Heinrich von Meysenbug

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Heinrich von Meysenbug (born July 13, 1742 in Riede in Hesse, † March 14, 1810 in Kassel ) was district administrator in Kurhessen and from 1808 to 1810 a member of the imperial estates in the Kingdom of Westphalia (Fulda department).

Life

Heinrich von Meysenbug was a financially well-off landowner and the last male scion of the old Hessian noble family of the von Meysenbug . He had possessions in Riede, Züschen , Retterode , Hessisch Lichtenau , Heimarshausen , Cappel and Meisebach as well as jurisdiction over his inheritance . From 1775 to 1798 he was District Administrator of the Hesse-Casselian District Office Schwalm.

Meysenbug made his Riede Castle a meeting place for artists and scholars from Kassel and beyond. The wealthy landowner maintained excellent relations with the landgrave's court in Kassel. Between 1770 and 1800 he had the landscape painter, architect and garden designer Johann Heinrich Müntz create a 27 hectare English landscape park in the early romantic style on the southern slope of the Klauskopf near Riede Castle in a former wildlife park .

In 1802 he donated a classicist tomb created by the Kassel sculptor Johann Christian Ruhl for the physician for pharmacology and surgery at the hospital in Merxhausen Dr. Johann Georg Schmidt at the cemetery in Riede. It is believed that the foundation was made out of gratitude for a sponsorship that Schmidt had taken on for the unmarried Meysenbug.

Meysenbug died on March 14, 1810 on the way to the state assembly in the state house, later the White Palace , on Friedrichsplatz in Kassel. He was buried in the family's hereditary funeral in the old Protestant church in Heimarshausen , which was demolished before 1833 due to its dilapidation. Since he had remained single and childless, the Meysenbug family died out with him in the male line.

Name succession

In 1825, the secret cabinet councilor Carl Rivalier , who came from a Huguenot family, was raised to the nobility by Elector Wilhelm II of Hesse and given the title “von Meysenbug”, although there are no genealogical links between the families. The well-known writer and women's rights activist Malwida von Meysenbug was his daughter.

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann: Parliaments in Hesse 1808-1813. Biographical manual of the imperial estates in the Kingdom of Westphalia and the assembly of estates of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt (Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse 7), Frankfurt a. M. 1991, p. 162.
  • Holger Schulz: "The early romantic, sentimental forest park of Riede"; in: Die Gartenkunst, H. 2, 1998.

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personal data
SURNAME Meysenbug, Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION District administrator in Kurhessen , member of the imperial estates in the Kingdom of Westphalia
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH Vineyard
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1810
Place of death kassel