Heinrich von Leipzig (governor)

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Heinrich von Leipzig , also Leipziger (* around 1550, † 1622) was an Electoral Saxon civil servant. At the beginning of the 17th century he was the governor of Torgau and Liebenwerda and the owner of the manor .

Life

He came from the Zwethau-Friederisdorf line of the Saxon noble family Leipzig , which was named after the trade fair city of the same name. After finishing school, Heinrich von Leipzig embarked on an administrative career in the service of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony . He became the governor of the Saxon offices of Torgau and Liebenwerda . According to other sources, Heinrich von Leipzig was also the governor in Wurzen .

He also became the owner of the estates Wesenig, Bennewitz and Leipnitz. He had acquired the Leipnitz Vorwerk in the Wittenberg district office near Dahlenberg on October 6, 1618 in Torgau from Hans Löser, who was the Hereditary Marshal in the Electorate of Saxony. The official enfeoffment was made by Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony on March 19, 1619. After Leipzig's death in 1622, his wife apparently continued to run the property for the children. Since they died before her, his two cousins ​​Wolf Christoph and Georg Friedrich von Leipzig, sons of Hans Heinrich von Leipzig on Zwethau, were enfeoffed with Leipnitz in 1644.

Meanwhile, the family's manor in Bennewitz, which was looted and partially destroyed together with the village during the Thirty Years' War , had a sad fate . In 1637 the village lay desolate and the noble farm was torn down.

After the acquisition of the Leipnitz works, von Leipzig had a large wooden donor retable made for the responsible church in Dahlenberg in 1620. Of this, however, only a depiction of the Last Supper is preserved next to the large main painting. The main painting shows the crucifixion of Christ, including the depiction of the von Leipzig family. Beside him it was his wife Sophie geb. von Holtzendorf, three sons and four girls (one deceased).

Maria von Scheiding from the Schenkenberg family, who is also mentioned as a wife, could possibly have been married to him in his first marriage.

Stellanus von Leipzig is referred to as his eldest son.

Heinrich von Leipzig's successor as governor in Torgau was Kraft von Bodenhausen. In the 18th century, Christoph Heinrich von Leipziger was again a representative of the von Leipzig (he) family governor in Torgau.

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  1. ↑ Manor Bennewitz
  2. ↑ Archives for Saxon History, Volume 5, 1867, p. 282
  3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Historical grave monuments and their inscriptions in the Dübener Heide . Ed .: AMF. No. 165 , August 2005, p. 65-66 .
  4. ↑ Magazin der Sächsischen Geschichte, 1785, p. 30.
personal data
SURNAME Leipzig, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leipziger, Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Saxon civil servant, governor in Torgau and Liebenwerda
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 17th century