Hugo Waldbott from Bassenheim
Hugo Philipp Graf Waldbott von Bassenheim (born June 30, 1820 , † May 17, 1895 ) was a member of the Rhenish noble family of Waldbott von Bassenheim and the head of its noble line. He was the sole heir to a large family fortune and ended up bankrupt .
Life
Hugo Philipp was the son of Friedrich Karl Franz Rudolf Count Waldbott von Bassenheim and Freiin Charlotte Wambolt von Umstadt . In 1843 he married Princess Caroline zu Oettingen-Wallerstein (1824-1889), whose portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler was included in the beauty gallery of Ludwig I of Bavaria in the same year .
Hugo Philipp lived a lavish lifestyle modeled on the English dandies , squandering the fortune that his ancestors had accumulated over the centuries. In 1852 and 1853 he sold the manors Kransberg with Kransberg Castle and Reifenberg . Castle and Gut Bassenheim as well as Castle Pyrmont (at that time only ruins) had to be auctioned off in 1862.
In 1872 the First Chamber of the Württemberg Estates Assembly , to which he had belonged since 1830, but which he had never attended, officially refused to convene him because of his lifestyle . In 1875 he sold the Heggbach Abbey , which his family had received in 1803 as compensation for their imperial estates on the left bank of the Rhine . The lands of the Buxheim monastery were also gradually silvered. In 1880 it was threatened with complete ruin. In 1883 he had the art-historically famous Buxheim choir stalls auctioned off to England. (In 1979 the Buxheim monastery church was bought back by the public sector.) In 1887, the count then sold the holdings and furniture of the library of the Buxheim monastery.
In 1916, his heirs sold the former Buxheim monastery church and the monastery buildings with the remaining land to the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1925, they finally sold the monastery archive, the paraments, the liturgical equipment and the extensive collection of paintings to the Ottobeuren monastery . A previously very wealthy family of the German nobility had become penniless within a generation.
literature
- Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 968 .
swell
- Staatsarchiv Wertheim - archival unit R-Lit. F No. 107
- Main State Archive Stuttgart - archival unit E 157/1 Bü 171
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| SURNAME | Waldbott von Bassenheim, Hugo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waldbott von Bassenheim, Hugo Philipp Graf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1820 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1895 |