Henning von Stralenheim

Henning von Stralenheim around 1708

Tribute sheet for the Silesian estates in Stralenheim, ca.1708

Epitaph in the collegiate church of St. Arnual

Placement of the epitaph in the nave

Henning von Stralenheim , born as Henning Vieth , since 1685 Veit von Stralenheim , since 1699 Baron Stralenheim , since 1720 Count zu Forbach (born July 21, 1665 in Stralsund ; † September 15, 1731 in Forbach ) was a German-Swedish military and diplomat .

Live and act

Henning von Stralenheim was the son of Michael Vieth (also: Veith , 1632-1703) from Stralsund, which at that time belonged to Swedish Pomerania , and the grandson of Stralsund mayor Henning Vieth († 1680). The lawyer Michael Vieth was first protonotary and lawyer in Stralsund, then became a judge at the Wismar Tribunal and in 1685 received the Swedish nobility as Michael Veit von Stralenheim.

Henning embarked on a military career and served in the French army, where he made it up to captain . He then resigned as Major of the Imperial Army in imperial service. During the siege of Belgrade (1688) he was badly wounded in the head, which led to a lifelong speech impairment. He had to say goodbye to military service and went on a cavalier tour to Spain and Italy. In 1691 he entered the service of the Electorate of the Palatinate and became Chamberlain and Privy Councilor. After a diplomatic trip to Stockholm in 1698, he switched to the service of the Swedish government. For a short time he was government councilor for the Duchy of Bremen in Stade and the Swedish envoy in Celle . 1699 he was by Karl XII. raised to the baron status and received in the same year his appointment to the Swedish ambassador at the imperial court in Vienna .

When Charles XII. Conquered Saxony in 1706 in the course of the Great Northern War , Stralenheim became the most important link between the Swedish king and the emperor as a negotiator. However, at the beginning of March 1707 a scandal broke out when the Hungarian chamberlain Count Max Adam Czobor (Márk Czobor de Czoborszentmihály, also Zobor , son-in-law of Johann Adam I. Andreas (Liechtenstein) ) insulted the Swedish king at a banquet, which led to physical violence . Stralenheim demanded satisfaction and threatened not to appear again at court until Czobor faced a duel . Since the latter did not accept the request, Stralenheim left in May 1707 and went to the field camp of Karl XII in Altranstädt . The Zobor affair remained unsolved for years. In Altranstädt, Stralenheim played a major role in the creation of the Altranstädt Convention of September 1, 1707. Today he is considered to be the one who , early and demonstrably, had campaigned with the king in favor of the Silesian Protestants . His counterpart on the imperial side was Franz Ludwig von Zinzendorf . Henning von Stralenheim obtained numerous reliefs for the Silesian Protestants from the Emperor in the Treaty of Altranstädt (among other things, return to disgrace after 1648 confiscated churches). From autumn 1707 Stralenheim was to supervise the implementation of the convention from Breslau, where he stayed from 1706 to 1708. Since 1706, the historian Johann David Köhler served him as court master and secretary. Instead of the planned six months, Stralenheim stayed in Breslau for two and a half years and was able to push through the construction of the grace churches .

Because of his services, Stralenheim was appointed imperial count by Emperor Joseph I in 1708 and was to receive the post of Reichsoberjägermeister and to be enfeoffed with the county of Limburg ; Charles XII. however, forbade him to accept these dignities and in 1710 appointed him Governor General of the Duchy of Zweibrücken, which is linked to Sweden in personal union . Stralenheim moved to Zweibrücken and was able to complete the after Karl XII. experience named Karlskirche .

When Stanislaus I. Leszczyński Zweibrücken by Charles XII. When asylum was assigned, there was a conflict between him and Stralenheim. At the end of 1716 Stralenheim bought their share of the Forbach dominion from the sisters Esther Juliane (married to the Swedish diplomat Ludwig von Sinclair) and Sophie-Sibylle Leiningen-Westerburg-Oberbronn . On August 13, 1717 he moved into Forbach and had a castle built there by Jonas Erikson Sundahl , which is now called château Barrabino after a later owner . Elevated to the rank of count by Duke Leopold of Lorraine as Count von Forbach in 1717, he received the imperial confirmation of his imperial count for himself and his descendants in 1720. He was very committed to his county and had the Neue Glashütte built in Stiring-Wendel in 1718 , which was soon named Sophienhütte ( Verrerie Sophie ) in his wife's honor . When he was overthrown as governor on August 9, 1718 and placed under house arrest for three months, he did not return to Sweden, but took his permanent residence in Forbach. After his death in 1731 he was buried in the collegiate church of Sankt Arnual , where an imposing epitaph , a major work by the Saarlouis sculptor Ferdinand Ganal (1703–1775), commemorates him. The inscription Saeculi invidia et ingratitudo accuses the intriguers who brought about his overthrow.

