Jakob von Weiher
Jakob von Weiher (Polish Jakub Wejher, also Weyher, Waier, Weier) (* 1609 ; † February 20, 1657 ) was 1643-1657 voivode of Marienburg and founder of the city Wejherowo (German Neustadt in West Prussia , formerly Weyersfrey).
Jakob von Weiher came from the old noble family of Weiher in Eastern Pomerania . He was the son of the voivode of Kulm Jan Weiher and the daughter of the starost of Mirachów Anna Szczawińska, grandson of the starost of Putzig Ernst Weiher.
Two marriages are known of Jakob von Weiher. On October 18, 1636, in Regensburg, he married the imperial court lady Anna Elisabeth Schaffgotsch , daughter of Jan Ulrich Schaffgotsch, who died in 1652 (1650?) And in the village of Weyhers Freyheit ( Wola Wejherowska in Polish , later Wejherowo ) in was buried in the autonomous province of Prussia under Polish sovereignty . Then he married Joanna Katharina Radziwiłł .
His training began in the Jesuit school in Braunsberg and continued at the court of the Polish heir to the throne, Władysław IV. Wasa . He completed his studies at the University of Bologna .
After that Weiher served in the army of the Catholic League of the Princes of the German Empire in many countries, including Malta , hence the Maltese cross in the coat of arms of Wejherowo. In the army of Albrecht von Wallenstein during the Thirty Years' War he commanded a banner . The Emperor Ferdinand II made him count .
Back in Poland in 1632 he served under Władysław IV. Wasa as a colonel and took part in the Russo-Polish War 1632–1634 , the Swedish War and the Cossack and Tatar Wars.
Jakob v. Weiher built the Church of the Holy Trinity in Wejherowo in 1643. During the siege of Smolensk in 1633/34 Jacob v. Weiher vows to build two churches if he should survive the siege. The second church was the Church of Saint Anne , which was built from 1648 to 1651. Weiher also had a Way of the Cross and a Calvary built with 19 chapels, the number of which later increased to 26. During these years Franciscans (OFM) also came here . Weihersfrei became a well-known place of pilgrimage.
Jakob von Weiher died after a brief illness at the age of 47 and was buried in the Franciscan church in Wejherowo.
literature
Web links
- Jakob von Weiher in: The Thirty Years War in personal testimonies, chronicles and reports
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. z. B. Jakob Christoph Iselin , Jakob Christoph Beck and August Johann Burtoff: Newly increased historical and geographic general lexicon . 3rd edition, part 6, Basel 1744, p. 1052.
- ↑ a b c Johann Sinapius : Silesian curiosities . Part I: From some counts and Freyherrl. Gender , Leipzig 1720, p. 142, no. (1) .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weiher, Jakob von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wejher, Jakub (Polish); Weyher, Jakob von; Waier, Jakob von; Weier, Jakob von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Founder of Wejherowo |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1609 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1657 |