Hilmar the Younger of Munchausen
Hilmar the Younger of Münchhausen (* 1558 ; † May 4, 1617 in Rinteln ) was a German nobleman from the Münchhausen family . He completed Schwöbber Castle , built Wendlinghausen Castle and, like his father, his brother Statius, his wife's brothers and some of his sons-in-law, was one of the most important builders of the Weser Renaissance .
Life
Hilmar the Elder J. was born in 1558 as the fifth son and sixth of eight children of the royal Spanish colonel Hilmar von Münchhausen (1512–1573) and Lucia von Reden (approx. 1525–1583). His father made a large fortune as a mercenary leader operating throughout Europe and with this he bought a number of goods in his native Weserbergland as well as the Leitzkau monastery near Magdeburg. After the death of the father, Hilmar the Younger redeemed the estates in Schwöbber and Rinteln when the inheritance was divided in 1574 .
In Schwöbber, his father had already formed a manor from a few previously leased farms in 1564 and requested permission from the sovereign to build a castrum - a noble seat - as he only owned the nearby domain castle Aerzen as a pledge that could be canceled. From around 1570 he had Cord Tönnies plan and begin the middle wing of Schwöbber Castle, which the widow Lucia completed after his death. Hilmar the Elder From 1588 J. added the gate wing, 1602–1607 the northern pond wing, and thus expanded the castle to a three-wing complex (with a fourth farm wing opposite the castle, it once formed a square).
Above the gate there is an alliance coat of arms, namely that of the black line of Hilmar the Younger and that of the white line of his wife Dorothea von Münchhausen (1568–1624). This had three brothers: Claus von Münchhausen auf Apelern - the castle there was built by her father Börries (1515–1583) -, Otto von Münchhausen (1561–1601) in Lauenau , who had the Schwedesdorf Castle built there from 1596 to 1600 , and Ludolf von Münchhausen in Hessisch Oldendorf , who from 1599 to 1611 completed the Münchhausenhof that his mother Heilwig Büschen had started there and at the same time founded the Remeringhausen manor .
In 1578 Hilmar the Elder studied J. at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg at the time of a Lutheran reaction against the local Calvinism; for his support he received a gold chain of grace with a Melanchthon medallion. Just like his brother-in-law Ludolf, who studied humanism and theology, and his other brothers and cousins from the generation after the Landsknechtsführer, he had a share in that "late humanist class culture that required academic education".
In 1590 he was appointed Drost von Reineberg by the Bishop of Minden . Like his father and grandfather Stacius von Münchhausen before , he was a lien holder of Aerzen , where he also received the Drostenamt in 1593. He lived with his family on the Aerzen Domainburg , later also in Schwöbber. In 1603 he was enfeoffed by the Möllenbeck monastery with half the office of Rottorf and bought the Wendlinghausen estate from his brother Kurt (1560-1604) , which he had inherited from his father. Shortly before (1602) Kurt had acquired the Haddenhausen estate from a cousin from the white line , which Hilmar the Younger sold to his son-in-law Johann von dem Bussche (1570–1624) after his death in 1610 as the guardian of Kurt's children . He let the construction of Haddenhausen Castle, which still exists today, begin, which his widow, Hilmar's daughter Lucia Dorothea (1589–1651), completed after his death.
In Wendlinghausen , Hilmar d. From 1613 to 1616 he built a moated castle - which has not changed much to this day - which his great-grandson sold in 1730 to the von Reden relatives who still own it today.
Hilmar the Younger from Münchhausen was considered to be fun-loving, but also religious and is said to have raised his many children with rigor. For his older brother Statius von Münchhausen , who was involved in mining and credit business , he took good-naturedly high guarantees on which his sons had to pay for decades after Statius' bankruptcy in 1619.
Marriage and children
Hilmar the Elder J. is the progenitor of all still living Münchhausen of the black line ; he and his wife Dorothea, née von Münchhausen from the house of Apelern-Lauenau-Oldendorf from the white line , (the author of a - not handed down - book about Christian child rearing) 17 children who appear in the pedigree of many Lower Saxony noble families, including:
- Heinrich Hilmar (* 1586 † 1635) ⚭ 1617 Anna Dorothea v. the Wense from the Holdenstedt family (1 daughter, died young); In 1618, together with his brothers, he bought the Leitzkau estate from his uncle Statius, who had gone bankrupt, for 170,000 thalers and administered it until his death. During the destruction of Magdeburg in 1631, the nearby Leitzkau suffered heavily from billeting, looting and fires.
- Liborius (Börries) (* 1587 † 1646) ⚭ Anna Dorothea v. Kerssenbrock adH Barntrup ; Lord in Rinteln, Schwöbber and Voldagsen, pledge in Aerzen, Drost in Bückeburg. They had 14 children, including Hilmar (approx. 1633–1689), the grandfather of the "baron of lies" Hieronymus .