Henning von Stralenheim was married twice, initially with Nicolea Katharina Veronica, born in early 1698. Freiin v. Hackelberg (1678-1715). The offspring from the first marriage form the baronial house.

In his second marriage he married Sophie Elisabeth geb. Countess of Wasaburg (1694–1756). After his death, she initially stayed in Forbach, even if she lost part of the rule after a court ruling in 1736. In 1744 she appointed Johann Nikolaus Götz as court preacher and court master for her grandchildren from the marriage of her daughter Catharina Sophia (1717–64) with the French lieutenant colonel Baron Eric Sparre (1700–1742). In 1751 the Leiningen heirs made use of their buyback rights, so Sophie Elisabeth withdrew to the Ditschweiler farm (near Cocheren ). She died in Neu-Saar Werden ( Sarre-Union ) in 1756 and was buried here.

Her son Gustav Henning (1719–1787) became a French lieutenant general. He took the name Graf von Stralenheim-Wasaburg for himself and his descendants, the Count's House of Stralenheim .

Fonts

• Royal Swedish Instruction and Power of Attorney, Which the Royal Swedish Minister and Plenipotentiarius, Lord von Strahlheim Jn of the Silesian Religious Affair, on the order of his High Principal, with whom Käyserlichen appointed Deputies to the Great Church Commission, communicates, and when the Gospel is granted. Lutheran Churches Jn care is taken. o. O., 1707

Digitized copy of the copy from the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt

• Acta Publica including a thorough deduction of Derer Evangel. Schlesier Religions-Freyheit: Wherein all those writings, which at the Schlesisches Religions-Werck, both from the Kayserl. Highly respectable Execution Commission to Breßlau, as well as the Royal Swedish Plenipotentiary and others came out, also since then. 1707. to last April, 1708. printed every now and then, but now it has been brought together, to be found to be very specific on the adjacent sheet. Franckfurt; Leipzig 1708

Digitized copy of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden from the library of Heinrich von Bünau

literature

• Letter from the gentleman NN to his friend concerning the report of Count Zobor's affair with Baron Von Stralenheim. o. O. 1711

Digital copy of the copy from the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library

• Max Besler: History of the castle, the rule and the city of Forbach. Forbach: Hupfer 1895
• Norbert Conrads : The share of the Swedish envoy Stralenheim in the decision making and implementation of the Altranstädter Convention of 1707. In: Jürgen Rainer Wolf (Hrsg.): 1707-2007 Altranstädter Convention. A milestone in religious tolerance in Europe. (Publications of the Saxon State Archives, Series A: Archive directories, editions and specialist articles, Vol. 10), Halle / Saale 2008, pp. 26–50; also in Norbert Conrads: Silesia in the early modern era: on the political and intellectual culture of a Habsburg country. Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau 2009 ISBN 978-3-412-20350-4 , pp. 127-148
• Julius Dahl: Henning Freiherr von Stralenheim; Count and Lord von Forbach ...: Life, work and family. Zweibrücken: Self-published 1956 (Important men in the history of Zweibrücken 1)
• Lothar K. Kinzinger: Sweden and Pfalz-Zweibrücken - problems of mutual integration. The Principality of Pfalz-Zweibrücken under Swedish rule (1681 - 1719) Saarbrücken 1988, DNB 890267979 (dissertation University Saarbrücken 1988, 847 pages).
• Stralenheim, Henning von . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 27 : Stockholm-Nynäs järnväg – Syrsor . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1918, Sp. 270-271 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• Henning von Stralenheim . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 541 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

• Publications by and about Henning von Stralenheim in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date and place of birth are given very differently in the literature. Besler (lit.), who cites information from the family archive, says December 15, 1670 in Wismar ; the Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon (see literature) has Stockholm 1663 ; here after Kinzinger 1988, p. 659 and Conrads 2009 (lit.)
2. ↑ Conrads (2009), p. 136.
3. ↑ Michael Sachs: The flight of the evangelical wife Anna Magdalena von Reibnitz (1664– ~ 1745) with her five children from Silesia, threatened by forced Catholicization, in 1703 - a mood picture from the age of the Counter Reformation and Pietism. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 221–263, here: pp. 229 f.
4. ^ Information on Barrabino Castle , accessed on February 6, 2011
5. ↑ Information on the Sophienhütte  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 12, 2011  
6. ↑ Kinzinger (1988), p. 776
7. ↑ Information on Ditschweiler Castle  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 12, 2011