxony and Thuringia (= nobility in Saxony, volume 8), Meißen 2016, pp. 196–199.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Clementine von Breitenbuch, Asta von Breitenbuch, Matthias Donath , Lars-Arne Dannenberg : Red rafters on a blue background. The von Breitenbuch family (Breitenbauch) in Saxony and Thuringia (= nobility in Saxony, volume 8), Meißen 2016, p. 196.
  2. ↑ In the current literature, Oechlitz is mistakenly mentioned.
personal data
SURNAME Breitenbauch, Heinrich August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Chamberlain
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH Ortisei
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1747
Place of death Paris