Jakob Tillmann from Hallberg

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Detail from the high altar painting in the Schlosskirche Fußgönheim. Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg second person from the left

Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg (born December 13, 1681 ; † September 25, 1744 ) was a baron , court chancellor of the Electoral Palatinate and conference minister from the Hallberg family . He was also the builder of Fußgönheim Castle .

Life

Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg was born the son of Johann Hermann Hallberg, Jülich-Bergischer councilor and mayor of Mülheim an der Ruhr or Schultheiss in Aldenhoven . The mother's name was Anna Maria geb. Blankenbiehl.

Hallberg also began his career as a Jülich-Bergischer councilor at the Düsseldorf court. In 1712 he was State Secretary. With the new Elector Karl III. Philipp moved Hallberg to the Electoral Palatinate in 1718 , where he stayed at the court of Heidelberg and then in Mannheim .

Hallberg's Castle in Fußgönheim, taken from the courtyard. Left the church wing.

In 1721 Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg and his brothers were ennobled as " Edler von". On April 25, 1729 Charles III transferred him. Philipp took over the lordship of Fußgönheim , where he began building his family castle around 1730. Since Freiherr von Hallberg belonged to the Catholic Church and the Electoral Palatinate was largely Protestant by the previous rulers, the Elector also pursued a targeted policy of recatholization. In his castle, the local lord set up the entire north-west wing as a church, opened it as a house of worship for the area's Catholics and founded a Catholic parish in Fußgönheim for the first time since the Reformation in 1742. For the church he had a high altar painting made by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini , who also painted the Mannheim Palace . According to local tradition, recorded by the local pastor Stephan Lederer , Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg is depicted as a figure on it; the only known representation of him. In addition to Catholics, the baron also invited Jews to settle in Fußgönheim, which resulted in a synagogue and a large Jewish cemetery in the town. In 1731, Emperor Charles VI. made the nobleman a baron and appointed him imperial councilor . From 1734 he appears as court chancellor and conference minister of the Palatinate, in 1737 he acquired the neighboring village of Ruchheim in Fußgönheim with the castle there . Hallberg built the Schaudichnichtum hunting lodge in his hunting ground near Bad Dürkheim .

family

Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg was married to Anna Maria Josepha geb. von Francken, daughter of the Electoral Palatinate Vice Chancellor, Minister and Envoy Johann Bernhard von Francken . They had seven children, of whom the son Johann Bernhard Franz († 1787) inherited the castle and estate of Fußgönheim. Jakob Tillmann had combined these family estates to form a Fideikommiss , which is why, after the death of their son Johann Bernhard Franz, his cousin Heinrich Theodor von Hallberg († 1792), ambassador of the Electorate of Bavaria to the Bavarian electorate in Vienna , received them.

Death and remembrance

The church wing of Fußgönheim Castle, with a visible crypt window and memorial plaque, to the left of the portal

Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg died in 1744 and was buried in the garrison church in Mannheim . His wife, who died in 1739, also rested there. The regional historian Johann Franz Capellini von Wickenburg handed down both grave inscriptions in the “ Thesaurus Palatinus ” . The garrison church was demolished as early as 1780, but its floor plan is visible in the pavement of today's Toulonplatz. The crypt under the church has been preserved and has been forgotten. They were only found in 1979 during construction work. Here the bones of the von Hallberg couple were found and in 2003 they were transferred to a new sarcophagus in an unused crypt under the Schlosskirche Fußgönheim. From the castle courtyard you can look into the crypt through a window and a memorial plaque was placed there for the builder of the castle, who later found his final resting place here.

gallery

  • Access to the crypt from the Schlosshof Fußgönheim

  • Memorial plaque on the Hallberg crypt Fußgönheim

  • Hallberg crypt Fußgönheim, with a modern sarcophagus

literature

Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg's coat of arms, on the pulpit of his castle church in Fußgönheim
  • Local history of the community of Fußgönheim , Volume 2, Gemeindeverwaltung Fußgönheim, 2001, ISBN 3-87928-015-0 , pp. 32–33 and pp. 54–70.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website on the settlement of Jews in Fußgönheim, by Freiherr von Hallberg
  2. ↑ Official website for Ruchheim Castle
  3. ↑ Konrad Tyroff : New Adeliches Wappenwerk: Gender and coat of arms descriptions for the Tyroffischen New Adelichen Wappenwerk. 1st volume, Nuremberg, 1805, p. 280, 1st section; (Digital scan of Joseph Bernhard Alexander von Francken)
  4. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . III. Band, Leipzig, 1861, pp. 314-315; (Digital scan)
  5. ^ Digital scan of Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg's grave inscription, in the Thesaurus Palatinus
  6. ^ Digital scan of the wife's grave inscription, in the Thesaurus Palatinus
  7. ↑ Website of the Garrison Church Mannheim
personal data
SURNAME Hallberg, Jakob Tillmann from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Palatinate Court Chancellor and Minister
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1681
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1744