Heinrich XXXV. (Schwarzburg-Sondershausen)

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Heinrich I (XXXV.) Von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , nicknamed: the Prince of Diamonds (* November 8, 1689 - † November 6, 1758 ) was an apanaged Prince of Keula until 1740, and ruling Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen from 1740 to 1758 .

Life

Prince Heinrich I was the son of Prince Christian Wilhelm von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1647–1721) and his wife Wilhelmine Christiane (1658–1712), daughter of Duke Johann Ernst II of Saxe-Weimar.

Due to the inheritance and succession treaty concluded in 1713 , Henry I, as the second-born son, was not entitled to inheritance, but only an apanaged Prince of Keula. He was therefore upset with his family, including his siblings, and initially left the principality. He settled in a country estate in Bürgel near Jena and maintained good contacts with his uncle, Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar.

After the childless death of his brother Günther in 1740, Heinrich I succeeded him as ruling prince. He resided in Sondershausen Castle and in the market town of Reichelsheim (Wetterau) .

Although the Seven Years War raged during his reign , the population could count on little support. He was ostentatious and lavish; B. he owned a diamond collection worth half a million thalers , hence his nickname. He was considered a passionate collector of state carriages, he owned a total of 37, including two French state coaches. One of them is the golden carriage , which is exhibited in Sondershausen Castle.

The prince thus became the most controversial ruler of a dynasty. He was emotionally very distant from his principality and its subjects and stayed outside of the principality disproportionately often. Since he had a tense relationship with his siblings, he bequeathed his allodial fortune to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg .

He died in 1758 unmarried, without a legal heir, so that the eldest son of his brother August I , Prince Christian Günther , became the next prince.

See also

literature

  • F. Apfelstedt : The House of Kevernburg-Schwarzburg from its origins to our time. Shown in the family tables of its main and secondary lines and with biographical notes on the most important members of the same. Bertram, Sondershausen 1890 (reprint. Thüringer Chronik-Verlag Müllerott, Arnstadt 1996, ISBN 3-910132-29-4 ).
  • Kamill von Behr: Genealogy of the princely houses in Europe. 2nd improved and supplemented edition. Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1870.
  • Anneliese Klingenberg: Epilogue to Johann Karl Wezel : Robinson Krusoe . 2nd Edition. Rütten & Loening , Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-352-00199-5 , pp. 267-301 (about Heinrich, from the regional archives).
predecessor Office successor
Günther I. Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
1740–1758
Christian Günther I.