- Lucia Dorothea (* 1589 † 1651) ⚭ Johann von dem Bussche , Lord on Lohe and since 1610 on Haddenhausen; the couple built the castle in Haddenhausen, which has been preserved to this day.
- Hedwig (* 1590 † 1653) ⚭ Gerhard Clamor von dem Bussche, Herr auf Hünnefeld; From 1610 to 1613 the couple built the castle in Hünnefeld, which is still standing today, as the “second Schwöbber” in early baroque forms.
- Elisabeth (* 1591 † 1654) ⚭ Georg v. Spiegel zu Peckelsheim , Herr auf Schweckhausen
- Philipp Adolph (* 1593 † 1657) studied from 1609 to 1613 in Gießen , including theology with Mentzer and then until 1616 at the Collegium illustrious in Tübingen, including with Hafenreffer . In 1624 he took over the Wendlinghausen estate and in 1629 leased the Elbingerode (Harz) office with the iron mines that his uncle Statius had once operated, for whose debt he now had to use the income until 1651. He was also the ambassador of the Duke of Braunschweig and adviser (and personal friend) of Count Anton Günther von Oldenburg, who gave him newly diked marshland in Middoge near Jever (in the family until 1735). In 1638, after the death of his eldest brother, he took over Leitzkau , which had been devastated by the Thirty Years' War, and brought it back up with the help of a loan from Anton Günther of 6,000 thalers. He wrote the book "Spiritual Children's Milk or Simple Christians House Pharmacy" (1st edition 1645, 3rd edition 1710). ⚭ I. Lucie Fredeke v. Kerssenbrock (* 1615 † 1640), ⚭ II. Magdalene v. Heimburg adH Nordgoltern (* 1622 † 1681), 16 children, including Gerlach Heino (1652–1710) auf Wendlinghausen, chamberlain to the great elector and later chief stable master Friedrich I. ⚭ Katharina Sophie v. Selmnitz adH Steinburg , heiress of Straussfurt , this in turn parents of the British-Hanoverian Prime Minister and Göttingen University founder Gerlach Adolph (1688–1770) and the Minister Philipp Adolph (1694–1762)
- Dorothea (* 1593 † 1657) ⚭ Claus Spiegel zum Desenberg , Lord of Ovelgönne and Aldorpsen.
- Mette (* 1596 † 1651) ⚭ Burchard v. Steinberg , Lord of Brüggen .
- Gertrud (* 1599 † 1680) ⚭ I. Johann v. Hair on laar, hoop, etc. Crollage; ⚭ II. Johann Heinrich Voss; Lord on dike u. Hamme, Burgmann zu Quakenbrück .
- Anna Maria (* 1601 †…) ⚭ Johann v. Grapendorff, gentleman on Lübbecke and Grapenstein.
- Katharina Magdalena (* 1601 †…) ⚭ Heinrich von Lutten, master of the situation
- Hedwig (* 1613 † 1677) ⚭ I. Falko Arend v. Oeynhausen adH Grevenburg ; II. Gerd v. Bardeleben , Lord of Rinteln and Strückhausen, Landdrost in Neuchâtel.
- Hilmar (* 1614 † 1641) ⚭ Magdalene Agnes v. Speeches adH Friedland. Two weeks after his own wedding, he was born at the wedding of his cousin Börries v. Wrisberg with Elisabeth Dorothea v. Hagen in 1641 by Ernst v. Waiting life stabbed to death while dancing after he hit him (who was the only one who danced with a hat) on the hat.
literature
- Funeral sermon by Johannes Kehr, Stadthagen 1617 (copy in the Braunschweig city archive)
- GS Treuer: Thorough gender history of the gentlemen from Münchhausen . 1740
- Albert Neukirch: Renaissance castles of Lower Saxony , text volume 2nd half, Hanover 1939, page 115 f.
- G. von Lenthe, H. Mahrenholtz: family tables of the von Münchhausen family , issue 36 of the Schaumburger studies, Rinteln 1976
- Leitzkau Castle , ed. v. BEH Schmuhl, Volume 3 of the series of publications by the Dome and Castles Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt, Halle 2005
- Bernhard Schelp, The Castle of Schwöbber. An aristocratic seat of the Weser Renaissance (Master's thesis 1995)
Individual evidence
- ^ Brage bei der Wieden , Außenwelt und Anschauungen Ludolf von Münchhausen, Hanover 1993, p. 102
- ↑ Epitaph in the Brothers Church (Braunschweig)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Münchhausen, Hilmar the Younger from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Münchhausen, Hilmar von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1558 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1617 |
| Place of death | Rinteln |