Heinrich von Bünau (District Chamber Councilor)

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Heinrich von Bünau (* before 1701; † January 11, 1772 in Wengelsdorf ) was district councilor in the Duchy of Saxony-Merseburg and war commissioner in the Merseburg monastery as well as the manor owner .

Life

He came from the Saxon noble family Bünau , namely from the line that came from the Vogtland house of Pahren, and was the eldest son of Heinrich von Bünau († 1744) . Like his father and several of his ancestors, Heinrich von Bünau entered the civil service of the Albertine Wettins . As the oldest son, he traditionally had the same first name as his father.

In 1732 Heinrich von Bünau was district chamber councilor in the Duchy of Saxony-Merseburg . He was offered by the Duke's top officials to take over the war commissariat in the Merseburg Abbey , which was, however, subject to the condition that he owned an immovable property in the abbey area. His father Heinrich therefore left him his manor Kleinkorbetha in 1732 and later retired to the Oderwitz family estate , where he died in 1744. Since the handover of the manor took place without a lordly confirmed purchase contract or recession, the Dresden court subsequently requested a contract from father and son, which took place on May 27, 1740.

Heinrich von Bünau married the heiress of the Wengelsdorf manor , which he himself used as his preferred seat and where he died in 1772. He left behind the stupid Heinrich von Bünau, who, under guardianship, became the sole heir of his father's property.

Confusion of the name bearers

Due to a family law of the Bünau family, which was already in force in the 12th century, only the first names Günther, Heinrich or Rudolph were allowed to be used for male descendants. There are therefore numerous people with the name Heinrich von Bünau within the widely ramified clan . In the history of science to date, this has not infrequently led to incorrect assignments or mix-ups.

literature

  • Zedler, Volume, 4, p. 1865.
  • Newly multiplied Historical and Geographical General Lexicon , 1745, p. 652.
  • Karl Czok : August the Strong and Electoral Saxony. 2nd edition, Leipzig 1988, p. 124 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. z. B. Gottlieb Schumann: Annual Genealogical Handbook. Leipzig 1749, footnote on p. 153 .
personal data
SURNAME Bünau, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bünau, Heinrich Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION District Chamber Councilor in the Duchy of Saxony-Merseburg, War Commissioner in the Merseburg Abbey and manor owner
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1772
Place of death Wengelsdorf