Heinrich Franz von Rottenhan

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Heinrich Franz Count of Rottenhan

Heinrich Franz Graf von Rottenhan (born September 3, 1738 in Bamberg , (cathedral parish); † February 14, 1809 in Vienna ) was an administrative lawyer , promoter of economic development in western Bohemia , president of the Supreme Judicial Office and court commissioner for legislation in Bohemia and Austria .

Life

Heinrich Franz (baron since 1771, imperial count since 1774) of Rottenhan was the eldest son of Johann Alexander von Rottenhan (1710–1791) on Untermerzbach in Lower Franconia, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Privy Councilor, who in 1771 ruled Rothenhaus ( Červený Hrádek (Jirkov)) ) bought in West Bohemia , and his first wife Maria Johanna Amalia, née Baroness von Sickingen (1716–1740), daughter of the Palatinate Colonel Chamberlain and Minister Johann Ferdinand von Sickingen (1664–1719).

Act

From Rottenhan studied law and was from the Georg-August University of Göttingen to Dr. jur. PhD. He first entered the service of the bishopric of Bamberg and was from 1760 to 1772 senior magistrate in the Lichtenfels district . Then he switched to the Habsburg service. In 1769 he was appointed real treasurer in Vienna, in 1776 Heinrich Franz von Rottenhan became an official of the state gubernium in Vienna with responsibility for Galicia , after the first of the partitions of Poland in 1772 a crown land of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . In order to honor him and to secure his protection, settlers called a local establishment in Galicia Rottenhan. In 1782 he became court counselor of the Austria-Bohemian court chancellery, in 1786 district president in Linz , in 1791 Oberstburggraf and gubernium president in Prague (i.e. the highest government office in Bohemia), in 1796 a member of the council of state, in 1804 president of the highest judicial authority (minister of justice) and in 1808 court commissioner for legislation . He is considered a supporter of Jansenism , a proponent of the Josephin Order and tried hard to dampen the influences that the French Revolution exerted on the subjects. He participated in the codifications and reforms of the curricula for teaching in Austrian schools. The historian Hermann Schüttler lists him in his book "The Members of the Illuminati Order " (Munich, 1991) as belonging to the secret society, but cannot provide any evidence of his order name and the time of his membership.

Residency at Rothenhaus Castle and Jemnischt Castle in Bohemia

Heinrich Franz Graf von Rottenhan took over the rulership of Rothenhaus (Červený Hrádek (Jirkov)) in western Bohemia from his father, continued the industrial development of the area, founded the ironworks Gabrielahütten ( Gabrielina Hut ) in the Ore Mountains and, together with the spa doctor Bernhard Adler, promoted the establishment of the Spa town of Franzensbad ( Frantiskovy Lazne ) near Eger ( Cheb ). His first marriage was to Auguste Elisabeth Freiin von Sickingen. By his second marriage, closed on 22 September 1773 in Prague with Maria Gabriele Czernin of Chudenice (* 1747, † 1806), widow of Josef Wenzel Graf von Trauttmansdorff -Weinsberg on Jemniste ( Castle Jemniště ) he became owner of the rule at Jemniste Beneschau ( Benešov ), south of Prague.

Relatives

Heinrich Franz Graf von Rottenhan had two daughters from his second marriage to Maria Gabriele Czernin von Chudenitz. The first, Maria Isabella von Rottenhan (* July 6, 1774 in Prague, † February 14, 1817 in Prague) married Johann Nepomuk Joseph Count Chotek von Chotkowa and Wognin (* 1767, † 1824) in Prague on October 12, 1799 royal bohemian gubernial officials and honorary citizens of Prague. The second daughter Gabriela Maria Theresia von Rottenhan (born January 16, 1784, † March 21, 1863 in Prague), brought the rule of Rothenhaus (Červený Hrádek (Jirkov)), Preßnitz ( Prisecnice ) and Hauenstein Castle (Zamek Horni Hrad) as heiress married on July 15, 1806 with Georg Franz August von Buquoy (* 1781, † 1851), since 1803 heir to the Fideikommissherrschaft Gratzen ( Nové Hrady ) and Rosenberg ( Rožmberk nad Vltavou ). The couple became the founders of the Buquoy-Rottenhan family, who played an important role in mining in the Bohemian Ore Mountains in the 19th century. Von Rottenhan had the younger brother Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Graf von Rotenhan (* 1739, † April 14, 1800), provost of the Benedictine Abbey of Sankt Burkard in Würzburg from 1787 to 1800 , and from his father's second marriage to Juliane, née Marschalk von Ostheim , the Half-brother Friedrich Philipp Christoph Graf von Rottenhan (* 1749, † 1798) and the three half-sisters Friederike Maria Charlotte (* 1752), Johanna Wilhelmine Susanne (* 1753) and Maria Karolina Eleonore (* 1754).

literature

(With numerous texts on relatives of the Czernin von Chudenitz.)
  • The coats of arms of the Bohemian nobility. Bauer and Raspe, Neustadt an der Aisch 1979, ISBN 3-87947-030-8 . (reprographic reprint of Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, Volume IV, 9th Division, Nuremberg 1886) (J. Siebmacher's big Wappenbuch; Vol. 30)
    • Count von Rotenhahn p. 163–164, coat of arms on plate 73.
    • Counts of Buquoi pp. 109–110, coat of arms on plate 59.
    • Count Cernin von Chudenic, pp. 113–114, coat of arms on plate 60.
  • Hubert Weitensfelder: Studies and State: Heinrich Graf Rottenhan and Johann Melchior von Birkenstock as representatives of Austrian educational policy around 1800. WUV-Univ.-Verlag, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85114-265-9 , pp. 52–94. (Dissertation from the University of Graz, 1989).
  • Procházka novel : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian noble families. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich supplementary volume 1990, ISBN 3-486-54051-3 . (Published by the board of the Collegium Carolinum , research center for the Bohemian countries in Munich).
    • Longueval (Counts of Bucquoy), p. 85–87.
(With numerous texts on relatives of the Czernin von Chudenitz).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website on members of the Illuminati Order
personal data
SURNAME Rottenhan, Heinrich Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rottenhan, Heinrich Franz Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Owner of the Rothenhaus estate in the Bohemian Ore Mountains
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1809
Place of death Vienna