Jakob Levin of Plessen

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Jakob Levin von Plessen's coat of arms from the burial chapel

Jakob Levin von Plessen (born August 28, 1701 in Arpshagen, today a district of Klütz ; † September 21, 1761 in Rixdorf (Gutshof) ) was the Swedish court marshal and provost of the Lübeck monastery .

ancestry

He was the son of the Mecklenburg landowner and Danish lieutenant Jakob Levin von Plessen (* 1666 † October 21, 1724) and Katharina Regina von Plessen, born. Schwabe († January 1706).

Life path

Jakob Levin von Plessen became castle commandant of Eutin in 1729 . In 1731 he was court marshal to Prince-Bishop Adolf Friedrich and president of the chancellery and chamber council in Eutin. In 1735 Adolf Friedrich appointed him the Swedish High Court Marshal . In 1739 he became a Holstein-Gottorper bailiff in Reinbeck .

Since 1730 canon in Lübeck as successor to the prebend of Johann Ludwig von Pincier , the Lübeck cathedral chapter elected him in 1743 as the successor of Johann Schaevius as provost at Lübeck cathedral . In 1746 he was accepted into the Swedish knighthood . He was knighted by the Order of St. Anne , the Order of Alexander Nevsky and the Swedish Order of the Seraphines and carried the title of Excellency . After Prince-Bishop Adolf Friedrich ascended the throne as King of Sweden in 1751, Plessen acquired Rantzau Castle from him . In 1755 the master builder Rudolph Matthias Dallin built the Blumendorf mansion for him under a mansard roof with a corresponding gatehouse and garden. Plessen sold Blumendorf in 1761 to the Marshal of France Count Nikolaus von Luckner , who ended up under the guillotine during the French Revolution.

As early as 1737 he bought a room (actually a corridor) in the south of the choir in Lübeck Cathedral and had it converted into a burial chapel for himself and his family. He had the room, closed by an iron lattice door, decorated with a Rococo cartouche with his coat of arms. The coat of arms is placed on the star of the Order of St. Anne and surrounded by its motto Amantibus iustitiam pietatem fidem . Since the destruction by the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 , the cartouche and Plessen's sandstone sarcophagus have been together with the coffins of the Christian August von Berkentins family in the south-easternmost ambulatory chapel of the cathedral.

His preamble went to Magnus von Wedderkop (1717–1771), the then canon in Lübeck and son of Friedrich Christian von Wedderkop .

family

Jakob Levin von Plessen was married twice and had a total of fifteen children from the two marriages, none of which survived him.

literature

  • Max Naumann: The Plessen. Line from the XIII. to XX. Century , Limburg an der Lahn, 1971.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hubertus Neuschäffer: Schleswig-Holstein and mansions. Husum 1989, p. 31. ISBN 3-88042-462-4
  2. ↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, pp. 9–304 Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9 , p. 99
Dataset on and literature on Jakob Levin von Plessen in the state bibliography MV - No hit, November 20, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Plessen, Jakob Levin from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish High Court Marshal and Canon of Lübeck, Your Excellency
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1701
PLACE OF BIRTH Arpshagen
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1761
Place of death Rixdorf (manor)