Heinrich XXV. (Reuss-Gera)

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Miniature portrait of Heinrich XXV. Count Reuss zu Gera, 1726.

Heinrich XXV. (* August 27, 1681 in Gera ; † March 13, 1748 ibid) ruled from 1735 to 1748 as Count Reuss zu Gera, a branch line of Reuss younger line .

Life

Heinrich XXV. was the seventh son of Heinrich IV. (1650–1686), Lord and Count of Gera, and his wife, Countess Anna Dorothea von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1645–1716).

At the age of 36, Heinrich married Countess Justine Eleonore Sophie von Giech-Thurnau , daughter of Count Karl Gottfried II von Giech-Thurnau , in Thurnau on February 21, 1717 . The marital happiness lasted less than a year, because Justine Eleonore Sophie died on February 1, 1718. Countess Palatine Sophie Marie von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen became Heinrich's second wife. Both married on August 24, 1722 in Sondershausen. From this marriage there were three children:

  • Countess Sophie Henriette Dorothea (born June 13, 1723 in Gera; † August 27, 1789 ibid)
  • Countess Caroline (* † September 14, 1725 in Gera)
  • Count Heinrich XXX. Reuss zu Gera (born April 24, 1727 in Gera; † April 26, 1802 there)

When his older brother Heinrich XVIII. (1677–1735) died unmarried and childless on November 25, 1735, followed Heinrich to the throne of the county. After the death of Henry XV. Count Reuss zu Lobenstein became Heinrich XXV. in 1739 eldest of the Reuss younger line .

Tinz Castle : Inscription on the south facade indicates the builder Heinrich XXV.

The name Heinrich XXV remains closely connected. with Tinz Castle , which he commissioned to build in 1745. In addition, Heinrich had the under his predecessor Heinrich XVIII. Complete the construction of the orangery in the Gera kitchen garden .

Heinrich died on March 13, 1748 and was buried on March 21, 1748 in the hereditary crypt of the former St. John's Church on Johannisplatz, where his first wife was already resting.

See also

literature

  • Berthold Schmidt : The Reuss, genealogy of the entire Reuss house older and younger line, as well as the extinct Vogtslinien to Weida, Gera and Plauen and the burgraves of Meißen from the House of Plauen. Schleiz 1903.
  • Berthold Schmidt: History of the Reussland. 1st and 2nd half volume, Gera 1923 and 1927.
  • Thomas Gehrlein: The Reuss House . Part III and IV, Arnsberg 2015

Web links

Commons : Heinrich XXV. (Reuß-Gera)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Thomas Gehrlein: The Reuss House . Part III and IV. Börde-Verlag, Theresia Platte, Arnsberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-9815864-7-3 , p. 14-15 .
  2. ↑ Christian Haeutle: Genealogy of the illustrious tribe building stretch Wittelsbach . Hermann Manz'sche Hofkunsthandlung and bookshop, Munich 1870, p. 202 .
  3. ↑ Anja Löffler: Tinz in Gera - A forgotten castle in East Thuringia . In: Castles and Palaces in Thuringia, annual journal of the Thuringia regional group of the German Castle Association Jena 1998, p. 86 .
  4. ↑ Siegfried Mues: The street name of the city of Gera from A to Z . 1st edition. Publishing house Dr. Frank GmbH, Gera 2006, ISBN 978-3-934805-23-1 , p. 338 .
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich XXV.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1681
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1748
Place of death Gera