Heinrich XXIV. (Reuss-Köstritz)

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Count Heinrich XXIV. Reuss zu Köstritz in 1737, engraving by JM Bernigeroth (1749) after A. Pesne

Heinrich XXIV. (* July 26, 1681 in Schleiz ; † July 24, 1748 in Greiz ) was Count Reuss von Schleiz zu Köstritz. Heinrich XXIV. Is the founder of the Reussian line Köstritz .

Life

Heinrich was the youngest son of Count Heinrich I. Reuss zu Schleiz (1639–1692) and his third wife, Anna Elisabeth, née Countess von Zinzendorf († 1684). On the death of his father he received Köstritz , where he resided in paragiatry ( i.e. not as the ruling lord).

Like Ebersdorf , Köstritz also became a center of Pietism in Thuringia under him , as well as a model for a pious and humble royal court among German Enlightenmentists. His administrative reforms were also adopted by all other Russian princes. Example factor in Germany but was he in prison Zeulenroda 1733 introduced compulsory labor, and what significant training of prisoners for general humanization of the penal system contributed.

progeny

Heinrich married Eleonore (1688–1776), daughter of Baron Johann Christoph von Promnitz on Dittersbach , on May 6, 1704 in Breslau . He had the following children with her:

  • Henry V (1706–1713)
  • Henry VI. (1707–1783), Count Reuss zu Köstritz, older branch
  • Henry VIII (1708–1710)
  • Luise (1710–1756)
  • Henry IX. (1711–1780), Count Reuss zu Köstritz, middle branch
  • Sophia (1712–1781), married Count Rochus Friedrich zu Lynar in 1735
  • Heinrich X. (1715–1741)
  • Henry XIII. (1716-1717)
  • Henry XVI. (1718–1719)
  • Conradina Eleonora (1719–1770), married Count Heinrich XI in 1743 . Reuss to Greiz
  • Heinrich XXIII. (1722–1787), Count Reuss zu Köstritz, younger branch

See also

literature

  • Thomas Gehrlein: The Reuss House. Older and younger line (= German Princely Houses. 19). 2nd, revised edition. Börde-Verlag, Werl 2006, ISBN 3-9810315-3-9 .
  • Berthold Schmidt , Otto Meusel (ed.): AH Francke's letters to Count Heinrich XXIV. J. L. Reuss zu Köstritz and his wife Eleonore from the years 1704–1727 as a contribution to the history of Pietism. Leipzig 1905.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Trebge: Traces in the Land. From the history of the apanaged Thuringian-Vogtland noble house Reuss-Köstritz. 2nd, supplemented edition. Vogtland Antiquities Research Association in Hohenleuben, Hohenleuben 2005.
predecessor Office successor
- Paraglider of Reuss-Köstritz
1692–1748 		Henry VI.
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich XXIV.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinrich XXIV. Reuss von Schleiz zu Köstritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count Reuss von Schleiz zu Köstritz
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1681
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleiz
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1748
Place of death Greiz