Jakob Alfons Franz Calderon d'Avila
Jakob Alfons Franz Calderon d'Avila (born April 15, 1625 , † April 16, 1695 in Großheubach ) was an imperial general and Württemberg building inspector who came from the Spanish Netherlands .
Life
Baron Calderon d'Avila came to Württemberg in 1656 as Rittmeister . In 1660 he was promoted to court junior and general inspector of all buildings and court architect ; In 1664 he received the rank of ducal senior councilor . The aristocrat was a trained engineer, architect and fortress builder, although he was particularly active in the latter field as a military man. 1664 commissioned Duke Eberhard III. , on the occasion of a trip to buy tapestries for the Stuttgart Palace in Antwerp and Brussels .
In 1666 Jakob Alfons Franz Calderon d'Avila left the Duchy of Württemberg as lieutenant colonel , because as a Catholic he was prevented from advancing professionally and socially. First he entered the service of the Hochstift Mainz , then he officiated for the Franconian Reichskreis as Obervogt in Lauda , finally he became in October 1678, in the association of the Kurrheinischen Reichskreis , military commander of Cologne . According to the tombstone, he held the ranks of an imperial sergeant-general (since 1682) and a lieutenant general of the Republic of Venice .
The officer last lived in Großheubach , Franconia , near Engelberg Monastery , where he died in 1695. It was here that he had donated the first documented altar of grace to the pilgrimage site in 1692 . He was buried in the monastery church and his grave slab is preserved in the left aisle.
literature
- Horst Ossenberg: What remains, the master builders create: the Württemberg court and state construction from the 15th to the 20th century . Books on Demand , 2004, p. 41, ISBN 3-8334-0633-X ; (Digital scan)
- Werner Fleischhauer: Baroque in the Duchy of Württemberg . Kohlhammer Verlag, 1958, p. 19 u. 48; books.google.de
- Eberhard Emil von Georgii-Georgenau : Princely Württemberg servant book from IX. until the XIX. Century , Stuttgart 1877, p. 183. Mentioned in: Hofjunker . In: German Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Prussian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 5 , booklet 8 (edited by Otto Gönnenwein , Wilhelm Weizsäcker , with the assistance of Hans Blesken). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1967, OCLC 832566414 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - first edition between 1952 and 1960).
Web links
- List of imperial generals (see under Avila de Calderón )
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal for Württembergische Landesgeschichte , volumes 13-14, Kohlhammer Verlag, 1954, p. 249; books.google.de
- ↑ Walther Pfeilsticker: New Württemberg servant book . Volume 1. Cotta Verlag, 1974, p. 1776; books.google.de
- ↑ Pilgrimage Church of Engelberg ob dem Main , p. 14, Volume 1210 of Schnell Kunstführer . Schnell and Steiner Verlag, Regensburg, 1980
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Calderon d'Avila, Jakob Alfons Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | de Avila and Calderon, Jakob Alfons Franz; Avila de Calderón, Jakob Alfons Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German and Venetian general, builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1625 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1695 |
| Place of death | Großheubach |